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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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.
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.
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.
Rafael Castellanos (Pets for Life Coordinator, Ventura County Animal Services) and Ashley Anderson-Mutch (Senior Program Manager, Enforcement and Policy Reform, Pets for Life at Humane Society of the United States) discuss strategies for establishing or expanding a strategic, sustainable community-based outreach program, whether rural, urban, or somewhere in between.
Dr. Ellen Jefferson and Maggie Lynch from Austin Pets Alive! walk us through the new HASS budget calculator, created to address the persistent underfunding of animal services. Learn how to use the calculator tool and its results to advocate for budgets appropriate to meet the public’s expectations around humane care and shelter lifesaving.
KSMP Outreach Veterinarian Chumkee Aziz leads a panel discussion on setting up and running High Quality, High Volume Spay Neuter programs. Panelists: Albert Escobedo (RVTg and Director of Veterinary Operations, Humane Society of Sonoma County), Dr. Jennifer Allen (Veterinarian, CAMP LA), Megan Gram (Director of the Pacific Region, Animal Balance), and Kylie Ramos (Community Engagement Program Manager, San Francisco SPCA).
Ontario Veterinary College Shelter Medicine Resident Wesley Cheung offers examples of accent discrimination from the veterinary and shelter sector and suggests steps we can take to reduce accent biases, build trust, and accomplish more together.
Panelists Jessica Lopez, Miguel Ruelas, and Suliana Lutin discuss how we can partner with current and potential Latine pet owners, community cat caregivers, fosters, and volunteers, to bring and keep more pets and people together and out of shelters.
Monica Dangler (Director of Animal Services) and Kaitlyn Pappas (Pet Support Coordinator) of Pima Animal Care Center share how they nearly doubled RTO after transitioning their lost and found listings to the free Petco Love Lost website.
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