Project Street Vet increases access to free veterinary care in Los Angeles - DVM 360

Project Street Vet (PSV), a nonprofit nationalist foundation that offers escaped veterinary care, treatment, and enactment to the pets of individuals experiencing homelessness and lodging vulnerability, successful collaboration with Fetch Pet Insurance (Fetch), has expanded its Los Angeles chapter by adding Nichole Weinstein, DVM, ECFVG, and Ari Aycock-Williams, DVM, DACLAM, arsenic veterinary squad leads.

According to an organizational release,¹ Weinstein and Aycock-Williams volition leverage their acquisition to further enactment Project Street Vet’s ngo to supply exams, vaccines, and life-saving surgeries to the pets of the stateless in Southern California.

For 17 years, Weinstein has been a practicing veterinarian and presently serves arsenic aesculapian manager astatine Arrow Dog and Cat Hospital in Montclair, California. In her assemblage she provides her veterinary services to the pets and favored parents connected Skid Row in Los Angeles. Weinstein achieved her pre-veterinary grade from Cal Poly, Pomona and completed her Doctorate successful Veterinary Medicine astatine the University of the Philippines. She received her licence to signifier veterinary medicine successful the US at Iowa State University.

Aycock-Williams is simply a board-certified, licensed and USDA-accredited veterinarian. Currently, she serves arsenic the enforcement manager at University of Southern California (USC) successful the Department of Animal Resources. Plus, she serves arsenic a declaration veterinarian for Vetco Clinics and VIP Petcare. She achieved her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine grade at Michigan State University and completed her residency and certification successful Laboratory Animal Medicine at USC.

"Dr Weinstein and Dr Aycock-Williams are fantastic additions to our increasing squad astatine Project Street Vet. Their acquisition and enactment volition beryllium tremendously adjuvant successful enabling america to scope much pets and favored parents throughout Southern California," stated Kwane Stewart, DVM, laminitis of PSV, successful the release. "I americium greatly appreciative of the veterinarians who privation to usage their skills to enactment those successful need, and I look guardant to moving with Dr Weinstein and Dr Aycock-Williams."¹

The enlargement of the PSV section successful Los Angeles is successful tandem with Fetch's 101 Donations campaign to rise funds and consciousness for PSV. The inaugural consists of Fetch is matching donations dollar-for-dollar, up to $101,000, done the extremity of the twelvemonth to assistance supply resources to further PSV’s mission, extending to much communities and helping much pets successful need. Currently, Fetch has talented over $63,000 to PSV and a palmy 101 Donations Campaign volition supply PSV with an additional $202,000 for usage successful 2023.

"It is incredibly inspiring to spot the continued maturation of Project Street Vet," shared Samantha McKinnon, CEO of Fetch. "We judge powerfully successful Project Street Vet's ngo to supply entree to veterinary attraction for pets successful need, and we are arrogant to enactment their enactment with the resources needed to expand. With a palmy 101 Donations Campaign, much teams volition beryllium imaginable successful 2023 and we look guardant to seeing Project Street Vet grow."

Reference

Project Street Vet expands escaped veterinary attraction services successful Los Angeles. News release. Fetch Pet Insurance. December 20, 2022. Accessed December 21, 2022. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/project-street-vet-expands-free-veterinary-care-services-in-los-angeles-301706909.html