IMPROVING INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY HEALTH AND
SAFETY
Whole communities are healthier and safer when dog & cat populations have access to essential resources & services like accessible veterinary care.
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.
Indigenous children should not be a greater risk of being mauled, nor should dogs have to be culled, just because of where they live.
Human and animal wellness is our focus as our future is interconnected.
Increased ACCESS is dedicated to improving the lives of both animals & humans in Indigenous communities. Our current initiatives include working with communities to design unique programs and projects specific to their needs.
OUR INITIATIVES
Access to Vet Care
We connect Indigenous communities with veterinary services suited to rural & remote communities.
We source funds for Indigenous communities to improve their access to vet services while also working with the community's administration to design on-going funding plans for these essential services.
Animal Care & Controls
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.
When combined with ongoing access to vet services, these rules unique to each community can be an effective tool.
Empathy For All
"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.
We develop & distribute different empathy-developing resources such as interactive projects, books and interactive exercises.
