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  • Webinar – 6/4/20 – Caring From Across Town: Practical Telehealth for Shelters and Clinics – Maddie’s Fund

    Webinar – 6/4/20 – Caring From Across Town: Practical Telehealth for Shelters and Clinics – Maddie’s Fund

    Has the Covid-19 crisis forced you to put more animals into foster care? Have you had to hold off on non-emergency surgeries and medical treatment? You’re not alone.

    As the “community becomes the shelter,” organizations across the country have found themselves serving their populations from afar through telehealth. This approach can be very effective and efficient, but also raises some practical questions. Come learn more about the telehealth landscape and how best to implement this tool in your shelter or clinic.

    Panelists:
    Dr. Mike Greenberg, Director of Outreach Programs, Maddie’s Fund
    Brenton Minish, Customer Success Manager Digital Team, Boehringer Ingelheim
    Dr. Julie Ryan-Johnson, Associate Director, Boehringer Ingelheim
    Aimee St.Arnaud, Director of Veterinary Programs, Best Friends Animal Society

    Join us on Thursday, June 4 at 12:00pm Pacific / 3:00pm Eastern

    This webcast is one hour and will be recorded.

    About Dr. Michael (Mike) Greenberg
    Director of Outreach Programs, Maddie’s Fund

    Prior to joining the team at Maddie’s Fund®, Dr. Mike served as program director for Target Zero, helping communities across the US achieve 90% or greater live release rates from their animal shelter systems through implementation of best practice strategies. Following veterinary school, Mike worked in rural private practice. It was there that he began volunteering with shelters and working with shelter staff and leaders to address community issues to increase lifesaving.

    Having caught “the bug,” Mike took the plunge into the sheltering world and in 2011 completed his training in shelter medicine with the Maddie’s® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Since that time, he has worked clinically and as a consultant for multiple public and private animal shelters throughout the United States. He is based in Nashville, TN where he helped to start Pet Community Center, a shelter intake prevention organization.

     

    About Brenton Minish
    Customer Success Manager Digital Team, Boehringer Ingelheim

    Brenton Minish is the Customer Success Manager for our Digital Team at Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health (BI). He has been in the veterinary industry his entire professional career, starting off as an inside sales rep for Merial before taking a Territory Manager role in Charlotte, NC with BI. While working his territory in Charlotte, he went back to school and received an MBA from Wake Forest University in 2018. After graduating, he accepted the offer for his current role at Boehringer Ingelheim, which is responsible for successfully rolling out digital initiatives to clinics and shelters, the first of which being PetPro Connect.

     

    About Julie Ryan-Johnson, DVM
    Associate Director, Boehringer Ingelheim

    Dr. Julie Ann Ryan-Johnson is passionate about shelter medicine and has been a shelter veterinarian for over 25 years and was the director of a large municipal shelter. She served as President of the Southern California Veterinary Medical Association and is the CE Co-Chair for the California VMA. Dr. Ryan Johnson is a member of ASV and AAWA and a board member of GreaterGood.org. Dr. Ryan Johnson also serves as the CVMA disaster coordinator for Orange County, California and is the founding member of southern California’s Large Animal Response Team (LART).

     

    About Aimee St.Arnaud
    Director of National Veterinary Outreach Programs Best Friends Animal Society

    Aimee’s focus is on increasing access to spay/neuter and veterinary care across the nation. Previously she was the Director of Programs at ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance where she oversaw spay/neuter training programs of 1,000 professionals a year. She is the founder of Humane Ohio, a spay/neuter clinic performing roughly 18,000 spay/neuters a year and Partner in two full-service access to care veterinary clinics in OH and NC.

    This webcast is one hour and will be recorded.

