Want to know how to help undersocialized kittens get adopted? Join us as we cover how the ASPCA Adoption Center and Kitten Nursery have leveraged their foster volunteer pool and trained them to work with fearful kittens using scientifically proven techniques. This webinar will take a deep dive into the “Lion Tamers” program with a spotlight on behavior best practices. We will also provide tools and resources for how to provide training, support and guidance to foster volunteers.

Takeaways:
•How to effectively place fearful kittens in foster homes
•How to effectively train foster volunteers to care for fearful kittens while providing tools, resources and support
•Behavior best practices for working with undersocialized kittens and effectively placing them into loving homes

Suited for:
Animal shelter staff, behavior staff, foster volunteers

https://aspca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vp31W6rFTzyAFpgZeBQeDg

Response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the animal welfare community together in an unprecedented way to assess the services we provide to our community and to evaluate our protocols and processes. This need for assessment and evaluation was particularly important for our intake and care decisions for neonatal kittens. We will review the existing best practices that provide a consistent foundation for success in neonatal kitten care as well as discuss which practices adopted during the pandemic response are likely to withstand the test of time.

Takeaways:
– Strategies to keep kittens healthy in foster homes
– Keeping resident pets safe
– Recognize disease in foster kittens

Suited For
Foster caregivers, shelter staff and volunteers

https://aspca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B5NsYlrYR0KA-O7y84oVrw

Do you dread putting a found dog on Instagram because the public will declare that you have him on death row? Do you struggle to respond to cranky questions about your agency in public forums? Do you find yourself on pins and needles when making a tough decision on a cat who is a Facebook favorite? Learn new approaches to dealing with abusive language, primarily in social media situations.  This session will offer you guidance on constructive public messaging on sensitive industry topics and help you turn the page on keyboard warriors.

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

This session is part four of the five-part Going Through Hell? Keep Going! webinar series.

https://theaawa.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1331916

April 23, 2020 by Kelly Duer, Foster Care Specialist, Maddie’s Fund^® and Rachel Jones, Adult Dog Foster Coordinator, Pima Animal Care Center

Audience: Executive Leadership, Shelter/Rescue Staff & Volunteers, Veterinary Team

Recently, shelters and rescues across the country have placed more pets in foster homes than ever before. Now, how can we keep them from coming back before they’re adopted?

This webcast will outline strategies from several progressive organizations that are empowering foster caregivers to assist in efforts to market their foster pets online. Through training, automating processes and making sending foster pet feedback as easy as possible, these organizations are setting up their pets and foster caregivers for success.

Join us on Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 3:00pm Pacific / 6:00p Eastern

This webcast will be recorded.

REGISTER NOW

Especially in animal welfare organizations, resilience is a key component of a productive and healthy team.  Does your organization’s culture support your people in the face of constant emotional toll?  This webinar will focus on building personal resilience. Attendees will learn how to recognize and address compassion fatigue triggers in their animal care work, build support and coping skills, and create a meaningful self-care plan through a variety of evidence-based resources. Send your staff and volunteers to this important session (perfect for a staff meeting).

This program (both live and recorded) has been approved for:

• 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit
• 1 CE  by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for Texas Animal Control Officers

This session is part three of the five-part Going Through Hell? Keep Going! webinar series.

We will review quality of life concepts and discuss methods for the assessment of subjective states, including pain.  The goal of the session is to encourage attendees to develop assessment tools for their own facilities and to consider the perspective of individual animals in making outcome decisions.  Finally, attendees will consider how quality of life assessment can be used to consider animal welfare dilemmas. This session is designed for veterinarians, shelter staff, and shelter leadership.  Attendees will be able to:

• Define quality of life and describe how quality of life may be measured in companion animals
• Recognize signs of pain and distress in cats and dogs
• List two assessment tools that can be used to assess pain in cats and dogs
• Give at least one example of a situation at their organization or facility where considering quality of life could help make care or outcome decisions.

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 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize RACE approval
• 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit
• 1 CE  by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for Texas Animal Control Officers

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.