Improve the welfare of all animals in your care through a comprehensive program for implementing a multi-pronged enrichment program across species.
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This program combines on-line and in-person programming to maximize your team’s learning experience:

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• a five-month on-line program that teaches the fundamentals of canine and feline body language and communication, safe and humane handling skills, training mechanics, and using enrichment to impact behavior in shelter. Our intensive program uses effective, evidence-based adult learning principles and provides constructive, tailored, and kind feedback to each learner throughout the process.

• a three-day in-person workshop during which participants build toward fluency in the skills learned in the on-line portion. We bring a team of skills facilitators to your campus and keep the student:teacher ratios low -- typically no higher than 5:1! Your team will benefit from three days of hands-on, dynamic learning with in-the-moment coaching in a supportive learning environment.

 

We recommend that shelters consider this program for at least 30-50 participants (staff and volunteers). Multiple shelters can pool resources and co-host this workshop, as well.
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The all-in investment for this multi-faceted hybrid program is $12,500 ($300 per individual participant with a full 50-person cohort!). Reach out to mara (at) shelterdogplay (dot) org to find out more!

 

CCPDT: 30 CEUs | IAABC: 36 CEUs (on-line)
CCPDT: 16 CEUs | IAABC: 16 CEUs (in-person)