Events
OAA offers many events each year, including virtual conferences and trainings, tours, workshops, and more. We also share events from our partners, affiliates, and other animal protection organizations. Sign up for our e-news to learn about all our events, or check back here often to stay informed. We hope to see you soon!
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Home Stretch: The Final Year of 25 by 2025 Campaign Call
You're invited to our official 25 by 2025 campaign Zoom call, a free virtual event on Wednesday, April 9, at 1 PM PT! For shelters and advocates alike, join RedRover and Greater Good Charities to learn more about our current and ongoing work to ensure domestic violence survivors and their pets can find safety and healing together.

Webinar: Keeping Families Together
Join My Dog is My Home to unpack the significance of the human-animal bond for people experiencing homelessness, examining the impact of co-sheltering through a storytelling lens.

Webinar: Housing People and Pets in Crisis
Join RedRover and Greater Good Charities for a FREE one-day virtual training workshop where they’ll discuss the impact of the human-animal bond and explore ways to create and sustain pet housing programs for people and pets in crisis.

Pennsylvania’s Pet Protection Orders: A New Tool to Protect Families and Pets
Crisis Center North and the Keystone Link Coalition will host this virtual webinar to share the good news that Pennsylvania now has a pet protective order law and to summarize what this law means and its implications for human and humane services. Through this webinar, CCN and KLC seek to enhance the implementation of Pennsylvania’s pet protective order law by promoting its understanding and encouraging its use.

Webinar: Animal Hoarding Challenges
Hoarding can be a cumbersome and complicated situation as it involves mental health, many animals, and many agencies. Even worse, the well-being of the animals may be a challenge to local resources. Join in for this webinar, "Animal Hoarding: The Challenges," to learn how to navigate the complexities that begin at the start of the investigation through the adjudication of the case to provide the best possible outcome for the health, community, and animals.

Webinar: AWI Roadmap to Bipartisan Advocacy
AWI program staff will provide an overview of five key animal welfare laws in the United States, discuss their goals for the year, and outline how you can get involved, too.

Webinar: How to Apply for Grants for Sheltering Pets in Crisis
Red Rover and Greater Good are conducting a webinar on 1/23/25 from 2 - 3:30PM EST on how to apply for grants to provide shelter for pets in crisis situations. As funding for safe havens are limited, this is a critical workshop to hone your organization's skills in obtaining this necessary funding to help families and their pets.

A Civil Rights Picture Worth a Thousand Words
This Cleveland State University celebration of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will include a conversation with Dr. Evan Morse, the first African American Veterinarian in Cleveland, Ohio, who experienced first-hand the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.
This event provides an opportunity for students to learn how to use photographs as primary documents and strategies for interviewing public figures. A Zoom option is available.

RaptorQuest with Scott Harris
Scott Harris spent 17 months, chasing 53 Raptors across 34 states—his version of a Raptor Big Year. RaptorQuest is about his adventures, misadventures, successes and failures. From -36 degree days, to days over 100 degrees, to getting on the bird just in time, to the frustrations of missing one by minutes. It’s about the birds—of course—but it’s also about the people he met, the things he learned and why he’s already working on his next adventure.

Better Together: TNVR & Public Health
For decades, we’ve been sterilizing community cats in order to help reduce their population, with the primary goal of improving their wellbeing. But what if there is an additional benefit to Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (TNVR) programs – one that protects the health of pets and people in our communities? Join this webinar to learn more!

Webinar + Ask the Expert: Addressing Pet Safety with Victims of Abuse in Later Life
The National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life has collaborated with the Animal Welfare Institute to offer “Addressing Pet Safety with Victims of Abuse in Later Life” Webinar + Ask the Expert.

IHE Humane Education Workshop Series
Calling all humane educators who work with animals! Please join the Institute for Humane Education for a 3-part community-driven online series that will explore effective strategies for teaching about animal protection, and how to bring awareness to the interconnections between humans, animals, and the environment in our programs.

ELI Webinar: Integrating Wild Animal Welfare into Municipal Policy
Urban and suburban areas are increasingly home to a wide variety of wild animals. Although their presence has attracted substantial attention, the focus is typically on resolving conflicts that arise with human inhabitants. Little attention is paid to the welfare of urban wildlife. This webinar will bring together academic experts as well as those working with local governments in the US to discuss how local governments can take actions that benefit their residents, urban wildlife, and the environment.

Webinar: Colony Caretaking Tips & Tricks
Are ants invading your colony cats’ bowls? Struggling to keep water from freezing in the winter? Or maybe you're trying to calm a frustrated neighbor whose flower bed has become a litter box? This webinar is for you!

Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing
Join us at Camp Maddie: Pet-Inclusive Housing Edition! On Wednesday, November 13 from 9am-1pm PT (12pm-4pm ET), Maddie's Fund is hosting a free virtual half-day event focused on keeping pets and people together through pet-inclusive housing solutions. Don't miss this chance to learn, share, and make a difference!

Inspiring Kids to be Kind with Kind News
Join us for a FREE RedRover webinar on Inspiring Kids to be Kind with Kind News! Hear from two humane education advocates on how they are using Kind News magazine to foster kindness and empathy in their communities in this virtual webinar.
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