Saturday, March 10, 2012

100 BMA Chapter Directory - 100 Black Men of Maryland

Chapter Directory      


100 Black Men of Albany, GA, Inc.
President:
Mr. Sanford Hillsman
P. O. Box 5674
Albany, GEORGIA 31705
www.100albany.org


100 Black Men of Albany, NY, Inc.
President:
Mr. Richard W. Harris
P. O. Box 708
Albany, NEW YORK 12201


100 Black Men of Alton, Inc.
President:
Mr. Mike Holiday
P. O. Box 321
Alton, ILLINOIS 62002
www.100bma.org


100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc.
President:
Mr. Milton H. Jones
241 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GEORGIA 30303
www.100blackmen-atlanta.org


100 Black Men of Augusta, Inc.
President:
Mr. Herb O'Conner
P.O. Box 12275
Augusta, GEORGIA 30914


100 Black Men of Birmingham, Inc.
President:
Mr. Cedric D. Sparks, Sr.
1728 Third Avenue North, Suite 200
Birmingham, ALABAMA 35203
www.100bmba.org


100 Black Men of Birmingham, UK, Inc.
President:
Mr. Alston W. Owens
PO Box 10396
Birmingham, INTERNATIONAL B16 9YE
www.100blackmen.org.uk


100 Black Men of Bradley County, Inc.
President:
Mr. Abu Swafford
Norm Smith PO Box 5677
Cleveland, TENNESSEE 37320-5677
www.100bmbc.org


100 Black Men of Buffalo
President:
Mr. James Payne
P O Box 1024
Buffalo, NEW YORK 14215


100 Black Men of Canton, Inc.
President:
Mr. Leroy Lacy
421 W. Pace Street
Canton, MISSISSIPPI 39046


100 Black Men of Cape Fear Region, Inc.
President:
Mr. Earnest Curry
P O Box 912
Fayetteville, NORTH CAROLINA 28302
www.100bmoacapefear.org


100 Black Men of Central Illinois, Inc.
President:
Mr. Dale W. Avery
P. O. Box 5170
Bloomington, ILLINOIS 61702
www.100bmci.com


100 Black Men of Central Ohio, Inc.
President:
Mr. John Jackson
1409 East Livingston Ave.
Columbus, OHIO 43205
www.100bmco.org


100 Black Men of Central Virginia
President:
Dr. Bernard L. Hairston
P. O. Box 8226
Charlottesville, VIRGINIA 22906


100 Black Men of Charleston, Inc.
President:
Mr. Anthony B O'Neill, Sr.
P.O. Box 80238
Charleston, SOUTH CAROLINA 29416


100 Black Men of Chattanooga, Inc.
President:
Mr. Erskine Oglesby
P. O. Box 1201
Chattanooga, TENNESSEE 37401


100 Black Men of Chicago, Inc.
President:
Mr. Jeffrey L. Jackson
3473 S. Martin Luther King Drive, Suite 206
Chicago, ILLINOIS 60616
www.100bmc.org


100 Black Men of Coastal North Carolina, Inc.
President:
Mr. Max Allen

Wilmington, NORTH CAROLINA



100 Black Men of Columbus, GA, Inc.
President:
Mr. Benjamin S. Richardson
PO Box 2564
Columbus, GEORGIA 31902


100 Black Men of Columbus, Inc.
President:
Dr. John Robinson
1111 5th Avenue North
Columbus, MISSISSIPPI 39701


100 Black Men of Dekalb, Inc.
President:
Mr. Bernard Taylor
1804 Bouldercrest Road, S.E., Ste. 700
Atlanta, GEORGIA 30316
www.dekalb100blackmen.org


100 Black Men of Denver, Inc.
President:
Mr. Mark White
P.O.Box 300188
Denver, COLORADO 80203
www.100bmdenver.org


100 Black Men of East Feliciana Parish,Inc.
President:
Mr. Bennie C. Jones
P. O. Box 681
Clinton, LOUISIANA 70722


100 Black Men of Eastern North Carolina, Inc.
President:
Mr. Johnny Ford, Jr.
PO Box 31105
Greenville, NORTH CAROLINA 27833


