Medical Volunteer Initiative: Engaging Citizens to Serve Pasco County Pets

About the Program

Category: Volunteers (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

Pasco County Animal Services (PCAS) proudly offers a twice a week low-cost vaccine clinic for citizens’ pets. In the summer of 2020, as the economic strains on our community grew, it became apparent this clinic was a vital resource for pet owners throughout Pasco and surrounding communities. Fueled by this increase in demand, our staff got creative. Our veterinary, customer service and administrative teams worked together to implement a medical volunteer program to support the clinic. These roles are essential to serving our community. Thanks to the Medical Volunteer Initiative, PCAS now offers three skills-based roles that solely serve our pet vaccination clinic: Veterinary Assistant, Vaccine Clinic Assistant, and Vaccine Clinic Data Entry. This has brought our total number of volunteer roles in the veterinary department to six. We also have Surgery Instrument Techs, Clinic Care Aides, and Surgery Recovery Monitors. Our medical department and pet vaccination clinic volunteers have contributed over 5,200 hours since 2020. More importantly, they have served over 3,500 pets.