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Future Goals
A. Fall 2007: To expand our foster home and volunteer network to serve Metro Atlanta and Athens, thus reducing our dependence on boarding facilities for long-term boarding for our animal clients.
 
B. Spring 2008: To expand the area Ahimsa House covers to include ALL of Georgia by working with community resources that will collaborate with us on our emergency boarding program.
 
C. Fall 2008: To have two community education and outreach programs in place in Metro Atlanta:

1. Program for Helping Professionals:  to increase understanding and knowledge of the connection between animal abuse and domestic violence. This program will be for social workers, law enforcement, animal control, judicial officials, school officials, and all other helping professionals who may come in contact with families throughout Metro Atlanta. This program will offer continuing education credits.
 
2. Anti-Violence and Compassion Program for children and at-risk youth, based upon obtaining a grant to hire someone to implement this program.

D. Spring 2009: To have an expanded foster home network that will be able to meet the needs of all referrals we receive throughout the state.
 
E. Summer 2009: To hire an executive director whose primary function will be to conduct training for the community, our volunteers, and foster homes, as well as manage the emergency boarding program and foster care throughout the state of Georgia.  This position will also assist with education throughout the country, and will represent Ahimsa House as a model community based, temporary shelter organization for the animal victims of domestic violence, thus facilitating a family’s safety as they choose to leave their violent situation.
 
F. Spring 2012: To open a Metro Atlanta based shelter for the animal victims of domestic violence.  This shelter will have on-site veterinary care, behavioral assessment, and will serve as a safe and confidential first stop for the animals we serve. We will hire a project coordinator, a live-in shelter manager, and a part-time assistant. From there, we will utilize the foster home network as appropriate to ensure socialization and a family-based temporary living situation for the animals we serve until they can be reunited with their human families.
 
G. Spring 2014: To provide transitional housing for families after they have left the emergency domestic violence shelters. This will give the survivors a way to keep themselves and their children together with their pets, since the majority of low-income housing does not allow them to keep their pets and thus there is an animal surrender rate between 50-56%. This program potentially would provide Ahimsa House with income to partially fund other programs and/or staff expenses.

 

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