Animal Welfare Professionals

Updated on 2/7/22 at 1:30pm Pacific with call recording, updated agenda and resources shared on the call

 

Agenda

• Welcome - Bobby Mann:  bobby.mann@americanpetsalive.org 
  • Don’t miss your chance to register for the FREE Big Dog Master Class on 29 + 3.30.22 (Tuesday and Wednesday) 10am PT to 5pm PT (1,501 already registered!) https://maddiesfund-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uydm2Ka_RSye_dVgVJg4Bw
• Mary's Monday Motivation
  • Keep hydrated!  It helps keep you happy and makes you get up from the computer more often!
  • Maddie’s Fund Monthly Giveaway winners for January! 
    • $1,000 - Mary Flores, Sol Dog Lodge and Training Center
    • $1,000 - Dina Smith, Best Friends Animal Society
    • $1,000 - Albert Yau, Pause4Change Rescue Foundation
    • $1,000 - Joe Stafford, Animal Rescue League of Iowa
    • $1,000 - Michael Roach, Taysia Blue Rescue
  • Enter here for a chance to win CA$H for your organization or an organization of your choice in a random drawing for the February calls (winner(s) will be announced in March: https://www.maddiesfund.org/monday-community-conversations-feb22-giveaway.htm  Open to all who are watching live or on-demand!
  • Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity (CARE) Black History Month series - every Wednesday evening in February at 4:00 PM PT / 7:00 PM ET.  https://chewonthis.maddiesfund.org/2022/01/care-black-history-month/
• National Updates
  • Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge  http://maddiesmillionpetchallenge.org/
    • Watch the webcast from 2/3/22  https://university.maddiesfund.org/products/maddies-million-pet-challenge-teaming-up-for-pets-and-people
  •  Best Friends Town Hall - The kittens are coming to the town hall.  Designed for all foster programs - experienced or not yet started!  https://bestfriends-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/5416433133354/WN_EGP-2YykS3Ofh7qzrOlJJQ
  • Maddie’s Fund’s We Foster Challenge is coming!  https://www.maddiesfund.org/we-foster-challenge.htm
  • Big Dog Master Class March 29 +30 - Register here:  https://maddiesfund-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uydm2Ka_RSye_dVgVJg4Bw
    • Speakers and Schedule of classes https://maddiesmillionpetchallenge.org/big-dog-master-class/

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Session One: This presentation showed how the HASS Facility Guideline document was created and how it aligns with the Elements of HASS. The guideline outlines a new model for a community animal care center with decentralized services and how your organization can easily get started. Facilities of the future should have flexible, adaptive spaces that are used as a tool to answer the needs of individual communities.

• HASS Facility Guidelines  https://www.humananimalsupportservices.org/pro-resources/
• HASS Facility Toolkit  https://www.humananimalsupportservices.org/toolkit/role-of-the-facility/
• To join our Building and Facilities Working Group (onboarding mid to late March for Q2), sign up here and choose B&F!: https://forms.monday.com/forms/afe8048f3e476e893d400267f4719976?r=use1
• Speaker Panel
  • Caty Townsend – Animal Arts  https://www.animalarts.com
    • caty@animalarts.com
  • @Beau Archer – Humane Rescue Alliance
  • Dr. @Sandra strong, DVM – Orange County Animal Services
  • @Sara Price – Seattle Area Feline Rescue

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Session Two: Marley’s Mutts Pawsitive Change Program partners with California state prisons to select 24-30 incarcerated individuals and 8-10 at-risk shelter dogs for each prison program cycle. The team from Marley’s Mutts provided a quick overview before introducing us to some amazing graduates from the program. 

• Marley’s Mutts Pawsitive Change Program  https://www.marleysmutts.org/pawsitivechange
• Zach Skow, Founder & Director of PR, Marley's Mutts Dog Rescue  https://www.marleysmutts.org/
• Will Mechling, Pawsitive Change Program Manager, Marley's Mutts Dog Rescue  https://www.marleysmutts.org/

Graduate Speakers 

• Nhut Vo: Currently training at HumbleK9
• Daniel Robinson: Owns and operates Doggy Jits
• Didontae Farmer: Currently training at LAK9s 
  • “Correct the bad deeds with the good deeds….All you have to do is give a guy a dog!”
• Rigo Garcia, The Canine Republic
• Oscar Rodriguez: Currently training at LAK9s
  • “It allows me to touch the lives of animal and people and allows me to touch them in a small way to make their lives better.” – Oscar Rodriguez

@Peter Wolf shared this research article https://www.academia.edu/443498/Prison_Pups_Assessing_the_Effects_of_Dog_Training_Programs_In_Correctional_Facilities

@Kathleen Lehman shared

Here's one article from 2005 from a prison program https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J039v09n04_06

Here are more recent articles https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1300/J039v09n04_06?scroll=top&needAccess=true


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Hello!

 

Sharing the agenda for next Monday's 2/7/22 Shelter and Rescue Support Call (LINK TO REGISTER):

Quick Reminder: You can also watch previous recordings and continue the conversation at Maddie's Pet Forum!  

Announcements

• Maddie's Fund will be announcing winners of the January $5,000 grant giveaway!

• Don't miss your chance to register for the FREE Big Dog Master Class (1,250+ already registered!)

• Sign up to become an official HASS Partner Organization 

• Join a HASS Job-Alike

Session One: This presentation will discuss how the HASS Facility Guideline document was created and how it aligns with the Elements of HASS. The guideline outlines a new model for a community animal care center with decentralized services and how your organization can easily get started. Facilities of the future should have flexible, adaptive spaces that are used as a tool to answer the needs of individual communities.

Speaker Panel: Caty Townsend – Animal Arts, @Beau Archer – Humane Rescue Alliance, Dr. @Sandra strong, DVM – Orange County Animal Services and @Sara Price – Seattle Area Feline Rescue

 

Session Two: Marley's Mutts Pawsitive Change Program partners with California state prisons to select 24-30 incarcerated individuals and 8-10 at-risk shelter dogs for each prison program cycle. The team from Marley's Mutts will provide a quick overview before introducing us to some amazing graduates from the program. 
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193 attendees on today's call were rewarded with one of the most inspirational calls yet! 

The first session's speakers shared a glimpse into the future with guidelines on how your organization can get started designing and redesigning your facilities to answer the needs of your community.

The second session's speakers shared an overview of Marley's Mutts' Pawsitive Change Program which creates "hope and opportunity for incarcerated people and pets so both may find a path home". After the overview, five of the program's graduates spoke about their experiences before, during and after the program. Their stories were incredibly inspirational, so inspirational that the call ran longer than usual and more than 100 people stayed on to hear them. Bobby said we would be dedicating an entire future call to hearing from this program's graduates -- if that happens, don't miss it! 

If you missed today's call, watch it in the post above or at this link. Make the time for it. It'll make you smile from ear to ear! I've also attached the chat log to this post.

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Kim Domerofski (she/her)
Community Manager
Maddie's Fund
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