The Humane Society of the United States

	You can now take your Animal Care Expo 2008 experience back to your organization through our online, 24/7 access to Expo’s top-notch training and development sessions. We have taped two of our most popular tracks from Animal Care Expo 2008, which can be accessed online through our new, state-of-the-art video webcasts. Expo On-Demand is the next best thing to attending the live workshop! It’s easy to use! While you watch the video, the speakers’ slides progress automatically. You can pause at any time and later return to the place you left off. Download slides and handouts at your convenience and look up the speakers’ bio and contact information to ask questions. Options for Workshop Downloading Packages for Individuals (purchase multiple workshops viewing yourself) Packages for Shelters (purchase multiple workshops for viewing as an organization with multiple users) Single Workshops (purchase individual workshops with 3 of views each) View a free video of the Expo Welcome Session featuring keynotes by Wayne Pacelle, President & CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, Patrick McDonnell, creator of the Mutts� comic strip and author of Mutts Shelter Stories: Love. Guaranteed, and Berkeley Breathed, creator of the Bloom County comic strip and author of Flawed Dogs.
Packages for Individuals
Package for Individuals - Cats and Dogs This bundle package for individuals (3 views over 3 months) includes all 6 workshops from the Cats and Dogs Track. Price: $100 Preview \| Buy Now	Workshops Included: Maintaining Quality of Life for Shelter Dogs How TNR Can Help Your Shelter Rebranding Felix: Changing the Way Communities View and Value Cats Enrichment and Training for Dogs in the Progressive Shelter Can We Do for Cats What We Do for Dogs Reuniting Lost Pets

Package for Individuals - Humane Society University Management Track This bundle package for individuals (3 views over 3 months) includes all 6 workshops from the Humane Society University Management Track. Price: $100 Preview \| Buy Now	Workshops Included: So What Do Boards (and Board Members) Do? Measure Your Impact Using Research Championing for the Government Shelter Evaluate to Retain and Motivate Staff Is Your Staff Healthy? Getting Noticed by Funders: Business Planning 101

Packages for Shelters
Package for Shelters - Cats and Dogs Track This bundle package for shelters (100 views over 1 year) includes all 6 workshops from the Cats and Dogs Track. Price: $140 Preview \| Buy Now	Workshops Included: Maintaining Quality of Life for Shelter Dogs How TNR Can Help Your Shelter Rebranding Felix: Changing the Way Communities View and Value Cats Enrichment and Training for Dogs in the Progressive Shelter Can We Do for Cats What We Do for Dogs Reuniting Lost Pets

Package for Shelters - Humane Society University Management Track This bundle package for shelters (100 views over 1 year) includes all 6 workshops from the Humane Society University Management Track. Price: $140 Preview \| Buy Now	Workshops Include: So What Do Boards (and Board Members) Do? Measure Your Impact Using Research Championing for the Government Shelter Evaluate to Retain and Motivate Staff Is Your Staff Healthy? Getting Noticed by Funders: Business Planning 101

Package for Shelters - Both Tracks This bundle package for shelters (100 views over 1 year) includes all 12 workshops from both tracks. Price: $220 Preview \| Buy Now	Workshops Included: Maintaining Quality of Life for Shelter Dogs How TNR Can Help Your Shelter Rebranding Felix : Changing the Way Communities View and Value Cats Enrichment and Training for Dogs in the Progressive Shelter Can We Do for Cats What We Do for Dogs Reuniting Lost Pets So What Do Boards (and Board Members) Do? Measure Your Impact Using Research Championing for the Government Shelter Evaluate to Retain and Motivate Staff Is Your Staff Healthy? Getting Noticed by Funders: Business Planning 101

Single Workshops
Maintaining Quality of Life for Shelter Dogs Presenter: Sue Sternberg, Dog Trainer and Owner/Founder, Rondout Valley Animals for Adoption, Accord, N.Y. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	How can we keep dogs happy and well-adjusted in a shelter environment? This workshop will cover minimum standards of care for dogs staying at the shelter for more than two weeks. You’ll learn simple training techniques that anyone can use—no training experience necessary—to maintain a dog’s mental and behavioral health. Exercises will show how to calm shelter dogs and teach them to behave indoors with a human— the key to a successful adoption. Learn to identify when a dog has become “kennel crazy” and lost his or her quality of life and to formulate guidelines for euthanasia when appropriate.

How TNR Can Help Your Shelter Presenter: Bryan Kortis, Executive Director, Neighborhood Cats, New York, N.Y. (3 views over 3 months) Price : $20 Preview \| Buy Now	Did you know an estimated 80 percent of kittens are born to feral and stray cats? These kittens and many feral adults often wind up in shelters, raising intake rates, euthanasia numbers, and shelter costs. For shelters with animal control responsibilities, feral cats can also be a large source of complaint calls, further draining staff hours and resources. In this workshop, we’ll explore how a communitywide trap-neuter-return (TNR) program can help resolve these issues by reducing and managing the feral cat population in your area.

Rebranding Felix: Changing the Way Communities View and Value Cats Presenters: Emily Stone, Public Affairs Manager, Dumb Friends League, Denver, Colo.; Jeannine Taaffe, Senior Vice President, Marketing, PR, Sales, and Call Center, Banfield, The Pet Hospital, Portland, Ore. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	There are more cats than dogs in the U.S., yet more households have dogs, more money is spent on dogs, and more people regard dogs as family members. As animal sheltering professionals, how can we rebrand cats so that society places a higher value on them? In October 2007, leaders in the animal sheltering industry came together in Denver, Colo., to create the framework of a “cat campaign,” using research on benefits and drawbacks, demographics, and shelter programs. This workshop will explore the messaging and branding developed to identify target audiences and how implementing the right marketing tools can change misperceptions about cats, elevate their status, and promote higher standards of care.

