Community Groups
The Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Support Mission and Veterinary Hope Foundation are partnering on a wellness initiative designed to provide veterinarians and veterinary teams with structured community groups and quarterly webinars. The initiative will focus on supporting resilience, building peer connections, and fostering a healthier workplace culture.
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Lasting hope starts here.
We offer six-week, small-group virtual sessions facilitated by trained leaders. Affinity groups are matched by role, career stage, or lived experience to foster genuine connection and healing. These groups are offered throughout the year to fit your schedule from February–July and September–November.
Confidential, safe and caring.
Our attendees will find the space and opportunity to establish ongoing conversations about experiences, issues and ideas that emerge from their work as veterinary practitioners. Our community groups are facilitated by mental health experts that help to shape your experience with topics that are important to you.
What to Expect
These groups offer guided discussions with rotating themes and topics designed around the real needs of practitioners. They provide a welcoming space to share experiences and perspectives with peers who truly understand, while building a close-knit community grounded in acceptance, respect, and support for each person’s individuality and concerns.
About Our Groups
Self-Care and Self Compassion
For those who spend their days caring for others, it can be difficult to offer that same care to themselves. In this session, we’ll define self-care and self compassion, and discuss practices that support it.
Setting Healthy Boundaries
These days maintaining boundaries seems more complicated than ever. That only increases the need for them. In this session, we’ll explore personal and professional boundaries and share tips for setting healthy ones.
Exploring Imposter Phenomenon
Gaining confidence can be tough when you second guess your own accomplishments. In this session, we’ll discuss the concept of Imposter Phenomenon, including contributing sources, coping strategies, and its evolution as it relates to diversity and inclusion.
Values and Meaning
Our core values drive how we live. Sometimes, it feels difficult to live consistently with those values. In this session, we’ll explore the meaning of our values and of veterinary work. We’ll also share stories of personal calling.
Work/Life Integration
Leading an integrated life can feel overwhelming. Why does it always seem like there’s one last ‘to-do’ that’s never checked? In this session, we’ll explore challenges to work-life integration, such as expectations and responsibilities. We’ll also share ideas to help find balance.
Weekly sessions run 60-75 minutes and focus on the following topics:
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The words that inspire our work.
This group is helping me focus on myself so that I can be a better mom, veterinarian and person in this crazy world that we are living in. I am so thankful for the Veterinary Hope Foundation!
So many talk mental health, but the Veterinary Hope Foundation is putting support for veterinarians into action.
There’s something magical about being about to say ‘hemoabdomen at closing time the night before the kid’s spelling test’ to a group who immediately get it.
These small groups can lead to an overall better quality of life for veterinarians and support staff.
My goal was just to find myself in a better headspace at the end, and that did happen!
Every veterinary professional needs this opportunity to get life-saving support.
VHF provides an invaluable connection that is not available with other mental health support groups.
I feel much less alone as a solo practitioner after making these connections.
Our profession can be very isolating and having the VHF support group reminds us that we are not alone.