100 Black Men of Flint, Inc.
President:
Mr. David McGhee
410 E. Second St., Cell E
Flint, MICHIGAN 48503


100 Black Men of Greater Akron, Inc.
President:
Mr. Michael J. Irby
P. O. Box 1362
Akron, OHIO 44309
www.100bmoga.org


100 Black Men of Greater Auburn/Opelika, Inc.
President:
Mr. Troy Booth
108 Columbus Parkway
Opelika, ALABAMA 36801


100 Black Men of Greater Beaumont, Inc.
President:
Mr. Vernon Durden
P.O. Box 6534
Beaumont, TEXAS 77725
www.100bmgb.org


100 Black Men of Greater Charlotte, Inc.
President:
Mr. Donnie R. Koonce
931 Wilann Drive
Charlotte, NORTH CAROLINA 28202
www.100blackmenofcharlotte.org


100 Black Men of Greater Cincinnati, Inc.
President:
Mr. Ernest Perry
PO Box 1457
Cinninnati, OHIO 45229
www.100bmgc.org


100 Black Men of Greater Cleveland, Inc.
President:
Mr. Anthony Peebles
4415 Euclid Avenue Suite 331
Cleveland, OHIO 44103
www.100blackmencleveland.org


100 Black Men of Greater Columbia, Inc.
President:
Mr. Paul Livingston
2205 Two Notch
Columbia, SOUTH CAROLINA 29204
www.100blackmencolumbia.org


100 Black Men of Greater Dallas, Inc.
President:
Mr. Robert B. Tapley
PO Box 226081
Dallas, TEXAS 75222


100 Black Men of Greater Detroit, Inc.
President:
Mr. William K. Middlebrooks
One Ford Place
Detroit, MICHIGAN 48202
www.100blackmendetroit.org


100 Black Men of Greater Ft. Lauderdale, Inc.
President:
Mr. Dennis L. Wright
10097 Cleary Blvd. Suite 302
Plantation, FLORIDA 33312
www.100blackmengfl.org


100 Black Men of Greater Hartford, Inc.
President:
Mr. Floyd Green

Hartford, CONNECTICUT 6114



100 Black Men of Greater Huntsville, Inc.
President:
Mr. Samuel King
PO Box 5194 Fredda McDowell
Huntsville, ALABAMA 35814
www.100ghc.org


100 Black Men of Greater Kansas City, Inc.
President:
Mr. Anthony D. Williams
P. O. Box 12500
Kansas City, KANSAS 66112
www.100blackmenkc.com


100 Black Men of Greater Knoxville, Inc.
President:
Mr. Gregory S. Cannon
PO Box 333
Knoxville, TENNESSEE 37901-0333
100blackmenofknoxville.org


100 Black Men of Greater Lafayette, Inc.
President:
Mr. Melvin Caesar
PO Box 61792
Lafayette, LOUISIANA 70598
100bmogl.org


100 Black Men of Greater Little Rock, Inc.
President:
Mr. Eddie White
116 East 23rd Street
North Little Rock, ARKANSAS 72114
www.100blackmenglr.org


100 Black Men of Greater Milwaukee, Inc.
President:
Dr. Earl E. Wheatfall, Sr.
2271 West Clubview Dr.
Milwaukee, WISCONSIN 53209
www.100BlackMenOfMilwaukee.org


100 Black Men of Greater Mobile, Inc.
President:
Mr. Damon Wickware
838 W. Main Street
Pritchard, ALABAMA 36610
www.100blackmenmobile.com


100 Black Men of Greater Monroe, Inc.
President:
Mr. Scott C. Miller
2932 Renwick St.
Monroe, LOUISIANA


100 Black Men of Greater Montgomery, Inc.
President:
Mr. Willie 'Bill' McCladdie
P.O. Box 1094
Montgomery, ALABAMA 36104
www.100blackmen-gma.org


100 Black Men of Greater Seattle
President:
Mr. Danny Pearson
1700 7th Avenue Suite 116 #334
Seattle, WASHINGTON 98101
www.100bmgseattle.com


100 Black Men of Greater Washington, D.C., Inc.
President:
Mr. Michael E. Melton
PO Box 70558
Washington, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 20024
www.100blackmendc.org


