Category: Cal4All Call Recordings
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Debra Olmedo Meets Kittens and People Where They Are
Debra Olmedo, ASPCA Community Outreach and Medical Care Senior Manager (Los Angeles), shares how working alongside community caretakers has increased the amount of felines being altered and kept out of Animal Care Centers.
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Heather Cammisa of Open Door Veterinary Collective Demonstrates Pet Help Finder
Pethelpfinder.org helps pet owners find affordable veterinary care in their area. You can list your shelter as a provider or search the database to find clinics in your area to partner with.
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Lexis Ly Shares Data from Self-Rehoming Website
Lexis Ly is a PhD student in the Animal Welfare Program at University of British Columbia. Here she presents “Predictors of successful diversion of cats and dogs away from animal shelter intake: Analysis of data from a self-rehoming website,” a paper she co-authored, in which she looked at a little over four years of data from Rehome, a service of Adopt-a-Pet.com.
Read the study at https://doi.org/10.1017/awf.2023.8 (no paywall)
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Lisa LaFontaine on Learning While Leading
José Ocaño interviews Lisa LaFontaine, President and CEO of Humane Rescue Alliance. Lisa shares mistakes she has made and lessons she has learned leading a diverse organization working with diverse communities. [Notes: zoom recorded this at low resolution but the quality of the information more than makes up for it; Q&A portion was not recorded.]
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Practical Solutions to Diversify Your Organization Through Data and Strategy
Humane Rescue Alliance’s Jasmin Bell, Director of Talent and Inclusion; Kourtney Hudson, Data Curator; and Bobby Mann, Chief Programs Officer, share how they’ve leaned on data to diversify their staff and retain talent. Recorded 6/13/23 during a Cal4All Call.
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Turning Crisis into Action
Ramon Villatoro and his team were facing an outbreak of Canine Parvovirus in his first month on the job. Here’s how the shelter’s culture came out stronger on the other side.
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Breaking Down Barriers in Foster Programming
In this 25-minute presentation, California Program Manager Nadia Oseguera offers an incremental change approach to broadening your shelter’s base of foster care volunteers. Recorded 02/07/2023
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Good Housing
Denae Wagner, DVM, Facility Design Veterinarian at the Koret Shelter Medicine Program talks about the virtuous cycle provided by good housing for cats and dogs in this 25-minute presentation.
