Might 24, 2024
In March 2024, Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) offered suggestions to the Hays County Commissioners Court docket on tips on how to develop and launch the Pet Useful resource Middle for Hays County, really useful in a 2022 feasibility research compiled by Workforce Shelter USA and Animal Arts.
The 2022 research proposed a pet useful resource heart mannequin as the answer to Hays County’s increasing animal services-related wants, and as a treatment to the overburdened regional sheltering mannequin at present in apply. The brand new mannequin idea is a smaller-scale shelter supported by sturdy neighborhood programming and elevated entry to assets, primarily geared toward conserving folks and pets collectively.
Austin Pets Alive! approached the work systematically by three lenses: facility planning, program improvement, and operational planning. With the steering of a contract committee, a sequence of deliverables had been accomplished. These included:
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Social Media Outreach Technique
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Group Engagement
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Complete Program Plan
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Location Evaluate
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Plan to develop a Non-profit Fundraising Group to help the middle.
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Working Budgets, Staffing Plans, and Customary Working Procedures.
Different important work additionally included a completion of the Group Want and Values Survey, launching Hays County P.A.S.S. digital useful resource heart, making a model identification proposal, incomes the designation of a Human Animal Assist Providers (HASS) pilot neighborhood, and partnering with the Central Texas Meals Financial institution for a larger-scale pet meals distribution in Hays County.
Hays County P.A.S.S. – Digital Useful resource Middle
Launched in January 2024, the Hays County digital pet useful resource heart tripled use within the first two months! This system features a native pet assets information as a central supply of data for the Hays County neighborhood and devoted on-line case administration help.
Program management continues to collaborate with the San Marcos Regional Animal Shelter (SMRAS) staff to function the give up prevention program. By means of this partnership, Hays County P.A.S.S. has diminished response time to these contemplating give up from 2 weeks to 24 hours. Nearly all of circumstances are rehoming help and navigating veterinary providers prices.
As Hays County leaders think about what steps to take subsequent, APA! continues to offer devoted help to house owners dealing with pet-related challenges, by Hays County P.A.S.S. and partnering with different neighborhood organizations.
