Conferences & Trainings

Animal Fighting Investigation Workshop
This workshop offers suggestions for identifying animal fighting participants and gives solid, proven methods to successfully investigate and prosecute these crimes.

Animal Shelter Disaster Preparedness 
In this course, you will gain the skills to create and implement an effective disaster plan that fits into the larger disaster plan of your community, county and state.

Basic Equine Care and Handling for the Investigator
This intensive three-day course -- including extensive demonstrations and hands-on work with horses -- will give you the knowledge and confidence to identify and resolve horse abuse and neglect cases in your community.

Customer Service for the Animal Welfare Professional
This intense training outlines best practices for communications and customer care, giving attendees the critical skills to foster good customer and public relations, no matter how irate a client.

Euthanasia By Injection 
For both beginners and the experienced, this comprehensive two-day seminar covers the latest techniques, drugs and issues surrounding EBI.

Euthanasia By Injection for Horses
Become more aware of issues surrounding the euthanasia of horses and become an expert in administering sodium pentobarbital.

Advanced Euthanasia: Beyond Cats and Dogs
Learn humane ways to handle, sedate and euthanize a wider variety of animals in the field and at the shelter.

Managing Compassion Fatigue
Euthanizing the creatures you care about takes its emotional and physical toll on you. This one-day, intimate seminar reveals what compassion fatigue is and how it affects you.

National Fundraising School
If you are the individual responsible for raising money for an organization, come to this new workshop and learn how to increase your fundraising effectiveness.

National Horse Abuse Investigation School
This intensive, custom-tailored course will give you the knowledge and confidence to identify and resolve the horse abuse and neglect cases in your community.

"No Animals Were Harmed"® Certified Animal Safety Representative Training
Become a part-time, on-call Certified Animal Safety Representative for American Humane's Film & Television Unit in Los Angeles.

Playful Parrots: Bird Care
American Humane’s one-day intensive class addresses normal bird behavior, bird health issues, bird care in shelters and rescue environments and proper bird housing.

Shelter Operations School (SOS)
If you're ready to have your staff performing at its fullest potential, you should enroll your employees now in this new training aimed at the backbone of every organization -- the shelter staff.

Shelter Operations School for Managers
This class is designed to provide shelter managers with tools that will help them develop a solid, well-managed foundation for their shelter operations.