April 26, 2005

Meeting Participants

Tuesday May 24, 2005, 12:00-1:30PM at CBA, 3^rd floor small conference room (bring your own lunch).

Martha presented about CFAWA.

CFAWA was the first to recognize the link.
It was founded in 1954 and currently has 60 member agencies (501c3s and government units) statewide, the majority of which are on the Front Range.
Legislative awareness was the initial focus and remains a high priority. Members learned that they got more attention when they didn’t exclusively talk about animals but about animals has they impacted people. They have been responsible for a lot of legislation over the years. They promote the organization as moderate, not radical. They go for incremental wins in the legislative process.
Current bills that await the governor’s signature are HB05-1202 immunity for good faith reporting of suspected animal cruelty; HB05-1014 bestiality; SB05-04 mandatory reporting of child abuse by animal control officers.
The organization offers bimonthly training (customer service, animal handling, the LINK, cruelty investigations, legislative updates).
It holds bimonthly meetings and has a bimonthly newsletter.
They will be part of a fall symposium with CVMA.
They offer a veterinary partnership award.
They work on emergency preparedness.
Public relations efforts include: gathering statistics; spay/neuter awareness; humane pet care; feral cats; hoarding; animal behavior; resources.

Training

Michelle has requests for trainings and not enough trainers to deliver them. No one indicated interest in becoming a trainer.

Specifically, trainings are requested by:

Colorado Association of Paralegals and Legal Assistants
Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital
Grand Junction Probation Office (Kay offered to do the training)
Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance (November 14-16 conference in Keystone; CACP has done training the past two years; Corey offered Guido to do the training; Kath has the application from last year; Guido will need to submit an application to get on the program)

CACP submitted a grant application to Animal Assistance Foundation in March and awaits a decision the end of May.

Michelle distributed a draft of a brochure put together by the brochure committee and invited edits and feedback from members.

Kay said that the April 21^st LINK training had a packed house; two tracks (treatment and legal); and good reviews. They sold videos and people are asking for more info/assistance.
Ralph announced a fundraising event for the Colorado Veterinary Medicine Foundation, for May 19^th at the Adams Mark. In addition to fundraising, its purpose is to celebrate the human-animal bond. There will be awards and entertainment. For more information, www.cvma.org.
Corey reminded members of the Furry Scurry happening at Wash Park on May 7^th.
Corey shared that the DDFL Bark program is going well. The program trains 4^th-7^th graders from in-day mental health treatment programs to train shelter dogs. Channel 9 aired a segment on the program last week. Check out the Channel 9 website and search by “Carri King.” Carri is the DDFL staffer with the program.
Michelle shared an announcement in the Rocky Mountain News about KBDI-Channel 12’s program examining animal cruelty Wednesday April 27^th and a follow-up on Saturday airing three 30-minute documentaries by Los Angeles filmmaker Erik Friedl (Kiss the Animals Goodbye, Patterns of Abuse: Exploding the Cycle; One Last Fight: Exposing the Shame).

Minutes prepared by Judy Gordon

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