Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Webinar: Suicide Prevention in High Schools

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Webinar Replay: A Strategic Approach to Suicide Prevention in High Schools
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This webinar provides an overview of the research on school-based suicide prevention programs and identifies resources that can be helpful in developing and implementing your own program. In addition, the webinar offers examples of how two states developed programs to prevent suicide in a variety of school systems, including those serving ethnically diverse students.
Participants working to prevent suicide will learn how to:

Webinar: CISCO. Public Safety Grants Webcast Series.

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The New Normal: What 2014 Homeland Security Funding Means for Public Safety  
  
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Time: 2:00pm EDT

It's happened again! Homeland Security funding has been given another face lift this year, and the grants you have come to rely on to support your preparedness programs might have gotten lost in the process.

Join Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock and special guests from Cisco for an overview of the 2014 Department of Homeland Security funding, the governmental priorities that are driving it, and what to expect going forward.


This 3-part series of webcasts, sponsored by Cisco, provides relevant and timely information on funding opportunities in the public safety sector and tips for obtaining more funding for your public safety initiatives.

Please visit www.publicsafetygrants.info for links to information designed to enhance your efforts to obtain grant funding for your public safety initiatives. The website provides information on specific grant programs, links to informational resources, and registration links to timely Webcasts on funding-related topics.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is proud to sponsor the following Grants Office Webcast Series and .Info Websites to provide you with FREE access to relevant, timely grant information and tips for obtaining more funding for your organization's initiatives.
Education Grants Webcast Series *NEW EVENTS OPEN NOW!
This 5-part series of webcasts provides information on funding opportunities in education and tips for obtaining more funding for your education initiatives. Registration for these webcasts and other useful information on grant programs for educational projects is available at www.SchoolITGrants.info.
Higher Education Webcast *NEW EVENTS OPEN NOW!
This 2-part webcast series will focus on funding higher education technology to improve workforce development. Information on this event as well as other helpful resources for funding higher education projects can be found at www.HigherEdGrants.info.
Health IT Grants Webcast Series * NEW EVENTS OPEN NOW!
This comprehensive webcast discusses grant programs available to fund health care preparedness initiatives. Registration for this webcasts and other useful information on grant programs for projects with a health IT component are available at www.HealthITGrants.info.

Cisco's Grants Support Program is a national, multi-faceted approach designed to help Cisco healthcare and public sector customers successfully negotiate the grantseeking process and, ultimately, obtain grant funds. Cisco partners with Grants Office, LLC, to support the ongoing grant needs of Cisco's customers through personally customized research, consultation, and planning.

Your first point of contact to take advantage of this grant support is your Cisco representative. If you do not have a Cisco representative or would like to speak with someone from the Cisco Grant Strategy Team please email us.

Webinar: Respond & Rescue Solutions. Thursday, November 7, 2013



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Respond & Rescue Solutions
Join us for a complimentary live webinar presented by Savi Technology and moderated by Homeland Security Today Editor Anthony Kimery on asset visibility during emergency management.
Thursday, November 7, 2:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Responding to and arranging logistics for natural or man-made disasters is a huge challenge. Not only do the emergency workers, first responders, and the logisticians who support them need to act with little to no warning, they are working in situations where infrastructure is damaged, communications may be destroyed, victims are without shelter and homeless, and food and water may be in short supply.
During this webinar, attendees will learn the importance of improved asset visibility during emergency management to help first responders:
  • Locate critical assets and then track those assets anywhere in real-time even in harsh, remote or devastated areas
     
  • Monitor the status and condition of fuel, food, water and other critical assets
  • Predict how long it will take to move and set-up key assets, as well as needed quantities and best placement
     
  • Coordinate activities and communications with military via the RF-ITV network
Register today and join us on Thursday, November 7, 2:00 p.m. (Eastern) for a presentation on respond and rescue solutions followed by a Q&A. For questions, please contact Sue Stott at sstott@hstoday.us.

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Speakers:

Rosemary Johnston
Vice President, Federal Sales & Strategy
Savi Technology
Johnston focuses on delivering analytics-driven supply chain management solutions to the federal market including consignment management, asset management and other sensor-based intelligence, with an emphasis on the US Department of Defense, which has a 23-year history utilizing Savi solutions.