100 Black Men of Greater Youngstown-Warren, Inc.
President:
Mr. Shareef Ali
P. O. Box 6491
Youngstown, OHIO 44501
www.100bmogyw.com


100 Black Men of Grenada, Inc.
President:
Mr. Carlos E. Moore
PO Box 1402
Grenada, MISSISSIPPI 38902


100 Black Men of Indianapolis, Inc.
President:
Mr. Holbrook Hankinson
3901 N Meridian, Ste. 10
Indianapolis, INDIANA 46278
www.100blackmenindy.org


100 Black Men of Jackson, Inc.
President:
Mr. Shelton Swanier
5360 Highland
Jackson, MISSISSIPPI 39206
www.100blackmenjackson.com


100 Black Men of Jacksonville, Inc.
President:
Mr. Robert Porter
1336 W. Edgewood Avenue
Jacksonville, FLORIDA 32203
www.100blackmenjax.org


100 Black Men of Las Vegas, Inc.
President:
Mr. Larry Mosley
2657 Chateau Clermont Street
Henderson, NEVADA 89044
www.100blackmenlasvegas.com


100 Black Men of London, UK, Inc.
President:
Mr. Olu Alake
12-16 The Bridge Clerkenwell Road
London, ENGLAND EC1MTPQ
www.100bmol.org.uk


100 Black Men of Long Beach, Inc.
President:
Mr. Jesse Johnson
245 W. Broadway, Suite 100
Long Beach, CALIFORNIA 90802
www.100blackmenlbc.com


100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc.
President:
Mr. Phillip M. Andrews
9 Center Street
Hempstead, NEW YORK 11550
www.100blackmenofli.org


100 Black Men of Los Angeles, Inc.
President:
Mr. Donald Aquinas Lancaster, Jr.
3701 Stocker Street, #309
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA 90008
www.100bmla.org


100 Black Men of Louisville, Inc.
President:
Mr. Rob Jordan
PO Box 24142
Louisville, KENTUCKY 40224
www.100blackmenoflouisville.com


100 Black Men of Macon-Middle, Inc.
President:
Mr. Clifford Whitby
1680 Broadway/P. O. Box 2363
Macon, GEORGIA 31203
www.100blackmen-macon.com


100 Black Men of Madison, Inc.
President:
Mr. H. Wayne Canty
P.O. Box 787
Madison, WISCONSIN 53701-0787
www.100blackmenmadison.org


100 Black Men of Maryland, Inc.
President:
Mr. Raymond W. Lucas
4413 Liberty Heights Avenue
Baltimore, MARYLAND 21207
www.100blackmenofmd.org


100 Black Men of Memphis, Inc.
President:
Mr. Bernal Smith
4805 Stone Cross Drive
Olive Branch, TENNESSEE 38654
www.100blackmenofmemphis.org


100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge, Inc.
President:
Dr. Adell Brown, Jr.
2050 North Foster Drive
Baton Rouge, LOUISIANA 70806-1009
www.100blackmenbr.org


100 Black Men of Metro Houston, Inc.
President:
Mr. Mark A. Williams
1177 West Loop South, Ste. 625
Houston, TEXAS 77027
www.100blackmenhou.org


100 Black Men of Metro Lake Charles, Inc.
President:
Mr. Clyde Mitchell
P. O. Box 1730
Lake Charles, LOUISIANA 70602


100 Black Men of Metro New Orleans, Inc.
President:
Mr. Nathaniel Jones
P.O. Box 871223
New Orleans, LOUISIANA 70187
www.the100bmmno.org


100 Black Men of Metro St. Louis, Inc.
President:
Mr. John Haigler
4631 Delmar
St. Louis, MISSOURI 63108
www.100bmstl.org


100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
President:
Mr. Lee Molette
One Vantage Way, Suite E-200
Nashville, TENNESSEE 37228
www.the100.org


100 Black Men of Milledgeville-Oconee Area, Inc.
President:
Mr. James Lunsford
PO Box 1591
Milledgeville, GEORGIA 31061


100 Black Men of Monterey Peninsula, Inc.
President:
Mr. RJ Moye'
P. O. Box 1797
Monterey, CALIFORNIA 93940
www.100bmmp.org


