With over 40 years of roots planted in Atlanta’s nonprofit world, Angelle Cooper brings a lifelong passion for animals, the environment, and empowering youth to the Atlanta Basecamp. As the Roots and Shoots Atlanta Basecamp Coordinator, she is now focused on amplifying youth voices and engaging those who are young at heart through environmental education and community engagement.
Local Voices, Local Choices: The TACARE Approach to Animal Welfare
November 4, 2025
11:15 am - 12:15 pm |
Building on Dr. Jane Goodall’s ethos that “every individual can make a difference”, you’re invited to engage in a TACARE (“Take Care”) workshop session to build out your organizational and individual capacity to manage relevant and impactful animal welfare initiatives in non-White and diverse communities.
Launched by the Jane Goodall Institute in 1994, the TACARE approach provides a framework that can be adapted to multiple cultural contexts, and is a key step in improving the ability to successfully support and collaborate with communities that are not your own. In this session, participants will engage in community mapping (either real or imaginary) to work through the TACARE system of community-centered programming. If your goal is to develop a holistic and sustainable approach to improving the lives of animals in BIPOC, underserved, Indigenous, and other diverse communities, this is a session you cannot miss.
Key Learnings:
- What the Take Care (TACARE) approach entails, its history, and benefits when working with diverse communities
- How to use the TACARE approach in animal welfare programmatic planning and development
- Developing a framework for community mapping in either a real or imagined community
Speakers
Angelle Cooper
Roots & Shoots Basecamp Coordinator, Atlanta, Jane Goodall Institute USA