Weekly Community Conversations - Foster Solutions

When:  Jan 23, 2023 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PT)
Associated with  Animal Welfare Professionals

Call Topic:
Is your shelter or rescue full, or close to it? In this presentation, we’ll look at successful techniques organizations around the country are using to place pets in foster homes and move foster pets on to permanent homes more quickly.

Presenter:
@Kelly Duer, Senior Community Solutions Specialist at Maddie's Fund

As Senior Community Solutions Initiative Specialist, Kelly's focus is on helping shelters and rescue organizations increase lifesaving through the implementation of robust foster care programs. Her role includes consulting with shelters, creating and providing training for organizations and their foster coordinators, writing and assisting with research on foster care.

Kelly previously coordinated a foster program that brought orphaned children to the United States in order to find them permanent adoptive homes, worked as the Foster Expansion Coordinator for a national study of foster care, and assisted with the behavioral foster study that was conducted at the Fairfax County Animal Shelter. Her work with foster care and social media has been featured in many national publications, websites and networks, including Animal Sheltering magazine, the Huffington Post, Best Friends magazine, BarkPost, iheartdogs.com, HuffPost Live and Fox News.

Kelly lives in Fairfax, Virginia with her husband, children and pets. When she's not working, Kelly enjoys reading, traveling, gardening and providing foster care for dogs and cats.


About Community Conversations
:
Maddie’s Fund, hosts a weekly hour-long Zoom call for animal well-being professionals. These calls are a collaborative space to share exciting new programs and research, discuss uncomfortable topics, connect with peers in the industry, and more, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond.

This call, recurring each Monday unless otherwise posted, is for executive directors, animal well-being leaders, shelter workers, pet support professionals, volunteers, and rescue organizations.

You need only register once to attend each recurring meeting. By registering for this event, your email address will be added to our community conversations mailing list where weekly meeting agendas and announcements are shared by Maddie's Fund. We do not share your information.

All calls are recorded and uploaded to the Community Conversations page on Maddie’s Pet Forum https://forum.maddiesfund.org/communityconversations

Please note: All views expressed on these calls are not necessarily endorsed by Maddie’s Fund.


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#AdoptionsandAdoptionPrograms
#Behavior,TrainingandEnrichment
#CaseManagement*
#CommunityCatManagement
#CommunityPartnerships*
#Conferences,WorkshopsandWebcasts
#DataandTechnology
#DisasterRelief
#Diversity,Equity,InclusionandJustice
#EducationandTraining
#FieldServicesandPublicSafety*
#FosterPrograms
#FundraisingandDevelopment
#LawsandPublicPolicy
#MarketingandSocialMedia
#Medicine,SurgeryandSterilization
#OrganizationalManagement
#PeopleManagement(includingVolunteerIntegration)
#PetSupportServices*
#Rehoming
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#ReturntoHome(LostPetReunification)
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When:  Jan 23, 2023 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PT)
Associated with  Animal Welfare Professionals

Location

Online Instructions:
Url: http://maddies.fund/CommunityConversationsRegistration
Login: Use the link above to register and follow the same link at the time of the meeting to join the Zoom call.