conference on humane education - april 29-30, 2011 green chimneys • brewster, new york and American Humane Association Hosted by: of PositiveChange Becoming Agents Communities: Humane Building Green Chimneys WITHIN THE CONFERENCE, BUILDING HUMANE COMMUNITIES: BECOMING AGENTS OF POSITIVE CHANGE WE WILL:
• Explore how we may need to “reboot” our very concept of community.
• Create a vision of humane communities that includes a diversity of people, animals and plants.
• Promote “safety for all” through intentional models of working with communities in a WHO SHOULD supportive fashion. ATTEND? • Question some of our most firmly held ideas about humane education, community This is an unprecedented outreach and how to guide others toward continuing education behavior change on the community level. opportunity for: • Discover how members of different HUMANE EDUCATORS communities may think and feel differently about the same issues. MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS • Propose active steps humane educators can with an interest in the take to maintain an enthusiastic and positive human-animal bond outlook despite often daunting obstacles toward creating humane communities. OUTDOOR EDUCATORS hile focusing on the role all of us play in RECREATIONAL Wcreating humane communities, we will invite THERAPISTS the Green Chimneys animals to serve as our “co-faculty” during hands-on sessions that illustrate how TEACHERS animals also have a place in shaping the world in which they live. CHILD AND ANIMAL WELFARE The 2011 humane education conference sessions will PROFESSIONALS highlight approaches that support the building of humane communities. The 2-day program will include ANYONE SEEKING TO lectures by internationally known leaders in education, INSTILL KINDNESS psychology, veterinary medicine, humane education and AND APPRECIATION human-animal interactions. FOR CHILDREN, ANIMALS AND PLANTS We’ll also have interactive group discussions and hands- IN COMMUNITIES on learning opportunities with animals on the Green THEY SERVE Chimneys Farm, which offers conference attendees a profound and innovative learning setting. ll people and animals live in communities. AYet, how we define community and how supportive communities are varies from place to place. A teacher working in a school... an ant living in an ant hill... a stray dog... a child growing up in suburbia... an adult with autism. All experience community differently.
Communities can form in a numbers of ways, in families, neighborhoods, schools, workplaces and religious groups. You may be a part of multiple communities at one time. SAMPLE SESSION TITLES How a community supports and is sensitive to the AND PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: needs of diverse people, animals and nature can be the turning point. It is this goal of bringing about A New Vision to Creating positive change in a changing world that most Communities for People, Animals humane educators set for themselves. and the Environment
Among the broadest and most overarching goals of Ethical Considerations for the humane education are the promotion of empathy Therapeutic Incorporation of and the prevention of violence in communities. Animals into Programs
We hold many beliefs about how these goals are Humane Education in the best met. War, poverty, child maltreatment, cruelty Netherlands: A European Perspective to animals, destruction of the natural environment; all erode the quality of life for communities large Community Through the Ages: and small across the world. The challenges seem A Monastic Perspective daunting. Creating Sanctuary for All: The goal of our conference is to improve the long- The Green Chimneys Model term prospects for people, animals and plants at many levels. We are especially interested in exam- Convincing Society that Our ining how the concept of a humane community, Bonds with Animals Matter that is inclusive of the well being of animals in a central fashion, can be instilled in children, youth What Horses and Dogs Can and adults through development of humane educa- Teach Us About Community tion outreach. Key topics will focus on how to support the development of humane communities, Green Chimneys Campus to recognize that in order to impact communities and Program Tour positively, we all can become individual agents of positive change. The powerful experience of working directly with animals and plants in the Roundtable Discussions, Panels and Valuable Time for Personal Exchange natural settings of Green Chimneys will aim to with Speakers and Colleagues strengthen the resolve of conference participants toward this lofty vision. speaker biographies
ALAN BECK received his MARK GOLDSTEIN, Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) DVM, CAWA, is the degree in Animal Ecology president of the San Diego from The Johns Hopkins Humane Society and SPCA. His leadership of the 130- University School of Public year-old private, non-profit Health. He has studied the agency to reduce the ecological & public health implications of dogs unnecessary euthanasia of healthy and treat- and the health benefits of animal contact. able animals has set new standards for animal Together with Aaron Katcher, M.D., he edited welfare agencies nationwide. Dr. Mark was a the book New Perspectives on Our Lives senior staff veterinarian at the MSPCA’s Angell with Companion Animals, and co-authored Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston, an the book, Between Pets and People: the Associate Professor at Tufts University, Executive Importance of Animal Companionship. He Director of the Boston Metropolitan Zoos and has written numerous articles and is a the Los Angeles Zoo and Vice President of the founding board member of the Delta Society. San Francisco SPCA. He has been published in Dr. Beck is now the “Dorothy N. McAllister the area of animal welfare and has served on many state and national boards including the Professor of Animal Ecology” & Director of the Akaloa Foundation, the American Humane Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue Association and the Society of Animal Welfare University, School of Veterinary Medicine. Administrators.