    WEBINAR LINK:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TdLNbNdwSa2rMQjPygTRSw

     

  • Webinar – 5/21/20 – Chameleon Shelter Software – Chameleon Basics – Kennel Intake and Outcome – Chameleon

    Webinar – 5/21/20 – Chameleon Shelter Software – Chameleon Basics – Kennel Intake and Outcome – Chameleon

    As a continuation of the Chameleon Basics webinar, this session will focus on the most common scenarios of animal intakes and outcomes. It will be geared toward beginning users.  Because procedures can vary greatly from agency to agency, we intend to keep the webinar simple and pointed, reserving a long period for question and answer at the end of the session for general discussion.

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  • Webinar – 5/22/20 – ShelterLuv Shelter Software Best Practices Session – ShelterLuv

    Webinar – 5/22/20 – ShelterLuv Shelter Software Best Practices Session – ShelterLuv

    From ShelterLuv – Join us Friday, May 22nd for our Best Practices and Customer Success Tracking Session. We’ve scheduled a second session to accommodate the demand! Shelterluv’s Customer Solutions team will walk you through product best practices (all free) to ensure you are prepared for the current environment and beyond. We will also introduce our Customer Success Report so you can see where your organization stands on Shelterluv usage and possible areas of opportunity.

    This session will be held from May 22nd from 1:30pm-2:30pm (EDT) / 10:30am-11:30am (PDT)!

    Topics will include:

    1. Customer Success Report Overview

    2. Best Practices Topics Walk-through:

    – Foster management tips
    – Integrations with animal aggregators and your website
    – Digital applications, contracts, and e-signatures
    – Medical
    – Reporting
    – Mobile checkout and donation boost features

    3. Q&A

    Learn best practices alongside other Shelterluv organizations and ask us questions live!

    Please pass this registration information along to any team members who would benefit from this learning session. If you have any questions, please email info@shelterluv.com.

    Can’t make it live? You should still register! We will send a recording to everyone who signs up.

    We look forward to showing you around!

    REGISTRATION LINK:   https://animalwelfaredigest.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=54f074bbacc29f20e37dea4f9&id=2937b60f6a&e=7821fb1783

  • Webinar – 5/21/20 – COVID-19: Making the Case for a New Tomorrow – Best Friends

    Webinar – 5/21/20 – COVID-19: Making the Case for a New Tomorrow – Best Friends

    Join us for a deep dive discussion into how two municipal shelters are leading the way in post-pandemic operations by refusing to return to the status quo.

    Moderator:

    Makena Yarbrough, Regional Director, Best Friends Animal Society

    Panelists:

    Alexis Pugh, Executive Director, Memphis Animal Services (TN)

    Scott Trebatoski. Department Director, Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center, Tampa (FL)

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7465808604337224718?source=daily+digest

     

  • Q&A – 5/19/20 – COVID-19 and Testing for Animals and Humans – Viticus Group – Animal Health

    Q&A – 5/19/20 – COVID-19 and Testing for Animals and Humans – Viticus Group – Animal Health

    Join Viticus Group – Animal Health for a live Q&A session addressing the latest information on COVID-19 testing in both humans and animals. The experts will cover best practices for when we should be testing, what indicators need to be met for a test, and what information has been uncovered through testing animals in practice.

    Handling COVID-19 in the workplace is also a challenge faced by healthcare professionals. Gain a clear understanding of how we should handle situations where a team member has symptoms and how we should be handling social distancing within our practice as states start to reopen.

    Q&A LINK ON FACEBOOK:  https://www.facebook.com/ViticusGroupAnimalHealth

  • Virtual Seminar – Thursdays in June – Shelter Behavior with Kelley Bollen – CalAnimals (open to non-members also)

    Virtual Seminar – Thursdays in June – Shelter Behavior with Kelley Bollen – CalAnimals (open to non-members also)

    This 4 session VIRTUAL workshop designed for all levels of shelter staff will cover advice to resolve common dog and cat behavior problems to prevent surrender, a behavior perspective on intake and adoptions, canine behavior evaluations and decisions-making, and behavior modification in the shelter.

    Each session is 90 minutes, from 11am to 12:30pm Pacific Time every Thursday in June, beginning June 4th.

