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PAWS IS LOOKING FOR FOSTER CARE VOLUNTEERS!
Do you love pets and believe in the human-animal bond which brings so much support and joy into the lives of many, including some of our community's most vulnerable residents? Have you always wished to temporarily house or foster a dog or cat without the pressure of making a longer-term commitment?
We would love to invite you to consider becoming a PAWS Emergency Foster Care Volunteer. This is an excellent opportunity to care for and foster a PAWS client's pet for up to 2 weeks, depending on our clients' needs and circumstances. Fosters may last as short as a day or two.
When: To be coordinated with PAWS staff and our clients in need
Where: Your home, and possibly a client’s home if providing foster care at their residence
Requirements:
* Minimum age of 18
* Relevant experience with pets
* Sporadic availability based on client needs
* Able to provide a temporary home for pets
* Must live in a home that allows pets
* Must have experience owning or raising pets
* Must be physically able to do all necessary to care for animals
* Must be a trained PAWS volunteer
* Please note that this is a temporary commitment. Animal will return to guardian as soon as they are able to care for the pet
Duties:
* Provide general animal care in your home for clients who are temporary unable to care for their pets
* Includes walking, feeding, bathing, medication administration if needed, etc.
For more information or to apply: please contact Volunteer Services at volunteerservices@shanti.org
The next available PAWS Trainings are:
Tuesday, April 23rd 5:30-8:30pm
Tuesday, June 18th 5:30-8:30pm
Please note: you must submit an application and have a phone interview with staff before attending a training.
About Shanti’s PAWS Program
Founded in 1987, Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) began as a human service organization that provides more than 600 individuals each year with emotional and practical support that enables them to focus on their own health and well-being while caring for and maintaining their companion animals. By providing essential support services, educating the larger community and advocating on behalf of the human-animal bond, PAWS improves the health and well-being of at-risk and vulnerable individuals, and the animals in their lives.
The mission of PAWS is to preserve, support and nurture the human-animal bond for those most vulnerable in our community, through pet food, subsidized vet care, and volunteer supportive services; dog-walking, in-home cat care, transports to vet visits, and emergency pet fostering. All of our clients are low-income San Francisco residents who are seniors (over 60 years old) and/or living with a disabling illness or condition. We serve about 600 people and their 800 pets each year.
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About Shanti - San Francisco
Location:
730 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, US
Mission Statement
Shanti enhances the quality of life, health and well-being of people living with life-threatening illnesses, including Breast Cancer and HIV/AIDS.
Description
Founded in 1974 by Dr. Charles Garfield, Shanti has been at the forefront of a growing national movement to enhance the quality of life for persons living with life-threatening or chronic illnesses by providing volunteer-based emotional and practical support.
Shanti is a Sanskrit word meaning "inner peace" or "tranquility". It is an appropriate name since, ultimately, all of Shanti's direct service and educational programs are aimed at easing the burdens and improving the well-being of people in difficult life situations.
Key to the success of Shanti's mission is the Shanti Model of Peer Support, which is both a philosophy and a set of techniques that are used throughout our work. It is a way of being with another person that frees both parties to be fully who they are and communicate their feelings to one another. It is a way of being which allows two persons to meet as equals. It is a way of relating to others that is characterized by certain values and attitudes.
Definition of Peer
We define peer as someone who is not necessarily like us in obvious ways, but is someone with whom we share a basic humanity; someone with whom we are equals. All people share universal human experiences. By virtue of this shared humanity, we are all peers. The Shanti Model of Peer Support is based on this equality.
Values Underlying the Shanti Model of Peer Support
- mutual respect
- positive regard
- empowerment of the client (the assumption that the client has the solutions to his or her own problems and does not need your advice of direction)
- genuineness (being oneself, authenticity)
- acceptance of differences (does not mean agreement, but acceptance based on respect)
- empathy (allowing oneself to feel with another person)
- intention to be of service
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
3170 23rd StSan Francisco, CA 94110
DATE POSTED
May 14, 2019
SKILLS
- Animal Care / Handling
- Community Outreach
- Relationship Building
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- Up to two weeks--sometimes longer in special cases if a volunteer is open.
- Familiarity and comfort handling and housing foster animal (usually cats or dogs).