Welcome to the ShelterMedPortal,
Your Gateway to Professional Growth in Animal Sheltering!
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Shelter Learniverse Has a New Home
At the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, we’re dedicated to supporting you in your work within the animal sheltering industry. As part of the Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge, we proudly re-introduce the Shelter Learniverse in it’s new home – shelterlearniverse.com.
Explore our new home and discover how we can assist you in your work and career.
Shelter Care Specialist Certification
The Koret Shelter Medicine Program recognizes the profound Access to Care challenges faced by animal shelters across the nation. To bridge this gap, we are excited to introduce our new certification program aimed at elevating the expertise and readiness of frontline shelter team members. Our Shelter Care Specialist Certification Program is designed to address the challenges associated with access to care in shelters by empowering shelter staff with comprehensive training that extends to medical care, best practices in shelter operations, animal shelter population management, and behavior, training and enrichment for animals in shelters.
Introducing our Shelter Care Specialist Certification Program: a game-changing professional development program for shelter team members. Elevate your professional skills and credentials, positioning yourself for a fulfilling career in animal welfare. Learn more now!
Self-Paced Learning
Check out our bite-sized, self-paced, on-demand learning options to help you level up in your current job and prepare for future opportunities in the animal welfare industry. Dive in now!
Shelter Industry Events Calendar
Go to the animal sheltering’s most-used calendar of upcoming in-person and online events from across the industry.
Shelter Medicine Resource Library
Visit sheltermedicine.com’s resource library for answers to your shelter medicine questions.
Sheltermedicine.com
Visit sheltermedicine.com for more information about the programs and services offered by the Koret Shelter Medicine Program at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
Recently Announced Upcoming Industry Events
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge is dedicated to helping communities build programs to keep families and their pets together, improve outcomes for all shelter pets, and assure that pets who already have families will receive the care they need. With the support of Maddie’s® Fund, UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, the Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at UF, Open Door Veterinary Collective, and Team Shelter USA will mentor shelters and veterinary practices to deliver access to care through humane, community-centric programming both inside and outside of the shelter, and to achieve the right outcome for every pet.