Congratulations – 42 NEW animal response team volunteers completed the pilot boot camp training weekend and are ready for deployment.  Thank you for your dedication to animals in times of disaster!

 JULY 23-24, 2016 CLASS IS FULL!

Check back in February for details on this course being offered March  4-5, 2017 across the state of Kansas.

 PETS are the #1 reason people will not evacuate in a disaster!

The goal is to encourage families to evacuate with their pets in a safe and timely manner, by educating people about temporary Animal Response Team sheltering.  With their pets safe, the family can stay in shelters provided by the Red Cross and focus on the next steps to finding more permanent housing for their family and pets.  To provide temporary animal sheltering  and care for pets displaced in a disaster, trained animal response team volunteers are needed!  This new weekend training program will help facilitate a quick and efficient training curriculum for groups  of new volunteers.  The first day of this pilot program will be hosted at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Wichita and courses will be taught by Sedgwick county emergency management instructors.  The second day will be hosted at the Kansas Humane Society and include training such as human first aid, pet first aid and more.

SIGN ME UP NOW!

Registration for this weekend pilot training program  is limited to 30 participants, on a first come first served basis.  The first invitations will be extended to staff and volunteers of the Kansas Humane Society and surrounding Humane Societies in the south central region, if space is still available an invitation then be extended to current animal response team volunteers of the South Central Region interested in becoming responders but have not completed their CORE responder training requirements.  Based on the results of this pilot program, necessary improvements will be made and the program will then be implemented in all seven regions in February or March 2017  for the recruitment of NEW volunteers. Click here to download the 2-day agenda.

Step 1:  Prepay Your Registration Fee Below

 Step 2 & 3:  Volunteer Application and Attendee Form