100 Black Men of Myrtle Beach, Inc.
President:
Dr. Winston McIver
PO Box 50098
Myrtle Beach, SOUTH CAROLINA 29579


100 Black Men of New Jersey, Inc.
President:
Mr. Jerrid Douglas

Freehold, NEW JERSEY 7728

www.100blackmenofnj.org


100 Black Men of New Providence, Inc.
President:
Mr. Michael H. Wright
P O Box N-8522
Nassau, INTERNATIONAL


100 Black Men of New York, Inc.
President:
Mr. Phil Banks, Jr.
105 East 22nd
New York, NEW YORK 10010
www.ohbm.org


100 Black Men of North Metro, Inc.
President:
Mr. Harold Hamilton
2300 Holcomb Bridge Rd. Ste. 103-215
Roswell, GEORGIA 30076
www.northmetro100.org


100 Black Men of Northwest Florida Panhandle, Inc.
President:
Mr. George Moultrie
PO Box 571
Graceville, FLORIDA 32440


100 Black Men of Omaha, Inc.
President:
Mr. Tim Clark
PO Box 20125
Omaha, NEBRASKA 68110
www.100blackmenomaha.org


100 Black Men of Orange County, Inc.
President:
Mr. William "Bill" Lewis
Spectrum One, 7545 Irvine Center Dr, Ste. 200
Irvine, CALIFORNIA 92618
www.100bmoc.com


100 Black Men of Orlando, Inc.
President:
Mr. Ronald O. Rogers
P.O. Box 547683
Orlando, FLORIDA 32804


100 Black Men of Pensacola, Inc.
President:
Mr. Frederick Gant
P O Box 18536
Pensacola, FLORIDA 32523
www.100blackmenpensacola.org


100 Black Men of Philadelphia, Inc.
President:
Mr. John Walker
PO Box 146519105PO Box 1465
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA 19105
www.100blackmenphilly.org


100 Black Men of Phoenix, Inc.
President:
Mr. Jon Taylor
4711 E. Melinda Lane
Phoenix, ARIZONA 80505
www.100blackmenphx.org


100 Black Men of Rockford, Inc.
President:
Mr. Vernon Hilton
PO Box 14004
Rockford, ILLINOIS 61105


100 Black Men of Rome-NWGA, Inc.
President:
Mr. Greg Shropshire
2204 Shorter Ave., Suite 10 PMB 224
Rome, GEORGIA 30165-2036
www.100bmor.org


100 Black Men of Sacramento, Inc.
President:
Mr. Darryl Jenkins
2251 Florin Road Suite 140
Sacramento, CALIFORNIA 95820
www.sac100.com


100 Black Men of San Antonio, Inc.
President:
Mr. Hubert Eugene Watson
P. O. Box 190258
San Antonio, TEXAS 78209
www.100blackmenofsanantonio.org


100 Black Men of Savannah, Inc.
President:
Mr. Lloyd Johnson
P. O. Box 14606
Savannah, GEORGIA 31416
www.100blackmensav.org


100 Black Men of Silicon Valley, Inc.
President:
Mr. Ronald Brown
1101 S. Winchester Blvd, Ste H-189
San Jose, CALIFORNIA 95128
www.100bmsv.org


100 Black Men of Sonoma County, Inc.
President:
Mr. Marion Walker
P.O. Box 1453
Rohnert Park, CALIFORNIA 94927-5257


100 Black Men of South Bend
President:
Mr. Seymour H. Barker
P O Box 11706
South Bend, INDIANA 46634


100 Black Men of South Florida, Inc.
President:
Mr. Bobby Hall
16280 SW 14th Street
Pembroke Pines, FLORIDA 33027
www.100blackmensf.org


100 Black Men of South Metro, Inc.
President:
Mr. Ronald Mitchell
6338 Church Street
Riverdale, GEORGIA 30274
www.100blackmensouthmetro.org


100 Black Men of Southeast Georgia, Inc.
President:
Mr. Johnny Mathis
623 Sycmore Street
Blackshear, GEORGIA 31516


100 Black Men of St. Mary, Inc.
President:
Mr. Clarence Robinson, Jr.
P O Box 43
Morgan City, LOUISIANA 70381


100 Black Men of Stamford, Inc.
President:
Mr. Thomas E. Marshall
PO Box 1313
Stamford, CONNECTICUT 6904
www.100bmos.com


100 Black Men of Syracuse
President:
Mr. Vincent B. Love
2610 So. Salina Street
Syracuse, NEW YORK 13205
www.100blackmensyr.org


