National Resources
Your gateway to professional development in the animal welfare field. Whether you’re an animal shelter staff member, veterinary professional, volunteer, or advocate, we provide a wide range of training programs designed to enhance your skills, knowledge, and effectiveness in caring for animals and supporting your community.
Online Training Resources
Humane Pro
Discover new ways to sharpen your skills or explore new areas of animal welfare in HumanePro's Trainings calendar. Check out featured events, search upcoming trainings or simply scan the archives for webinars. All calendar listings are trainings specifically designed for shelter and rescue professionals and volunteers.
https://humanepro.org/trainings
ASPCA Pro
Discover training and events that support you in providing best-practice shelter, behavior, and veterinary care for the animals and communities you serve.
https://www.aspcapro.org/training
Justice Clearing House
With more than 150,000 justice and public safety professionals in our community, The Justice Clearinghouse is the first organization to espouse an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding and resolving the challenges affecting our justice and public safety arena. As a peer-to-peer educational environment, we offer a year-round “virtual conference” for budget-challenged and time-starved justice professionals to learn from the thought leaders, innovators, researchers, and street-wise, experienced professionals in their fields, without the cost, travel, or time out of the office.
https://www.justiceclearinghouse.com/
National Animal Care & Control Association
For more than 40 years NACA has been a leader in providing training and certification programs for our profession. Currently, our training programs continue to deliver a higher standard in Animal Care and Cruelty Investigation Training. NACA’s National Animal Control Officer Training Academy, covers virtually every topic critical to the successful operation of Animal Care and Control. ACO I and ACO II are both available online. Plans for ACO3 are currently in the works. Introducing the groundbreaking Animal Welfare Dispatcher Certification from NACA!
https://nacatraining.org/
Domestic Violence Resources
DomesticShelters.org - A program of Alliance for HOPE International
DomesticShelters.org is the first and largest online and mobile searchable directory of domestic violence programs and shelters in the U.S. and Canada, and a leading source of helpful tools and information for people experiencing and working to end domestic violence.
DomesticShelters.org works to make more people aware of the services available for those experiencing domestic violence and make it faster and easier for victims of domestic violence and their friends/family, as well as program and shelter providers, to quickly find services and information best suited to their location, language and needs. With their "pet shelter" filter feature, this is an amazing resource for those looking for DV support.
https://www.domesticshelters.org
Safe Havens Mapping Project:
Safe havens are sheltering services available in an area that help individuals experiencing domestic violence place their companion animals out of harm’s way so that they may seek safety for themselves as well as their animals. The Safe Havens Mapping Project was established by the Animal Welfare Institute in 2011 to create a national directory to help people find these facilities.