Humane Education

Furry Friends Humane Education Program

Our Humane Education Program is an outreach effort designed to provide resources for the community in the form of School and Community Programs, Special Events, and a Virtual Classroom.Each year, Florida is one of the states with the highest instances of animal cruelty in the country. Furry Friends believes that educating our youth will help tackle the systematic challenges facing the animals, people, and communities in our region and break the cycle of animal abuse by providing a curriculum that fosters empathy and compassion for animals.

Our Virtual Classroom

The Furry Friends Humane Education Program provides virtual classrooms with intensive resources, tasks, games, activities, assignments, and interactions while fostering the 3C’s: curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking. All lesson plans are in alignment with National Education and Common Core Standards in science, math, language arts, health and social studies. All activities focus on character education concepts such as compassion, responsibility and empathy. Despite the classroom being virtual, several activities call for service-learning projects aimed at helping animals and encouraging self-efficacy and good citizenship.

The virtual classroom always gives participating students the opportunity to fulfill community service hours. Students of the School District of Palm Beach County are required to obtain a minimum of 20 community service hours to graduate from high school. Community service is also a requirement for many scholarships and college entrance programs. Students can complete these hours by completing our virtual assignments! Students will learn new skills while satisfying scholarship eligibility requirements or enhancing their resume.

Community Events

Learn and Discover More with our Humane Education workshops, lectures, and talks. Hosted in person and streamed virtually, listen to experts in their field teach about different subject matters. Check out our events page for upcoming talks!

Online Series

Click here to access our Humane Education Video Series . Here you will find how-to videos , enrichment DIYs, educational tidbits and Animal Caretaking 101!

Art Contests

Twice every school year we host a art contest! Visual art teachers in Palm Beach County can submit artwork on behalf of their students based on the theme. Selected artworks then are on view at Furry Friends for several months. For submission guidelines including how to submit student artwork, open this google form.

Printable Activity Books

Click here to download our printable PDF books!