Highlights of The Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters, Second Edition (2022)
The documents linked below were developed to help with the challenge of convincing non-sheltering or non-medical professionals, such as grantors, politicians, regulators, and board members to interact with the guidelines.
To help overcome the barriers created due to the length and level of detail, ASV has created a series of one-page highlight documents for each section, endorsed by those section’s authors, that presents information targeted for fundraisers or those setting policy for shelters through boards of directors or local governments. These section highlights supplement the larger document, which is always open access for those desiring more detail, and can be used alongside our interactive checklist to help shelters and other animal welfare organizations elevate their external advocacy on their path to improving the overall wellbeing of animals in their care.
The pdf files linked above have been developed as introductions to each section of the Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters and are not intended to take the place of the larger document.