100 Black Men of Tallahassee, Inc.
President:
Mr. Chriss Walker
PO Box 6218
Tallahassee, FLORIDA 32314-6218


100 Black Men of Tampa Bay, Inc.
President:
Mr. Henry L. Bell, Jr.
3837 Northdale Blvd
Tampa, FLORIDA 33624
www.100bmtb.org


100 Black Men of The Bay Area, Inc.
President:
Mr. Daryle Whyte
1638 12th Street
Oakland, CALIFORNIA 94607
www.100blackmenba.org


100 Black Men of TRIAD, Inc.
President:
Mr. Cornelius CC Lamberth
P. O. Box 21452
Greensboro, NORTH CAROLINA 27420


100 Black Men of Triangle East, Inc.
President:
Mr. Anthony Jeffreys
P. O. Box 26365
Raleigh, NORTH CAROLINA 27611
www.100blackmentriangle.org


100 Black Men of Tulsa, Inc.
President:
Mr. Melvin Blades

Tulsa, OKLAHOMA 74101



100 Black Men of Turks and Caicos, Inc.
President:
Mr. Albert Grant
P. O. Box 847
Providenciales, INTERNATIONAL INT*


100 Black Men of Upstate South Carolina, Inc.
President:
Mr. Al Gray
330 East Coffee Street
Greenville, SOUTH CAROLINA 29681
www.100blackmenupstatesc.com


100 Black Men of Valdosta, Inc.
President:
Mr. Roy W. Copeland
PO Box 1352
Valdosta, GEORGIA 31603


100 Black Men of Virginia Peninsula, Inc.
President:
Mr. Wendell Braxton
P.O. BOX 2400
Newport News, VIRGINIA 23609
www.100blackmenva.org


100 Black Men of West Alabama, Inc.
President:
Dr. Lowell K. Davis
PO Box 2435
Tuscaloosa, ALABAMA 35403
www.100blackmenofwestalabama.org


100 Black Men of West Georgia, Inc.
President:
Mr. Carl Von Epps
P.O. Box 3106
LaGrange, GEORGIA 30241


100 Black Men of West Tennessee, Inc.
President:
Dr. Ernest T. Brooks
P. O. Box 7643
Jackson, TENNESSEE 38305


100 Black Men of West Texas, Inc.
President:
Mr. Greg Ricks
P.O. Box 6331
Lubbock, TEXAS 79493-6331
www.100bmwt.homestead.com


100 Black Men of Western Pennsylvania, Inc.
President:
Mr. Ronald Lawrence
PO Box 254
Pittsburg, PENNSYLVANIA 15230
www.100blackmenofwesternpa.org
 

Volunteer for an advisory board, commission, or other boards in your community.

BEMA Network members (All):

Seek out, review, and apply for local government advisory, commission, and other advisory board positions in your area.  

Your talent and experience can be utilize by your community, local politicians, and administrative agencies to provide the necessary input and advice ensuring the sustainability, and resiliency of your community.

Compensation may be in the form of payments for travel, parking, or other incidental cost to attend meetings.  

Review the article below on the number of positions available serving on boards and commissions.

Remember to get involved.

Charles D. Sharp
Emergency Manager
Senior Advisor

"One of the true test of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."       Arnold H. Glasgow

 

http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2012/03/dc-boards-sit-empty-outdated-process-stalls/351706

D.C. boards sit empty, outdated as process stalls

The District's boards and commissions, which oversee matters ranging from tax appeals to dentists, have more than 700 open seats, a Washington Examiner analysis shows. Also, more than two dozen of the city's 175 panels are empty or composed of members whose terms have expired.

The number of available slots -- 729 out of 2,071 positions -- has fallen by 74 since October. Then, 21 panels had no members at all or were exclusively made up of people whose terms had ended. Since, that figure has risen to 27.

