Save the Date-National Conference on Animals in Disasters

October 11, 2007

SAVE THESE DATES JUNE 2–6, 2008 Doubletree Hotel Sacramento • Sacramento, California A VITAL CONFERENCE FOR • Emergency managers and responders • Animal care/control professionals • Veterinary

professionals • Volunteers of all kinds READY TO ACHIEVE THE NEXT LEVEL OF EXPERTISE? Attend This Conference! • Is your community really prepared? Means and measures to find out • If all disasters are local, where can a local organization go for help? • The National Response Framework, post-Katrina reforms, and the PETS Act: Will they bring new guidelines and more resources? • Pandemic and animal diseases: Recognize, prepare, protect • Are climate change and technological threats

adding to our disaster vulnerability? • Realistic approaches to emergency education and sheltering PRACTICAL TRAINING, SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS, EXCITING WORKSHOPS • Developing exercises to test your disaster planning • Building disaster-resilient communities • Learning tools and techniques for large and small animal rescue • Valuing volunteers—the underused resource • Creating private-public partnerships that work • Rethinking the catastrophic event • Raising the bar on animal disaster response qualifications and cooperation • And much more! SPECIAL ALL-DAY WORKSHOP—JUNE 6 An intensive workshop targeting major animal disaster response issues For information on conference, email disaster ******************************************* Jay Sabatucci Regional Program Manager The Humane Society of the United States Southwest Regional Office 6815 Manhattan Blvd. Suite 102 Fort Worth, TX 76120 Office 817-492-8000 Fax to Office 817-492-8006 Fax to Email 469-287-4371 jsabatucci The Texas Animal Control Association Annual Conference will be in San Antonio this year! Registration forms are at

http://www.taca.org/pdfs/TACA%202007%20Annual%20Conference%20reg%20form.pdf and you can mail your registration to TACA 2007 Conference, P.O. Box 7298, Abilene, TX 79608-7298. Free class for TASC Members! Shelter Medicine. October 12th from 12:00-3:00 PM. Lunch provided by Fort Dodge (if registered with Anne Thomason anne.thomason before October 10th). $10 for non-TASC members. See our website at www.sheltercoalition.com

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