Animal Welfare Professionals

This is one of the many areas we had questions about too! Our shelter has reached out to set up a consultation with the group that created the new standards: https://nysapfedfund.org/shelter-standards-consulting-services/ We are hoping we will be able to get more specific info through that process.

Thanks for responding.  We are in contact with them. However the law and NYSAPF are both pretty shelter-centric.  As a rescue without a physical location we limitations

This is one of the many areas we had questions about too! Our shelter has reached out to set up a consultation with the group that created the new standards: https://nysapfedfund.org/shelter-standards-consulting-services/ We are hoping we will be able to get more specific info through that process.

Hi, Diane:

We at Maddie's Fund have also been in touch with the NYSAPF, and are working on a course to fulfill the animal cruelty requirement which will be available before the end of the year. It will still be directed at shelters, but it will focus on balancing the need for resources that come up in neglect situations with outright cruelty cases and recognizing the difference, so it may be more relevant to your situation. I will keep foster-based organizations in mind as we develop this course. 

By the way, Maddie's Fund does offer a free service of putting all courses into a portal at one Maddie's University URL where you can see who enrolls and completes courses. You can also create tabs to link out to external training, so you have it all in one place. We have been doing this for some NYS orgs in the lead up to the requirements. You can read more about that service here: https://www.maddiesfund.org/professional-development-portals.htm

Thanks for all you do for cats and kittens!

Erika

Thanks for responding.  We are in contact with them. However the law and NYSAPF are both pretty shelter-centric.  As a rescue without a physical location we limitations

This is one of the many areas we had questions about too! Our shelter has reached out to set up a consultation with the group that created the new standards: https://nysapfedfund.org/shelter-standards-consulting-services/ We are hoping we will be able to get more specific info through that process.

Erika,

We have had you do this for our shelter (SPCA Serving Erie County, NY) and it has been a great way to easily see who has taken the courses and also to not have to look all over for which ones we need to fulfill the NYS requirements.  What a great time-saver and convenience it has been!

Hi, Diane:

We at Maddie's Fund have also been in touch with the NYSAPF, and are working on a course to fulfill the animal cruelty requirement which will be available before the end of the year. It will still be directed at shelters, but it will focus on balancing the need for resources that come up in neglect situations with outright cruelty cases and recognizing the difference, so it may be more relevant to your situation. I will keep foster-based organizations in mind as we develop this course. 

By the way, Maddie's Fund does offer a free service of putting all courses into a portal at one Maddie's University URL where you can see who enrolls and completes courses. You can also create tabs to link out to external training, so you have it all in one place. We have been doing this for some NYS orgs in the lead up to the requirements. You can read more about that service here: https://www.maddiesfund.org/professional-development-portals.htm

Thanks for all you do for cats and kittens!

Erika

Thanks for responding.  We are in contact with them. However the law and NYSAPF are both pretty shelter-centric.  As a rescue without a physical location we limitations

This is one of the many areas we had questions about too! Our shelter has reached out to set up a consultation with the group that created the new standards: https://nysapfedfund.org/shelter-standards-consulting-services/ We are hoping we will be able to get more specific info through that process.

Hi, Diane:

We at Maddie's Fund have also been in touch with the NYSAPF, and are working on a course to fulfill the animal cruelty requirement which will be available before the end of the year. It will still be directed at shelters, but it will focus on balancing the need for resources that come up in neglect situations with outright cruelty cases and recognizing the difference, so it may be more relevant to your situation. I will keep foster-based organizations in mind as we develop this course. 

By the way, Maddie's Fund does offer a free service of putting all courses into a portal at one Maddie's University URL where you can see who enrolls and completes courses. You can also create tabs to link out to external training, so you have it all in one place. We have been doing this for some NYS orgs in the lead up to the requirements. You can read more about that service here: https://www.maddiesfund.org/professional-development-portals.htm

Thanks for all you do for cats and kittens!

Erika

Thanks for responding.  We are in contact with them. However the law and NYSAPF are both pretty shelter-centric.  As a rescue without a physical location we limitations

This is one of the many areas we had questions about too! Our shelter has reached out to set up a consultation with the group that created the new standards: https://nysapfedfund.org/shelter-standards-consulting-services/ We are hoping we will be able to get more specific info through that process.

Hi Erika, 

Can you please link this training if Maddies Fund did one? Would love to watch! 

Hi, Diane:

We at Maddie's Fund have also been in touch with the NYSAPF, and are working on a course to fulfill the animal cruelty requirement which will be available before the end of the year. It will still be directed at shelters, but it will focus on balancing the need for resources that come up in neglect situations with outright cruelty cases and recognizing the difference, so it may be more relevant to your situation. I will keep foster-based organizations in mind as we develop this course. 

By the way, Maddie's Fund does offer a free service of putting all courses into a portal at one Maddie's University URL where you can see who enrolls and completes courses. You can also create tabs to link out to external training, so you have it all in one place. We have been doing this for some NYS orgs in the lead up to the requirements. You can read more about that service here: https://www.maddiesfund.org/professional-development-portals.htm

Thanks for all you do for cats and kittens!

Erika

Thanks for responding.  We are in contact with them. However the law and NYSAPF are both pretty shelter-centric.  As a rescue without a physical location we limitations

This is one of the many areas we had questions about too! Our shelter has reached out to set up a consultation with the group that created the new standards: https://nysapfedfund.org/shelter-standards-consulting-services/ We are hoping we will be able to get more specific info through that process.

This is one of the many areas we had questions about too! Our shelter has reached out to set up a consultation with the group that created the new standards: https://nysapfedfund.org/shelter-standards-consulting-services/ We are hoping we will be able to get more specific info through that process.