Animal Welfare Professionals

@Sarah Aguilar
Sarah has been connected with APA! since 2015, when she did her first Maddie's Fund Large Dog Foster Apprenticeship. She has been an active member of the fostering community since 2011, and has spent a ton of time on the ground getting to know the people who make APA!'s ambitious strategic plans possible. She is honored to be a part of one of the leading teams of animal advocates in the nation.

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@ellen jefferson

Dr. Ellen Jefferson, a longtime shelter veterinarian, and groundbreaking animal welfare visionary, is the President and CEO of Austin Pets Alive! 

Now a global leader in transformative animal welfare, Dr. Jefferson took over  APA! in 2008, a grassroots, volunteer effort to protect Austin's most vulnerable shelter pets. APA! has directly saved the lives of more than 100,000 at-risk pets from Austin and elsewhere in Texas. 

Through tireless advocacy and APA's lifesaving programs, in 2011 Dr. Jefferson achieved her dream to make Austin the country's largest No Kill city, saving more than 90 percent of the city's homeless pets. 

Since that first benchmark year a decade ago, Austin has remained the safest city in America for shelter animals-in no small part thanks to Dr. Jefferson's singular focus on those who are left behind: the dogs and cats often euthanized in other shelters because of age, medical condition, behavior, or who are otherwise considered by some to be simply "unsavable." 

Dr. Jefferson is also the founder of San Antonio Pets Alive!, an organization that has saved over 30,000 animals' lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Expanding her reach far beyond Texas, Dr. Jefferson leads the work of American Pets Alive!, the national arm of APA!, which she founded in 2010. 

AmPA! provides training and education to thousands of animal welfare professionals throughout the U.S. and the world, and helps animal shelters in this country and others implement the lifesaving programs that have been developed and tested in Austin over the past 15 years.

The American Pets Alive! conference, held annually in Austin, draws nearly 1,000 visitors to Austin and brings the leading animal welfare experts in the nation together to debate, teach, and lead the future of animal sheltering. 

In 2020, at the start of the COVID pandemic, Dr. Jefferson met the urgent need to keep pets out of shelters and with people by launching Human Animal Support Services (HASS), an international collaborative movement to transform animal services to support the bond between pets and people.

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@Bobby Mann

• Can we get sued for that? An introduction to managing liability risks at animal shelters & rescues (blog)
• PACC Safety report (webpage)
• How to keep big dogs from losing their marbles while they wait for homes (blog)
• Behavior foster program tool kit (tool kit)

@Sarah Aguilar
Sarah has been connected with APA! since 2015, when she did her first Maddie's Fund Large Dog Foster Apprenticeship. She has been an active member of the fostering community since 2011, and has spent a ton of time on the ground getting to know the people who make APA!'s ambitious strategic plans possible. She is honored to be a part of one of the leading teams of animal advocates in the nation.

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@ellen jefferson

Dr. Ellen Jefferson, a longtime shelter veterinarian, and groundbreaking animal welfare visionary, is the President and CEO of Austin Pets Alive! 

Now a global leader in transformative animal welfare, Dr. Jefferson took over  APA! in 2008, a grassroots, volunteer effort to protect Austin's most vulnerable shelter pets. APA! has directly saved the lives of more than 100,000 at-risk pets from Austin and elsewhere in Texas. 

Through tireless advocacy and APA's lifesaving programs, in 2011 Dr. Jefferson achieved her dream to make Austin the country's largest No Kill city, saving more than 90 percent of the city's homeless pets. 

Since that first benchmark year a decade ago, Austin has remained the safest city in America for shelter animals-in no small part thanks to Dr. Jefferson's singular focus on those who are left behind: the dogs and cats often euthanized in other shelters because of age, medical condition, behavior, or who are otherwise considered by some to be simply "unsavable." 

Dr. Jefferson is also the founder of San Antonio Pets Alive!, an organization that has saved over 30,000 animals' lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Expanding her reach far beyond Texas, Dr. Jefferson leads the work of American Pets Alive!, the national arm of APA!, which she founded in 2010. 

AmPA! provides training and education to thousands of animal welfare professionals throughout the U.S. and the world, and helps animal shelters in this country and others implement the lifesaving programs that have been developed and tested in Austin over the past 15 years.

The American Pets Alive! conference, held annually in Austin, draws nearly 1,000 visitors to Austin and brings the leading animal welfare experts in the nation together to debate, teach, and lead the future of animal sheltering. 

In 2020, at the start of the COVID pandemic, Dr. Jefferson met the urgent need to keep pets out of shelters and with people by launching Human Animal Support Services (HASS), an international collaborative movement to transform animal services to support the bond between pets and people.

