ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES OF CHS VOLUNTEERS
To serve as a volunteer safely and effectively at Capital Humane Society, individuals need to possess the following basic physical, mental, and emotional capabilities.
Essential Capabilities for all roles
- Must not have strong allergies to animals or to chemicals, such as those used in cleaning
- Ability to deal with strong and unpleasant odors and various temperatures
- Ability to cope with a very loud environment.
- No known concerns about tolerating exposure to zoonotic diseases such as ringworm
- Ability to understand, remember and follow instructions and procedures
- High level reading and communication skills (example: understand words such as ‘quarantine’)
- Possess problem-solving capability
- Ability to receive, incorporate and sustain instruction and feedback
- Ability to cope with a highly emotionally charged environment and in the presence of animals who are homeless, abandoned, injured and/or abused.
- Ability to understand Capital Humane Society’s policies and positions regarding companion animals, animal control, and other key animal welfare issues and an ability and willingness to appropriately and accurately represent those policies when interacting with the public or otherwise representing CHS
