Alison Fechino, SAWA, Operations Manager, Chesapeake Humane Society, has been volunteering and working in animal shelters since age thirteen. She graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in Animal and Poultry Sciences, and her interests include shelter quality improvement and food animal welfare. Alison currently lives in Chesapeake, VA with Addie and Colin (her two dogs), where she serves as the Operations Manager at Chesapeake Humane Society.
Anyone who has held a supervisory position is accustomed to completing annual employee evaluations. But is your team familiar with shelter assessments? While shelters make routine evaluations of their employees a priority, they often fail to perform structured evaluations of their building and operations.
