Ground-Breaking Announcements For The Business of Saving Lives Conference

RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif., Jan. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Helen Woodward Animal Center announces its third International The Business of Saving Lives, sponsored by Blue Buffalo.  Headed by Center President and CEO Mike Arms, this three-day conference will be held at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel.  Speaker, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, renowned for instigating one of the most impressive and controversial programs in the world of animal welfare today, will join a distinctive list of speakers.  The conference includes hands-on, workshop-style sessions and cutting-edge ideas from some of the leading animal advocates in the country.  The Business of Saving Lives runs February 5th through 7th, 2015. 

The Business of Saving Lives offers brand new ways to look at animal welfare, marketing, social media, fundraising, humane education, and more, and explores how these concepts can breathe life into adoption programs that are outdated and killing millions of domestic animals annually. 

February's Conference topics will include more advanced, attendee-participation sessions, with take-home tools and materials to immediately implement conference-learned skills and techniques.  Also added is a very special Compassion Fatigue Track – a crucial and often overlooked topic in the animal welfare industry.  Unlike anything being offered today, the mental-health-focused track includes multiple sessions and an interactive panel to help attendees recognize and address compassion fatigue and prevent emotional burn-out.

Perhaps the most exciting addition to the upcoming conference is the list of speakers which includes Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona – head of the nation's third largest Sheriff's Office and named "America's Toughest Sheriff" by the media.  Arpaio has been profiled in over 3,500 national and foreign newspapers, magazines, and TV news programs.

Arpaio's controversial prisoner programs include the nation's largest Tent City for over 2,000 convicted inmates; his use of chain gangs (including the world's first-ever female and juvenile chain gangs); his requirement that all inmates wear pink under shorts and socks and are cuffed with pink handcuffs; and his get-tough policies including bans on smoking, coffee, movies, pornographic magazines, and unrestricted TV in all jails.

At February's Conference, Sheriff Joe Arpaio will share his innovative program that has animal advocates talking – housing abused animals within his Arizona jail, MASH Unit (MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAFE HAVEN), and teaching inmates awaiting trial, how to care for and groom these abused dogs and cats. The program was created to provide the inmates valuable skills and life lessons to use once on the "outside," helping them secure jobs and build confidence to reach higher potential and life fulfillment.

In addition to Sheriff Arpaio, the conference includes an extensive list of other high-profile, cutting-edge speakers, thinkers and activists in the animal welfare industry, including Diana Webster, President and Founder of the Native America Humane Society; Tamar Geller - best-selling author and founder of The Loved Dog™ method of dog training;  Steve Dale - syndicated newspaper columnist (Steve Dale's Pet World and The Pet Minute); and Mike Arms – credited with saving the lives of more animals than any other human being on the planet.

To become an agent of change for animal welfare, attend The Business of Saving Lives, February 5th through 7th, 2015 at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside in beautiful San Diego, California.  For more information or to register, visit www.animalcenter.org/BOSLConference or call 858-756-4117 x 350. 

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SOURCE Helen Woodward Animal Center