Depending on the board, District law permits members whose terms have ended to serve 180 days or until the new selection makes it through the nomination process, meaning some members can serve indefinitely.
Help wanted
The number of District boards and commissions that are vacant or staffed only by appointees whose terms have expired has jumped to 27 from 21 in October. Those panels include:
Homeland Security Commission
Occupational Safety and Health Board
Real Property Tax Appeals Commission
Statewide Health Coordinating Council
Destination D.C.
Mayor Vincent Gray is responsible for filling the boards, and some nominations require the D.C. Council's approval.

But the process has stalled, and an additional 38 boards don't have a majority of their seats occupied by people whose terms are current, meaning 65 panels aren't functioning at all or are doing so with members whose terms have expired. Officials couldn't immediately on Thursday provide a roster of the boards that are listed as vacant yet continue to function with holdovers, but mayoral spokesman Pedro Ribeiro said they are plentiful. "A lot of the boards ... are actually fully operational and continue to do their jobs because they have that leeway," Ribeiro said.

Ribeiro also said that so far in fiscal 2012, Gray has named 44 percent more nominees than he did in the last fiscal year.

One city official suggested part of the backlog could be blamed on former Mayor Adrian Fenty.
"We inherited the largest number of vacancies a mayor has ever inherited," the official said on the condition of anonymity. "It has swamped the capacity of [the Office of Boards and Commissions.]"
Complicating Gray's efforts to fill positions: That office has only one permanent employee -- and he's on leave. An interim director and two staffers are temporarily working in the office.

The head of the city's police union, which has a lawsuit pending against the city for failing to name members to the panel that sets standards for police officers, said vacancies of any city boards are troubling.
"Obviously, Gray is just not interested in the long-term future," Kris Baumann said. "It's either paralysis or incompetence, but they have not done what they were elected to do."

ablinder@washingtonexaminer.com

National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day. May 9, 2012

As National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day approaches on May 9, 2012, a data point will be released at least once a month about trauma and resilience in children and youth. Help raise awareness about the importance of children's mental health by sharing these data points with your distribution list of child-, youth-, and family-serving organizations, associations, agencies, and individuals and encouraging them to share with their contacts.

February 2012

Among a sample of youth in juvenile detention, 93 percent of males and 84 percent of females reported exposure to a traumatic experience. Eleven percent of males and 15 percent of females met the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD and other mental health challenges can impair a youth's capacity to reach age-appropriate developmental goals.

With help from families, friends, providers, and other Heroes of Hope, children and youth can be resilient when dealing with trauma. Visit http://1.usa.gov/zKxV8K to learn more.

January 2012

Children and youth who experience trauma display increases in stress hormones comparable to those displayed in combat veterans. Researchers point to multiple potential outcomes for children exposed to trauma, including attachment, mood regulation, dissociation, self-concept challenges, and behavioral, cognition, and biological changes, all of which can have a negative impact on school attendance, learning, and academic achievement.

With help from families, friends, providers, and other Heroes of Hope, children and youth can be resilient when dealing with trauma. Visit http://1.usa.gov/AbbNsM to learn more.

May 2011

When exposed to a traumatic event, children as young as 18 months can have serious emotional and behavioral problems later in childhood and in adulthood. More than 35 percent of children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems.

With help from families, providers, and the community, young children can demonstrate resilience when dealing with trauma. Visit http://1.usa.gov/eURFX5 to learn more.

Late April 2011

In 2009, researchers found that more than 60 percent of youth age 17 and younger have been exposed to crime, violence and abuse either directly or indirectly including witnessing a violent act, assault with a weapon, sexual victimization, child maltreatment and dating violence. Nearly 10 percent were injured during the exposure to violence, 10 percent were exposed to maltreatment by caretaker, and 6 percent were a victim of sexual assault.

With help from families, providers, and the community, children and youth can demonstrate resilience when dealing with trauma. Visit http://1.usa.gov/fAInvl to learn more.

April 2011

As the number of traumatic events experienced during childhood increases, the risk for the following problems in adulthood increases: depression; alcoholism; drug abuse; suicide attempts; heart and liver disease; pregnancy problems; high stress; uncontrollable anger; and family, financial, and job problems.
With help from families, providers, and the community, children and youth can be resilient when dealing with trauma. Visit http://1.usa.gov/h1fWPD to learn more.

