Biography:
Serena Saunders is a lifelong learner passionate about animal welfare and leadership. She graduated from Bel-Rea Institute in 2008 as a certified veterinary technician and later earned a bachelor’s degree in business management. Most recently, she completed a Master’s in Organizational Leadership and a graduate certificate in Project Management from Colorado State University.
Serena has worked in shelter medicine, private practice, and rescue. She currently leads PAWsitive Recovery under SPCA International, a program that supports individuals in crisis by providing temporary care for their pets. Serena also created Sit-Stay-Heal, a workshop series that brings animal-assisted healing into recovery centers. She travels internationally for spay/neuter clinics and is deeply committed to helping people and pets stay together through life’s hardest moments.
She shares her life with her daughter Shaylene, and a house full of rescue animals.
Title : The PAWsitive model keeping families together and helping people and pets heal from the wounds of addiction, trauma, and abuse.