Aloha! I work at the Hawaiian Humane Society and we are looking to make some changes to our foster care team. Currently, we have two campuses services the entire island of Oahu (about 12-15k animals a year being intaken). Our current set up is one foster coordinator on each campus, and a single foster care manager that switches between the two. We've had some success with this being the status quo, but not seeing a ton of growth in the types of animals we are sending out. For example - we're not sending out many behavior/socialization cases or certain medical cases like ringworm.
Now to my actual question - we are considering changing the breakdown of our roles. We're hoping to keep the single foster manager role and change our coordinators to be one medical coordinator and one behavior coordinator. This would require them to switch back and forth between campuses instead of having one person at a "home" campus. We would also add one role - a foster care assistant - that would switch between campuses as a support role as well.
My question is - has anyone utilize this role structure? How did it go?
#Behavior,TrainingandEnrichment#FosterPrograms#Medicine,SurgeryandSterilization------------------------------
Alexia Boyd
Senior manager of Animal Experience
Hawaiian Humane Society
HI
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