    The topics are:

    1. Advice to Resolve Common Behavior Problems in Dogs and Cats to Prevent Surrender – June 4th

    2. Intake and Adoptions – A Behavior Perspective  – June 11th

    3. Canine Behavior Evaluations and Disposition Decision Making – June 18th

    4. Behavior Modification in the Shelter – June 25th

    Tuition for entire series:

    $40 Staff & Volunteers of CalAnimals Member Organizations – Remember to sign into the Member Portal to receive member discount.

    $55 non-members

    Complete your registration today. You will be automatically enrolled in ALL 4 sessions. A unique code and password will be emailed to you. The link may not be shared.

    Shelter Behavior VIRTUAL Seminar with Kelley Bollen, MS, CABC - JUNE 2020

     Export to Your Calendar 6/4/2020 to 6/25/2020
    When: All Thursdays in June
    11am-12:30pm
    Where: VIRTUAL – 4 ZOOM WEBINARS
    Presenter: Kelley Bollen, MS, CABC
    Contact: Kathy Anderson
    Kathy@CalAnimals.org

    REGISTER HERE:  https://calanimals.site-ym.com/event/KelleyBollenWorkshopJune

  • Webinar – 5/27/20 – Keeping Families Together: Pivoting Community Programming to Support People and Pets During COVID-19 Sponsored by PetHub

    Webinar – 5/27/20 – Keeping Families Together: Pivoting Community Programming to Support People and Pets During COVID-19 Sponsored by PetHub

    Gateway Pet Guardians has spent years working with low income families in the Metro East St. Louis area, providing supplies and services to families with pets. Community programming has been put in place to help families access these resources, overcoming obstacles such as affordability and access. Now, more than ever, low income families in communities all over the United States can use the support of animal welfare organizations due to the rippling effects of COVID-19. As we wade through these uncharted waters, we must consider how to modify existing programming and create new programming to help families care for their pets despite recent economic impacts. This webinar will focus on ways rescues, shelters, and animal welfare agencies can provide support to families experiencing hardship, with the goal of keeping pets out of the shelter system and in their homes with families that love them.

    Hosted by Jamie Case and Janet Alderson of Gateway Pet Guardians

    Sponsored by PetHub

    WEBINAR LINK:  https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VIzms0z_Q9KwfZMMNxn8gg

  • Webinar – 5/19/20 – The Future of Animal Sheltering: Elements of the Animal Social Services Coalition Model – AmPA and Maddie’s Fund

    Webinar – 5/19/20 – The Future of Animal Sheltering: Elements of the Animal Social Services Coalition Model – AmPA and Maddie’s Fund

    The sheltering system as we know it was created more than 100 years ago and depended on addressing animal issues separately from human issues. Today, we are long overdue for a new approach that is in line with human social services and social justice movements and considers animals as part of family systems. Join the Executive Committee of the American Pets Alive! Animal Social Services Coalition to hear about how through collaboration with shelters around the country we plan to prototype an entirely new system to serve pets and people in our communities.

    This webinar is presented by Dr. Ellen Jefferson (AmPA/APA), Kristen Hassen-Auerbach, Gina Knepp (Michelson Found Animals Foundation); Lisa Lafontaine (Humane Rescue Alliance); Bobby Mann (AmPA)

    REGISTER:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S5cSvorMSce035SMo4neCQ

  • Webinar – 5/27/20 – Post-Pandemic Pets: Tips on Transitioning Companion Animals as Shelter-in-Place Orders are Lifted – HSVMA & Maddie’s Fund

    Webinar – 5/27/20 – Post-Pandemic Pets: Tips on Transitioning Companion Animals as Shelter-in-Place Orders are Lifted – HSVMA & Maddie’s Fund

    Many families stepped forward to foster or adopt new pets as COVID-19 spread across the US and animal shelters were forced to close their doors.  Many of these families, along with all families with pets, have now spent nearly two months continuously together with their animal companions and are preparing for the transition as they return to work, school and other activities.