March 2011

Studies on the brain show that physical, emotional, or sexual abuse in childhood can cause permanent damage to the brain, reduce the size of parts of the brain, impact the way a child’s brain copes with daily stress, and can result in enduring problems such as depression, anxiety, aggression, impulsiveness, delinquency, hyperactivity, and substance abuse.

With help from families, providers, and the community, young children can demonstrate resilience when dealing with trauma. Visit http://1.usa.gov/faK4p1 to learn more.

February 2011

Young children exposed to 5 or more significant adversities in the first 3 years of childhood face a 76 percent likelihood of having one or more delays in their cognitive, language, or emotional development.
With help from families, providers, and the community, young children can demonstrate resilience when dealing with trauma. Visit http://bit.ly/ik4yas to learn more.

AT&T High School Retention Program

2012 AT&T Aspire Local High School Impact Initiative request for proposal is now open

3/8/2012

AT&T’s Local Impact RFP will provide funding for currently operating high school retention programs consisting of elements aligned to the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Dropout Prevention Practice Guide. AT&T is looking to support organizations that are ready to expand to serve additional students or locations, or to add components to strengthen successful programs. Payments ranging from $100,000 to $300,000 for 24 months (2012-14) are available for local programs that emphasize:
  • Service to high school students at-risk of dropping out of school, particularly 9th graders or students in transition from 8th to 9th grade
  • Intervening quickly with targeted services to help these students re-engage
  • Increasing students’ chances of earning a high school diploma
  • Preparing students for college and/or career
  • Providing substantial data to demonstrate positive outcomes
The RFP deadline is April 27, 2012. Visit www.att.com/eduation-news for more information on the 2012 Local High School Impact Initiative and check back often for updates on AT&T Aspire. The AT&T Aspire Local High School Impact Initiative team will review and evaluate all those who respond to the RFP and make determinations as to eligibility after that time.

Haiti - Update

Money for Cleaning Toilets in Haiti Down the Drain? – Part 1

By Phares Jerome and Valery Daudier*http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106976

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Mar 7, 2012 (IPS/The Nouvelliste) - The drawdown of hundreds of non-governmental organisations which have been in Haiti since the disastrous 2010 earthquake was inevitable. But with their departure, so too goes their purse and the millions earmarked for cleaning latrines.

What does that mean for the half a million displaced still living in camps?

Some 11,000 mobile toilets were installed by a rainbow of international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) following the earthquake. Supplied largely by the Clinton Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development and UNICEF, and then redistributed by the NGO community to hundreds of camps, these latrines improved the living conditions and staved off pending health problems for some of the 1.5 million who were displaced.

Now, donor dollars are drying up even as toilets overflow. It's one thing for the funders to cinch their belt; it's another for those in the camps.

Because of the sheer number of people and organisations involved in human waste disposal, it's nearly impossible to calculate how much has been spent over the last two years. Dozens of NGOs signed contracts with local companies to empty the latrines; eight dollars a day per toilet, or 125 dollars to empty a 125-gallon drum of sewage.

Each agency or organisation has its own tab. UNICEF spent 1.4 million dollars cleaning portable toilets over the last two years; the French Action Against Hunger (ACF) invested 2.675 million dollars in sanitation, most of which went for cleaning latrines. The Federation of Red Cross and Islamic Red Cross spent 55 million dollars for water and sewage treatment through September 2011.

"It's important not to focus on the money but on the sanitary catastrophe that was avoided," said Moustapha Niang, UNICEF's hygiene, water and sanitation consultant.

"In an emergency situation, you have to respond quickly to save victims. This is always costly, but not sustainable. Everyone knows that," said Anne Charlotte Schneider, head of Haiti's ACF's mission.

If sustainability were the name of the game, however, everyone would also know this approach was all wrong. Temporary latrines are just that - temporary. But because many of the camps were on private land, a temporary solution was the only one considered.

"When it's impossible to build a sustainable infrastructure, we went with mobile toilets even though they were most costly," said Peleg Charles, communications director for OXFAM, which worked on waste disposal in 123 camps.

Sanitary engineer Frantz Benoît, of the Haitian Association of Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences, said that if there had been a sewer system, the task of managing the human waste would have been easier.

