Foster programs have grown and evolved over the years - beginning as an option to relieve the pressure on overflowing shelters, to an opportunity to address behaviour and training issues, to organizations that are foster-only and have no facility.
Now, fostering has become vital to the success of animal welfare and rescue organizations and an essential component of their business.
ASPCA Professional offers a variety of webinars to help organizations build and maximize their foster program.
- Recruiting foster families
- Choosing the best animals for foster care
- Assigning animals to foster homes
- Paperwork and systems to track animals
- Scheduling foster recheck appointments
- Sending supplies to foster animals
- Retention and engagement of foster volunteers.
Part two of the series, Making Your Foster Program Thrive: Preventing Mt. Kitten, has representatives from Charleston Animal Society explain what they offer fosters including:
- Education
- Supplies
- Training and foster care manuals (sample manuals will be provided)
- Veterinary care, including spay/neuter surgery and emergency care
- Spay/neuter events, including a pre-kitten season event
- Promotions and marketing support.
Organizations that adopt through their foster homes may be interested in the Foster-based Adoptions webinar.
Since 1998, Seattle Animal Shelter has mobilized and empowered a team of foster parents to adopt animals directly from their homes.
In the webinar their experts discuss how to:
- Set up a foster program structure
- Use volunteer case managers
- Select animals for foster
- Run a foster-based adoption process.
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