MOTHER HILDEGARD JANE GRECO-DEMING is the Director of GEORGE OSB has a Ph.D. Humane Education at Amer- in child and adolescent ican Humane (AHA). She psychology and a back- attended Johnson & Wales ground in domestic/farm University School of Business and was certified in zoo animal behavior & botany. management by the Ameri- She is one of the pioneers in can Zoo and Aquarium Asso- the field of animal-assisted ciation (AZA). She served as a therapy with children. She has worked at Green long time zoo educator/manager and Director Chimneys in Brewster, NY, where she helped of Education at Providence Animal Rescue establish the Animal-Assisted Intervention League. At AHA, Jane is responsible for the Program. Her work has been published in many American Humane KIDS Dog Bite Prevention journals and publications. At present, she project, Pet Meets Baby, Connecting with Cats lectures across North America in fields relating and a myriad of on-line materials and to animals and children as well as lectures in the programs. She serves on the Humane Literacy School of Veterinary Medicine at Washington Coalition, the Board of the Association of State University. She is also a WSU Master Professional Humane Educators and the Board of Southwick’s Zoo’s Earth LTD. She spent 30 Livestock Advisor. Mother Hildegard is years as a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and was shepherdess and llama herder at Our Lady of the director of the Rhode Island Disaster the Rock, Show Island, WA. Animal Response Team for more than six years. KATENNA JONES, University, the State of Florida’s environmental ScM, Associate CAAB, university. He teaches courses in the FGCU CABC, CPDT-KA has been Humane Animal Research Collaborative, an a Humane Educator and interdisciplinary group of scholars working to Animal Behaviorist for promote humane uses of animals in academic American Humane since research. This group is most interested in how 2007. She holds a universities can incorporate new uses of Bachelor’s degree in animals in research, uses that promote a caring biology and earned her Master’s degree in and humane attitude toward animals while also Experimental Psychology from Brown University fostering the academic goal of producing where she studied animal behavior, learning useful knowledge. Dr. Kelly works closely with and cognition. Her thesis work examined many community agencies, including AHA, communication and recognition among shelter Gulf Coast Humane Society, Lee County Animal dogs. She is an Associate Certified Applied Services & The Animal Welfare Refuge Center. Animal Behaviorist, a Certified Animal Behavior Consultant, and Certified Pet Dog Trainer. MIYAKO KINOSHITA is Katenna also has experience in all aspects of Farm Education Program animal sheltering and is experienced at Manager at Green Chimneys. working with owners and their dogs to address She is a NARHA Certified serious behavior problems, including anxiety, Advanced Level Therapeutic aggression and phobias. Riding Instructor and grad student in Education. Miyako MICHAEL KAUFMANN specializes in prevention, early detection, and is Green Chimneys’ Farm and intervention of emotional and behavioral crisis Wildlife Director. He has in an animal-assisted activity setting, and has served the American Society held many workshops and lectures within the for the Prevention of Cruelty U.S. and in Japan. She was a past committee to Animals (ASPCA) and the member for the Equine Facilitated Mental American Humane Associa- Health Association (EFMHA) and is the group’s tion (AHA) as a key program director in animal- current president. Having led Green Chimneys assisted activities & therapy, humane education Equine programs for many years, she now and animal welfare. He has contributed to focuses her work on integration of the farm defining publications in the field and has served programs into the educational, clinical and on numerous national boards and committees. residential programs. She also supervises Green He has lectured internationally on humane Chimneys’ international farm intern program. education, animal-assisted activities and how the link between child abuse and animal DUNCAN LESTER is the cruelty offers opportunity for collaboration Associate Executive Director between various helping professions. of Operations at Green Chim- neys. He holds an Ed.D. in SEAN KELLY, Ph.D. Education Administration and is an Associate Profes- has worked on school reform sor of Philosophy and with several NY State Special Literature and Director Education private schools for the purpose of of the Honors Program enhancing academic achievement. He has been part of initiatives and committees on at Florida Gulf Coast mentoring, professional development, and the serves on the Board of Directors of the evaluation of effective teaching, programs and International Society for Anthrozoology, the technology to design and evaluate state stan- Association for Veterinary Family Practice and dards and lesson plans. Currently, Dr. Lester is the Animal Related Careers Consortium. an American Camp Association - New York section board member and is involved with SAMUEL B. ROSS JR., Camp America’s Advisory Board. Ph.D. is the founder of Green Chimneys, a non-profit organi- MAUREEN MacNAMARA, MSW, CEIP has zation that restores possibilities incorporated animals into her clinical work with and creates futures for children at-risk youth, adults with with emotional, behavioral, developmental disabilities, social and learning challenges. Under Dr. Ross’s trauma survivors, and in leadership, Green Chimneys received interna- leadership development and tional recognition and acclaim for utilization of organizational management animal-assisted activities and therapy, eques- seminars. Widely respected trian therapy and horticultural therapy. He also in the field of animal-assisted spearheaded other innovative programs for interactions, MacNamara is children and adults. He served on the board past Vice President of of Paul Newman’s The Hole in the Wall Gang