The Future Is Four: Dive Into The 4 Rights - The Right Care in the Right Place at the Right Time to the Right Outcome - Webinar Series

The Future Is Four: Dive Into The 4 Rights - The Right Care in the Right Place at the Right Time to the Right Outcome - Webinar Series

The foundation of the Million Cat Challenge rested on Five Key Initiatives, refined and adapted to shelters of every size and type throughout North America, which together represented a holistic approach that addressed the “before, during and after” for any cat at risk of shelter entry. These initiatives were proven by over 3.5 million more cat lives saved by over 1500 Challenger Shelters. Now, #ThanksToMaddie, we’re thinking bigger. 

With the Maddie’s®️ Million Pet Challenge, the Five Key Initiatives of the Million Cat Challenge have expanded to include other species at risk in shelters and evolved into the Four Rights.  

Within the Four Rights, every element works in concert to support one another: animals and people are treated as individuals, empowering shelter staff to make the best decisions for everyone; community safety net services are in place and flourishing; and humane care within the shelter is provided, with appropriate outcomes for the animals that do come in, allowing shelters to deliver the Right Care, in the Right Place, at the Right Time, and to the Right Outcome.

As part of the Maddie's®️ Million Pet Challenge's Learniverse program, subject matter experts from the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program will discuss guiding principles that animal welfare professionals can use to make decisions, train their staff and engage the public. 

To get a complete overview of the series, watch an introduction presented by Dr. Kate Hurley, The Future is Four.

Keywords:  4 Rights, Right Place, Right TIme, Right Care, Right Outcome


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

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

Learn more about  Maddie's®️ Million Pet Challenge Learniverse.  #ThankstoMaddie

You can also join the discussion about these concepts over on Maddie's Pet Forum in the 4 Rights Discussion Group.

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The Future Is Four: The Right Place Webinar
Select the "Watch Webinar" button to begin.  |  55 minutes
Select the "Watch Webinar" button to begin.  |  55 minutes Drs. Cindy Karsten and Chumkee Aziz will guide you through the framework that allows you to remove decision fatigue and get animals where they need to be—or help them right where they are.
The Future is Four: The Right Place Webinar Quiz
5 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  4/5 points to pass
5 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  4/5 points to pass
Right Place CE Certificate - CAWA and NACA CE
1.00 CAWA CE, NACA CE credit  |  Certificate available
1.00 CAWA CE, NACA CE credit  |  Certificate available
The Future is Four: The Right Time Webinar
Select the "Watch Webinar" button to begin.  |  58 minutes
Select the "Watch Webinar" button to begin.  |  58 minutes Drs. Cindi Delany and Kate Hurley outline strategies for streamlining tasks, reducing length of stay, capturing lost resources, and making the most of the resources you have.
The Future is Four: The Right Time Webinar Quiz
5 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  4/5 points to pass
5 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  4/5 points to pass
Right Time CE Certificate for CAWA and NACA CE
1.00 CAWA CE, NACA CE credit  |  Certificate available
1.00 CAWA CE, NACA CE credit  |  Certificate available
The Future is Four: The Right Care Webinar
Select the "Watch Webinar" button to begin.  |  52 minutes
Select the "Watch Webinar" button to begin.  |  52 minutes Dr's Mehnaz (Chumkee) Aziz and Denae Wagner along with Karen Green discuss some of the critical components of providing the Right Care (including appropriate housing) in the animal shelter setting.
The Future is Four: The Right Care Webinar Quiz
5 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  4/5 points to pass
5 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  4/5 points to pass
Right Care Certificate for CAWA and NACA CE
1.00 CAWA CE, NACA CE credit  |  Certificate available
1.00 CAWA CE, NACA CE credit  |  Certificate available
The Future is Four: The Right Outcome Webinar
Select the "Watch Webinar" button to begin.  |  54 minutes
Select the "Watch Webinar" button to begin.  |  54 minutes Dr.'s Kate Hurley and Cindy Karsten focus on the Right Outcome and how to remove barriers to animals achieving their right outcome from the shelter (or possibly avoid a shelter stay entirely).
The Future is Four: The Right Outcome Webinar Quiz
5 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  4/5 points to pass
5 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  4/5 points to pass
Right Outcome CE Certificate for CAWA and NACA CE
1.00 CAWA CE, NACA CE credit  |  Certificate available
1.00 CAWA CE, NACA CE credit  |  Certificate available
4 Rights Discussion Group
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Select the "Visit the Discussion Group" button to begin. 4 Rights discussion group on Maddie's®️ Pet Forum will open in a new window/tab.

