If your child is in a daycare, or before\after school program request a copy of their emergency plan also.
Daycare programs are not regulated to have a relocation, or emergency plan in the event of a natural, or man-made disaster.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Daycare, before\after school care, and School Emergency Plans
If your child is in a daycare, or before\after school program request a copy of their emergency plan also.
Daycare programs are not regulated to have a relocation, or emergency plan in the event of a natural, or man-made disaster.
Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
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Students are offered the unique opportunity to join one of NIAID’s research laboratories for an internship with a minimum of 8 consecutive weeks.
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U.S. citizens or legal residents who are currently high school juniors and seniors (minimum of 16 years of age), undergraduates, or graduate students including medical students.
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Summer interns are eligible for a stipend during their internship.
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Bill would give veteran-owned companies a boost
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Feb 21, 2012 16:29:12 EST
Posted : Tuesday Feb 21, 2012 16:29:12 EST
An Ohio congressman has introduced legislation that would move veteran-owned businesses closer to the front of the line when seeking contracts from the Veterans Affairs Department.
Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s oversight and investigations panel, is pushing a bill that would make veteran-owned small businesses more competitive for contracts to supply goods and services on the federal supply schedule for purchase by VA. It would not apply to other federal agencies.
If enacted, HR 4048 would open a wide range of contracts to veteran-owned and disabled veteran-owned businesses that are now exempt from veterans’ preference rules. General Schedule vendors provide a variety of goods and services, from food, cleaning equipment and supplies to furniture, medical and dental equipment and supplies, shipping and packing supplies, security systems and a variety of professional services.
The bill was referred to the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee for consideration, joining a pile of other employment-related legislation that the committee could package together into an election-year initiative aimed at reducing the unemployment rate among veterans.
Johnson’s bill would help veterans, but would still not make them No. 1 on the list of preferred contractors. Under the government’s complicated contracting procedures, if VA needs something, the top priority is to search its current inventory, then search the inventory of other federal agencies, before buying anything.
If VA does buy goods, priority goes to Federal Prison Industries, then to the blind, then to wholesale suppliers as the third, fourth and fifth choices. Purchasing from the federal supply schedule ranks sixth and seventh in priority, first for a mandatory schedule and then for a supplemental purchasing schedule.
Under current procedures, veteran-owned businesses rank eighth in priority for contracts. They would rise to sixth under Johnson’s bill.
Veterans’ preference in contracts was the subject of a November hearing of Johnson’s subcommittee, with the veterans who owned small businesses complaining that purchasing rules were limiting their opportunities.
One disabled veteran, Bob Hesser, a retired Navy master chief and owner of Vetrepreneur, a Virginia-based company, recommended the change in law as a way to improve chances for a veteran-owned business to receive a contract. He said the current policy seems to be “vets last.”
Steve Gonzalez, assistant director of the American Legion’s national economic commission, shared Hesser’s concerns about the contracting practices. Veteran-owned businesses “have been relegated to last in VA’s procurement hierarchy,” he said. “The irony and greatest insult is that this agency, which was created to help veterans, appears to be actively and knowingly shutting them out when it’s time to award government contracts.”
http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2012/02/military-contracts-veteran-owned-businesses-022112w/Webinar for Schools. Emergency Management for Schools
Webinar for
Schools
The US Department of
Education’s Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical
Assistance Center is offering a webinar entitled
“The Role of the National
Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS) in
School Preparedness”
Tuesday, February 28th at 3pm Eastern.
For more detailed
information on the webinar, please visit: http://rems.ed.gov/index.php?page=training_webinars
.
To register, go to
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Monday, February 27, 2012
International Critical Incident Stress Foundation
Upcoming Conferences in your area
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provide leadership, education, training, consultation, and support services in
comprehensive crisis intervention and disaster behavioral health services to the
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Navigating the Next Era of Crisis &
Disaster Response
February 19 - 24, 2013
Baltimore, Maryland
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February 19 - 24, 2013
Baltimore, Maryland
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