Colorado Animal Welfare Conference Session

Reduce Length Of Stay Through Community Engagement

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1:15-2:30pm Aug. 20, 2025

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Shelter Operations

In this session Erina Van Dusen will walk through initiatives and lessons learned in reducing length of stay for animals in care at HSPPR–Pueblo. This will be an engaging session with time to discuss and collaborate with attendees to build key take aways that can help improve community partnerships toward your mission while reducing the amount of time animals in your care go to their new (or renewed) homes.

Attendees will come out of the training inspired and with the tools they need to get started.

Gina Knepp

Erina Van Dusen

Erina Van Dusen started in Colorado animal welfare as a volunteer in 1997. Since then she has worked in a variety of operational roles, as well as animal welfare software consulting and support for animal welfare organizations across the country. She now resides in Pueblo working at the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region’s Pueblo Campus with her husband, Bull Terrier named Seamus, and community cat named Benny.