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The ASPCA headquarters with the rescue truck in front.

Groups under the ASPCA

The ASPCA has three groups in which they are divided: Animal Health Services, Anti-Cruelty and Community Outreach. From those three groups, the groups have subsidiary departments. The Animal Health Services group is composed of three departments that focus on the health and well-being of animals. The Anti-Cruelty Group has eight departments that focus on different problems relating to animal cruelty. The Community Outreach Group works with multiple resources so that more animals that are classified as at risk-animals will be helped by the improvements that the group provides.

Animal Health Services Group

The ASPCA Animal Hospital is a well-equipped medical facility that gives medical care to animals in need. Life-saving treatment to animals, whose owners cannot afford the treatment, are provided by The Trooper Fund which is administrated by the Animal Hospital. Another department is the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, which provides treatment for natural and man-made chemical exposure poisonings. New findings are published and therefore promote poison prevention, leading to improvement of animal lives. The group also has a Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinics. The surgical mobile units help end the euthanasia of adoptable animals which serves the ASPCA Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinics mission through the recognition of overpopulation.

Anti-Cruelty Group

Field Investigation and Response & Forensic Sciences and Anti-Cruelty Projects

The Field Investigation and Response teams work with animal rescue from cases including abuse, neglect and natural-disasters or man-made disasters. Through the planning and assistance in animal rescues, the team helps local humane societies and other agencies. The also offers The Forensic Science and Anti-Cruelty department, which focuses on providing assistance in both criminal cases involving animals and any evidence surrounding animals in a crime. Through the use of the departments original research and outreach to professional disciplines related to the case, the department uses medicine, forensic science, and animal behavior to assist with the prosecution and prevention of animal cruelty. The department also provides legal assistance which can be described as, “assistance to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies as well as animal care and control agencies, local humane societies and SPCAs, veterinary associations and individual practitioners.”

Humane Law Enforcement/Cruelty Intervention Advocacy/NYPD

The ASPCA has a partnership with the NYPD, which began in January of 2014. The partnership occurred when the NYPD took on the task of answering calls of animal cruelty in the city. While the NYPD answers cruelty calls, ASPCA works with what follows, such as providing medical attention, legal backup and finding a place for the animal. The Humane Law Enforcement team maintains a relationship with the NYPD officers by giving them training on how to respond to animal cruelty cases. Not only does the program do things to benefit their goal but, “instead involve owners who face barriers to providing care to their animals due to either a lack of financial resources, access to services or other circumstances, such as domestic violence, medical or mental health challenges”

ASPCA Behavioral Rehabilitation Center & Anti-Cruelty Behavior Team (ACBT)

The Behavioral Rehabilitation center is the only center dedicated for this cause and is located in Madison, New Jersey. The center helps rehabilitate animals that are under socialized or fearful of human interaction, which usually come from cases of hoarding and puppy mills. These animals go through a program which they will graduate from and be up for adoption. Animals that come in from cruelty cases are provided with behavior support from the ACBT. The ACBT also works with providing agencies recommendations on how to rehabilitate the animals through assessments that they have performed.

Government Relations

Animal welfare is supported through the guiding and initiative of legislative work that is done through the Government Relations department. Through various acts of the department, the legislation of animal protection is monitored across the country, shaping the legislation even further in anti-cruelty initiatives. Lobbyist that are part of the department work by increasing the initiatives that the department works with such as anti-cruelty legislation. Lobbyist increased the anti-cruelty initiative by working in certain regions that are in the states that they manage.

Legal Advocacy

The department makes prosecution of animal cruelty and animal fighting cases successful by giving legal assistance. The assistance is given to the people who are involved in the cases such as the prosecutors, police and cruelty investigators. Legal documents, resources and proceedings related to animal cruelty cases are given to the prosecutors and legal investigators as a way of providing legal assistance in an animal related criminal case. Cases that could impact many animals or could potentially have an important impact by changing a legislation in the field are identified/found and worked with.

Anti-Cruelty Strategy and Campaigns

The department works by setting multi-pronged campaigns, having a main focus on improving the welfare for farm animals and ending puppy mills, therefore doing their goal of reducing animal suffering. They strive for animals to have a more humane life and do so through their holistic and multi-pronged approach. The department has two teams, the farm team and the puppy mill team. The farm team works by increasing the consumer demand, which include advocating for regulations and protective laws and better living conditions for the animals. Through the increase in consumer demand, the team seeks to improve welfare standards and transparency in the agricultural facilities. The puppy mill team do their job by talking to the public and educating them on how bad puppy mills are. The puppy mill team, like the farm team, advocate for laws and legislation that would improve the situation of those animals, such as legislating for the elimination of puppy mills that have substandard breeding operations.

Community Outreach Group

Community Outreach Programs Office (COPO)

The COPO department oversees the group as a whole. They ensure the staff is up to date with all the things that the group is doing. The department also makes sure that information is sent out and distributed to all staff. The department is also in charge of the cohesiveness of the programs within the group. They are the ones that coordinate the meetings and provide the data for the meetings, primarily statistical reports.

Community Initiatives

The Community Initiatives department has multiple goals that they try to achieve. The goals of the department are “facilitate the ASPCA Partnership, increase the Live Release Rate of cats and dogs in shelters, save animals that are the most at risk by data-programs that engage the community with to reunite lost animals with their families, increase adoptions and spay/neuter and support feral cats.” The staff of the department are also responsible for the program that makes grant for the community and organizations in their region. Some of the programs that the department has includes, improving the shelters, the relocation of animals that are at risk, creating the standards for national disaster readiness and the improvement of professionalism. Through the ASPCA Equine Fund, the department is able to give grants to expand the capabilities of sanctuaries and of equine rescues.

Adoption Center

The Adoption Center has the main goal of “finding good homes for as many dogs and cats possible.” The center helps groups or organizations around them by taking in animals from the public, other shelters and other rescue groups. The center prepares the animals by providing them with mental and physical help with the use of resources such as a veterinary team and a group of behavior experts.