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  • 1.  "Staying Healthy Together" initiative for low-income seniors and their pets

    Posted 07-17-2023 08:33 AM

    Animal Advocates of Greater Lafayette is a pet support, intake prevention, and educational organization. We are partnering with a non-profit organization that serves low-income seniors, several veterinary practices, and our local veterinary school (Purdue) on an event called "Staying Healthy Together." We are planning to provide no-cost vaccines and wellness exams for pets, with parallel services for their owners. Our first event, planned for October, is a trial run, and then we hope to continue to do these next year, and eventually expand to a half day wellness "fair" for low-income seniors and their pets. If anyone has experience doing this sort of event, or interest....would love to hear ideas and suggestions. This event is philosophically aligned with our organization's mission of keeping pets out of shelters, keeping families together, and celebrating the human-animal bond. But logistically it is more complicated than a drive through vaccine clinic, so suggestions would be welcome. 

    Nadine Dolby

    President

    Animal Advocates of Greater Lafayette https://www.animaladvocatesgl.org/


    #AccesstoCare
    #CommunityPartnerships*
    #PetSupportServices*

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    Nadine Dolby
    Professor
    Animal Advocates of Greater Lafayette
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  • 2.  RE: "Staying Healthy Together" initiative for low-income seniors and their pets

    Posted 07-17-2023 08:38 AM

    If you are serving low-income zip codes, check with HSUS about becoming part of their Pets for Life grant-based program:  https://www.humanesociety.org/all-our-fights/keeping-pets-life

    The grant funds a full-time outreach employee who is in the neighborhoods every day distributing lots of food, and arranging for vaxing, speutering, etc. in specifically targeted zip-codes that produce most of the stray animals in the local shelters.



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    Maggie Thomas
    President
    Red Stick German Shepherd Rescue
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  • 3.  RE: "Staying Healthy Together" initiative for low-income seniors and their pets

    Posted 07-18-2023 11:50 AM

    Love this.  We too while we operate a spay/neuter and wellness clinic,  we are also a educational organization and offer community outreach to senior citizens and those facing homelessness.  We work to keep pets healthy, keep families together and we embrace the human-animal bond, I am very interested in hearing how this event goes and I wish I had some suggestions but I truly love the idea of this event.     I know you will make a huge impact.    We do go out to senior centers to give no cost vaccines and what helps us is to have an idea of how many pets/owners we will be serving that day so I don't know if it is possible to get them preregistered or not.   Good luck and I look forward to hearing the results of this much needed endeavor.  



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    Dawn Roberts
    Executive Director
    Beesley Animal Foundation
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  • 4.  RE: "Staying Healthy Together" initiative for low-income seniors and their pets

    Posted 07-18-2023 02:26 PM

    If you could keep us posted here on your progress.  Our Org is determining the logistics of a similar program with the unhoused in our community.  Yours could be a template that could be adapted and reproduced again and again. 

    Thank you!



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    Laura Goodsell
    Grants Admin
    Pasado's Safe Haven
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    Original Message


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