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  • Webinar – 4/30/20 – Frustrated Foster Families? Provide Animal Behavior Help to Caregivers During COVID-19 – ASPCAPro

    Webinar – 4/30/20 – Frustrated Foster Families? Provide Animal Behavior Help to Caregivers During COVID-19 – ASPCAPro

    Fostering animals during the COVID-19 pandemic can benefit both your shelter and your foster families. More and more people are stepping up to help their local shelters, and we want these valuable volunteers to have good experiences. However, we’re sending a wider variety of dogs and cats into foster homes than ever before, including animals with some behavioral challenges. Join animal behaviorist Pamela Reid and feline behavior specialist Marny Nofi for a webinar focused on supporting foster families in helping these animals adjust.

    Questions are welcome throughout this live Q&A session.

    Takeaways

    • Helping fearful dogs and cats to settle in at their temporary home
    • Discouraging unwanted behaviors in dogs
    • Conveying expectations to caregivers fostering an animal who was not able to be spayed or neutered before leaving the shelter

    Suited For

    Shelter employees and volunteers

    PRESENTERS:
    Pamela Reid, PhD, CAAB Vice President, ASPCA Behavioral Sciences
    Marny Nofi, CPDT, Senior Behavior Manager, ASPCA Behavioral Sciences Team
  • Webinar – 4/24/20 – COVID-19 – A Virologist’s Perspective for Veterinarians – AVMA

    Webinar – 4/24/20 – COVID-19 – A Virologist’s Perspective for Veterinarians – AVMA

    With each passing day, we are learning more and more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. As veterinary clinicians and clinician-scientists, many of us are interested in learning more about the virus and its potential effect on our veterinary patients.
    Join us to hear the perspectives of these researchers as they address important questions regarding the ongoing pandemic, including:

    • How do viruses “jump” between animals or from animals to people?
    • What made this coronavirus so successful in establishing a pandemic?
    • What are the advances in antiviral therapy against SARS CoV-2?
    • What are some details regarding diagnostic tests currently available and the status of those under development?
    The following experts from the Baker Institute for Animal Health will be hosting a live chat:

    • Colin Parrish, PhD/ John M. Olin Professor of Virology
    • Dr. Luis Schang, MV, PhD/ Professor of Chemical Virology
    • John S. L. Parker, BVMS, PhD/ Associate Professor of Virology
    • Diego Diel, DVM, MS, PhD / Associate Professor of Virology

    Also joining will be special guest Dr. Bruce Kornreich, Director of the Cornell Feline Health Center.

    The panel will be moderated by Dr. Scott Coonrod, Director of the Baker Institute for Animal Health, Dr. Gerlinde Van de Walle, and Postdoctoral Associate Brian Wasik.
  • Webinar – 5/7/20 – Fundraising for Public Shelters and the 501(c)(3)s that Support Them – CalAnimals – Gina Knepp

    Webinar – 5/7/20 – Fundraising for Public Shelters and the 501(c)(3)s that Support Them – CalAnimals – Gina Knepp

    Did you know that California law does not prohibit a government agency from accepting donations? Government-run shelters are missing big opportunities if they don’t recruit community members to create a 501(c)(3) to support shelter efforts of animal welfare. Hear a case study from Friends of Front Street Shelter and their annual event called Big Day of Giving sponsored by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, which raises funds for approximately 600 nonprofits (https://www.sacregcf.org/about-us/newsroom/making-news/bdog2019-results/).The Front Street Shelter garners more individual contributions than any other nonprofit, even though the shelter is a city agency. Understand the legalities and practicalities of accepting donations, ad understand the benefits of enlisting supporters to create and maintain a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to support shelter operations by raising both funds and goodwill. Learn some best practices in fundraising to avoid controversy, damaging public scrutiny, and loss of goodwill.

    Webinar for CalAnimals Members Only.

    https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k7qiyxMYSU2TMs3DawtLWA

  • Webinar – 4/30/20 – Fear Free for Shelters & Veterinary Clinics – CalAnimals – Dr. Cindi Delany KSMP

    Webinar – 4/30/20 – Fear Free for Shelters & Veterinary Clinics – CalAnimals – Dr. Cindi Delany KSMP

    We know shelters can be a stressful place for animals. And, even the best non-shelter veterinary clinic causes most happily owned pets fear, anxiety and stress. When you combine the two – a veterinary clinic setting in a shelter – the chance animals receiving needed medical care will be under significant stress skyrockets.

    Being able to identify signs of fear, anxiety and stress in the animals in our care and do everything we can to decrease the negative impact of these emotions on the animals will keep them healthier and happier while they are with us. It will also help them find their forever homes sooner.

