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Safe Humane Chicago was founded in 2008, and is a nonprofit animal advocacy organization. The program, founded by animal rights advocate Cynthia Bathurst, works with the community to get out its anti-violence message to high-crime areas.

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http://www.chicagonow.com/raining-cats-dogs/2014/03/doggies-and-denim-safe-humane-chicago/

The department store Bloomingdale’s in Chicago on Michigan Avenue held a fashion runway event titled “Doggies and Denim”, which donated 10% of pre-tax sales to Safe Humane Chicago. It featured dogs from Safe Humane along with board members and community leaders as models.

http://www.policemag.com/channel/patrol/articles/2014/10/can-police-stop-killing-dogs.aspx

This article presents a story of a police officer killing a dog because he thought it was threatening him. Safe Humane then teamed up with the National Canine Research Council and created 4 training videos titled “ Police and Dog Encounters”, which intended to educate police on a tactical way of dealing with dogs instead of killing them.

http://www.safehumanechicago.org/media/1422/High%20School%20Youth%20Leaders%20take%20%E2%80%9Chumane%E2%80%9D%20back%20to%20school%20-%20Chicago%20Pets%20_%20Examiner.pdf

This article was posted on the Examiner, but the Examiner doesn't exist anymore. The article is still available on the Safe Humane website though. It highlights Safe Humane’s youth leaders program and how they were recognized for their service of educating students of how to treat animals by the Chicago police department.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/pets/ct-veterans-valor-pets-met-20141227-story.html

This article in the Chicago Tribune covers how the organization “Safer Humane Chicago” and the organization of Veterans Advancing Lives Of Rescues (VALOR) worked together in creating an educational training class that benefited both court case dogs and veterans. Veterans were able to practice coping skills as well as help court case dogs manage sociable skills that allow them to be better candidates to be adopted.

https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2016/april/Mayor-Names-Russell-Exec-Director-Animal-Care.html

City of Chicago Website

Susan Russell is a member of the Safe Humane Chicago attorney committee and was named as Executive Director for the Commission on Animal Care and Control (CACC). The overall goal is to promote awareness throughout the city of Chicago and help organizations that serve animal health and safety.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/mar/18/coeur-dalene-settles-with-owner-of-dog-killed-by/

Court case from an Officer in a city in Idaho shot and killed a dog and the involvement “Safer Humane Chicago” had with the settlement.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/safe-humane-chicago_n_6120950.html

Article from 2017, Overall achievements from Safer Humane Chicago and the community impact.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-08-06/news/ct-met-cops-shooting-dogs-20130806_1_police-shootings-police-officer-rottweiler - Eboni

This article covers the issue of police officer’s shooting people’s dogs, and mentions in their article the contributions that Safe Humane Chicago made to help fix the underlying conflict of this issue.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/pets/ct-court-case-dogs-sunday-1101-20151026-story.html - Eboni

Safe Humane Chicago worked alongside with Animal Care and Control and Best Friends Animal Society to fund, staff, and launch their Court Case Dogs program. The program sought justice for dogs that were confiscated by law enforcement as evidence for a crime done by their owners, and later euthanized once the case was completed. SHC rescued a total of 760 dogs since their opening January 2010 to November 2015. SHC has trainers and behavior specialist for the dogs they take in. As well as programs that train high school students on how to teach elementary school students on how to build relationships with animals. They partnered with Chicago photographer Josh Feeney (based in Chicago) to create a book that features photography of dog's to capture different dogs personality and used the sales to directly support SHC initiatives.

http://www.safehumanechicago.org/media/101228/BFM_May16_CourtCaseDogs_FullArticle.pdf - Eboni

Safe Humane Chicago was featured in Best Friends Magazine. The article written about Safe Humane Chicago focuses on their work with court case dogs, and how they have been beneficial to the new initiative in place to save many dogs.

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/24/132869090/humane-society-program-tries-to-tame-dogfighting

Collaring dogfights; 'safe, humane chicago' campaign hopes to seize on vick controversy, educate community. (2007, Sep 07).

This article discusses a campaign by Safe Humane Chicago to bring awareness to dogfighting in relation to former Nfl Quarterback, Michael Vick.

(2007, Sep 12). Chicago Leads Nation to Unite Against Dog Fighting! - Community Activists, Animal Advocates and Government Leaders Launch Safe, Humane Chicago Initiative. PR Newswire (USA). http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/11BA06E1F70451F0?p=AWNB Safe Humane works to prevent and discourage dog fighting.