We have a dedicated discussion group on Maddie's Pet Forum to discuss the 4 Rights of Animal Sheltering.  Bring your questions, comments, thoughts, and suggestions, or just see what others are thinking about these ideas.

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Cynthia Karsten, DVM

Outreach Veterinarian

Koret Shelter Medicine Program, UC Davis

Dr. Karsten became board certified in Shelter Medicine Practice in November, 2017. Her main areas of interest include teaching and mentoring undergraduate and veterinary students, working with shelter leaders on change management, and providing accessible, affordable veterinary care to everyone who seeks it.

Throughout her KSMP career, Dr. Karsten has helped to identify and implement best practice protocols and capacity for care models at shelters across the United States and Canada.

She also continues to work to understand her role and that of animal shelters in increasing awareness of social justice issues and implementing policies to bring about equity.

Read more about Karsten

Mehnaz (Chumkee) Aziz, DVM,

Outreach Veterinarian

Koret Shelter Medicine Program, UC Davis

Chumkee obtained her DVM degree at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in 2012. She then completed an internship at the ASPCA’s Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital in NYC in 2013, which included experience in anti-cruelty work and shelter medicine. Chumkee was a resident at the KSMP from 2013-2016. She headed the Northern Tier Shelter Initiative and served as Senior Director of Shelter Medicine Services at the ASPCA before returning to the KSMP in January, 2022 as an outreach veterinarian.Her current interests include the role of community collaboration in mitigating pet homelessness, proactive shelter population management, and infectious disease prevention in shelters. 

Cynthia Delany, DVM, KPA-CTP, FFCP

Director of Online Learning Maddie's Million Pet Challenge

Koret Shelter Medicine Program, UC Davis

With an undergraduate degree in Business/Economics from UCLA and a DVM from UC Davis, Dr. Cindi Delany became the first ever Shelter Veterinarian at Sacramento County Animal Care and Regulation in California under the newly created UC Davis Shelter Medicine Program in 2001.Dr. Delany’s focus in KSMP animal shelter consultations and industry speaking is on programs targeted to improve animal outcomes, provide environmental enrichment for shelter animals, explore shelter animal behavior and training, improve shelter data collection and analysis, and maximize operational efficiencies in a limited resource environment. She currently serves as the Master of the Learniverse, the online learning platform for Maddie's Million Pet Challenge. 

Kate Hurley, DVM, MPVM

Director

Koret Shelter Medicine Program, UC Davis

Dr. Hurley is the founding director of the Koret Shelter Medicine Program and co-founder of the Million Cat Challenge, a shelter-based initiative to save the lives of one million more cats in five years. Over 1,500 shelters more than tripled that goal, between them saving over three million cats against their own baseline before joining the challenge. Hurley’s research interests include welfare of confined dogs and cats, humane and effective strategies to manage community cats, and infectious disease prevention. She will always love shelter work because it has the potential to improve the lives of so many animals and the people who work so hard to care for them.

Denae Wagner, DVM, MPVM

Veterinarian

Koret Shelter Medicine Program, UC Davis

In her work for the Koret Shelter Medicine Program, Dr. Wagner has helped shelters from Florida to Vancouver. Her contributions have ranged from Capacity for Care (C4C) calculations and population health to full facility design consultations.After initially fashioning them by hand, Dr. Wagner oversaw the design and manufacture of the Kat Portal for the Koret Shelter Medicine Program. Over 5,000 of her hand-made and manufactured portals have been installed in animal shelters throughout North America and beyond, earning Dr. Wagner the nickname, The Portal Queen. The portals safely and cleanly couple pairs of existing cat cages, transforming cramped housing into roomier double-compartment condos.Dr. Wagner’s current interests include evidence based shelter design and the effects of housing and the shelter environment on animal health and well-being. 

Karen Green

Executive Director

Cat Adoption Team

Karen lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is the executive director of the Cat Adoption Team. CAT is the largest cat-focused shelter in the Pacific Northwest. CAT is a founding partner of the Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland (ASAP). Working together since 2006, our coalition has increased the live release rate for cats in the Portland metro area from 49% to 94%. Today, most of their cats come to our shelter from over 50 shelter and rescues across Oregon and beyond.

Karen started her animal welfare career in 1996 as a veterinary assistant in the cat areas at Best Friends Animal Society. During ten years at Best Friends, she managed the organization’s help desk and helped run the national outreach program, then called “No More Homeless Pets.” She also fostered dozens of cats and dogs, focusing on neonates and under-socialized adolescents (though also including one piglet). After moving to Portland in 2006, she worked for the Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs, an organization advancing non-surgical fertility control options worldwide (think: “spay shot”). After serving on the board of directors for Cat Adoption Team, she became the executive director in 2012.