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COVID-19 Coping Skills: Increasing Resilience
The ASPCA Shelter Outreach team’s Brian DiGangi, DVM, MS, DABVP, and Karen Walsh, CAWA, LVMT, CFE, have a short homework assignment for you to do before their April 29 webinar, The...
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COVID-19 Comms: Graphics and Flyers for Messaging Your Community & Staff
Sharing the most up-to-date information with your community and staff is of utmost importance right now. Your supporters and teams are looking to you for clear, direct communications—and to that...
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COVID-19 Leadership Lessons: Nonprofit & Government Shelter Collaboration
If there’s one thing that’s emerged from the animal sheltering community during this pandemic, it’s that collaboration is key. The HSUS’ Kim Alboum and The Association’s Katherine Shenar sat down...
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COVID-19 Safety Net Idea: Pet Food Delivery
Based on the response to this Facebook post back in January, we know that many of you already have Ani-meals-type programs, delivering pet food and supplies to the elderly, homebound, and...
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FAQ: Foster Care of COVID-19 Exposed Pets
Important new information for animal shelters, rescue groups, and foster programs when making a community plan to help COVID-exposed animals needing temporary care! The Association’s Katherine Shenar sat down with...
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Coping With Stress During COVID-19: Self-Care Tip #2
Last month, hundreds of animal welfare professionals tuned in as Jessica Dolce, MS, CCFE, creator of the Compassion in Balance Program, held a Community Call for Coping With Stress During COVID-19. You can...
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Key Learning Concepts: COVID and companion animals
Now more than ever, minimizing in-shelter populations of animals is essential. a. Reserve intake for animal emergencies only – sick, injured, dangerous, or those animals that are in immediate...
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Keeping Up With COVID-19: 5 Leadership Lessons from Sharon Harvey
On the adoptions floor, at the front desk, doing a daily walk-through … that’s usually where you’d find Sharon Harvey, Cleveland APL’s dynamic President & CEO and the epitome of...
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Important NACA Protocol: Removing Pets From COVID-19 Homes
We have 3 officers for a large county with a population of over 100,000. Even though we are taking precautions, we still have to work. It’s a scary time. We’re...
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New COVID-19 Protocol: Sheltering Exposed Pets
Following yesterday’s publication of “Interim recommendations for intake of companion animals from households where humans with COVID-19 are present,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison Shelter Medicine Program has made available a...
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Keeping Up with COVID-19: 5 Leadership Lessons from Lisa LaFontaine
The Association’s Katherine Shenar and HSUS’ Kim Alboum recently checked in with Lisa LaFontaine, CEO of the Humane Rescue Alliance, on leadership in the time of COVID-19. “All of the...
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Why We Must Suspend S/N During COVID-19: Voices from the Field
In my open letter to the animal welfare community, I have tried to summarize the evidence-based reasons underpinning our call to suspend routine spay/neuter surgery – to preserve supplies, staff...
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