Monday, September 19, 2016

Education. COURSERA. September 19, 2016

Ready to learn something new?


Introduction to Sustainability

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Starts Oct 10, 2016

Turn Down the Heat: From Climate Science to Action

The World Bank Group
Available Now

Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Starts Oct 03, 2016

The Age of Sustainable Development

Columbia University
Starts Sep 26, 2016

Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia

Lund University
Starts Sep 12, 2016

Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries

University of Cape Town
Starts Oct 31, 2016

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Starts Sep 19, 2016

Designing Cities

University of Pennsylvania
Starts Oct 03, 2016

Animal Behaviour

The University of Melbourne
Available Now

Sustainable Food Production Through Livestock Health Management

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Starts Oct 17, 2016

Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change

The University of Chicago
Starts Oct 03, 2016

Subsistence Marketplaces

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Starts Sep 26, 2016

Introduction to Thermodynamics: Transferring Energy from Here to There

University of Michigan
Starts Oct 03, 2016

Our Earth's Future

American Museum of Natural History
Starts Sep 19, 2016

Wind Energy

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Starts Oct 10, 2016

The Technology of Music Production

Berklee
Starts Sep 19, 2016

Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies

Duke University
Starts Sep 26, 2016

Introduction to Genetics and Evolution

Duke University
Starts Oct 10, 2016

Genetics and Society: A Course for Educators

American Museum of Natural History
Starts Oct 03, 2016

Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Overview

University of Geneva
Starts Sep 26, 2016

Securing Digital Democracy

University of Michigan
Starts Oct 03, 2016

Algorithms on Strings

University of California, San Diego, Higher School of Economics
Starts Sep 19, 2016

Oil & Gas Industry Operations and Markets

Duke University
Starts Oct 12, 2016

Developing Your Musicianship

Berklee
Starts Sep 19, 2016

TESOL Certificate, Part 2: Teach English Now!

Arizona State University | 4 Course Specialization

Functional Programming in Scala

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 5 Course Specialization

Foundations of Marketing Analytics

Emory University | 6 Course Specialization

Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR

Michigan State University | 5 Course Specialization

Investment and Portfolio Management

Rice University | 5 Course Specialization

Cybersecurity: Developing a Program for Your Business

University System of Georgia | 4 Course Specialization

Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals

Duke University | 5 Course Specialization

An Introduction to Programming the Internet of Things (IOT)

University of California, Irvine | 6 Course Specialization

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Important for our mental health. Sept 27th 1-2pm Trauma Toxic Stress and Vulnerable Populations in Disasters



Responding to the Impact of Trauma and Toxic Stress Prior to & After a Disaster among Vulnerable Populations: A Faith- and Community-Based Approach


In recognition of September’s National Preparedness Month and America’s PrepareAthon!, the DHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (DHS Center) and FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division are co-hosting a webinar on Responding to the Impact of Trauma and Toxic Stress Prior to & After a Disaster among Vulnerable Populations: A Faith- and Community-Based Approach  on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. EDT.  

This webinar will provide faith- and community-based organizations with tools, resources, and partnerships to help respond to the needs of vulnerable populations and communities traumatically impacted after all hazards, including active shooter incidents.  
How to Join the Webinar:
This webinar will offer closed captioning.

October 6, 2016. International Conference for Post Ebola Capacity Building for the Mano River Union.

http://postebola.africaenvironmentalwatch.org/

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Friday, September 2, 2016

Our Communities. 2/3 of the World Unprepared for Public Health and other emergencies.

Our communities (African Descent) are partially the remaining 1/3 of communities nationally and worldwide UNPREPARED for public health and other emergencies.

Some have postulated that our communities are under a constant state of emergency\crisis event and situations in our daily lives from the first light of dawn until sunset.

Each of us has to take the added steps to 'BRING OUR A GAME!", and promote awareness on preparedness, planning, response, recovery, mitigation and long-term resiliency building in our communities.

Faith-based, non-profit, community building, financial, our 'whole community' must be involved and at the table.

We at BEMA have been advocating our members to promote a mention of awareness and preparedness for disasters\emergencies\crisis planning at all symposiums, forums, conferences, panel discussions, etc. to stress the importance of preparedness in OUR COMMUNITIES to community leaders, elected officials, and others.

It starts with you and what you do.

Charles D. Sharp.  CEO.  Black Emergency Managers Association.

The Power of Preparedness: Prepare Globally 

Monday, August 29, 2016

DHS\FEMA. How to Become a Contract Instructor

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI) Logo

How to Become a Contract Instructor



You must ensure that you meet the Course-Specific Criteria for the respective course. Please review the minimum qualifications for each course using the link below.

Conflict of Interest – If your State or local governmental agency is funded through THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT and you receive pay directly or indirectly from FEDERAL GOVERNMENT grant funding you may not contract for a fee, but must contract for expenses only unless you are on UNPAID leave OR LEAVE WITHOUT PAY STATUS. I

f you are a FEMA Disaster Assistance Employee you may not contract with FEMA to instruct.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the information being provided, please email them to FEMA-EMI-InstructorApplication@fema.dhs.gov.



“The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) is committed to building a cadre of instructors who are reflective of the diversity of the field of emergency management and current practitioners in the emergency management career field.

Contract instructors work for EMI part time and augment the faculty in the delivery of a course. Instructors usually work full time in a specialty field and teach one or two classes in that specialty.  For more information, please go to: How to Become an EMI Contract Instructor or email FEMA-EMI-InstructorApplication@fema.dhs.gov


Wednesday, August 24, 2016

October 2016. Events

Mark your calendars if planning to attend.

CDS

October 2016 Events

1.      October 1, 2016.  FEMA.  Great SouthEast Shakeout.  http://www.shakeout.org/southeast/index.html
2.      October 6-7 (Friday, Saturday).  African Environmental Watch (AEW).  International Conference for Post Ebola Capacity Building in the Mano River Union (MRU).  Silver Spring, Maryland.  http://postebola.africaenvironmentalwatch.org/ 
3.      October 13.  United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).  International Day of Disaster Risk Reductionhttps://www.unisdr.org/we/campaign/iddr 
4.      October 14.  Meridian International Center.  Global Leadership Summit & Ball.  Washington, D.C.  http://www.meridian.org/programs/summit/      http://www.meridian.org/announcement/48th-annual-meridian-ball/
5.      October 23-25.  White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.  2016 National Historically Black College and Universities Week Conference.  Arlington, Virginia.  https://custom.cvent.com/F455259A64794F928D1643A463AA44AD/files/b1864c1c94b64fd096be1a6cad84ed11.pdf


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