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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.

Sample Website

Home page of All Paws, the sample shelter 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 occur on the first and third Tuesday of each month. Below you can find recordings of the most recent calls. Click the View All Recordings button to see a list of all of the call recordings.

Screenshot of Allison, Dr. Pyrdek and Chris
In the high-pressure environment of a busy animal shelter, open communication, trust, mutual respect and kindness among colleagues and teams power positive outcomes. Dr. Maria Pyrdek and Chris Ramon tell us how that works at Pasadena Humane.
Zoom screenshot with Nadia, Donnell, Jyothi and Karen
Donell Randolph (Human Animal Support Services Coordinator) talks about setting up and running Oakland Animal Services' community clinics. He's joined by Dr. Jyothi Robertson (DVM, DABVP, Shelter Medicine), who volunteers at the clinics.
Title slide of Sarah Aguilar's Cal4All Call presentation on SBCAS's Dog Day Trip program
Sarah Aguilar, Director of Santa Barbara County Animal Services, describes how she and her small team started their Dog Day Trip Program. Treating the program as very-short-term-foster, they built on their existing systems and saw immediate benefits in dog well-being, adoptions, and volunteer engagement. Hear how they did it, what they learned along the way, and what's next for the program.

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.

Cait in screengrab from Roundtable 1 video
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.
video still from Roundtable 2
In this roundtable, panelists share high-impact initiatives, from culturally competent translations to humane education programming that honors the diversity of the human-animal bond.
Screenshot showing moderator Allison Cardona and the four panelists in a Zoom window
At our third roundtable, Donell Randolph, Kristen Hassen, Lori Weise, and Rita Ortiz explored how we can better support people and pets in the community at every level.
Our fourth and final More Pets and People Together Roundtable was filled with Return to Home ideas and wins, from welcoming community members as Pet Pals and Pet Detectives to sharing Chameleon-generated Found Pet flyers.

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.