Feb 29, 2024

Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) and the American Purple Cross of Central & South Texas Area have partnered to assist pets and folks affected by pure disasters, fires, flooding, and different catastrophe reduction. The partnership will supply Constructive Options to Shelter Give up (PASS) program help to assist these in want when the Purple Cross is named to a scene and guarantee animals and their households don’t fall by the cracks when catastrophe strikes.

“We’re thrilled to ascertain a partnership with the American Purple Cross right here in Austin,” says Dr. Ellen Jefferson, President and CEO of Austin Pets Alive!. “Throughout occasions of disaster, help for pets is usually forgotten and never prioritized, however we’re grateful our native chapter cares deeply for our animals. We hope this partnership will give peace of thoughts and help to households after they want it essentially the most.”

Via the partnership, the PASS program will present Purple Cross Catastrophe Motion Crew members with the power to ask APA! for help with short-term pet housing, help for the price of medical payments, meals/provides, and different pet-related wants.

“This collaboration extends our help community for households, people and their pets throughout occasions of catastrophe,” says Anthony Triola, Catastrophe Program Supervisor for the American Purple Cross Central Texas Chapter. “As a lot of our group members are fellow pet house owners, we deeply resonate with the APA! mission and imaginative and prescient. Via this partnership, we intention to showcase the distinctive dedication and experience of each groups, making certain these we serve in disaster obtain compassion and care for everybody within the household.”

The American Purple Cross of Central & South Texas Area, headquartered in Austin, extends its providers to over 9.4 million people throughout Central & South Texas by its six chapter areas, by convening the neighborhood to arrange for, reply to, and recuperate from emergencies massive and small. The Central Texas chapter serves the communities in Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Milam, Travis, and Williamson counties. 

Austin Pets Alive’s PASS program helped with over 6,800 instances in Texas final yr. This system assists individuals with pet rehoming, medical help, pet pantry, pet reunification, misplaced/discovered pets, and low-cost pet assets to make sure pets keep out of the shelter system. The PASS Program Fb group at present helps 61,000 members in Texas. 

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