Our Mission
The High Alert Institute helps those not served by municipal, local, county, state, regional or federal programs/agencies to be Disaster Ready.
Our Promises
We will support, promote and when possible, provide:
Disaster Education, Planning, and Preparedness for animal owners, animal caretakers, and animal welfare organizations.
Disaster Response and Recovery for animal owners, animal caretakers, and animal welfare organizations.
Disaster Rescue, Domestic Violence Respite, and Voluntary Surrender for freshwater non-native exotic and ornamental aquatic pets.
Shelter for rescued and surrendered freshwater non-native exotic and ornamental aquatic pets.
Coordination and Mutual Aid between freshwater non-native exotic and ornamental aquatic pet rescues and shelters in North America.
We will advance:
Alignment of Emergency Management and Disaster-Readiness guidance to match best practices in animal care, rescue, conservation, and welfare.
Technology to reduce the carbon footprint for aquatic animal care, while increasing the resilience of aquaponic facilities in the face of natural and manmade disasters.
Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion Practices in the profession and integrate these as values into our organizational culture.
4800 Ben Hill Trail
Lake Wales, FL 33898
FEMA Region 4 (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Kentucky).
Additional adoption info
Applicants to adopt an aquatic pet must have a contained, filtered and aerated fish pond.
Adoption application
https://highalertinstitute.dm.networkforgood.com/forms/adopt-a-koi-form
Kissimmee, FL 34741
Lakeland, FL 33803
Lakeland, FL 33809
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