Housing insecurity, poverty, and other crises lead many pet owners to surrender their companion animals to shelters. To prevent this, animal welfare and human welfare organizations must bridge the gap to implement or enhance programming that seeks to keep the entire family together through these crises. Learn how Housing Equity & Advocacy Resource Team (HEART LA), a legal non-profit in Los Angeles, CA, and Found House Interfaith Housing Network, a homeless services agency in Cincinnati, OH, work with vulnerable pet owners in crisis and keeps the entire family together. Come learn and workshop strategies with intake, return to home, and legal experts to help navigate threats of homelessness due to pets, and keep people and their pets together and housed!