Maddie's Insights: Exploration of Opportunities for Barriers & Bias During Off-Site Animal Adoption Events (On Demand)

Maddie's® Insights are monthly webcasts with practical tips based on current research to help pets and people.  

This presentation shares findings from a large survey of 484 U.S. animal shelter and rescue organizations on adoption event practices and adopter screening procedures. Participants will learn about common processes in adoption decision-making, the role of implicit bias in these processes, and how organizational procedures can affect both the speed and equity of pet adoptions. The session will highlight areas for animal shelter professionals to reflect on their own adoption practices and consider strategies for reducing barriers while supporting successful matches between people and pets.

The study had three specific goals: (1) to describe the basic characteristics of off-site adoption events, (2) to describe the adoption processes in use by shelters and to determine if there is any potential for unconscious bias in these processes, and (3) to determine if adoption practices differ depending on the characteristics of the animal shelter.

Presenter: Lexis Ly, PhD

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. It has also been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize RACE approval through 10/14/27. Complete the quiz to earn continuing education credit for CAWA and NACA.

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keywords  Maddie's Insights, Lexis Ly, animal adoption, implicit bias, shelter management, capacity for care