Paul Sharp
Technical Director
Savi Technology
Paul has managed implementation engagements for the Department of Homeland Security, the Australian Defense Forces and Lockheed Martin to name just a few. He has been employed in the software industry for more than 20 years contributing as an analyst, project manager and product manager for Savi, Ventyx and Commerce One.




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Anthony Kimery
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Webinar: November 14, 2013. Mentoring Black Boys.


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LET'S TALK ABOUT MENTORING
Resources & Answers For Single Mothers

On Thursday November 14, 2013 at 8 p.m. the Raising Him Alone Campaign will host a teleconference to provide resources and answer questions about MENTORING BLACK BOYS

Hosted by David Miller and Matt Stevens. 
Our special guest will be nationally known author and community development specialist Reverend Alphonso Wyatt, based on his new book Mentoring From the Inside Out
Instructions for Tele-Conference
1. Dial 712.432.1500 pin 949175#
2. Call begins promptly at 8:00 p.m.
3. Caller please mute your line *6
4. We will take questions at the 8:20 pm mark

Monday, November 4, 2013

Dominican Republic: How Statelessness Threatens Women and Families

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Dominican Republic: How Statelessness Threatens Women and Families
October 16, 2013   by Liliana Gamboa & Laura Bingham   Open Society Justice Initiative 

The president of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, opened a regional conference on women's issues this week in the capital, Santo Domingo. But even as he prepared to tell delegates of his country's commitment to "fundamental rights" for women, a group of women launched a small protest.
The cardboard signs they held up highlighted the plight of tens of thousands of Dominican women who are reeling from a shocking blow to their rights: a ruling by the country’s constitutional court that threatens to strip them and their families of the right to Dominican nationality, previously guaranteed by the country’s constitution.
All are Dominicans of Haitian descent – whose families originally came to work and then settled in the Dominican Republic during the 20th century.
Perhaps the women’s conference will pause to consider the plight of Juliana Deguis Pierre, a 29 year old recognized Dominican national, whose Haitian migrant parents moved to the country decades ago. Juliana, a Dominican-born mother of four children, is officially registered as a Dominican citizen by birth. As she puts it in her own words, “I am from this country and nothing is going to change that.”
But according to the constitutional court she no longer meets the criteria for acquisition of Dominican nationality, and neither do all individuals similarly situated. The ruling renders her and her family stateless, without access to the rights and benefits of citizenship, such as a birth certificate, a passport and access to government medical insurance and education.
From 1929 until January 26, 2010, the constitution granted nationality to all children born on Dominican territory, except for those born to diplomats and to parents who were “in transit” at the time of the child’s birth. Throughout this long period, many children of undocumented Haitian migrants, who were born in the Dominican Republic, were registered as Dominican. They were provided with identity documents confirming their Dominican nationality, and lived their lives as any other Dominican would.
In recent years, however, the Dominican Republic has started to claim that individuals of Haitian descent have no right to Dominican nationality, on the theory that their undocumented parents were “in transit,” even when these families had been in the country for multiple generations. The Dominican Republic refused to change course on such policies even after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a binding judgment in 2005 to end them. 
The constitutional court’s recent ruling [pdf, Spanish only] has further cemented and expanded upon these haunting, openly racist nationality policies, by ordering the retrospective denationalizations of all persons whose parents were not legal residents in the Dominican Republic, rendering an ever-growing number of Dominicans of Haitian descent stateless.
To make matter worse, the ruling calls for the retroactive application of this determination to 1929, possibly rendering stateless up to four generations of Dominican-born persons of Haitian descent.
Stateless persons are in a state of permanent vulnerability.  Denied access to birth certificates, passports, or other identification documents, stateless persons become, in effect, “non-persons” with no claim on governments who deny their existence and refuse to protect their most basic rights. They are systematically denied access to the full range of public goods and services essential to a decent existence, from freedom of movement and police protection, to healthcare, education, housing, and employment. Stateless populations are condemned to a cycle of poverty that is passed from generation to generation.
In the context of the regional women’s conference, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and attended by the executive secretary of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Dominican authorities should reflect upon the impact that this decision will have on all Dominicans of Haitian descent, and particularly on women and children.
Other states in the region should step up and call for solutions that will respect the rights and inherent dignity of all, first and foremost by reminding their neighbor that statelessness is a regional issue. The creation of thousands upon thousands of stateless women and children cannot be tolerated under any circumstances.

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