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Strength Trainings Equip APOs to Work Harder, Smarter

This year, Mayor's Alliance Participating Organizations (APOs) had the opportunity to expand their knowledge and improve skills in a wide range of areas — from preventing the spread of disease in the shelter and preparing for disasters to using the Internet and other media to promote adoptions and designing more effective adoption agreements. These and other topics were the focus of Mayor's Alliance Strength Trainings — monthly training sessions created specifically for APOs to help them work more efficiently and effectively.

In 2009, our Strength Training program will continue to offer specialized informational sessions and skill-building workshops to help Alliance organizations improve their capabilities — individually and collectively — and increase their organization's ability to succeed.

Included in the 2009 lineup are workshops and meetings to broaden and sharpen skills in such areas as how to use the power of the media to promote your messages; how to promote more focused and productive meetings; how to achieve more meaningful evaluations of animals using the SAFER technique; how to prevent the spread of disease in a non-shelter environment; how to manage compassion fatigue; and more.

APOs will receive invitations by e-mail to each of the scheduled 2009 sessions. Please be on the lookout for your invitation to the January Strength Training coming your way soon.