
A Family Pet Should not be Collateral Damage
By Thaddeus Johnson and Natasha Johnson Photo from Vanessa Marseille
97% of Animal Welfare holds an implicit bias against individuals from low socioeconomic status, and over 65% hold implicit bias toward Latin X and African Americans.
The work we do at CARE, Human and Animal Well-Being, addresses the bias within Animal Welfare in service to the field and marginalized people and their pets.
HUMAN AND ANIMAL WELL-BEING [HAW] is a unique, three stage, method of community support and advocacy that centers the well-being of people, in contrast to Animal Welfare’s traditional animal only focus. Few organizations work in the same way as CARE. As illustrated below, we start with building trust with community members before attempting to implement programming.
The communities we support need your help more than ever. Please give what you can now, we need you.
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“When you’re rescuing in our community, … you are rescuing people at the same time.” - Beunca
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Maurice created a Public Relations Company called Authentic Minds to work with youth based nonprofits to help solve diff community issues and build bridges for people.
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From the Board ...
It’s troublesome coming out seeing cats in the street starving, and people wanted to fix them and can’t…
I’ve always been, be about it and don’t talk about it person.
Everything time I leave with something new... I need that, I needed everything they said. I didn’t even realize my bias.
I’m going to go home a change a lot of things. Already, I’m going home, and already know what I’m going to work on.
This is why I love coming. I’m trying to be better at everything I do.
I’m going back, more of a soldier, more with my head right.
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After meeting hundreds of young people and getting to know the adults in the community, we know why our work is so important, challenging, fragile, and beautiful.
Greater Animal Welfare ignores these communities outside of policing them. And People of Color are so few in the field, Black and Brown communities have never seen anything like us before, and new so often equals dangerous.
To make significant and lasting change in our communities, we’re going to need patience, open minds, a willingness to listen and cater to individual community member needs.
Thank you to @hitouchinc for the most amazing @juneteenthphila event and for bringing that weather!
And thank you to PetSmart Veterinary Services, Kim, Dr. Hodges and VJ!
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– Coretta Scott King

By Thaddeus Johnson and Natasha Johnson Photo from Vanessa Marseille

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