Ryan Clinton teaches the foundations of various animal welfare ordinances and what they mean for your organization. Some of the topics covered will include stray holds, caretaker liability and Austin's No Kill plan. Leave with less unknowns and more answers to these often-puzzling laws. This presentation was recorded by Maddie's Fund® at the 2020 American Pets Alive! Conference.

Presenter: Ryan Clinton

Keywords: Establish a Lifesaving Foundation, Lifesaving Public Policies and Ordinances, Community-minded Field Services, amimal laws, rescue laws, advocacy, leadership, liability,

Finally, an intake and animal flow process designed to help you prevent outbreaks and ensure live outcomes! Join American Pets Alive! as they discuss what should (or conversely, could) happen within the first 72 hours after an animal enters any sheltering system.

Presenters: Jordana Moerbe, Faith Wright, Dr. Nipuni Ratnayaka

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From animal care attendants to RVTs and beyond, everyone in the shelter has the power to have a big impact on animal health. Does it seem like animals keep getting sick no matter what you do, especially right now with intake numbers climbing in many shelters? Does URI have to be status quo for summer? Is parvo inevitable? Have you wondered what else you can do to get ahead of these vicious cycles? This webinar is for you! 

UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program veterinarians Dr. Aziz and Dr. Stuntebeck answer questions and arm shelter staff with the information needed to squash the most concerning infectious diseases in your shelter. Whether you’re providing daily care for animals or reviewing care and intake protocols, you’ll learn practical steps to relieve the strain on animals and team members. Come prepared to UNLEARN unhelpful myths and walk away with tools and techniques that will lead to healthier animals, less stress for you, and make your job of serving the pets and people in your community easier.

This short, self-paced course has been approved for 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator (CAWA) continuing education credit by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by National Animal Care and Control Association. 

This course has been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit until July 24th, 2025 in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. Upon completing the course and passing the quiz, upload your certificate to https://CEBroker.com. This is the broker used by the AAVSB to track your continuing education credits.

Keywords:  infectious diseases, shelter animal health, animal health, reducing disease, curbing disease

PLEASE CONTACT:  learniverse@sheltermedportal.com if you have any questions or concerns about this course.

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You can also join the discussion about these concepts over on Maddie's Pet Forum in the Curbing Disease as Intake Rises - Prevent, Fight and Win Today Discussion Forum.

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You can also join the discussion about these concepts over on Maddie's Pet Forum in the Curbing Disease as Intake Rises - Prevent, Fight and Win Todaydiscussion thread.

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Care pathways have long been used in human medical care, and now they are being used successfully in animal care as well. Care pathways are standardized paths that guide a group of pets from intake to outcome and direct resources to the animals that need them. Care pathways aim to reduce shelter stay, providing high quality and efficient care for animals in your organization’s care, based upon their needs. During this course, you’ll learn about care pathways and how to create care pathways for your organization. You’ll generate a care pathway plan that meets your organization’s needs, including plans for implementation and evaluation.

Healthy, medium and large dogs remain one of the most vulnerable populations in shelters. Whether they have known behavioral challenges or face decline due to the stress of near-constant confinement, savable dogs can face euthanasia if shelters are unable to find a safe, viable outcome option for them. In this two-part series, we'll talk about how to give most dogs a fair chance at a live outcome through following a simple, easy-to-implement protocol that can be practiced in any shelter or rescue. Using real-life examples, we'll show you how a case management approach to at-risk dogs can save lives, decrease length of stay, build trust and engagement with your community, and improve morale among staff and volunteers.

This is the first in a two-part series but it can be viewed on its own and will be useful to shelter leadership at all levels, volunteers, advocates and anyone else who struggles to save big dogs' lives.

Presenters: Kristen Hassen-Auerbach and Dr. Sheila Segurson

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Healthy, medium and large dogs remain one of the most vulnerable populations in shelters. Whether they have known behavioral challenges or face decline due to the stress of near-constant confinement, savable dogs can face euthanasia if shelters are unable to find a safe, viable outcome option for them. In this two-part series, we'll talk about how to give most dogs a fair chance at a live outcome through following a simple, easy-to-implement protocol that can be practiced in any shelter or rescue. Using real-life examples, we'll show you how a case management approach to at-risk dogs can save lives, decrease length of stay, build trust and engagement with your community, and improve morale among staff and volunteers.

Housing young, energetic, intelligent dogs in kennels for 23 hours or more per day indefinitely leads to shelter stress and undesirable behaviors, which can put dogs' lives on the line. This talk gets into the details of how to make changes to better serve this at-risk population of shelter pets. 

This is the second in a two-part series but it can be viewed on its own and will be useful to shelter leadership at all levels, volunteers, advocates and anyone else who struggles to save big dogs' lives.

Presenters: Kristen Hassen-Auerbach and Sheila Segurson DVM

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Maddie's University offers many courses aimed at creating or improving shelter and rescue programs. But starting a new program or changing an existing program can be scary for management, staff and volunteers. Designing and implementing a pilot program can help you convince leadership and iron out the kinks before you implement on a large scale. This short class will help you make your new or updated program a success. 

What does it mean for a shelter to be truly transparent? In this session, no-kill leader, Kristen Auerbach, will tackle two separate but important topics in order for you to be one with your community. First, Kristen will explain the history of how a lack of transparency has led to mass killings in shelters. Second, she will describe some of the key characteristics of a truly transparent animal welfare organization. 

Presenters: Sloat, Moore, Simonsen

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Volunteers are critical to the success of any shelter or rescue operation, especially in these times of staffing issues. Volunteers can fill many roles across your organization and each volunteer brings their own expertise and skills to the table. If you aren't integrating volunteers into every aspect of your programming, you are missing opportunities that will benefit your organization, your staff, your community and your animals. This course will help you successfully integrate volunteers into all your programs and measure their efforts.

keywords: Human Animal Support Services

This course takes a fun approach to a serious subject: developing an authentic relationship with your audience through marketing and communications. Authored by the Maddie's Fund marketing team, this course guides students through the creation of a marketing and communications plan, focusing on brand, voice, audience and communication tools. 

This course has been pre-approved for 1.50 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and National Animal Care & Control Association credit.