Please join us for this month's Final Friday's
webinar, "Developing Services for Domestic Violence Victims with Pets: Increasing Victim Safety and Offender
Accountability." Dr. Maya Gupta, Director of Ahimsa House in Atlanta, Georgia,
will be presenting on the link between domestic violence and animal cruelty,
how pets are often used by abusers in the cycle of domestic abuse, and the
importance for developing services for domestic violence victims with pets. Dr.
Gupta will also present on the work of Ahimsa House as a model and resources
for these services. Ahimsa
House provides emergency pet safehousing, veterinary care, pet-related safety
planning, legal advocacy, a 24-hour crisis line, outreach programs, and other
services to help the human and animal victims of domestic violence across
Georgia reach safety together. We encourage all prosecutors, law enforcement,
animal control and allied partners to attend this one-hour webinar training Friday, April 27th at 3 p.m. EDT. To register please click
here.