Enrichment and Training for Dogs in the Progressive Shelter Presenters: Elizabeth Marsden, CPDT, Mission Dog, Chaplin, Conn.; Leigh Siegfried, CPDT, Mission Dog, Philadelphia, Pa. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	Learn how to increase adoptability and well-being of dogs in short- and long-term shelter environments. Provide mental and physical stimulation regardless of facility budget or size by using the shelter’s existing resources. Learn how to read canine body language to match compatible cagemates, create playgroups, and increase holding capacity while predicting true dog aggression. Other topics include modifying low-level resource guarding, conducting crate training, and handling reactive dogs.

Can We Do for Cats What We Do for Dogs? Presenters: Sherri Leggett, Shelter Manager, Cat Care Society, Lakewood, Colo.; Donna Mlinek, Feline Programs Manager, Dumb Friends League, Denver, Colo. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	Kennel enrichment and stress reduction techniques for shelter dogs are becoming commonplace, but implementation of these tools for cats is happening at a slower pace. This workshop will look at shelters from a cat’s perspective and present ideas for helping cats cope in a shelter environment. We’ll also talk about overcoming obstacles to implementing these strategies and why it’s essential that shelters take the lead in showing—not just telling—the public what cats need.

Reuniting Lost Pets Presenter: Linda K. Lord, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Columbus, Ohio (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	Searching for a lost pet can be a stressful, heartwrenching experience for pet owners. Recent studies provide a better understanding of approaches for finding lost dogs and cats and what methods seem to work. The search for missing owners—those whose animals wind up in shelters—can be just as challenging. This workshop outlines the reunification process on both ends. Attendees will also learn the results of a statewide cat owner survey, revealing attitudes toward free-roaming cats.

So What Do Boards (and Board Members) Do? Presenter: Michael Kumer, Executive Director, Nonprofit Leadership Institute, and Associate Dean, School of Leadership and Professional Advancement, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	Board members are often uncertain about their role and how best to serve their agency. Learn traditional and innovative ways that highly effective boards carry out their work and guide their organizations toward amazing accomplishments.

Measure Your Impact Using Research Presenter: Che Green, Executive Director, Humane Research Council, Seattle, Wash. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	Learn all the basics of using research methods such as surveys and focus groups to evaluate and improve your programs. You’ll gain the information you need to measure your efforts, identify opportunities and problems, and maximize your impact. This workshop will help attendees master these research methods and empower them to help as many animals as possible.

Championing for the Government Shelter Presenter: Jennifer Phillips, MPA, Director, Orange County Animal Care Services, Orange, Calif. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	If you work in a city- or county-operated shelter, you need to be more than an animal welfare professional. The viability of your shelter also depends on your skills as a public administrator. This workshop identifies changing trends in government sheltering and animal welfare philosophies and shares examples that provide insight into the evolving relationship between local government leaders and animal welfare organizations. Discover the eight most important questions to share with your local government leaders and eight strategies for building a stronger relationship with them to increase awareness, support, funding, and respect. Learn how to clearly demonstrate to city or county councils the importance of quality animal care and control to residents, community groups, and businesses.

Evaluate to Retain and Motivate Staff Presenters: Jennifer Orme, CEO, Jennifer Orme Consulting, Lakewood, Colo.; Dave Wintz, Director of Operations, Larimer Humane Society, Fort Collins, Colo. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	Evaluating employees is not a once or twice a year burden; it’s a daily, weekly, and monthly management obligation to ensure individual employee and organizational success. Learn how to use your performance evaluation process as a motivational tool for retaining staff and how to put organizational goals into attainable benchmarks for employees—for the benefit of the animals, employees, and the organization.

Is Your Staff Healthy? Presenters: Natalie DiGiacomo, MS, Vice President, Community Programs, Spartanburg Humane Society, Spartanburg, S.C.; David L. Miller, Executive Director/CEO, Humane Society of Charlotte, Charlotte, N.C.; Steven G. Rogelberg, PhD, Professor, Director of Organizational Science, and Director of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, University of North Carolina Charlotte Department of Psychology, Charlotte, N.C. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	Effective and healthy organizations have long recognized the conventional wisdom that “the people make the place.” If organizations don’t take care of their staff, the employees can’t take care of the organizations or the animals. The Shelter Diagnostic System (SDS) is an assessment tool designed to help private and public animal shelters run better by surveying employees and translating the results into recommendations related to organizational trust, euthanasia practices, employee morale, job stress, training, and more. In this workshop, participants will learn how the SDS works, how the information it provides can help shelters, success factors, and the most appropriate time for using the SDS. Learn from the experiences of two shelters and benefit from their advice on ways to promote shelter health and effectiveness.

Getting Noticed by Funders: Business Planning 101 Price: $20 Presenters: Nancy McKenney, MA, Executive Director, Petfinder.com Foundation, Renton, Wash.; Stephen J. Notaro, PhD, Lecturer, University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill. (3 views over 3 months) Price: $20 Preview \| Buy Now	Every organization needs a business plan in order to be successful when applying for funding or establishing new services, programs, and facilities. The business plan is your key tool for accomplishing the goals in your strategic plan. Learn how to develop an easy-to-understand business plan that speaks the language of business leaders. This workshop explains and provides examples of the essential parts of successful business planning that will benefit organizations of all sizes.