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  • Online Seminar – 5/7/24 and 5/9/24 – Keeping Families Together: How to Support Domestic Violence Survivors and Their Pets – CVMA (fee applies)

    Online Seminar – 5/7/24 and 5/9/24 – Keeping Families Together: How to Support Domestic Violence Survivors and Their Pets – CVMA (fee applies)

    In this session, we will discuss the link between domestic violence and pets and how the veterinary community can increase access to veterinary care for survivors and pets by supporting pet housing programs at domestic violence shelters. Studies show that 65% of domestic violence survivors have a pet, but nearly half delay or avoid leaving abusers out of concern for their pets.

    Veterinary professionals are likely to interact with survivors and their pets and have the opportunity to identify signs of potential abuse, respond to situations of crisis, and connect survivors to resources. Helping survivors and their pets stay together requires collaboration between human services, animal services, and veterinary services. Establishing lines of communication, providing resources, and sharing expertise between veterinary providers and human services removes significant barriers.

    After this session, veterinary professionals will feel confident on how to navigate next steps in building relationships in their communities and supporting local pet-housing programs at domestic violence shelters.

    Date and Time

    Tuesday, May 7, 2024 | 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

    • Registration closes May 3, 2024

    Thursday, May 9, 2024 | 5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.

    • Registration closes May 7, 2024

    This course qualifies for 1.5 CEU.

    CVMA Online Seminars are convenient interactive presentations offering CEUs held in real-time. This learning platform allows you to participate from anywhere with internet access – from your practice, your home, or anywhere you have an internet connection. Attending is as easy as a few mouse clicks. You will only need internet access and either computer audio, a headset, or a telephone.

    This seminar is open to veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary hospital staff, and veterinary students only.

    Webinar is live and interactive. Webinar may be recorded by the CVMA for internal use and training purposes. All other recordings are prohibited. 

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://cvma.net/continuing-education/upcoming-ce/cvma-online-seminar-domestic-violence-webinar/cvma-online-seminar-domestic-violence-webinar-information/

  • Webinar – 4/11/24 – Maddie’s Insights: Beyond Animal Shelter Walls: Using Community Data to Understand Intake Diversion – Maddie’s Fund

    Webinar – 4/11/24 – Maddie’s Insights: Beyond Animal Shelter Walls: Using Community Data to Understand Intake Diversion – Maddie’s Fund

    How do we reduce relinquishment to animal shelters? In the U.S. and Canada, approximately 25-30% of animals that enter shelters are surrendered by owners. However, despite many shelters and rescues providing various pet support services for the past few decades, there has been little demonstratable reduction in owner surrendered animals. Currently, many animal shelters use data collected at intake, such as surrender reasons, to create programs that aim to support pet owners to keep their pets. This presentation will outline research into animal shelters, pet owning communities, self-rehoming platforms, and pet owners to demonstrate the complex system of pet surrender. By the end of this presentation, participants will learn how community data can complement animal shelter data to help divert animals from shelters.

    Learning Objectives:

    By the end of this presentation, you will be able to….

    • discuss strategies to improve standardization of intake data collection within your shelter
    • Identify ways to connect animal shelter data to community-level demographic data to understand risks of surrender
    • Interpret data from pet support services, self-rehoming platforms, and pet owners to understand how to promote intake diversion

    Can’t attend live? Register anyway and you will get a link to the recording: https://maddies.fund/MIwebcasts

    Connect with the guest speaker & ask questions here on Maddie’s Pet Forum: https://maddies.fund/MIwebcastIntakeDiversion

    This webinar has been pre-approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care & Control Association and has been submitted for approval for 1 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize the Registry of Approved Continuing Education (RACE) approval.

    Presenter:  Lexis Ly, PhD Student, UBC Animal Welfare Program

    Lexis Ly is a PhD student in Applied Animal Biology at the University of British Columbia’s Animal Welfare Program. Her work uses animal shelter and community data to understand how to maintain human-animal bonds, help animal shelter services provide equitable services, and reduce intake to shelters. She is also interested in veterinary disaster response, climate change and pet ownership, and bias in animal shelter adoption.

    WEBSITE LINK:  http://maddies.fund/MIwebcastsRegister

  • Webinar – 3/28/24 – Marketing for Community Connection: Words Matter – HeArts Speak

    Webinar – 3/28/24 – Marketing for Community Connection: Words Matter – HeArts Speak

    An organization’s voice, tone and language are foundational components of marketing and communications, and ultimately can help shape how your community receives your messages. Even more critically, words and language influence how your audience perceives your organization and services well into the future.

