Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV):

• Cristie Kamiya, DVM, MBA,  Chief of Shelter Medicine
• Kristen Jahnke, Director of Shelter Operations
• Katie Christie, Manager of Foster and Animal Care

How do you support and scale your foster program during times of crisis? Humane Society Silicon Valley can answer that – they weathered the pandemic storm by pivoting their foster care and adoption processes into safe, no-contact, socially distanced programs. And did we mention they have acquired more than 3,000 new foster families since March’s lock down?

In this session, experts from HSSV will walk you through a few key components to effectively engage volunteers and your community to increase your impact while removing barriers to lifesaving capacity. Participants will walk away with an understanding of:

• Increasing your medical team’s capacity through the utilization of volunteers and technology
• Developing a foster training strategy that takes advantage of current technology
• Managing increased foster demand through tailored and strategic communications
• Seizing opportunities and seeing the silver lining in our new normal

The webinar will benefit any animal shelter professional interested in maintaining strong relationships and providing excellent animal care outside of the shelter environment. Read more about HSSV’s experiences changing their foster program to meet the crisis.

This session is part of the Shelter Medicine series, a collaboration between the Association of Shelter Veterinarians and The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement.

This program (both live and recorded) has been approved for 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit and has been submitted to RACE for approval.

BONUS!:

– Members of The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement who are vets or vet students may receive a free 1-year membership with the Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV).
– Members of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians may receive a free 1-year membership with The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement.

>> Membership instructions will be sent after you attend your first webinar in full.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://learning.theaawa.org/p/sheltermed-9-16-20

All pets deserve access to veterinary care. But millions of families have limited access to veterinary care, mainly due to insufficient funds. Lack of needed veterinary care negatively impacts the whole family—human and nonhuman—and may lead to relinquishment to shelters. The community this is also at risk from the spread of zoonotic diseases.

Dr. Blackwell, Director of the Program for Pet Health Equity, University of Tennessee, will speak about this national family crisis and AlignCare^®, a One Health healthcare system to address it. AlignCare improves access to veterinary care for families in need by aligning community resources and activities nationally. AlignCare is structured on One Health by:

• Addressing the financial and emotional needs of pet parents/guardians (people)
• Enabling veterinary service providers to help underserved pets (animals)
• Controlling and spreading costs to address the impacts of low socioeconomic status (Environment or ecosystem)

The AlignCare System is the first healthcare model that encompasses human and companion health and wellbeing. As such, the AlignCare infrastructure involves close collaboration between veterinary social work coordinators and veterinary service providers committed to the AlignCare vision of keeping families together.

This session is part of the Shelter Medicine series, a collaboration between the Association of Shelter Veterinarians and The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement.

This program is pending approval for:

• 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit.
• 1 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize RACE approval.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://learning.theaawa.org/p/shelter-medicine

Effective internal communication is needed for any organization to successfully function. However, establishing healthy communication practices continues to be a recurring struggle for many organizations. This webinar will discuss some of the reasons why effective communication is so difficult to establish at all levels of the organization, unveil best practices to help in this pursuit, as well as explain how workplace meetings—with an emphasis on virtual meetings—can be used to demonstrate some of these ideas and techniques.

After the presentation, viewers will be able to:

a) understand common communication pitfalls,

b) develop a toolkit of techniques to establish effective communication, and

c) recognize how these techniques and ideas can be used within their (virtual) meetings and day-to-day workplace interactions.

Approved for 1.0 CAWA CE. 

WEBSITE LINK:  https://theaawa.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?id=1400454

The experience of meaningfulness is a critical ingredient to thriving at work.  While animal welfare work is naturally imbued with a sense of meaning, especially in times of crisis, we often lose sight of it or fail to enable it.  Research finds those who work for purposeful leaders – leaders who routinely enable the experience of meaningfulness throughout their teams – are more fulfilled, resilient, higher performing, and significantly less likely to burn out, even in the most challenging times.  This session describes the science of purpose and meaning and shows how purposeful leaders compel teams and organizations toward their positive potential.  We’ll explore three evidence-based practices of purposeful leadership to empower leaders to bring the best out of their teams in a meaningful way.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
i. Understand the science of wellbeing, meaning, and purpose
ii. Understand the human performance and business case upside of wellbeing, meaning, and purpose in the workplace
iii. An introduction to the 3 key practice domains of Purposeful Leadership
iv. An exploration of some evidence-based tools for applying Purposeful Leadership across the 3 key practice domain

This webinar has been pre-approved for 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://theaawa.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?id=1376322

The work we do in animal welfare is, by its nature, unpredictable and highly variable.  In times of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic, these challenges are only enhanced.  Team resilience in the face of adversity can be what differentiates effective teams who achieve positive outcomes from those who wither and stumble.  Team resilience resources can be cultivated and leaders play a big role in enabling that.  In this session we’ll learn about the science of resilience and explore effective leadership practices for cultivating, enabling, and leveraging resilience skills in our teams.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
i. Understand the science of psychological well-being and the upside of building well-being resources
ii. Understand the concepts of psychological resilience and how it displays in teams
iii. Understand the three primary types of resilience factors
iv. An exploration into a variety of evidence-based practices leaders can utilize to enable resilient veterinary teams

This webinar has been pre-approved for 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://theaawa.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1376322

Join us for our fourth Best Practices Session!

Our guest speakers from The Humane Society of the United States will be presenting tools for disaster planning and community-level communication with animal advocates.

Our guest speakers are:
—Kim Alboum—Director of Shelter Outreach and Policy Engagement at HSUS
—Diane Robinson—Program Manager, Disaster Services at HSUS

The Shelterluv team will then share how our platform can help your team prepare for and confront disasters and track your community programs and outreach.

This session will be held on Wednesday, July 29th from 1pm-2pm (EDT) / 10am-11am (PDT).

This session is open to all—you do not have to be a Shelterluv customer.

If you’re not able to make this session live, still register and we will send you a video recording.

WEBSITE LINK:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZYoTHQiDTH-E20bGvZ-9Dg

The period from 8 to 16 weeks is often considered “early puppyhood.” In fact, the majority of the foundation for a dog’s life is set in the first 63 days. Fuller & Scott noted that the transformation from neonate to 9 weeks old was so profound and complex that it was even more amazing that the changes from tadpole to frog.

This webinar focuses on the needs of developing pup, and using appropriate stimulation to build resilience, confidence and normal behavior. Puppies who lack the necessary input can – and often do – develop behavior issues that will not be “fixed” through socialization and training.

Drawn from Suzanne Clothier’s Enriched Puppy Protocol, a program that has been used to help raise more than 10,000 guide and service dog puppies as well as her 10 generations of German Shepherds, this webinar includes:

·      Development stages

·      Sensitive vs Critical periods

·      Sensory development

·      Fear period

·      Physical, mental and social changes

Sadly, not all puppies receive the ideal upbringing. Recognizing how a poor start can create lifelong deficits, we can also help offset and fill in the gaps to help each puppy become their best.

This webinar is for trainers interested in knowing how to build a healthy, happy puppy, for those who work with litters through rescues and shelters, and anyone who wants to understand more completely how 63 days set the foundation for life.