Top Insights from 2022 on the H in HASS
[embedded content] When people and pets are separated, it often comes down to human issues such as financial struggles, eviction, job loss, or health issues. In the Human Animal Support Services project and at Austin Pets Alive!, we are working to create an animal welfare system that helps solve these root problems and better supports pets and the people who love them. Listen to this webinar recording to learn about the insights we gained about people and pets in 2022. Dr. Ellen Jefferson, President and CEO of Austin Pets Alive!; Vincent...
People, Pets, and Purpose: Michigan Humane’s Matt Pepper
[embedded content] “The solutions are coming from the people we are serving.” Diaz Dixon “My job is to surround myself with people who are better than I am.” Matt Pepper We are thrilled to introduce HASS’s brand new interview series: People, Pets, and Purpose! Maddie’s® Advisor for External Affairs and Partnerships Diaz Dixon is in conversation with leaders in and out of animal welfare about building connections, finding solutions, and so much more. In this inaugural episode, Diaz talks with Matt...
New Year, New Opportunity to Use These 10 Tools and Resources!
Happy New Year! (Can we still say that, heading toward mid-month?) We’re taking this moment to re-introduce some of the multitude of tools and resources that we’ve got for you here at HASS. Here are ten you can put into action right now! Please browse and search the HASS website for even more, more, more. Because seriously, we’ve got a huge amount of pro resources, blogs, and webinars that can help you in your mission to keep families together and save animals’ lives. Pet Eviction Calculator Use our easy...
Animal Welfare Resolutions for 2023: Click Here for Inspiration!
Entering 2023, we asked you for your animal welfare resolutions—and you’ve inspired the heck out of us with your bold, compassionate, insightful, collaborative, deeply hopeful answers. You plan to get more lost pets back home, and find homes for more big dogs. You’re building a Memory Garden for hospice dogs and their families, and lobbying to make rescue pets the official state pet before the end of this year. You’re increasing access to vet care, and changing how we talk about pets whose owners can no longer keep...
Our Top 2022 Blogs: Facing Challenging Times with Compassion, Collaboration, and Innovation
Don’t ask us to choose our favorite blogs of the year—it’s like asking who’s our favorite pet! (Seriously, don’t ask that.) But we didn’t choose our top blogs of the year. You did! These ten blogs from 2022 got read and shared the most, and, honestly, we’re pretty excited about the ones you picked. They encompass a lot of what we’re proud of and excited about at HASS—innovation, collaboration, learning from one another, compassion, and finding hope through challenging times,...
The Work You Do Is Never Easy, and It’s Never Been More Important
[embedded content] Looking back at 2022, I can’t help but marvel at the resiliency, creativity, and determination of everyone working through what has been an extremely challenging time. The work you do is never easy, and it’s never been more important. We are so proud to have spent this last year standing beside our 21 pilot shelters, and the thousands of shelters, organizations, and individuals coming together through the Human Animal Support Services project to save animals’ lives, and keep families together. Thank...
Here’s a Year’s Worth of Free Communications Kits, Plus a Communications Calendar
Seventy percent of the families in your community have pets, and those pets are family. By putting in place the programs, resources, and services that help those pets stay with their families through hard times, you are building a stronger and safer community. But this support only works if people know about it. That’s where this year’s worth of communications kits, and a model content calendar, come in. A year ago, Human Animal Support Services and HeARTs Speak joined up to create a series of communications kits to help you...
You All Really Blew Us Away With Your Amazing Marketing in 2022
In this very hard year, you marketing geniuses have created some of the most inspiring, creative, and effective communications and marketing materials we’ve ever seen. If you get a second to breathe, we hope you’ll take a good moment to feel proud of the work you’ve done. We’re sure proud of it for you. With the caveat that it is impossible to list every post, blog, campaign, event, or video—you all are just too good and prolific!—we’ve collected 10 of them that made us and everyone else laugh, weep,...
Are you using pets.findhelp.com yet?
Have you heard of pets.findhelp.com? It’s a curated database of free or low cost pet support services provided by Human Animal Support Services. Users can select their preferred language and search by specific services like veterinary care, pet food pantries and temporary pet care. They can also choose from categories, browse local programs and more. There are several ways one can sign up – as a consumer, to help others or as an organization. Your animal organization can sign up to show up in search results for specific services...
This Shelter Pays Pet Deposits and Pet Rent for Anyone Who Needs It
Across the country, pets are being given up to animal shelters by people who love them—but who are facing housing challenges that leave them making the choice between having a place to live, and keeping their pet. Lawrence Humane Society, a nonprofit, open-admission shelter in Lawrence, Kansas, reports that over the last year, over half of pets were surrendered due to housing issues—a full 51 percent. In the fall of 2020, LHS developed a comprehensive pet retention program—they call it their Crisis Pet Retention...