    In a highly specialized field like animal services, it’s easy to get drawn into “insider-speak” or forget that most community members, despite owning or interacting with pets, aren’t familiar with our particular jargon and terminology. Whether writing an adoption bio, a social post, or a flyer, the language choices you make can change the trajectory of your message and dictate the relationship you have with the public.

    This webinar looks at how our marketing efforts — from our social media posts to our signage — can welcome more community members to our mission through the words we choose and the consideration we give to our audience.

    Speaker: Caitlin Quinn, Board member of HeARTs Speak, Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida
    Caitlin is passionate about working with animal services organizations to reimagine the way they tell their stories and connect with the community. She has served in the animal welfare field since 2008, most recently spending eight years as the director of operations at HeARTs Speak, where she now volunteers as a board member and subject matter expert.Caitlin now teaches shelter marketing for the University of Florida Master’s in Shelter Medicine program and works as a freelance creative consultant and educator. Caitlin lives in the Hudson Valley, NY with her husband and a petite, somewhat-sassy, and definitely adorable, brindle dog named Sally.

    About HeARTs Speak: HeARTs Speak is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that unites art and advocacy to increase the visibility of shelter animals. We’re dedicated to changing the way the world sees shelter animals through programs that leverage creativity and collaboration to ensure more animals are Seen and Saved.

    Learn more: https://heartsspeak.org/our-mission/

    WEBSITE LINK:  http://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0BSMIM15TUaLE6Tmi8rF6Q

  • Online Event – 1st and 3rd Tuesdays – All Call: Engaging Latine Community Members – California for All Animals

    Online Event – 1st and 3rd Tuesdays – All Call: Engaging Latine Community Members – California for All Animals

    More than one in three Californians identified as Hispanic or Latino in the 2020 census; nearly 16 million Latine residents contribute to the power and vibrancy of communities across the state. At the April 2 All Call, panelists Jessica Lopez (Executive Director, The PAW Mission), Miguel Ruelas (Co-founder, Patitas y Palabras Translation Services, and Director of Community Animal Care, Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity), and Suliana Lutin (Managing Attorney, Lutin Law Group, and Founder, Casa Sulis Animal Society, Inc.) will discuss how we can partner with current and potential Latine pet owners, community cat caregivers, fosters, and volunteers, to bring and keep more pets and people together and out of shelters.

    Join the call to solve for barriers, language and otherwise, in our own processes that can exclude and harm Latine community members, including folks who are undocumented. Through this conversation, we’ll identify the basics of culturally responsive materials and engagement so that we can build from the compassion, leadership, and creativity that already exists in our communities!

    Submit your questions for the panelists in advance.

    About the All Call: The All Call is a twice-monthly, California community call for animal well-being professionals that occurs on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday. The one-hour call is a dedicated space to share and learn from each other. Popular topics include initiatives that create a more inclusive culture for both staff and community, programs that keep pets with their people, industry trends, research studies, as well as the hard stuff, like what’s not working or what is particularly difficult during times of scarcity. The call is a mix of presentations, storytelling, open discussion, and Q&A time.

    The All Call is hosted by California for All co-leaders Allison Cardona and Nadia Oseguera and is enriched by rotating facilitators. You only need to register one time. Calls are sometimes recorded; recap emails with supplemental resources are sent post-call.

    Register here: https://tinyurl.com/all-call

  • Online Event – First Thursdays – Maddie’s Monthly Foster Connection – Maddie’s Fund

    Online Event – First Thursdays – Maddie’s Monthly Foster Connection – Maddie’s Fund

    About Maddie’s Monthly Foster Connection:
    Join us on the first Thursday of every month to discuss successful foster innovations and programs, collaborate with others in the field, answer questions and talk through complex foster-related issues.

    Who should join: Foster managers, coordinators, volunteers and any staff who are interested in learning about what’s working in foster programs.

    You only need to register once for all meetings: https://maddies.fund/MonthlyFosterRegistration

    Can’t attend live?  Register anyway and you will get a link to the recording within a day or two after each meeting.

    All recordings and resources shared during the webcast will also be available in the Maddie’s Monthly Foster Connection group on Maddie’s Pet Forum https://maddies.fund/monthlyfosterconnectionMPF

    Maddie’s Fund does not share registration information.

