SECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC

Through a broad spectrum of intervention and prevention services and programs Second Chance is guided by the following goals:
1. Reduce pet overpopulation
2. Promote the human-animal bond
3. Help keep pets as part of their families
4. Promote responsible pet parenting
5. Promote the power of the pet to connect people, families and communities.

Second Chance's strategies for fulfilling its goals and mission are:
1. Maintain model shelter programs and services to increase efficiencies and effectiveness of rescue work, increasing numbers of pets rescued, rehabilitated and re-homed.
2. Expand and enhance outreach programming through development of community educational workshops, outreach and training opportunities.
3. Broaden service region to include surrounding underserved communities and expand networking and outreach.
4. Provide competitive compensation to support and sustain professional personnel.
5. Identify and secure additional funding streams for long term sustainability of the organization.

Second Chance has developed the following programs and services to pursuit its goals and objectives:
1. Temporary Shelter/Foster Program - provides a loving, comfortable and enriching environment for abandoned, abused, neglected and homeless dogs and cats.
2. Low-cost Veterinary Services - provides free wellness checks and low-cost services such as vaccinations, de-worming, spay/neuter surgeries, heartworm testing and prevention, etc. via financial assistance and medical clinics to low-income pet owners.
3. Animal Control Assistance – support services for regional Animal Control.
4. Placement Program - help find homes for pets that people must surrender.
5. Dog Behavioral Classes and Individual Consultations - provides assistance to pet owners in correcting behavioral problems so that pets can remain in the home.
6. Pet Safe Housing Program – pets from violent homes are fostered until the pet owner leaving the abusive situation has safely relocated.
7. Feral Cat Program - trap, test for disease, spay/neuter, vaccinate, and return community cats into their original habitat.
8. Community Outreach - educational and transformative humane programs for school children, nursing homes, veterans, and the public.
9. Pet Pantry - provide free pet food and supplies to low-income pet owners to keep pets as part of their families.
10. Thrift Shops - to help fund our programs and provide a community service of affordable goods and a major source for recycle/reuse.

Progress as measured for 2019 (unless otherwise indicated) follows:
Pets rescued: 413
Numbers served through community medical program: 1,242
Animal Control Assistance: 20 animals
Dog Behavioral classes: 53 attendees, 10 classes, 29 individual sessions, 45 hours of phone consultations
Community Outreach: 217 people through educational presentations to students and the public, 241 students reached weekly through Pets Turning Pages, and approximately 22,700 through public and adoption events and weekly Pet Column.
Pet Pantry: Have provided 38,000 pounds of food to families in need throughout the region so far in 2020.