    Veterinary behaviorist Dr. Nicholas Dodman and veterinarian Dr. Susan Krebsbach will discuss tips for dealing with potential transitional challenges such as:

    • Separation anxiety
    • Puppy Socialization
    • Walking/feeding schedules
     

    NOTE: There are no continuing education credits available for this webinar.

     

    Although this webinar is free to all attendees, we encourage all veterinary professionals to  join HSVMA so you can take advantage of free access to our live and archived CE webinars and other member benefits.

    HSVMA would like to give special thanks to our sponsor for this event.

    REGISTRATION LINK:  https://hsvma.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QjBqCDawSr-HkVOU_QDvlg

  • Rounds – 5/19/20 – National Shelter Medicine Rounds – UW

    Rounds – 5/19/20 – National Shelter Medicine Rounds – UW

    This upcoming Tuesday 5/19 we will be holding National Rounds from 3-4pm CST. Dr. Karen Ward, Chief Veterinary Officer at Toronto Humane Society, will be presenting and discussing ‘Organizational Sustainability through Social Enterprise’. Doing well by doing good, embarking on a journey towards becoming a self-sufficient revenue based social enterprise. Joining her will be Toronto Humane Society COO, Phil Nichols.

    I hope you all have a good weekend!

    National Shelter Medicine Rounds is held on the same Zoom link for every session:

    https://zoom.us/j/520278731

    Meeting ID: 520 278 731

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    COVID-19 Rounds info:

    We will be more regularly offering National Shelter Medicine Rounds short term to discuss COVID-19 impacts on shelter medicine on Tuesdays from 3-4pm CT (1pmPT/2pmMT/4pmET)  and Thursdays from 2-3pm CT (12pmPT/1pmMT/3pmET). You are welcome to email questions or topics you hope to be discussed during rounds in advance to nationalsheltermedicinerounds@vetmed.wisc.edu and you are always encouraged to come prepared to unmute to ask questions and participate in discussion at any point. I will be sending email reminders of upcoming rounds in advance. Note: Rounds is typically held the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month and will return to that format once the need for regular COVID-19 discussion passes. Recordings will not be available during COVID-19 discussions but can be accessed from previous regular rounds and will again be available once we return to the usual format.

    This group is made up of shelter veterinarians, shelter vet trainees, and upper level shelter leadership. If you know anyone that would like to be added to the national shelter medicine rounds email list to regularly receive scheduling updates moving forward, please have them email a request to be added to the email group to nationalsheltermedicinerounds@vetmed.wisc.edu.

    Shared documents/links info:

    As this group size and information shared grows we are working to get things as organized and streamlined as possible. Each rounds session I will be saving any documents and links that are shared in the chat in a folder called ‘COVID-19 shared documents’ that can be accessed at the Box link found at the end of each email in all rounds emails. You should be able to access the box folder as a guest at any time without a sign in necessary.

    https://uwmadison.box.com/s/lh21g6odt0ab569qbdm2r2b0h4glg8gk

    Web Conference System Details:

    If you have not used Zoom before I’d recommend you join at the zoom link in advance to give it a test run on your computer as you’ll likely need to do a quick download. For audio, you can use either your computer if you have microphone capabilities or you can dial in from your phone. Here is a link to test your audio in advance if you would like to: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362283-Testing-computer-or-device-audio  In order to see the visuals that may be shared you must join either through your computer or download the app if joining from a mobile device.

    Thank you,

    Stephanie Koester, CVT

    Assistant Director, Shelter Medicine Program

    University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine

    nationalsheltermedicinerounds@vetmed.wisc.edu

    Rounds related documents, recordings, and details can be accessed here at any time.

     

    National Shelter Medicine Rounds is held on the same Zoom link for every session:

    https://zoom.us/j/520278731

    Meeting ID: 520 278 731

     

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