Our Team
We are collaborating with a diverse set of people and organizations to ensure we can provide survivors of domestic violence with the resources that their pets and they need!
Here are some of our partners on this fantastic journey!
Shelter House is a 24-hour emergency shelter for victims of domestic and sexual violence, stalking, and human trafficking as well as resource for homeless families. WPL is collaborating with Shelter House’s Domestic Violence women’s shelters Artemis House 1 and Artemis House 3 on their pet fostering program. WPL works closely with staff from both facilities, as well as Shelter House staff on this ground-breaking and important pilot program.
Critter Care Collective LLC., founded by Dr. Gal Chivvis, is actively collaborating with our cause by sharing her informative content covering common pet health issues, diseases, toxicities, behavior, general care, and more. Dr. Chivvis is also sharing her blog offering insights into the veterinary world. In addition, her collective offers engaging educational materials for both children and adults, including coloring books, activity books, journals, and more designed to entertain, engage, and foster a deeper understanding of pets and their needs. Similar to WPL, Critter Care Collective, believes in the power of shared knowledge the collaborative effort needed between veterinarians, pet owners, caretakers, and families to ensure the best care for every pet. By working together, we can create healthier, happier pets.
Pender Veterinary Centre is collaborating with our cause by offering their veterinary care at discounted prices. Pender Vets offer full service veterinary care including highly trained veterinarians and technicians, 24/7 Emergency Veterinary care, on-site laboratory and on-site pharmacy services and surgical procedures. Across all four of their locations, they provide care for their patients’ medical needs in-house, sparing clients the time and expense of traveling to different places for diagnostics and additional office visits. They are also huge supporters of adoption programs through their Pender Pet Adoption programs.
Guardians Dog Training is collaborating with our cause by providing discounted pet training and evaluations. Many of the animals we help could have been victims of abuse themselves, so having an experienced trainer to evaluate them or assist fosters ensures both animals and humans remain safe and happy during the transition from home/shelter to foster home.
Dr. Roshni Ladny is the Program Coordinator, Criminal Justice MS, and an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice at Florida Gulf Coast University. Dr. Ladny is collaborating with our cause by graciously sharing her knowledge and researh, which takes a psychosocial approach to examining the role of trauma in the victim-offender overlap as it pertains to the development of violent and aggressive behavior in children exposed to animal cruelty and family violence. Her other interests include identification of protective factors against childhood adverse experiences, effective methods of offender rehabilitation, and mental health care in the criminal justice system. Dr. Ladny is also a certified domestic violence victim advocate in Florida and has clinical training in addiction counseling as well as trauma and crisis intervention. Prior to earning her doctorate from Florida State University, she served as a clinical mental health therapist for survivors and perpetrators of family violence, youth involved in the juvenile justice system, and individuals court ordered to treatment for substance abuse. Dr. Ladny also spent six years as a volunteer Community Outreach Coordinator with a rural north Florida humane society where she extensively assisted in addressing animal cruelty and neglect through animal rescue, partnership with the local sheriff’s office, and humane education for children. She is also a long-time dedicated volunteer researcher and advocate to the international organization The European Link Coalition (ELC). ELC is an all-volunteer group of researchers, practitioners and legal experts dedicated to developing evidence-based policy and programming on global animal and child welfare as they relate to the links between societal violence, family violence, and animal cruelty.
Sit & Stay Affordable Pet Care is collaborating with our cause by providing discounted boarding or pet visits to fosters acting as the guardians to the client’s pet(s). This allows the pet to get the exercise and care they need, extra love and attention and assists a foster that may need to be at work during the day.
Hope Advanced Veterinary Center is supporting our cause by offering their expertise in veterinarian care at a discounted price. Hope Center has experienced, compassionate emergency veterinarians and board-certified specialists and are an extension of primary veterinarian care. They have been working together to provide exceptional specialty and emergency veterinary care for pets for more than 30 years. Their highly qualified specialists each practice in a dedicated area of veterinary medicine. All their specialists have completed at least three years of additional training beyond veterinary school and have passed rigorous examinations to become board-certified in their areas of specialization. Their emergency veterinary services are there to help 24/7 if a person cannot reach their primary care veterinarian. Their veterinarians in Vienna are specially trained in emergency medicine.