Animal Welfare Professionals

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Hey everyone, We currently have a volunteer who is differently abled, she likes to help at adoptions events. Asking from a true place of both wanting to have her continue to help, but at the last event she fell while helping and it took 2 of us to get her up off the ground. She is mobile but not for very long. Our events are full of puppies playing and there are multiple times she has tripped. But I really want to have her help, any suggestions? I don't want her to get hurt.

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I would talk with her to find what accommodations she would find helpful when working events. In most cases, the simplest adjustment can make the world of difference. 

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August Hutchins (They/Them)
Foster Coordinator
Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center
Tampa, Florida
813-272-1157
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It sounds like she needs a position where she can be seated during the event. Registration, check in/out, information, the free stuff table, etc. Or  culd she be given a place to sit and one adoptable animal to handle? So people can come to her if they are interested in that particular pet?

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Maria Saucedo
GIS Analyst
Pets for Life at HSUS
Baltimore, MD
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Could she be positioned seated at a table and help greet the public and give them information about the organization and the animals at the event? 

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Amanda Gray
Grants and fundraising manager
Operation Liberation
FL
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