EVENTS
Join the Co-Sheltering Collaborative, a national community of homeless service providers and government organizations actively implementing co-sheltering. Explore innovative programs addressing integrated human and animal sheltering needs at our upcoming May meeting!
Join the Co-Sheltering Collaborative, a national community of homeless service providers and government organizations actively implementing co-sheltering. Explore innovative programs addressing integrated human and animal sheltering needs at our upcoming August meeting!
Join the Co-Sheltering Collaborative, a national community of homeless service providers and government organizations actively implementing co-sheltering. Explore innovative programs addressing integrated human and animal sheltering needs at our upcoming November meeting!
Join us for My Dog Is My Home's Co-Sheltering Conference 2024: Together We Thrive. This year's conference aims to create a virtual space where advocates, providers, policy makers, and people with lived experience can work hand in hand to redefine the landscape of care and transform pathways to housing for people and animals together.
Join the Co-Sheltering Collaborative, a national community of homeless service providers and government organizations actively implementing co-sheltering. Explore innovative programs addressing integrated human and animal sheltering needs at this upcoming February meeting!
Our 10-Year Anniversary Celebration is coming to My Dog Is My Home’s birthplace - Los Angeles - to commemorate our founding and revive the original exhibition that started it all.
Join us for an in-person Open House at LA Family Housing’s pet-inclusive interim housing facility on Thursday, February 15 from 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM. With the goal of building a regional network of providers that can support each other through the various phases of co-sheltering people and animals together, attendees of this Open House will have the opportunity to tour the facility, hear about pet policies and procedures, and listen to the stories of people with lived experience of homelessness with a companion animals.
Join the Unitarian Universalist Animal Ministry, Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice, and Reverend Daniel Lawlor from Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley for a presentation and Q&A with guest speakers of the national nonprofit My Dog Is My Home about the intersecting issues of homelessness and animal welfare. Hear about how people who have already survived the trauma of losing their homes must also then decide between accessing services and giving up their beloved companion animal or forgoing services to stay with their furry family members.
My Dog Is My Home is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its founding, featuring its beginning as an exhibition that drew upon the personal stories of human-animal families experiencing homelessness. This multi-location event will kick off with a Thanksgiving opening show in New York City.
We are now taking registrations for our Open House NYC. Attendees will have the opportunity to tour a pet-inclusive domestic violence shelter, hear about the policies and procedures, and listen to survivors share their stories, all with the goal of building a regional network of providers that can support each other through the various phases of co-sheltering people and animal together.
Join us on August 4, 2023 for the next Open House, co-hosted by Found House Interfaith Housing Network. (Found House IHN), from 1 PM to 4:30 PM.
Learn about how Found House IHN has grown from operating emergency shelter for families, creating a Pet Support Program to offer services to pet owners across the area, to building its first pet-inclusive supportive housing program.
Join us for the Co-Sheltering Collaborative’s Q2 Meeting. During this quarter’s meeting, learn from leading experts at The KONG Company about the importance of enrichment for dogs and how play can reduce boredom and problematic behaviors in a congregate human shelter environment. By the end of the meeting, emergency shelter staff will have practical tips, tricks, and recommendations for tools/toys to enhance the safety of co-sheltering environments through dog play.
Office Hours give you an opportunity to ask questions and troubleshoot issues with an expert on a specific topic. Any dog training or behavior question may be brought to this office hours session, and the intention is to help you workshop your concerns as they relate to policies, procedures, and practices at your own emergency shelter or housing sites.
Join us on April 21, 2023 for the next Co-Sheltering Collaborative open house, co-hosted by PATH (People Assisting the Homeless), from 1 PM to 4:30 PM.
Join us to see how LA County’s first formally sanctioned companion animal program within an interim housing facility has evolved over fifteen years of operation. Attendees will have the opportunity to tour a pet-inclusive shelter, learn about their policies and procedures, hear from a PATH resident, and meet like-minded advocates.
Changing Systems. Changing Lives. Creating a world with equitable access to homes for people and their animals.
A unique virtual conference focused on how co-sheltering people and animals together fits into the wider struggle for a more just society.
JOIN US for our second Open House in NYC!
This open house is made possible by the generous support of Lil BUB’s Big Fund, PetSmart Charities, and Maddie’s Fund, #ThanksToMaddie.
Our open houses are made possible by the generous support of PetSmart Charities and Maddie’s Fund, #ThanksToMaddie
Keeping human-animal families together is part of a wider struggle for a more just society. Learn more and register at human-animal-families.eventbrite.com.
A unique conference focused on how co-sheltering people and animals together fits into the wider struggle for a more just society.
Join My Dog Is My Home for a virtual screening of the award winning documentary STRAY. The screening is available starting March 6, 2021 and ends on April 11, 2021.
50% of proceeds benefit My Dog Is My Home.
About STRAY: In STRAY, a trio of canine outcasts roam the streets of Istanbul. Through their eyes and ears, we are shown an intimate portrait of the life of a city and its people.
Learn. Collaborate. Impact.
A first-of-its-kind conference focused on equity + access within social services for people and animals experiencing homelessness.
Having a pet can be a great comfort if you are on the street. In many cases, it’s also a barrier to getting off the street. Our furry friends can also be cited as reason for an eviction. Fortunately, there are a bunch of people and organizations working to address these concerns.
NYC Street Clinic for families experiencing homelessness with pets.
For more information on services or how to volunteer please visit www.mydogismyhome.org/streetclinic
For homeless shelters, animal welfare organizations and government officials looking to better accommodate people and pets together in circumstances of homelessness.
During the Open House, you will get context on what the Collaborative does, what active membership entails, and the benefits of membership. Open House participants are welcome to stay for the regular Collaborative meeting immediately following, allowing for participation in dialogue with collaborative members as they share ideas and expertise, exchange resources, and discuss the group’s progress.
Open House: 12 - 12:30pm PT / 3 - 3:30pm ET
Regular Meeting: 12:30 - 2pm PT / 3:30 - 5pm ET
To register for this free event please email collaborative@mydogismyhome.org
Currently there are no New York City homeless shelters offering accommodations for people experiencing homelessness with animals. In attempt to build the capacity of our local shelters, My Dog is My Home is hosting a spring fundraiser, Auction for Access, on Friday, April 27th, 2018 in Bushwick, NY. Our event will be a doggie-friendly auction filled with drinks, snacks and activities for both dogs and their humans.
Every year, My Dog is My Home team members participate in the NYC HOPE Count and Shadow Count. Join us this year!
My Dog is My Home is thrilled to be the nonprofit partner for this month's Vegan Drinks Brooklyn at Reclamation Bar. Enjoy a cocktail and come meet us in person!
The Tofurky Company & My Dog is My Home invite you (and your dogs!) to join us for a Tofurky Trot 5k in NYC on November 19th, 2017.
