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Best Practices Webinar Series: Animal Enrichment
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In this four-part recorded series, you will learn best practices for creating or expanding your shelter animal enrichment program, based on the 2018 Best Practices document developed by SAWA (now The Association).
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Includes Credits Recorded On: 02/07/2018
Learn how a strong shelter enrichment program will help give your animals more freedom from discomfort, freedom to express normal behavior and freedom from fear and distress.
A strong shelter enrichment program will help give your animals more freedom from discomfort, freedom to express normal behavior and freedom from fear and distress. The Association recruited subject matter experts on animal behavior to develop a best practices document on animal enrichment in shelters. This webinar is the first in a four-part series to dig into that document and answer your questions.
Participants will walk away understanding:
- What animal enrichment is and its limitations
- Why enrichment is important
- How enrichment helps increase adoptions and save lives
- The distinction between enrichment and behavior modification
The 4-part series will benefit any animal shelter professional interested in understanding how enrichment can enhance and maintain behavioral health.
Approved for 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit. (No certificate of completion offered for this recording.)
Kelley Bollen
Owner/Director, Animal Alliances, LLC
Brad Shear, CAWA
Executive Director, Potter League for Animals
Brad Shear is the Chief Executive Officer of the Potter League for Animals in Rhode Island, and is one of three Certified Animal Welfare Administrators (CAWA) in the state. During his tenure, Brad has expanded existing programs and created new partnerships, including acquiring the state's largest spay and neuter clinic and the state's largest full-service non-profit veterinary clinic. In addition to his work at the Potter League, Brad has served as board chair of The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement, chaired their Best Practices and Emerging Trends Committee, and serves on their Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee. He also serves on the Hill's Pet Nutrition Shelter Advisory Council and the New England Federation of Humane Societies' advisory committee.
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Includes Credits Recorded On: 01/10/2018
Learn how a strong shelter enrichment program will help give your animals more freedom from discomfort, freedom to express normal behavior and freedom from fear and distress.
A strong shelter enrichment program will help give your animals more freedom from discomfort, freedom to express normal behavior and freedom from fear and distress. The Association recruited subject matter experts on animal behavior to develop a best practices document on animal enrichment in shelters. This webinar is the first in a four-part series to dig into that document and answer your questions.
Participants will walk away understanding:
- What animal enrichment is and its limitations
- Why enrichment is important
- How enrichment helps increase adoptions and save lives
- The distinction between enrichment and behavior modification
The 4-part series will benefit any animal shelter professional interested in understanding how enrichment can enhance and maintain behavioral health.
Approved for 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit. (No certificate of completion offered for this recording.)
Brad Shear, CAWA
Executive Director, Potter League for Animals
Brad Shear is the Chief Executive Officer of the Potter League for Animals in Rhode Island, and is one of three Certified Animal Welfare Administrators (CAWA) in the state. During his tenure, Brad has expanded existing programs and created new partnerships, including acquiring the state's largest spay and neuter clinic and the state's largest full-service non-profit veterinary clinic. In addition to his work at the Potter League, Brad has served as board chair of The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement, chaired their Best Practices and Emerging Trends Committee, and serves on their Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee. He also serves on the Hill's Pet Nutrition Shelter Advisory Council and the New England Federation of Humane Societies' advisory committee.
Allison Hartlage
Manager of Animal Training & Behavior, Humane Society of Boulder Valley
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Includes Credits Recorded On: 01/24/2018
Discuss what you need to create and run an effective enrichment program in an animal shelter.
The success of any enrichment program hinges on how it is implemented. In session two of this four-part series, authors of SAWA’s Animal Enrichment Best Practice document will discuss what you need to create and run an effective enrichment program in an animal shelter. Participants will walk away knowing the right strategies to set individual shelter goals, plus how to monitor and track the program to maximize effectiveness and sustainability. This webinar will benefit any animal shelter professional interested in understanding how enrichment can enhance and maintain behavioral health.
Approved for 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit. (No certificate of completion offered for this recording.)
Kelley Bollen
Owner/Director, Animal Alliances, LLC
Lisa Pedersen, MS, CABC
CEO, Humane Society of Boulder Valley
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Includes Credits Recorded On: 02/21/2018
Walk away from this webinar with enrichment ideas you can try at your shelter.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and we are continuously amazed at the ingenious and affordable innovations shelters come up with to enhance enrichment in their facilities. We solicited ideas from the field and shared the bright ideas in this webinar, the final in the four-part Enrichment Best Practices series. Walk away with enrichment ideas you can try at your shelter.
This 75-minute webinar will benefit any animal shelter professional interested in understanding how enrichment can enhance and maintain behavioral health. Presentation developed by Kristen Collins, Vice President, Anti-Cruelty Behavior Rehabilitation, ASPCA.
Approved for 1.25 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits. (No certificate of completion offered for this recording.)
Pia Silvani, CPDT-KA, CCBC
Director, Behavior Rehabilitation, ASPCA Behavioral Rehabilitation Center
