Homelessness. An international issue.

Homelessness is not only a local issue, but national security and international issue requiring a structured analytical approach with all members of the community, local culture, and the new culture within the homeless community to be at the table.

20^th Century traditional homeless models cannot be resolved with 20^th Century solutions.

Time for a change, no more business as usual. 

Lets’ resolve 21^st Century homelessness with forward thinking 22^nd Century solution.

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Phoenix-based Semiray fined $65,000 for hazardous waste violations

Our communities worldwide can implement an environmental oversight organization to fine private industry and use the funds in the local communities affected   CDS. CEO BEMA



For Immediate Release:   October 5, 2016

NEWS BRIEF: Phoenix-based Semiray fined $65,000 for hazardous waste violations

SAN FRANCISCO –Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined Semiray, an industrial processing facility, $65,000 for violating federal hazardous waste laws. 

Semiray, located on East Washington Street north of Sky Harbor Airport, services the aerospace, military, electronics, and commercial manufacturing industries, and its activities create metal plating wastes. 

Following three Notices of Violation issued by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and the City of Phoenix from 2010 to 2012, the EPA inspected the facility.

During its 2014 inspection, the EPA identified several hazardous waste violations, including:

• Storing hazardous metal plating wastes without a permit
• Failure to properly maintain the facility to minimize the possibility of a release of hazardous waste to air, soil, or surface water
• Failure to train workers, increasing their risk of exposure and the likelihood of improper waste management

Following the EPA’s inspection, Semiray personnel completed hazardous waste training and upgraded portions of the facility’s wastewater treatment plant at which hazardous plating wastes had been improperly stored.  

The federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program oversees the safe management and disposal of hazardous waste. 

Under authority delegated by the EPA, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality enforces this hazardous waste management program in the State, and today’s enforcement action is part of EPA’s responsibility to ensure the State effectively implements its program.  
For more information on the RCRA program, please visit:
https://www.epa.gov/rcra

Training\Education Opportunities. FEMA EMI. Community Specific October 5, 2016

Training Opportunities 1284 - IEMC in FY2018 and 1285 - E0210

FEMA EMI News Website Update Training Bulletin Fiscal Year 2018 Community-Specific Integrated Emergency Management Course (IEMC) Application Process Training Opportunity Course: E0210 Recovery from Disaster: The Local Community Role Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Emmitsburg, MD — You are subscribed to EMI News for FEMA. The following information has recently been updated, and is now available on http://training.fema.gov/EMI/ 1284 - Training Bulletin - Fiscal Year 2018 Comm Specific IEMC Recruitment IEMC Description: IEMCs are exercise-based training workshops that place a jurisdiction’s emergency operations center (EOC) personnel in realistic crisis situations within a structured learning environment.  The jurisdiction selects the hazard(s) and the Core Capabilities it wishes to include in both the plenary and exercise components of the course to reflect the jurisdiction’s hazards or events, EOC type, and organizations included in emergency plans.  Data reported in the applicable State Preparedness Report and the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment should be used as a basis for the request. Read more in Training Bulletin 1284. 1285 - Training Opportunity - E0210 - Apr. 10-13, 2017 Course Description: This 4-day course covers foundational concepts in disaster recovery and the latest guidance on recovery planning.  Participants will either assess their own recovery plan or a sample against this national planning guidance.  Following that, participants will discuss how a disaster recovery effort can be organized, managed, and led along with the types of challenges faced by recovery managers.  Scenario activities throughout the course give participants the opportunity to target information strategies, address local capabilities and challenges, and analyze experiences from Joplin, Missouri.  The capstone activity is meant to apply all of the knowledge acquired in the course, through further examination of all of the elements of a pre-disaster recovery planning document in the context of a realistic recovery scenario. Read more in Training Opportunity 1285. Emergency Management Institute Mission To support the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA’s goals by improving the competencies of the U.S. officials in Emergency Management at all levels of government to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the potential effects of all types of disasters and emergencies on the American people. Read more... Emergency Management Institute 16825 S. Seton Ave., Emmitsburg, MD 21727 Switchboard: (301) 447-1000 Office of Admissions: (301) 447-1035      Fax: (301) 447-1658 netc-admissions@fema.dhs.gov FEMA Independent Study Program Office: (301) 447-1200     Fax: (301)447-1201   (800) 621-FEMA / TTY (800) 462-7585 3 Step Guide for Assistance

Thursday, October 6, 2016 Conference. Post Ebola in Mano Region. Silver Spring, Maryland

Support your fellow BEMA member, Morris Koffa and his organization, African Environmental Watch Thursday, October 6, 2016 from 9am-3pm at the Silver Spring, Maryland Civic Building for an ‘International Conference for Post Ebola Capacity Building for the Mano River Union (MRU)’.

Speakers, guest, and presenters will include:  Mel Foote (CFA),  African Ambassador Corps from MRU, Charles Sharp (BEMA), State of Maryland Officials, USAID, and others.

http://postebola.africaenvironmentalwatch.org/conference-concept.html

Emergency Management Academics, Real World Experience, and Lack of Credentials (PhD)

Will HBCU’s and our communities constantly be ‘behind the curve’ in homeland security and emergency management curricula because our experience comes from real world crisis, or military experience?

More and more of our members are obtaining higher academic credentials.

An Ivy League professor on why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color: ‘We don’t want them’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/09/26/an-ivy-league-professor-on-why-colleges-dont-hire-more-faculty-of-color-we-dont-want-them/

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