Learning Path

Community Program and Services

Here's what you'll learn:

Design responsive community programs that address the real needs of animals, people, and the communities you serve.
Build accessible and inclusive services that reduce barriers and help keep people and animals together whenever possible.
Strengthen community engagement by building trust, partnerships, and meaningful relationships with the people you serve.
Apply practical approaches to program delivery, from identifying community needs to implementing effective services.
Collaborate across organizations and sectors to expand support, share resources, and improve outcomes for animals and communities.
Evaluate and improve your programs using feedback, evidence, and measurable outcomes to understand what is working and where change is needed.

Enroll in this learning track and beging your journey to improving your skills.

43 Lessons

Promising Practices: Developing Tools to Evaluate Program Impact

This 30 minute module discusses strategies for developing evaluation plans as well as explores innovative strategies for including voices and methods of evaluating program impact.

41 Lessons

Promising Practices: Engaging Community & Promoting Programs

This 30 minute module discusses the importance of community engagement for program development as well as explores innovative strategies for program promotion.

42 Lessons

Promising Practices: Engaging Men & Boys as Allies in Humane Education

This 30 minute module discusses the importance of engaging men and boys as allies in ending violence as well as explores innovative strategies for supporting men and boys in developing their allyship.

38 Lessons

Promising Practices: Humane Education Projects

This 30 minute module explains how to utilize project based learning in humane education as well as highlights innovative humane education projects.

3 Lessons

Fall Community of Practice: Making Your Shelter Pet-Friendly - Choosing A Model You Believe In

These recordings are to provide access to the guest speaker presentations from the Fall 2024 ACT To Keep Families Safe Community of Practice which focused on choosing the right model for your pet friendly Gender-Based Violence shelters.

3 Lessons

Winter Community of Practice: Toronto Victims Services

This recording is to provide access to the guest speaker's presentation from the Winter 2025 ACT to Keep Families Safe Community of Practice which focused on learning about the programs offered by Toronto Victims Services.

4 Lessons

Community of Practice: Supporting survivors of Gender-Based Violence in rural, remote, and farming communities

These recordings are to provide access to the guest speaker presentations from the Spring ACT To Keep Families Safe Community of Practice which focused on survivors of gender-based violence and their animals in rural, remote, and farming communities.

4 Lessons

Community of Practice: Supporting Indigenous Communities and Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

These recordings are to provide access to the guest speaker presentations from the Fall ACT To Keep Families Safe Community of Practice which focused on supporting Indigenous communities and survivors of gender-based violence.

5 Lessons

Community of Practice: Supporting survivors of Gender-Based Violence and their service animals

These recordings are to provide access to the guest speaker presentations from the Summer ACT To Keep Families Safe Community of Practice which focused on survivors of Gender-Based Violence and their service animals.

3 Lessons

Community of Practice: Insurance & Pet Friendly GBV Shelters

These recordings are to provide access to the guest speaker presentations from the Summer 2024 ACT To Keep Families Safe Community of Practice which focused on navigating insurance as pet friendly Gender-Based Violence shelters.

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