Building and Facility

We have been hard at work on Tier 1 organization reviews of existing facilities related to the Elements of HASS and needs to be a community based shelter. We are also creating a new shelter design deliverable about the physical and social requirements for a successful project. Lastly, we are creating short but engaging blog posts on a range of topics for education in a community.

Developed a plan for 1st Q 2021. We broke into two subgroups. Subgroup 1 is using the brainstorming we did in 2020 to review Tier 1 Shelter Plans. Subgroup 2 is using the brainstorming we did in 2020 to write an outline of the layout for the ideal HASS shelter and the remodeled HASS shelter.

We are still working on Strategies and Success Measures. We have been working hard to simultaneously map the remainder of the user groups’ experiences with a new HASS shelter so we can understand the implications for physical facilities. We intend to start a blog, and are working on our first posts.

Building/Facility worked on Obstacles and have defined them. We are now continuing to work though the perspectives of different “users” to a HASS facility so we can analyze the facility needs from the needs of each group. This will help give us the framework for creation of a HASS facility.

The Building/Facilities Working Group has gathered photos and plans from many of the Tier 1 Shelters for analysis. This group has also been working on a dynamic brainstorm of the requirements for a prototype HASS physical shelter, using user experience mapping.

The Building/Facilities Working Group has been tackling our tasks with a three pronged approach:

• The “outreach” subgroup has developed a plan for interfacing with all the other working groups that are related to facilities and has delegated tasks for reaching out.
• The “survey/data” subgroup is working on 1) gathering data about how people are using their facilities differently and 2) gathering floor plans and photos of tier one shelters, for use in evaluation.
• The “brainstorm” subgroup is doing just that. Building the framework of a new animal shelter facility, based on the social model, and into which we can feed information learned from “outreach” and “survey/data” subgroups.