HSUS offers shelter evaluations for more compact budgets

The former Animal Services Consultation program (ASC) of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has changed its name and widened its array of services for shelters.

ASC was developed to provide animal shelters with standardized evaluations of their programs, recommend improvements, and guide them in implementing the recommendations. That’s stayed the same. But the program has a new name: Shelter Services.

Other changes have taken place, too. For many years, ASC offered one level of service—a top-to-bottom evaluation of all aspects of a shelter’s operation. Since the program began in 1998, it has evaluated and helped nearly 60 shelters.

But due to the in-depth nature of these comprehensive evaluations, the team was only able to conduct four to six per year.

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