Resources
Featured Resource
Boosting Positive Outcomes: Antidotes to Fear, Bias and Saviorism
From streamlining the adoption process to save staff time, improve adopters’ experience and increase positive outcomes by 300% (with no increase in returns!), to introducing innovative programming that welcomes community members and promotes fear-free, connection-driven culture among shelter teams, your peers from California and beyond share what they’ve learned.
The Cal 4 All Top Ten (approx.)
Here are some of our absolute favorite resources at the moment from around the web.
- The Future of Animal Welfare: Positive Disruption Will Save More Lives – Sheila Kouhkan’s Community Conversation
- Listening to Hear: Removing Hidden Barriers & Offering Grace – Jennifer Toussaint’s Community Conversation
- The Power of YES – Allison Cardona webinar on Maddie’s University
- Legal Considerations with Shelter PALS webinars on Maddie’s U:
- Breaking Down Barriers in Foster Programming – Nadia Oseguera’s Community Conversation
- Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity (CARE) REDI training
- Housing Equity and Advocacy – Dianne Prado’s Community Conversation
- The Data Commons Place Explorer tool helps you understand the core data underlying a place by pulling together a set of charts on the demographics, education, economics, etc. of that place.
- Vancouver Humane trauma-informed care course
- National Animal Care & Control Association
Sample Website
Your website is likely to be the first place people in your community go when looking for information about you. Are you making the most of that opportunity to help people before they even reach your doors?
We’ve created a sample website that includes language you can copy, adapt to your own needs and paste into your shelter’s website. Now available in Spanish!
Cal4All Call Recordings
Cal4All Calls occured on the first and third Tuesday of each month. Click the View All Recordings button to see a list of all of the call recordings.
Roundtable Recordings
In this series of four dynamic roundtable conversations, frontline workers leading change across California and the country will highlight collaborative approaches to removing barriers that come between people and pets and dish on creative solutions they’re implementing now to ensure pets spend more nights at home, not in the shelter.
Capacity for Care (C4C) Score Chart
This chart helps you identify if (and if so, how much) you’re over capacity in the areas of Housing, Care and Conditions, Health and Welfare, and Staffing.
View an interactive version of the chart
Download a printable PDF of the chart