Let's End 149-Yrs of Community Safety Inequality
Rural or urban, communities are safer when dog & cat populations have access to essential resources & services like accessible veterinary care.
Tragically, community safety inequality is a thing across Canada, and it has been for the last 149 years.
We're taking on the Big Dogs and Fat Cats. Join Increased ACCESS (Animal Care & Community Empowered Safety Society), an Indigenous-led team networking Indigenous communities to disrupt a longstanding, inequitable status quo that has left the delivery of essential community safety services up to unsuccessful volunteerism and philanthropy.
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Indigenous children should not be a greater risk of being mauled, nor should dogs have to be culled because of where they live.
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Human and animal wellness is our focus as our future is interconnected.
Increased ACCESS is uniquely dedicated to improving the lives of both animals & humans in rural, remote & Indigenous communities. Our current initiatives include working with communities to design innovative programs specific to their needs, getting more Indigenous perspectives to critical decision-making tables, and tackling outdated colonial systems head on.
OUR INITIATIVES
Access to Vet Care
​We connect families and Indigenous communities with accessible veterinary services suited to rural & remote communities.
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We work with Indigenous communities on facilitating funding for them to improve their access to vet services while also working with their administration to design on-going funding plans for these essential services.
Animal Mgmt Plans
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Some of the animal service providers that we work with have experience developing and enforcing animal care & control bylaws (& Acts and Regs in Modern Treaty governance systems) designed specifically for use in Indigenous communities.
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When combined with ongoing access to vet services, these rules unique to each community can be an effective tool.
Empathy For All
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"There is enough empathy in the world" said no one, ever. Having a sense of what life is like for another, whether they are human, a dog, cat or bird, is integral to improving the health and safety of our communities. Fortunately, compassionate empathy can be measurably increased and often it starts with building empathy for animals while in school.
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We develop & distribute different empathy-developing resources such as interactive projects, books, etc.
