Shelter Mentorship program resources

Adoption

• Adopters Welcome

Community Outreach and Engagement

• HumanePro Store
• HASS Lost Pet Reunification
• Petco Love Lost – pet reunification
• Pets Are Welcome – advocating for pet-inclusive housing in your community
• Eviction Response Toolkit
• Pets For Life Program & Toolkit

Surrender prevention

• HSUS Resources for Pet Owners
• Guide to Cat Behavior Counseling – help cat owners solve common behavior issues that can lead to surrender
• Pet retention – everything you need to start your organization’s own pet retention program
• Human Animal Support Services’ Supported Self-Rehoming Toolkit – help community members find loving homes when they are unable to keep their pet

Spay/Neuter Programs

• ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance
• Association of Shelter Veterinarians Updated Spay/Neuter Guidelines
• Best Friends Animal Society's Spay/Neuter Resources Map

Disease Control, Shelter Health and Animal Care

• Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters
  • The Virtual Consultant
  • The base concept for the Guidelines is the Five Freedoms: 
    1. Freedom from hunger and thirst
    2. Freedom from discomfort
    3. Freedom from pain, injury and disease
    4. Freedom to express normal behavior
    5. Freedom from fear and distress
• The UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program
• The University of Wisconsin-Madison Shelter Medicine Program
• University of Florida Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program
• Relief Rover – Recruitment for relief veterinarians
• Vaccination guidelines for cats
• Vaccination guidelines for dogs
• Pets and Parasites
• American Heartworm Society
• Center for Shelter Dogs
• Exotic animal care:
  • Herp and amphibian care
  • Small mammals
  • House Rabbit Society – rabbit care
  • Avian Welfare Coalition – companion birds
  • The Gabriel Foundation – parrots and other psittacine birds
  • Guinea pigs
  • Homes for Horses
• Wildlife:
  • Wildlife Care Basics for Veterinary Hospitals guide and Wild Neighbors book
  • Watch our wildlife webinars
• Access to Veterinary Care
  • Waggle – crowdfunding for veterinary expenses
• Humane euthanasia resources – when euthanasia is the only option, ensure it’s performed as humanely as possible with our guide and other resources
  • Euthanasia by Injection Manual
  • Humane Pennsylvania’s Euthanasia Training Program
  • University of Florida’s Online Graduate Program in Shelter Medicine – includes elective on humane euthanasia

Trap-Neuter-Return and Community Cats

• HSUS Return-to-Field Handbook
• DC Cat Count Toolkit
• HSUS how to manage a community cat colony
• Alley Cat Allies
• Best Friends Animal Society Community Cats Programs Handbook
• Million Cat Challenge
• Neighborhood Cats

Equine

• ASPCAPro Equine Welfare
• Homes For Horses
• HSUS Horse Protection
• HSUS Horses  

Public & Shelter Policies

• HSUS Managing Community Cats: Guide for Municipal Leaders
• HSUS Municipal Pet Policy Toolkit
• Repealing Breed-Specific-Legislation

Grants

• HumanePro grants page
• The Grantsmanship Center – search for more funding sources by state
• Candid (formerly The Foundation Center)
• GrantSpace – tools for all things grant-writing and getting!

Operational and Administrative

• Rescue Group Best Practices
• HumanePro Staff & Volunteer Management Tools
• BoardSource
• University of North Carolina assessment programs – In partnership with the Humane Society of the United States, UNC offers three affordable services designed to help animal organizations become better places to work and volunteer by anonymously surveying their staff and volunteers!
  • SeeDS – for organizations with 10 or more paid staff
  • Volunteer Program Assessment – designed to assess your organization’s volunteer program
  • Rescue Group Program Assessment – designed just for rescue groups
• Global Federation of Sanctuaries
• Maddie's Fund Animal Shelter Volunteer Management Program

Compassion Fatigue

• Compassion Fatigue Awareness Project
• Green Cross Academy of Traumatology
• HelpGuide Emotional Intelligence Toolkit
• MindTools.com
• Trauma Stewardship

Professional Development, Continuing Education and Training

The animal welfare field continues to evolve and change - there’s always something new to learn!

• HumanePro resources:
  •  HumanePro News – Get our biweekly e-mail newsletter and stay up to date on what’s new with HSUS’s offerings for shelters and rescue groups! Get the latest on events, publications, articles and more.
  • Jobs
  • Animal Sheltering magazine
  • Training
  • Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
• ASPCAPro 
• PetSmart Charities 
• Maddie’s Fund  
• National Animal Control Association (NACA) 
• PetfinderPro 
• The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement (The Association) 
• National conferences:
  • Animal Care Expo
  • National Animal Control Association
  • The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement

Shelter Data and Studies

• Shelter Animals Count – a collaborative effort to create standardized reporting and definitions for shelter statistics 
• Animal Studies Repository 
• Million Cat Challenge 
• Faunalytics – Faunalytics finds and makes sense of research so advocates can use it to help animals
• Pets by the Numbers – our compilation of animal sheltering and pet data from HSUS’s own and others’ research
• ASPCA Pro Research

Spanish Language Resources

• Association of Shelter Veterinarians Shelter Standards Task Force
• Feral cat colony information in Spanish 
• AVMA spanish language resources
• Humane Society International 
• Alley Cat Allies

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