Career Development

Click here to learn about NHES’s April 2008 conference, “Violence Prevention & Intervention: How to Help Animals and Children”

Association for Childhood Education International, www.acei.org

• Information about child development and learning for ages infant – adolescent

Association of Professional Humane Educators, www.aphe.org

• Provides guidance and other professional development support

Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (HEART), www.teachhumane.org

• Provides guidance and other professional development support

Institute for Humane Education (IHE), www.humaneeducation.org

• Offers training and a masters degree program in humane education

Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, www.psyeta.org/

• Organization dedicated to researching and educating on the link between animal cruelty and human violence

Education News, Materials & Other Resources

Click here for NHES’s Guide To Humane Living & Learning and other educational materials

Animalearn, www.animalearn.org

• Alternatives to dissection and many other humane biology/science lessons

American Humane Association,  www.americanhumane.org

• Companion animal lesson plans for all ages

Animals Voice, www.animalsvoice.com

• "The Animals Voice is an award-winning, independent, networking source of timely information, news, campaigns, boycotts, action alerts, and thought-provoking editorial and compelling photography about animal rights and its defenders.”

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, www.bestfriends.org

• Companion animal lesson plans for all ages

Can We Help You Keep Your Pet?, www.wonderpuppy.net/canwehelp

• Information on moving, travel, housetraining, crate training, barking, kids and pets, grooming, getting along with other pets and health problems.

Dogs, Cats, & Kids, www.dogscatskids.com

• Website featuring the multi-award-winning films, Dogs, Cats & Kids and Dogs, Cats & BIG Kids

Farm Sanctuary Kidz Club, www.farmsanctuarykidzclub.com

• The welfare of factory farm animals presented with age-appropriate sensitivity and fun for elementary and middle school students

How to Love Your Dog…A Kid’s Guide to Dog Care, www.loveyourdog.com

• Comprehensive and fun offering of educational games and activities

Kids for Saving Earth, http://www.kidsforsavingearth.org/index_low.html

• A vast array of wildlife and environmental activities/lessons

KIND News, www.kindnews.org

• A vast array of activities/lessons for animal welfare issues

Sylvan Dell Publishing, www.SylvanDellPublishing.com

• Excellent children's books about many important topics to include animal welfare concerns