The Integrated Care Academy is an innovative online animal shelter training that teaches holistic, integrated care for shelter animals. Learn practical approaches to animal behavior, enrichment, shelter medicine, gentle handling and cross-team collaboration to improve animal welfare and quality of care.
 

If your shelter is experiencing high staff turnover, especially for direct care roles, then you know that hiring and onboarding are time-consuming. We are here to help.

The Integrated Care Academy helps animal shelter staff and volunteers provide consistent, whole-animal care through:

• Animal behavior and communication
• Animal enrichment and stress reduction
• Shelter medicine and physical health
• Gentle and low-stress animal handling
• Behavioral and emotional well-being
• Collaboration among shelter care, veterinary and behavior teams
• Practical approaches to integrated animal care