    The opinions expressed by webinar presenters are their own and do not necessarily represent those of Maddie’s Fund.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://maddies.fund/MonthlyFosterRegistration

  • Online Event – Fourth Thursdays – Maddie’s Monthly Behavior Connection – Maddie’s Fund

    Online Event – Fourth Thursdays – Maddie’s Monthly Behavior Connection – Maddie’s Fund

    Join us on the fourth Thursday of every month as we talk about dog and cat behavior – supporting pets in our community and animal shelters. Each month, we hear from speakers about topics of interest to our group, such as behavior medications, modifying animal behavior, assessing and improving animal welfare, and how organizations successfully provide behavior support to dogs and cats.

    Who should join: Animal welfare staff and volunteers who are interested in dog and cat behavior, and everyone who works to keep pets out of shelters and in homes.

    You only need to register once for all meetings: https://maddies.fund/MonthlyBehaviorRegistration

    Can’t attend live? Register anyway and you will get a link to the recording within a day or two after each meeting.

    All recordings and resources shared during the webcast will also be available in the Maddie’s Monthly Behavior Connection group on Maddie’s Pet Forum – https://maddies.fund/monthlybehaviorconnectionMPF

    Maddie’s Fund does not share registration information.

    The opinions expressed by webinar presenters are their own and do not necessarily represent those of Maddie’s Fund.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://maddies.fund/MonthlyBehaviorRegistration

  • Webinar – 5/14/24 – WILD TO WONDERFUL! Socialized Kitten = Happy Adopter – The National Kitten Coalition

    Webinar – 5/14/24 – WILD TO WONDERFUL! Socialized Kitten = Happy Adopter – The National Kitten Coalition

    Join NKC for a special presentation by guest speaker Mike Phillips, LVT from Urban Cat League. Learn about preparing shy, saucy, or under-socialized kittens for adoption and learn the right follow-through strategies for success.

    This comprehensive presentation will guide you through each step of the process to transform rescue kittens from wild to wonderful, and it will share valuable resources that will help ensure the adoption process is successful.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7817109692002/WN_95iM5r9ORgebjEvH9XkveA

  • Webinar – 4/24/24 – Bottle Feeding & Neonate Nutrition – The National Kitten Coalition

    Webinar – 4/24/24 – Bottle Feeding & Neonate Nutrition – The National Kitten Coalition

    Bottle-baby kittens are arriving in many parts of our country – and in some places, the kitten season never stops! Kittens under four weeks of age, or ‘bottle-baby kittens’ need trained fosters to save their lives.

    This webinar will teach you everything you need to know, from how much and how often to feed a kitten to how to mix the formula. Join us to learn the basics or get a refresher to bottle feed and help a neonatal kitten grow safely.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2617109689831/WN_Y4qzybIZRZSUWnVkNzgeOA

  • Webinar – 3/27/24 – Kitten 101: A Veterinarian’s Perspective – The National Kitten Coalition

    Webinar – 3/27/24 – Kitten 101: A Veterinarian’s Perspective – The National Kitten Coalition

    The accessibility to individuals willing to foster kittens is crucial to their survival, but fostering kittens, especially neonatal kittens, can seem daunting to community members or even seasoned fosters. This presentation will touch on many aspects of kitten care: recommended supplies, the importance of quarantine, determining kitten age and gender, neonatal kitten care, age-appropriate nutrition, and preventative care, as well as common medical ailments that may be encountered while fostering.

    Given that the speaker has the dual perspectives of being a veterinarian and a neonatal kitten foster, the hope is that whether the listener is a community member, affiliated with a rescue organization, manages a foster program, or is a member of the shelter or veterinary communities, this Kitten 101 lecture will provide useful insights and ultimately help save more kittens.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2417109683242/WN_w7woqcCPQZ-Ppb1S-ZzRqg

  • Online Event – 4/10/24 – Neonatal Kitten Rescue 101: A Practical Guide for Animal Control Officers – The National Kitten Coalition

    Online Event – 4/10/24 – Neonatal Kitten Rescue 101: A Practical Guide for Animal Control Officers – The National Kitten Coalition

    This conference has been approved for One (1) Continuing Educational Unit by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA).

    Are you familiar with the challenges of aging, assessing, and caring for neonatal kittens in the field? Finding appropriate placement for them can be a daunting task, and time is often of the essence. To address these issues, we’ve created a practical guide for rescues and animal control officers who want to make a difference for neonatal kittens in need. Join us for this informative webinar to help prepare yourself and your colleagues for kitten season, and if you know any animal control officers who could benefit from this webinar, please let them know.

    Neonatal Kitten Rescue 101: A Practical Guide for Animal Control Officers is brought to you by the National Animal Care & Control Association, Rhode Island Kitten Kits, and The National Kitten Coalition

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2317109686219/WN_F5M2hfglRpaOeInVP1I-Pw