Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 37 minutes ago
Discover and apply promising systems designed to achieve health equity, to design programming that prioritizes the wellbeing of people, pets and the planet. Appropriate for all levels of learners and leaders.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Explore the intersection of human and animal wellbeing
2. Participants will receive resources and instruction to design, implement and expand sustainable programming to support people and pets
Speaker: Rachel Rae Williams, Board Member, Spay Neuter Network
To access the full agenda and resources from this call or to ask questions of our speakers, visit https://maddies.fund/communityconversations22425
About Community Conversations, hosted by Maddie’s Fund: When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, animal sheltering transformed overnight. Foster-based sheltering, home-based employees and volunteers, along with collaboration galvanized our communities. The pandemic, along with social injustice, has motivated our industry to look at how we partner with our communities and confront our own biases. Shelter and rescue staff across the country began talking on a weekly basis, offering support and innovative ideas to do things differently. To learn more about these calls, visit forum.maddiesfund.org/communityconversations
00:00 Welcome + Question of the Day
02:35 National Updates
05:40 Presentation
Discover and apply promising systems designed to achieve health equity, to design programming that prioritizes the wellbeing of people, pets and the planet. Appropriate for all levels of learners and leaders.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Explore the intersection of human and animal wellbeing
2. Participants will receive resources and instruction to design, implement and expand sustainable programming to support people and pets
Speaker: Rachel Rae Williams, Board Member, Spay Neuter Network
To access the full agenda and resources from this call or to ask questions of our speakers, visit https://maddies.fund/communityconversations22425
About Community Conversations, hosted by Maddie’s Fund: When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, animal sheltering transformed overnight. Foster-based sheltering, home-based employees and volunteers, along with collaboration galvanized our communities. The pandemic, along with social injustice, has motivated our industry to look at how we partner with our communities and confront our own biases. Shelter and rescue staff across the country began talking on a weekly basis, offering support and innovative ideas to do things differently. To learn more about these calls, visit forum.maddiesfund.org/communityconversations
00:00 Welcome + Question of the Day
02:35 National Updates
05:40 Presentation