Programs for the Delta Camp, is an advisor to The Double H-Hole in Society and created its the Woods Ranch in New York and helped start internationally recognized The Jordan River Village, a year-round camp in Pet Partners Program. She’s Israel. a founding member of the Equine Facilitated Mental Health Association (EFMHA) and a MARIE-JOSE ENDERS member of the Certification Board for Equine SLEGERS, Ph.D., obtained Interaction Professionals. Maureen is currently her Doctoral Diploma in a doctoral candidate at the University of Denver Psychology at the University and a fellow of the Institute for Human-Animal of Utrecht; a Doctorate in Connection. Psychology and a Diploma as Health Care MARIE SUTHERS Psychologist. Her research is focused on the meaning of human-animal interactions for McCABE, DVM is Vice vulnerable people (e.g. - elderly with dementia, President of Humane traumatized children, mentally handicapped Education and Veterinary people, children with psycho/social disorders Outreach for American and psychiatric patients) and on the link Humane. Previously, she between domestic violence and animal abuse. served as Director of Dr. Slegers is a board member of the Interna- Community Education for tional Society for Anthrozoology. She is Heifer International and at the Virginia- chairman of the Task Force on Domestic Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Violence and Animal Abuse and Vice President Medicine Center for Animal-Human Relation- of the International Association of Human ships (CENTAUR). She was a practicing veteri- Animal Interactions Organizations (IAHAIO). narian prior to serving as Director of the She has served on the Board of American Veterinary Technology Program at Columbus Humane, was the President of the Dutch State Community College in Ohio. Dr. McCabe Society for the Protection of Animals and is the is former president of the American Association founder of the Regional Animal Shelter in of Human-Animal Bond Veterinarians and de Bommelerwaard, Netherlands. CONFERENCE INFORMATION COST: The cost of the 2011 HUMANE EDUCATION CONFERENCE is $300 per person, which includes Founded in 1877, the American Humane 6 meals. Early bird registration is $250 if payment is Association is the only national organization received in full by January 14, 2011. dedicated to protecting both children and animals. A nonprofit membership organization, LOCATION: Green Chimneys (400 Doansburg Rd., American Humane is headquartered in Denver. Brewster, NY) is located in the foothills of the Taconic Mountains, minutes from the Connecticut border and Through a network of child & animal protection 35 miles north of White Plains, NY. For conference agencies and individuals, American Humane participants arriving by plane, White Plains Airport provides national leadership in developing (HPN) is approximately 30 minutes away. Other policies, legislation, curricula and training accessible airports are Bradley International (BDL) in programs -- and taking actions -- to protect Hartford, LaGuardia (LGA), JFK and Newark (EWR). The children and animals from cruelty, abuse, closest train station is Southeast, which is on the neglect and exploitation. Harlem line of Metro North. The train originates at Grand Central Station in NYC. For those driving, Green Hundreds of child welfare and child protective Chimneys is close to major highways. services agencies & professionals are members of American Humane. In addition, hundreds of ACCOMMODATIONS: Comfort Suites Hotel local humane societies, SPCAs and animal on Mill Plain Road in Danbury, CT, is offering a special control agencies across the country are conference rate of $99 per night (plus tax), per room, member organizations of American Humane. with complimentary breakfast included. For room As members, those individuals and organiza- reservations, call (203) 205-0800 and ask for the Green tions benefit from the national leadership, Chimneys conference rate, which is available for expertise, resources, information exchange, booking until April 1, 2011. trainings and programs that American Humane provides. GROUND TRANSPORTATION: Connecticut Limousine - (203) 878-2222 founded in 1947 CT Limo www.ctlimo.com provides shuttle service from area airports. Reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance. The CT Limo drop-off site is at the Maron Hotel, a distance away from the Comfort Suites Conference Hotel. Upon prior notification, the Comfort Suites Hotel can provide transport to and from green chimneys the CT Limo drop off site. restoring possibilities & creating futures On Friday and Saturday, (AM and PM), Green Chimneys Founded in 1947, Green Chimneys restores will provide transportation to and from the Comfort possibilities and creates futures for children with Suites Hotel to the Green Chimneys conference site on emotional, behavioral, social and learning a set schedule that will be sent to participants upon challenges. Headquartered in Brewster, NY, it is conference registration. world renowned for its animal-assisted therapy and nature-based activities programs. Green Via Car: For driving directions to Green Chimneys, Chimneys also operates a residental treatment visit www.greenchimneys.org. center, an accredited special education school, a farm & wildlife rehabilitation center, an LOGISTICS/REGISTRATION/HOSPITALITY: organic farm & children’s garden, horticulture Mary Smith therapy and therapeutic riding programs, a Administrative Assistant/Conference Registrar runaway shelter and a community outreach (845) 279-2995, ext. 383 center, Nature’s Nursery and Hillside Summer [email protected] Camp, Clearpool Education Center, LGBTQ programs in NYC, programs and special events CONFERENCE PROGRAM/CONTENT: for the public and a variety of other programs. Michael E. Kaufmann Each year, Green Chimneys serves thousand of Farm and Wildlife Director children and their families. For information, visit (845) 279-2995, ext. 170 www.greenchimneys.org. [email protected]
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