Heidi's Village

To offer premium veterinary care to low income families, vulnerable populations and those who would otherwise not have access to veterinary care due to cost.

To provide discounted state-of-the-art animal rescue shelter services to existing animal rescues, decreasing euthanasia and enabling more displaced pets to become adoptable and then to be successfully adopted.

To serve populations that may be forgotten in the animal welfare world, survivors of domestic violence, veterans and people experiencing homeless due to medical expenses, mental illness and economic challenges.

Heidi's Village continues to read and understand the value and proof of "bonded families".

**According to a 2018 study conducted by the Access to Veterinary Care Coalition, 88% of households surveyed consider their pet a member of the family. Those who share their lives with an animal may experience reduced loneliness, improved mental and emotional well-being, more frequent physical activity, increased socialization, decreased blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and an overall boost in joy and happiness**.

This leads Heidi's to offer discounted veterinary care in the clinic to vulnerable families, people on the edge of homelessness and experiencing other challenges in order for them to continue to live a life positively enhanced by the animal family members. An effort that will enable the positive health impacts of sharing life with a furry friend.

We reduce inequalities by offering high quality services to those who wouldn't normally afford such veterinary care. Enabling them to experience equality in identifying, accessing and paying for high quality veterinary care.

By providing reduced cost shelter services to other rescues, when they experience overflow, we are enabling those shelters to focus on the animals currently in their care, rather than worrying constantly about overflow and euthanizing animals that otherwise could be saved.

Additionally, many rescue organizations are foster based, which means they do not have a physical shelter to care for their animals. While it is a great system to rescue animals without the economic burden of a building, it inherently has limitations on the amount of animals an organization can care for. When fosters are full, or there is a medical or behavioral case and an appropriate foster is unavailable, the rescue cannot accept that animal no matter how critical the situation is.

By partnering with Heidi’s Village, these foster based rescues are empowered to say yes to difficult behavioral or medical cases and/or when their fosters are full. They routinely house these cases at Heidi's Village for boarding and medical care, which are offered at an exceptionally low rate, until they are adopted, or until a foster becomes available. One rescue partner reported by utilizing Heidi's Village clinic services instead of a private clinic, they saved $25,000 in just the first 6 weeks of 2022. These savings go directly to our rescue partners saving even more, which lowers euthanasia rates even further.

Heidi’s Village exists to foster a community where animals are treated with respect, dignity, and compassion. Over 130,000 animals are lost, abandoned, or unwanted and surrendered to shelters in Arizona each year.

Opened in April 2020, Heidi’s Village works with existing animal rescues to provide the most convenient and safest way to handle medical and behavioral needs of an animal in one location. The most critical services an animal will need from a behavior and medical standpoint can be done in the same location: rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming. We care for these animals providing boarding, medical intervention, grooming, behavioral intervention, and wellness services all in one location. This relieves expense and time for the rescue as well as reduces anxiety for these vulnerable animals.

We have provided significantly discounted veterinary services to over 80 rescue partners since our opening in March of 2020. We have provided discounted surgical services to thousands animals, saving the rescue organization and/or individual thousands of dollars in needed procedures.

To date, over 1,500 dogs and cats have been rehomed and over 2,000 animals have received spay/neuter surgeries.

We have secured funding to enable this work to continue this quality, discounted, veterinary care to rescue partners and low-income families in Maricopa County, Arizona, or the Greater Phoenix Area. in 2021, we founded new partnerships with Temporary Care providers to increase the number of families they can help stay together through crisis.

Heidi's Village is also an enrolled provider with AlignCare, that will enable vulnerable individuals and families to bring their pets to us, for major veterinary surgeries, and AlignCare will cover 80% of the surgical bill.