Cal4All Calls occur every first and third Tuesday each month, alternating between a presentation/discussion format and a coaching/office hours format. Below you can find recordings of short presentations (a half-hour max) made during the calls.
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Melissa Gómez (SF SPCA Community Workforce Manager) and Elsa Ramos (Friends of Oakland Animal Services Bilingual Adoption Coordinator) share their journey of creating meaningful connections with Latine pet guardians.
The first in a series of calls building a multicultural engagement community of practice, this call includes contributions from Debra Olmedo of Patitas y Palabras, an English-Spanish translation service focused on animal welfare.
Jorge Delgado and Cel Jimenez (Humane Society of Sonoma County) present their talk "Beyond the Pet Food Pantry: Strategies to Build a Sustainable Pet Food Pantry and Advocated for Your Community"
Rachel Rae Williams leads us in exploring how we can integrate successful public health models that center health equity into our work in order to design programming that prioritizes the well-being of people, pets, and the planet.
Veterinary social worker Raquel Bernaldo, Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS) Community Services Manager, and Deja Johnson, FAAS Community Services Lead discuss shifting to a mutual aid perspective and forming partnerships with people and community organizations in their Healthy Pets Healthy People program.
Izzy Nidetz, Director of Placement at Pasadena Humane shares innovative and effective programs she and her colleagues have used to decrease length of stay and increase adoptions of big dogs.
In their talk, Power and Pushback: Addressing Landlord Resistance to Emotional Support Animal Protections, Zaira Bernal and Diana Cruz of Housing Equity & Advocacy Resource Team (HEART LA) discuss educating landlords about laws to combat housing insecurity for people with Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) in Los Angeles County.
Federal law protects tenants with disabilities from discrimination in housing. That protection includes tenants with Emotional Support Animals (ESAs): ESAs are not subject to no-pet policies. Zaira Bernal and Diana Cruz of Housing Equity & Advocacy Resource Team (HEART LA) discuss the challenges tenants with disabilities face when seeking required documentation for their ESAs.
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