This webcast originally took place on: Thursday, July 9, 2009 and is now presented in archived format Program Goal Misha Goodman, director of Iowa City Animal Services, will discuss the steps emergency responders and concerned citizens can take to care for pets during a disaster. Learning Objectives * Learn what pet supplies are essential. * Understand techniques to reduce the stress on pets during an evacuation or the aftermath of a disaster. * Learn what resources are available, such as special animal response teams, to support pets in a disaster. * Discuss lessons learned, such as the Cedar Rapids Pet Shelter or other large-scale animal-specific responses during the 2008 Iowa floods. Speaker Misha Goodman is the director for the Iowa City Animal Services and Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center. She has been in working in animal services as an animal control officer and shelter director for 26 years. She has worked many disasters including fires, floods, earthquakes, and large-scale impoundment situations in California and Iowa. She serves as president of the National Animal Control Association, is a representative serving on the National Animal Rescue and Sheltering Coalition, sits on Johnson County’s Pandemic Flu Steering Committee, and is the Johnson County contact for animal disaster and emergency sheltering operations. Misha directed the emergency sheltering operations during the 2008 Iowa floods and has made presentations with regard to the flooding on both the national and federal levels.