iCatCare Courses: Becoming a Cat Friendly Homing Centre
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Our subsequent programme will begin on the twenty second February 2022. To guide please go to our web site here.
Do you’re employed in a cat welfare organisation, that properties pet cats? Enrol on this programme and learn to have a good time what you do effectively and uncover how you can enhance your centre to learn the cats in your neighborhood.
Becoming a Cat Friendly Homing Centre Programme is constructed upon International Cat Care’s Cat Friendly Homing Principles and is obtainable to those that are working, volunteering or managing a cat welfare organisation, that properties pet cats and have accomplished the Bringing Cat Friendly Solutions for Unowned Cats to Life course. This studying programme is predicated on a supportive teaching mannequin that encourages you to have a good time what you do effectively and to concentrate on what you wish to enhance by setting and dealing in direction of your personal targets.
Programme Outline
Week 1 of the course begins twenty second February with a welcome week the previous week.
Week 1 – Introduce Yourself and Celebrate Your Success. An alternative to inform the opposite individuals and your coach about your organisation, what you do effectively and what you’d wish to enhance
Weeks 2 & 3 – Shelter Metrics and Data Collection. Understanding the connection between consumption, size of keep and occupancy and exploring the distinction between working at most and optimum capability. You can even be wanting on the information you gather already, if any, and the way you utilize it.
Weeks 4 & 5 – Reflective Learning. An introduction to reflective studying utilizing workout routines and dialogue. This can be the primary alternative to begin your very personal personal reflective journal, making additional entries all through the programme.
Week 6 – Cat Emotions. Reading in regards to the function feelings play in motivating cat behaviour and, with that information, you’ll take into consideration issues from a cat’s perspective.
Week 7 – Set Your High-Level Goal. You now set your ambition for cats and your organisation for the long run: what are you hoping to attain? You resolve.
Week 8 – Decision Making. You are given a device with pointers for its use and also you practise utilizing it in real-life conditions.
Week 9 – Refresh Your Memory. You can be inspired to revisit the Cat Friendly Homing web site to arrange your self for the subsequent few weeks forward.
Week 10 & 11 – Set and Apply Your Intake Goal. With your ambition for the long run in thoughts you now make your motion plan for adjustments related to the INTAKE a part of your work, ie which cats you soak up, which cats you assist with out bringing them in and what info you gather about them. You will then have an opportunity to debate the sensible software of your consumption motion plan: what have been the successes? The challenges?
Week 12 & 13 – Set and Apply Your Care Goal. With your ambition for the long run in thoughts you now make your motion plan for adjustments related to the CARE a part of your work, ie how you take care of and monitor cats to keep up their wellbeing and reply to their wants. This unit contains studying how you can use the Traffic Light Assessment device. You will then have an opportunity to debate the sensible software of your care motion plan.
Week 14 & 15 – Set & Apply Your Outcome Goal. With your ambition for the long run in thoughts you now make your motion plan for adjustments related to the OUTCOME a part of your work, ie having established what consequence every particular person cat requires you guarantee that their new atmosphere meets these wants. You will once more have an opportunity to debate the sensible software.
Week 16 – Revisit the Decision Making device. We gives you the chance to apply making use of the decision-making device to a real-life state of affairs.
Week 17 – Quality of Life Assessment & Your Case Study.You are given a easy device to assist dialogue on a person cat’s high quality of life after which have alternatives to practise utilizing it in a real-life scenario.We will ask you to create a case research that displays one cat’s Cat Friendly Homing journey and the constructive impression of the programme on their future wellbeing.
Week 18 & 19 – Change Management & Human Behaviour Change. Change might be very difficult so this unit supplies you with info and the chance to discover how one can meet resistance positively. We will cowl an introduction to the science of human behaviour change and how you can encourage folks to behave and assume in a cat pleasant method
Week 20 – Collecting Baseline Data and Programme Reflection. Preparing for the long run and the way you’ll proceed to gather information to trace your constructive Cat Friendly Homing progress. The ultimate week additionally offers you a chance to replicate in your journey, together with your fellow individuals, and get enthusiastic about your plans for the long run!
“Writing the journal helps me to grasp how I really feel and after that setting a small objective. For instance, I’ve observed that attaining our targets goes to be tough as a result of we rely on volunteers that wish to do sure issues. At the start that makes me really feel unhappy and misplaced, however after some reflection time I begin feeling that at the very least now I’ve some small targets that may enhance our animals’ life, we must be affected person and work each step to make it occur.” – Romania
“I’ve learnt loads on this unit, I believe the choice device is one thing that may make it easier to in any tough resolution that you just make in your life, and it’ll make you’re feeling much less careworn and extra targeted in your targets. I actually assume it helps us to see the larger image and never really feel overwhelmed.” – Mexico
“Making choices all the time from the cat’s perspective, that is an train that needs to be performed continuously. Come out of ourselves and ask ourselves what would the cat do if he had been free to decide on? Sometimes it isn’t simple as a result of the reply doesn’t all the time coincide with what we really feel. Thinking like a cat that’s the problem :-)” – Romania
“We are excited to undertake the TLA into our centre as we really feel one in every of our important considerations is that some carers and volunteers assume every cat must have the identical degree of interplay and arrange it doesn’t matter what, whereas every cat is a person whose skill to manage varies and every must be handled as a person.” – UK
“I believe we needs to be proud that we’re prepared to study new issues from finishing this course and interesting and studying from one another. It might be emotionally draining justifying our choices on a regular basis however we should always all be proud we are attempting to enhance wherever we are able to for the advantage of cat welfare general.” – UK
“I believe that the course ‘Becoming a Cat Friendly Homing Centre’ is a singular useful resource. It’s a unprecedented ‘step-by-step’ information that teaches you how you can higher construction and organise your work and lets you enhance and study. I consider additionally it is helpful for structured organisations as a result of it permits you to assessment work processes from new angles and it helps to have constructive suggestions among the many employees of the affiliation. All actions happen in a really supportive atmosphere, the place you’re feeling supported in going through the challenges of our work! So, due to International Cat Care for creating this course and persevering with to unfold the Cat Friendly message world wide, now additionally for the unowned cats!” – Romania
Programme Features
Programme begins twenty second February (Access particulars and welcome week from fifteenth February)
Variety of on-line studying, actions, on-line dialogue and background studying
Activities observe a transparent schedule over a 20 week interval
Learning expertise tailor-made to you, primarily based on the targets you develop through the programme
Additional help and assets supplied by your coach the place wanted
Reflective journal workout routines to help your studying and monitor your progress
Further Info
Programme begins on twenty second February, with a welcome week the preceeding week to verify entry and be sure to are able to go.
Access particulars can be despatched out by way of e mail week starting fifteenth February.
The programme might be undertaken by a person or a staff of individuals, to incorporate administration or a employees member who can be overseeing the implementation of CFH they usually perform the actions required in a real-world setting with the cats of their care as the main focus.
The course has a transparent schedule with actions and studying launched week by week, together with deadlines and checklists to make sure you keep on monitor.
The programme runs for 20 weeks and we estimate you have to to allocate between 2 and eight hours per week. This will rely on the complexity of the targets you set your self through the programme. This might be divided up between staff members the place related.
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