Feb 29, 2024
Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) and the American Pink Cross of Central & South Texas Area have partnered to assist pets and folks affected by pure disasters, fires, flooding, and different catastrophe reduction. The partnership will provide Optimistic Alternate options to Shelter Give up (PASS) program help to assist these in want when the Pink Cross known as to a scene and guarantee animals and their households don’t fall via the cracks when catastrophe strikes.
“We’re thrilled to determine a partnership with the American Pink Cross right here in Austin,” says Dr. Ellen Jefferson, President and CEO of Austin Pets Alive!. “Throughout occasions of disaster, assist for pets is commonly forgotten and never prioritized, however we’re grateful our native chapter cares deeply for our animals. We hope this partnership will give peace of thoughts and assist to households once they want it essentially the most.”
By way of the partnership, the PASS program will present Pink Cross Catastrophe Motion Group members with the power to ask APA! for help with non permanent pet housing, assist for the price of medical payments, meals/provides, and different pet-related wants.
“This collaboration extends our assist community for households, people and their pets throughout occasions of catastrophe,” says Anthony Triola, Catastrophe Program Supervisor for the American Pink Cross Central Texas Chapter. “As lots of our group members are fellow pet homeowners, we deeply resonate with the APA! mission and imaginative and prescient. By way of this partnership, we intention to showcase the distinctive dedication and experience of each groups, guaranteeing these we serve in disaster obtain compassion and care for everybody within the household.”
The American Pink Cross of Central & South Texas Area, headquartered in Austin, extends its companies to over 9.4 million people throughout Central & South Texas via its six chapter areas, by convening the group to organize for, reply to, and recuperate from emergencies massive and small. The Central Texas chapter serves the communities in Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Milam, Travis, and Williamson counties.
Austin Pets Alive’s PASS program helped with over 6,800 circumstances in Texas final 12 months. This system assists individuals with pet rehoming, medical help, pet pantry, pet reunification, misplaced/discovered pets, and low-cost pet assets to make sure pets keep out of the shelter system. The PASS Program Fb group at present helps 61,000 members in Texas.
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