Here in the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Learniverse, our online learning world made possible by Maddie’s Fund®, we design Bootcamps around the belief that small steps and big leaps happen when we learn together and from one another. This spring we’re kicking off two Bootcamps and welcoming two new shelter cohorts—and we couldn’t be more excited!
These community-based, “all teach, all learn” interactive training experiences are facilitated by experts and designed to dive deep. Developed by UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program – Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Director of Online Learning Cindi Delany, DVM, KPA-CPT, the brand new Behavior, Training and Enrichment (BTE) Bootcamp is an immersive, coach-guided course that helps shelter teams review current best practices and innovations in the Behavior, Training and Enrichment space, then assess operations and programs and begin implementing changes to level up your work and maximize animal welfare. This course was researched and built thanks to a generous grant from the John T. and Jane A. Wiederhold Foundation and will be offered on a regular basis thanks to the support of Maddie’s Fund® through the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge.
Our comprehensive Four Rights Bootcamp offers proven techniques to help you ensure that each animal in your community gets the Right Care at the Right Time in the Right Place to the Right Outcome. Over six weeks, coaches Cindy Karsten, DVM, and Chumkee Aziz, DVM, offer a holistic perspective reset and guide shelters through a journey centered around quitting crisis mode, embracing your capacity, and creating space for lasting change.
In each Bootcamp, live calls led by coaches set the goals for the week and kick off the brainstorming you’ll do with your own team in between meetings. Experts from both within and outside our industry will provide the framework to build your strategy. Past Bootcamp cohorts will tell you that the content shared in camp transformed their shelter, but the partnerships they formed with their peers are what has sustained it.
Join us in cheering on these shelters who are coming together to do great work this spring. If your shelter wasn’t selected for this session or if you haven’t yet applied, we encourage you to apply again for upcoming Bootcamps. You can learn more about BTE Bootcamp or Four Rights Bootcamp and express interest in future sessions in the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Learniverse. #ThanksToMaddie and to the Wiederhold Foundation, both of these Bootcamps are free of charge to participants!
Four Rights Bootcamp Spring 2022 Cohort
- Ashville Humane Society – Asheville, NC
- Chula Vista Animal Care Facility – Chula Vista, CA
- Dallas Animal Services – Dallas, TX
- Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control – Fort Wayne, IN
- Humane Society of Weld County – Evans, CO
- Inland Valley Humane Society and SPCA – Pomona, CA
- Placer County Animal Services – Auburn, CA
- Southeast Area Animal Control Authority – Downey, CA
Behavior, Training and Enrichment Bootcamp Spring 2022 Cohort
- East Bay SPCA – Oakland, CA
- Humane Society Silicon Valley – Milpitas, CA
- Kauaʻi Humane Society – Lihue, HI
- County of San Diego Department of Animal Services – Bonita, CA
- San Francisco Animal Care and Control – San Francisco, CA
- San Jose Animal Care and Services – San Jose, CA
- SPCA of Texas – Dallas, TX
- Ventura County Animal Services – Camarillo, CA
