First Home, Forever Home: How to Start and Run a Shelter Intervention Program - Paperback

by Nicole Bruckman (Illustrator), Luisa Mani (Author), Lori Weise (Author)

First Home Forever Home is a book that will teach you the fundamentals on how to start and run a shelter intervention program. Keeping pets in their homes helps everyone - the pets, their people, their community and those that work in animal welfare. Pet surrenders are often a symptom of a complex problem. This book will help you devise a plan to solve problems, train volunteers to be effective counselors and even set up a budget with realistic goals for keeping pets at home. To save more pets, it's smart to start at intake - with practical, hands-on strategies to keep pets safely and happily in their homes, keeping families together.

Author Biography

Lori founded Downtown Dog Rescue in 1996 after seeing that homeless dog owners had no resources to care for their dogs Two decades later, her all volunteer non profit organization has rescued and adopted out thousands of dogs. Lori is the 2014 ASPCA Henry Berg award winner, has been honored by the City of Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Department of Animal Services, The Humane Society of the United States, is the 2013 Wallace award winner, 2013 honoree of Found Animals Foundation and 2005, 2012 honored by Best Friends Animal Society. This is Lori's first book.