Author
Monty Dozier, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Extension Program Director,
Disaster Assessment and Recovery Program
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
Toolkit Overview
Hurricane Katrina and other disasters have taught responders that people are reluctant or unwilling to evacuate if they have no options to safely shelter their animals. The six videos and three PowerPoint presentations below provide an overview of best practices around establishing and managing animal response teams, emergency animal shelters, and animal supply points. The materials provide Extension professionals with an understanding of forming animal response and recovery teams, deployment strategies of those teams to support sheltering and supply activities, demobilization, and the use of after action reviews to evaluate individual and team performance after the response.
This project was supported with funding from the Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) utilizing Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative (FADI) funding from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture under NIFA/USDA Agreement No. 2018-37620-28830.
Below are links to streamable/downloadable videos, PowerPoints, and Publications produced through this grant.
Videos
Video 1 – Introduction to Animal Sheltering
Video 2 – Pre-Deployment Planning
Video 3 – Activation to a Disaster
Video 4- Standing Up Animal Supply Points
Video 5- Animal Sheltering
Video 6 – Demobilization-AAR Planning
PowerPoint Presentations
To download the file, click the link below, then “File>Download>Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt)” or to your file type of choice (e.g. PDF).
Supporting Animal Disasters Through Cooperative Extension Animal Response Teams PowerPoint
Supporting Animal Disasters Through Animal Sheltering Operations PowerPoint
Supporting Animal Disasters Through Establishing & Managing an Animal Supply Point
Downloadable Publications at Texas A&M AgriLife Learn (External website)
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