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@Bobby Mann

• Can we get sued for that? An introduction to managing liability risks at animal shelters & rescues (blog)
• PACC Safety report (webpage)
• How to keep big dogs from losing their marbles while they wait for homes (blog)
• Behavior foster program tool kit (tool kit)

@Sarah Aguilar
Sarah has been connected with APA! since 2015, when she did her first Maddie's Fund Large Dog Foster Apprenticeship. She has been an active member of the fostering community since 2011, and has spent a ton of time on the ground getting to know the people who make APA!'s ambitious strategic plans possible. She is honored to be a part of one of the leading teams of animal advocates in the nation.

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@ellen jefferson

Dr. Ellen Jefferson, a longtime shelter veterinarian, and groundbreaking animal welfare visionary, is the President and CEO of Austin Pets Alive! 

Now a global leader in transformative animal welfare, Dr. Jefferson took over  APA! in 2008, a grassroots, volunteer effort to protect Austin's most vulnerable shelter pets. APA! has directly saved the lives of more than 100,000 at-risk pets from Austin and elsewhere in Texas. 

Through tireless advocacy and APA's lifesaving programs, in 2011 Dr. Jefferson achieved her dream to make Austin the country's largest No Kill city, saving more than 90 percent of the city's homeless pets. 

Since that first benchmark year a decade ago, Austin has remained the safest city in America for shelter animals-in no small part thanks to Dr. Jefferson's singular focus on those who are left behind: the dogs and cats often euthanized in other shelters because of age, medical condition, behavior, or who are otherwise considered by some to be simply "unsavable." 

Dr. Jefferson is also the founder of San Antonio Pets Alive!, an organization that has saved over 30,000 animals' lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Expanding her reach far beyond Texas, Dr. Jefferson leads the work of American Pets Alive!, the national arm of APA!, which she founded in 2010. 

AmPA! provides training and education to thousands of animal welfare professionals throughout the U.S. and the world, and helps animal shelters in this country and others implement the lifesaving programs that have been developed and tested in Austin over the past 15 years.

The American Pets Alive! conference, held annually in Austin, draws nearly 1,000 visitors to Austin and brings the leading animal welfare experts in the nation together to debate, teach, and lead the future of animal sheltering. 

In 2020, at the start of the COVID pandemic, Dr. Jefferson met the urgent need to keep pets out of shelters and with people by launching Human Animal Support Services (HASS), an international collaborative movement to transform animal services to support the bond between pets and people.

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@Bobby Mann

Hey Christie - can you update the tool kit link? 

https://www.humananimalsupportservices.org/toolkit/behavior-foster-programs/

Thanks!!

• Can we get sued for that? An introduction to managing liability risks at animal shelters & rescues (blog)
• PACC Safety report (webpage)
• How to keep big dogs from losing their marbles while they wait for homes (blog)
• Behavior foster program tool kit (tool kit)

@Sarah Aguilar
Sarah has been connected with APA! since 2015, when she did her first Maddie's Fund Large Dog Foster Apprenticeship. She has been an active member of the fostering community since 2011, and has spent a ton of time on the ground getting to know the people who make APA!'s ambitious strategic plans possible. She is honored to be a part of one of the leading teams of animal advocates in the nation.

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@ellen jefferson

Dr. Ellen Jefferson, a longtime shelter veterinarian, and groundbreaking animal welfare visionary, is the President and CEO of Austin Pets Alive! 

Now a global leader in transformative animal welfare, Dr. Jefferson took over  APA! in 2008, a grassroots, volunteer effort to protect Austin's most vulnerable shelter pets. APA! has directly saved the lives of more than 100,000 at-risk pets from Austin and elsewhere in Texas. 

Through tireless advocacy and APA's lifesaving programs, in 2011 Dr. Jefferson achieved her dream to make Austin the country's largest No Kill city, saving more than 90 percent of the city's homeless pets. 

Since that first benchmark year a decade ago, Austin has remained the safest city in America for shelter animals-in no small part thanks to Dr. Jefferson's singular focus on those who are left behind: the dogs and cats often euthanized in other shelters because of age, medical condition, behavior, or who are otherwise considered by some to be simply "unsavable." 

Dr. Jefferson is also the founder of San Antonio Pets Alive!, an organization that has saved over 30,000 animals' lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Expanding her reach far beyond Texas, Dr. Jefferson leads the work of American Pets Alive!, the national arm of APA!, which she founded in 2010. 

AmPA! provides training and education to thousands of animal welfare professionals throughout the U.S. and the world, and helps animal shelters in this country and others implement the lifesaving programs that have been developed and tested in Austin over the past 15 years.

The American Pets Alive! conference, held annually in Austin, draws nearly 1,000 visitors to Austin and brings the leading animal welfare experts in the nation together to debate, teach, and lead the future of animal sheltering. 

In 2020, at the start of the COVID pandemic, Dr. Jefferson met the urgent need to keep pets out of shelters and with people by launching Human Animal Support Services (HASS), an international collaborative movement to transform animal services to support the bond between pets and people.

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@Bobby Mann