FLASH!: UPDATE ON PACKS Rescue development of social services programs using shelter dogs and cats in Sacramento. This is to give you all a progress check! Board member Deb Cusimano (Deb is PACKS Rescue's point person for our social services initiatives task force) and I (Eileen Gillis) visited Tony La Russo's ARF Center in Walnut Creek on Monday (ARF.net) and observed the All Ears Reading Program. We even worked with a few children ourselves (and petted a few dogs!!) Check it out at: http://arf.net/people-programs/all-ears-reading/ Also, check out these you tube videos, sent via Piper Crussell, our Webinar advisor guru, from PAWS S.F. and L.A. We're going to visit S.F. in the near future to look at the program design for implementation in Sacramento. youtube.com/watch?v=WdKYPD4fhT0&feature=related youtube.com/watch?v=HN3m7eYWjws&feature=related These examples display the programs we want to develop and build out in Sacramento. These are not difficult programs to establish and scale up or scale down. We ideally will be able to pull animals from local shelters to participate in these programs and work to help people maintain their pets in their homes, rather than being forced to surrender them when they can no longer care for them. Look ahead to our intial Board of Director's meeting in February where we officially seat our board and move forward.
