Kelly Wass
Just a grateful girl 👩🦳 supporting others with the help of a few furry friends!🐕🐶PAWS Facility Dogs, Visiting PAWS Dogs, and Social Support Dogs for Veterans
- Role
- Intrim Director of Animal Assisted Services at Paws With A Cause
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kelly Wass
Kelly has a broad professional experience including leadership roles, volunteer coordination, operations management and behavior change coaching. Since joining PAWS, she has used this experience to expand the PAWS Facility Dog and Visiting PAWS Dog programs and bring client centered support and service to these programs. She is enthusiastic about bringing Animal Assisted Services into the PAWS portfolio of programs and is working without end with other community partners in addition to serving additional vulnerable populations such as veterans and trauma survivors. When Kelly isn’t at PAWS, you will find her spending time with her family or hiking somewhere with her two dogs, KOKO and Yuka.
Experience
Intrim Director of Animal Assisted Services
Feb 2023 — Present · Wayland, MI, US
Paws With A Cause exists to create opportunities to live with dignity, companionship, and confidence. We do our best work by embodying our core values: adaptability, dedication, innovation, and optimism.PAWS enhances the independence and quality of life for people with disabilities through custom-trained Assistance Dogs.In this position I am responsible for building and implementing the PAWS Facility Dog and Visiting PAWS Programs, creating continuing education opportunities and creating and implementing the Animal Assisted Services volunteer needs and growth. This also includes a grant funded opportunity for canine placement in a facility to research program evaluation and growth development.
Education
Oola Life Coach
Life Coach Certification
2019 — 2019
ACE (American Council on Exercise)
Certification, Personal Training
2013 — 2013
ACE (American Council on Exercise)
Certification, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies, General
2014 — 2015
Skills
- Non-Profits
- Administrative Assistants
- Nutrition
- Social Networking
- Social Media Marketing
- Budgets
- Community Outreach
- Leadership
- Fundraising
- Board Relations
- Customer Service
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (Cpr)
- Marketing Communications
- Volunteer Management
- Nonprofits
- Fitness Training
- Mindset Coaching
- Coaching
- Team Building
- Program Development
- Management
- Event Management
- Wellness
- Fitness
- Strategic Planning
- First Aid
- Volunteer Recruiting
- Social Media
- Marketing
- Event Planning
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