What are Shelter Statistics?
One of the wonderful things we do at JVR Shelter Strategies, is help shelters understand their populations and make informed operations decisions based on numbers. Data is the driving force that allows us to develop tools to assist shelters in creating policies that increase the numbers of animal lives saved.
How do we use data to help shelters?
We can pull data from any program that a shelter uses for collection, whether it be PetPoint, Chameleon, or Shelter Buddy. Using high-end statistical and programming abilities, we can analyze this data for anything that a shelter may need to make flow-through decisions.
- Strategic planning and organizational development
- Population planning including statistical analysis
- Design of new facilities
- Veterinary services
- Scaling community programs
- Distilling access-to-care considerations
- Intake processing and flow-thru planning
- Existing facility and housing review
- Infectious disease outbreak management & preventive strategies
- Sanitation protocols
- Euthanasia process
- Designing community cat programs
- Community outreach to increase volunteer and foster engagement
- Building programs that interface with other community agencies
- Increasing engagement with diverse populations
Statistics Commonly Requested:
- Length-of-Stay (LOS) data to outcome which can be categorized by specific populations, species, age, & breeds
- Staffing calculations for intake, cleaning, surgery, behavior evaluations, or any other flow-thru point; divided by species, breeds, ages, or locations
- In-shelter and foster daily animal counts
- Intake and outcome statistics, divided by species, breeds, ages, or locations
- Surgery-related data including staffing required for surgery
- Space calculations including adoption driven capacity, transfer drive capacity, and holding capacity that can be divided by species, age, breeds, or any other subcategory
- Save rates, live release rates, and live release probabilities
