Watch the 2011 National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend Live on the Web
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Friday, October 14, 2011
2011 National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend. Live on the Web!
We encourage you to contact your local cable provider and ask them to broadcast these Services on one of the public access channels.
BEMA Committment to Support Domestic Violence Awareness Month
BEMA Network:
-All membership categories
-Friends
-Followers (Blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Internationally)
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and to focus our attention on this individual, family, community, and national issue the Black Emergency Management Association shall be publishing daily articles, stories, and information on domestic violence and trauma reference material from organizations and individuals to focus on this debilitating issue that crosses all nationalities, economic status, ethnic backgrounds, ages, sexes, and extends to future generations in its evolutionary cycle.
Visit our Blog, and Facebook pages to review these daily articles, and videos.
Prepare to determine your ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) score.
Domestic violence and trauma has both physical and mental debilitating long-term effects from early childhood, into our senior elderly years.
Labeling is not the issue. Current therapy and awareness are not to label an individual, but to determine the 'causes' of a particular behavior or physical ailment. Behaviors and in some instances physical ailments currently experienced may have roots from events or traumatic events from the past.
As with racial injustices, disparities in health care, and other inequities violence & trauma whether domestic, private, or public (disasters, terrorism, natural, and man-made events) impede upon every aspect of our society. From early childhood development, learning and physical abilities during elementary, middle and high-school, college, adulthood, work relationships, marriage, and immediate & extended family development, bullying, adult crime and incarceration, to repeat offenders the list can go on and on.
Please join BEMA in addressing this issue individually by providing reference materials to any individual in need of physical and mental assistance. Provide assistance by volunteering, give food or clothing assistance, or by contributing money to any IRS authorized 501(c)(3) nonprofit, or faith-based organization that is an advocate against domestic violence and\or trauma and supports Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Therapy for each of us begins with trust and a discussion.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month is not just one month out of the year, but entails a lifetime of on-going daily awareness.
Sincerely,
Charles D. Sharp
Emergency Manager
Senior Advisor
Black Emergency Managers Association
(BEMA)
October. Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Especially during a disaster
http://www.ncadv.org/learn/TheImpactofDisaster.php
The state of chaos and devastation in the City of New Orleans and other impacted regions afforded little solace to battered women - many of whom fled their abusive homes for the protection of the shelter only to find themselves displaced from the shelter in the aftermath of the storm.
The disintegration of services for battered women along the Gulf Coast had and continued to have a dramatic impact on the safety of battered women and their children. Before hurricane Katrina, battered women's shelters and programs across the country struggled on a daily basis to meet battered women's basic imminent safety, emotional and physical needs. Shortages in funding, staffing, resources, and time place undue constraints on programs' abilities to advocate for battered women's safety. A disaster such as Katrina accentuates these constraints.
To ease the excessive burden faced by programs that were hardest hit, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) orchestrated a nationwide effort to relocate battered women and their children to shelters in other parts of the country with available space and resources. NCADV's website (www.ncadv.org) provided an opportunity for battered women's shelters to announce existing beds for battered women affected by hurricane Katrina. Programs from Alaska to Connecticut to Florida to Arizona provided a safe space for battered women and many were able to assist with transportation.
Despite NCADV's best efforts to respond to the crisis of hurricane Katrina, battered women's programs needed additional resources to rebuild and restructure. Restricted communication and relocation to mass evacuation sites isolated battered women from support systems. Research indicates that rates of domestic violence increase in the aftermath of disaster. Nearly six months after four hurricanes hit the state of Florida in the summer of 2004, domestic violence programs reported increased numbers in individuals using shelter and crisis line services. Disasters may compel battered women to return to abusive partners when left with no other housing options and temporary emergency shelters afford batterers an opportunity abuse their partners. Battered women and their children will need domestic violence shelter and other social services for significantly longer periods of time following a disaster to keep them from danger. Unfortunately, little is known about the long-term effects of disaster on battered women, but current challenges exist involving an increase in demand for services and devastated resources.
For more information on domestic violence and disaster, please visit www.harbour.sfu.ca/freda/reports/dviol.htm and download Elaine Enarson's report, "Surviving Domestic Violence and Disasters." (1998.)
The Impact of Disaster
Battered women and their children are less safe than ever in the wake of a disaster. When hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29th, 2005, at least seven domestic violence shelters, transitional housing programs, and outreach organizations were impacted by the storm's severity.The state of chaos and devastation in the City of New Orleans and other impacted regions afforded little solace to battered women - many of whom fled their abusive homes for the protection of the shelter only to find themselves displaced from the shelter in the aftermath of the storm.
The disintegration of services for battered women along the Gulf Coast had and continued to have a dramatic impact on the safety of battered women and their children. Before hurricane Katrina, battered women's shelters and programs across the country struggled on a daily basis to meet battered women's basic imminent safety, emotional and physical needs. Shortages in funding, staffing, resources, and time place undue constraints on programs' abilities to advocate for battered women's safety. A disaster such as Katrina accentuates these constraints.
To ease the excessive burden faced by programs that were hardest hit, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) orchestrated a nationwide effort to relocate battered women and their children to shelters in other parts of the country with available space and resources. NCADV's website (www.ncadv.org) provided an opportunity for battered women's shelters to announce existing beds for battered women affected by hurricane Katrina. Programs from Alaska to Connecticut to Florida to Arizona provided a safe space for battered women and many were able to assist with transportation.
Despite NCADV's best efforts to respond to the crisis of hurricane Katrina, battered women's programs needed additional resources to rebuild and restructure. Restricted communication and relocation to mass evacuation sites isolated battered women from support systems. Research indicates that rates of domestic violence increase in the aftermath of disaster. Nearly six months after four hurricanes hit the state of Florida in the summer of 2004, domestic violence programs reported increased numbers in individuals using shelter and crisis line services. Disasters may compel battered women to return to abusive partners when left with no other housing options and temporary emergency shelters afford batterers an opportunity abuse their partners. Battered women and their children will need domestic violence shelter and other social services for significantly longer periods of time following a disaster to keep them from danger. Unfortunately, little is known about the long-term effects of disaster on battered women, but current challenges exist involving an increase in demand for services and devastated resources.
For more information on domestic violence and disaster, please visit www.harbour.sfu.ca/freda/reports/dviol.htm and download Elaine Enarson's report, "Surviving Domestic Violence and Disasters." (1998.)