Moving To Adoption Guarantee
Robin Starr is Executive Director of the Richmond SPCA. Robin discusses their successful transition to adoption guarantee sheltering, starting with strategic planning, laying out a philosophy, incorporating the community and ignoring the naysayers.
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Why should you embrace adoption guarantee for your organization and your community?
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Because it saves many more lives
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Because it is the way of the future
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Because it teaches the community the right message
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Because it moves the goal post in the right direction
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All of the above
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E. All of the above -
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By at least trying to embrace adoption guarantee for your organization, you will have started asking appropriate questions and started people thinking in the right direction to save more lives.
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True
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False
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A. True -
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Which is a first step in getting your Board of Directors to buy into adoption guarantee?
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Suddenly deciding to make a change without time for research
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Choosing committee members who are reluctant to change
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Setting a tone of willingness to examine and challenge old notions
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All of the above
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C. Setting a tone of willingness to examine and challenge old notions -
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Once your Board has adopted a new plan for the future, first present the news to your staff, doners and volunteers before they hear it from elsewhere.
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True
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False
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A. True -
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You are likely to be attacked anytime you seek to significantly change the status quo, resulting in anger and resisitance.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. True -
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It is NOT appropriate to give resistant staff members a reasonable period of time to embrace the change.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
B. False -
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Accountability is essential, but it must not be used to smother resourcefulness and creativity.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. True -
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Your philosophy should be clear to you and your community and you must always be true to it.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. True -
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If you plan to be an adoption guarantee shelter, a critical message includes which of the following:
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Euthanizing animals is not an obligation of any private organization
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The goal is to ultimately end the loss of life of healthy and treatable animals community-wide
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The plan will not increase the burden on other agencies
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All of the above
Correct Answer
D. All of the above -
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To move to an adoption guarantee organization, it will be important to partner with groups you can work with respectfully and sanely.
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. True -
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