Animal Welfare Professionals

Hello,

I'm looking to reinvigorate our humane education program and get a strategy going for a summer camp in 2024.

Our humane ed program is volunteer-led, and I'd love to keep it that way. Currently the volunteers respond to calls for speakers in classrooms, offer shelter tours, and are guest speakers at a local wildlife rehabilitation center. The program is going through a transition, which offers the opportunity to see how it can be enhanced for scope and engagement. I'd like to give the kids a more activities-based curriculum to get them moving and give them a break from the classroom presentation model we've been using. 

Also, our summer camp has been cancelled for the last couple of years because pandemic, but also it suffered a lack of buy in from staff, who were drafted into service as teachers or at least compelled to modify their workflow to accommodate youngsters on campus. I'd like to explore a somewhat turnkey approach to allow volunteers to run with it. I once worked in disaster response and preparedness and we used the Prep Rally from Save the Children, which was free.  Something similar would be fantastic. 

Do any of the major animal welfare organizations offer an out-of-the-box curriculum for either classroom visits or summer camp? Does your shelter or rescue run something that we could borrow from? Any other ideas? 

Thanks so much in advance!

#PeopleManagement(includingVolunteerIntegration)

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Sara Fitzpatrick
Community Engagement Manager
Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society
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Hello,

I'm looking to reinvigorate our humane education program and get a strategy going for a summer camp in 2024.

Our humane ed program is volunteer-led, and I'd love to keep it that way. Currently the volunteers respond to calls for speakers in classrooms, offer shelter tours, and are guest speakers at a local wildlife rehabilitation center. The program is going through a transition, which offers the opportunity to see how it can be enhanced for scope and engagement. I'd like to give the kids a more activities-based curriculum to get them moving and give them a break from the classroom presentation model we've been using. 

Also, our summer camp has been cancelled for the last couple of years because pandemic, but also it suffered a lack of buy in from staff, who were drafted into service as teachers or at least compelled to modify their workflow to accommodate youngsters on campus. I'd like to explore a somewhat turnkey approach to allow volunteers to run with it. I once worked in disaster response and preparedness and we used the Prep Rally from Save the Children, which was free.  Something similar would be fantastic. 

Do any of the major animal welfare organizations offer an out-of-the-box curriculum for either classroom visits or summer camp? Does your shelter or rescue run something that we could borrow from? Any other ideas? 

Thanks so much in advance!

#PeopleManagement(includingVolunteerIntegration)

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Sara Fitzpatrick
Community Engagement Manager
Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society
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Hello,

I'm looking to reinvigorate our humane education program and get a strategy going for a summer camp in 2024.

Our humane ed program is volunteer-led, and I'd love to keep it that way. Currently the volunteers respond to calls for speakers in classrooms, offer shelter tours, and are guest speakers at a local wildlife rehabilitation center. The program is going through a transition, which offers the opportunity to see how it can be enhanced for scope and engagement. I'd like to give the kids a more activities-based curriculum to get them moving and give them a break from the classroom presentation model we've been using. 

Also, our summer camp has been cancelled for the last couple of years because pandemic, but also it suffered a lack of buy in from staff, who were drafted into service as teachers or at least compelled to modify their workflow to accommodate youngsters on campus. I'd like to explore a somewhat turnkey approach to allow volunteers to run with it. I once worked in disaster response and preparedness and we used the Prep Rally from Save the Children, which was free.  Something similar would be fantastic. 

Do any of the major animal welfare organizations offer an out-of-the-box curriculum for either classroom visits or summer camp? Does your shelter or rescue run something that we could borrow from? Any other ideas? 

Thanks so much in advance!

#PeopleManagement(includingVolunteerIntegration)

------------------------------
Sara Fitzpatrick
Community Engagement Manager
Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society
------------------------------

Hello,

I'm looking to reinvigorate our humane education program and get a strategy going for a summer camp in 2024.

Our humane ed program is volunteer-led, and I'd love to keep it that way. Currently the volunteers respond to calls for speakers in classrooms, offer shelter tours, and are guest speakers at a local wildlife rehabilitation center. The program is going through a transition, which offers the opportunity to see how it can be enhanced for scope and engagement. I'd like to give the kids a more activities-based curriculum to get them moving and give them a break from the classroom presentation model we've been using. 

Also, our summer camp has been cancelled for the last couple of years because pandemic, but also it suffered a lack of buy in from staff, who were drafted into service as teachers or at least compelled to modify their workflow to accommodate youngsters on campus. I'd like to explore a somewhat turnkey approach to allow volunteers to run with it. I once worked in disaster response and preparedness and we used the Prep Rally from Save the Children, which was free.  Something similar would be fantastic. 

Do any of the major animal welfare organizations offer an out-of-the-box curriculum for either classroom visits or summer camp? Does your shelter or rescue run something that we could borrow from? Any other ideas? 

Thanks so much in advance!

#PeopleManagement(includingVolunteerIntegration)

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Sara Fitzpatrick
Community Engagement Manager
Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society
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