Prior to the quake, only 17 percent of the capital's population had access to a standard flush toilet, so it was foolish to think that suddenly 1.5 million newly homeless could be connected to what was at best an antiquated sewage system. The Haitian authorities had neither the means, nor the technical competence, to do so. "Since there wasn't (a sewer system), that meant that the NGO community, which came to help us, had to use what was available," Benoit said. "The only criticism one can make of them is how the toilets were distributed among the camp dwellers."

Distribution was as erratic as the earthquake's aftershocks.

ACF identified one hundred families for only two latrines in a southern suburb; in the capital centre the latrines, stamped with the donor's logo, surrounded camp perimetres like sentinels, but rarely was the international SPHERE standard of one toilet per 20 people – by gender – respected. Most residents use plastic bags.

In the case of Camp Acra, in the residential neighbourhood of Delmas, the ravine behind the camp is the resident "plastic bag" dumping ground.

"Besides the Haitian Red Cross and Samaritan's purse (who gave us some things), we did not receive any support," said 27-year old James Pierre, a Camp Acra resident. "And for the last year, they are gone along with their resources. Since then, we've been forgotten entirely."

The most recent NGO to jump ship is the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which, as of Jan. 30, 2012, stopped all water and sanitation related activities in 31 camps in the metropolitan Port-au Prince region. IRC says it transferred its responsibility to either camp management committees, or the state agency: the National Directorate Agency of Water and Sanitation (DINEPA).

ACF will soon follow suit. At the end of the month it will stop emptying the portable toilet units at Champs Mars, across from the crumpled national palace.

To date, ACF has installed some 682 units in about 40 camps. According to its two-year financial sheet, the agency claims 800,000 people benefited from its services. In addition to Champ Mars, Schneider said ACF has also transferred latrine cleaning in all its other sites to DINEPA.

But DINEPA said it is not aware that it's responsible for the formerly ACF-serviced latrines.

"The only officially registered transfer to date has been that of the Federation of Red Crosses," said the DINEPA's director of sanitation, engineer Edwige Petit, when questioned about the number of NGOs still present in the camps.

According to the International Organisation for Migration (OIM), there are still 490,545 people living in over 650 camps in the earthquake zones. Latrine cleaning was down 18.1 percent from the month before. And a bulletin recently published by the U.N.'s Organisation for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA) states that "356 latrines are going to be removed."

"We are working with earthquake victims to return home," said ACF's Schneider. "We are now working on a multi latrine project (five families per latrine) for a total of 600,000 dollars."

With the absence of data, it's hard to compare sanitation before and after Haiti's earthquake, but with an extensive outreach campaign it appears that there is better sanitation awareness among the population. And more tangibly, there is an excreta treatment center in Morne-à-Cabri north of the capital.

UNICEF, the European Union's humanitarian branch, OCHA and the American Red Cross have earmarked 2.6 million dollars for the centre, which receives between 30-50 barrels of excreta every day. A soon-to- be released report by the U.N.-led group of non-governmental and governmental agencies working in water and sanitation (the WASH Cluster) says that 17,000 cubic metres of excreta have already been treated since the launch of operations three months ago.

Morne-à-Cabri's sewage treatment plant is the first of its kind in the country. A second one is under construction in Titanyen, funded by the Spanish cooperation.

Ironically, the new plant does not receive excreta from the camps in the surrounding areas. Like much of the population, residents in nearby camps have no access to functioning latrines. And because public washrooms are not yet part of any national programme, they are also missing from public markets, bus stations, schools and churches.

With bilateral funding and financing from the Inter-American Development Bank, UNICEF and the American Red Cross, DINEPA is executing its 2012-2014 action plan to increase its sanitation work across the country.

This will include the construction of 12 wastewater treatment stations; the establishment of management/maintenance (including the reconstruction/rehabilitation) sanitary blocks in public places which include reconstruction and/or rehabilitation and a training and communication campaign to encourage the construction of toilets, according to the agency, which declined to reveal to cost of the plan.

But as necessary and ambitious as this plan is, it doesn't address the challenges facing the 490,545 people living in squalid camps. Where will they go when the need to go?

*This article has been made possible with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Haiti, www.journalismeinvestigationhaiti.blogspot.com.

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