How to Work with the Underserved Population in Your Community
June 1, 2011
Downtown Dog Rescue
Lori will cover how and why Downtown Dog Rescue was founded and how one person can make a significant difference in their community. Webinar highlights include:
- What lessons were learned immediately in terms of working with the homeless population, specifically homeless dog owners.
- How working with the homeless community changed her way of thinking about the relationship that a person can have with his/her dog.
- What lead Lori to begin working with other underserved communities.
- Why these same underserved communities own so many pit bulls.
- How she began outreach campaigns targeted to pit bull owners living in areas where the levels of gang violence is high, crime rate is high, poverty is wide spread and resources are very low.
- Lori’s explanation of how to connect to the community in general, to people one on one, and to the dogs living in the community. Connecting to the community is key to the success of any type of outreach into the community.
- Why existing models are not working and why urban communities often need different types of motivation and encouragement to spay/neuter their dogs, specifically pit bulls.
- How gangs play a role in any program, doing work in an urban community.
- How targeted spay/neuter, as being done in Compton is more than just a numbers game, it’s social change in a positive direction for dogs.