    Employing Fear Free techniques will also keep the animals and our staff safer, make our own jobs easier and less stressful and enable us to provide better care.
    In this session we’ll discuss how to recognize concerns in animals and give you strategies, techniques and tools to improve the emotional well-being of animals in shelters and particularly in the shelter clinic. We’ll discuss basic care, medical restraint and handling and adjunctive tools and therapies to consider following the Fear Free model.
    We’ll also give you a preview of the free on-line certificate program – The Fear Free Shelter Program – that you and other shelter staff members can take now to learn more about this topic.

    https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3cOwZg9eQ3SertVWvGkK3g

  • Webinar – Your Data Counts – Ideas and Tools to Activate Data – CalAnimals – Shelter Animals Count

    Webinar – Your Data Counts – Ideas and Tools to Activate Data – CalAnimals – Shelter Animals Count

    Learn how to leverage available data and free resources from Shelter Animals Count to empower all aspects of your organization. Learn from Shelter Animals Count – an independent, collaborative, first-of-its-kind organization gathering standardized data at local, state and national levels on animal intakes and outcomes in animal shelters – how to amplify grant requests through comparative local and national data and how to measure programming success. Even the most basic data collection is valuable in making decisions, steering operations, raising funds and more. Your shelter’s data becomes even more powerful when it is part of The National Database. Review sample use cases that give both basic and more complex actionable ways to apply data insights using free tools and resources. Access the Shelter Animals Count website on their devices. The National Database has data from 2011 – 2019 self-reported by thousands of organizations. Shelter Animals Count provides helpful tools for collecting and viewing data, all free for shelters and rescues to use!

  • Webinar – Learn about PetPro Connect – Supporting fosters, adopters, and the public with telemedicine – CalAnimals – Sponsored by Boehringer-Ingelheim

    Webinar – Learn about PetPro Connect – Supporting fosters, adopters, and the public with telemedicine – CalAnimals – Sponsored by Boehringer-Ingelheim

    Let’s talk TELEMEDICINE! Boehringer Ingelheim has a cool web-based portal/app that gives clients access to their pet’s key medical and vaccination history, supports telemedicine, and integrates seamlessly with most veterinary practice management platforms. This is a great platform to stay in touch with your foster community and new adopters with live video consultations.

  • Webinar – Don’t Just Survive, But Thrive! Practice Management Tips During COVID-19 & Beyond – Fear Free

    Webinar – Don’t Just Survive, But Thrive! Practice Management Tips During COVID-19 & Beyond – Fear Free

    Don’t Just Survive, But Thrive! Practice Management Tips During COVID-19 & Beyond
    Practice consultant Louise Dunn will be sharing insights and advice on how veterinary practices can best manage their business through these unprecedented times.

    As the owner of Snowgoose Veterinary Management Consulting, Louise will share stories from practices that have successfully navigated this environment and provide management tips for the next phase: recovery and getting back to a new normal.

  • Webinar – Crisis Engagement – 12 Tasks to Sustain Donors in Turbulent Times – The AAWA

    Webinar – Crisis Engagement – 12 Tasks to Sustain Donors in Turbulent Times – The AAWA

    Amidst a still-unfolding public health and economic crisis, leaders of nonprofit organizations are profoundly challenged to sustain the support of their donors, members, volunteers, and other stakeholders.

    This is a 24 minute presentation followed by an extended Q&A period.

    Matt offers an espresso shot of substantive & actionable recommendations designed to help you protect the relationships upon which your organization depends.

    Topics include:

    • Taking care of yourself & your team
    • Safeguard your donor management system
    • 3 relevant questions to ask your largest donors
    • 4 meaningful ways to connect with small donors
    • Now what? What needs to change/what must stay the same?
    • How to unleash the immense power of your volunteers
    • Why your Vision Statement is suddenly more valuable than your Mission Statement

  • Webinar – Behavior Helpline – Toss your Community a Lifeline in the COVID-19 Era – ASPCAPro

    Webinar – Behavior Helpline – Toss your Community a Lifeline in the COVID-19 Era – ASPCAPro

    It can be hard to offer adopters, fosters, and pet owners support when you can’t meet them face to face. Learn how you can establish a free Behavior Helpline that allows you to help your community remotely. This webinar will show you how a Behavior Helpline can benefit your shelter, and how you can use the knowledge your shelter already possesses to run this program and assist pet owners in need.

    Takeaways

    • How a Behavior Helpline can help your shelter and community
    • Logistics of setting up a Helpline
    • Identify the behavior needs of your community so you can pool your resources efficiently

    Suited For

    Behavior staff and volunteers in shelters

  • Webinar – Telemedicine in the Veterinary Field – HSVMA

    Webinar – Telemedicine in the Veterinary Field – HSVMA

    Free webinar on telemedicine in the veterinary field. Learn how virtual care can improve practice efficiency, mitigate the effects of the pandemic on your practice, and enable you to expand care to underserved populations.