A new national coalition, Human Animal Support Services (HASS), is reimagining sheltering by promoting community involvement and providing a range of services to help people and pets stay together. Our ultimate goal is to reduce the number of animals that enter the shelter by refocusing efforts, resources, and support to offer community-based solutions. As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, LifeLine Animal Project and organizations across the country were embraced by communities who fostered pets, adopted, helped lost or found animals get back to their homes, and identified new resources to keep people and their pets together. This gave animal welfare organizations the opportunity to collaborate with our communities in new ways and has accelerated efforts to create a better model of animal services. |
Guiding Elements
We envision a new world of animal services, where most pets are housed in homes and communities, not in the shelter. In this reimagined system, the role of animal services is to keep pets with their families, get pets home quickly, and help pet owners who are struggling to meet their pets’ needs.
LifeLine's Committment to Community:
Since 2002, LifeLine has been invested in Atlanta's community health and programming.
Pets for Life addresses the critical lack of accessible and affordable animal welfare services, resources, and information for people and pets in under-served communities by offering FREE services, resources, and information. In the Pets for Life program focus area in Atlanta, 38% of people live below the poverty line with little or no access to pet care services.
LifeLine's Community Animal Center houses a full-service, affordable veterinary clinic open to the public. The clinic offers a wide range of pet services, from pet wellness appointments to lab services, digital x-rays, and surgery for owned pets. The LifeLine Spay & Neuter Clinics offer low-cost spay and neuter surgeries to help owned pets and community cats live a happy and healthy life and to reduce the number of at-risk pets in Atlanta.
“We are honored to be part of this collaboration of innovative shelters working toward an organizational model that has goals so closely aligned with our vision. I’m confident that this initiative will help pave the way for a new model of animal sheltering in the U.S.”
- Rebecca Guinn, CEO and Founder LifeLine Animal Project
Founded in 2002 and now managing DeKalb and Fulton County Animal Services, LifeLine Animal Project is the leading non-profit organization working to end the euthanasia of healthy and treatable dogs and cats in metro Atlanta shelters. Together, we will make Atlanta a no-kill community.
LifeLine Animal Project is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and all donations are tax-deductible.