Monday, January 7, 2019

BE PROACTIVE.......U.S. Federal Shutdown. Nature shall not wait. Community Engagement.


BEMA International Members, Friends, and Associates

TIME TO BE PROACTIVE.

In lieu of the current U.S. Federal Government shutdown I shall be forwarding information on any upcoming onsite training at the FEMA Emergency Management Institute (EMI) for CERT (community emergency response team) program manager and train-the-trainer upcoming courses as to whether these courses are still being held.

Hopefully notices were sent regarding course re-scheduling due to this shutdown.

Climate change, natural and man-made disasters do not wait for an appropriate time for our high senior executive elected officials to ensure the recovery of our families and communities from disasters.  State\Territory, County, and City emergency management, and FIRE EMS Departments will play a key role in being proactive in the planning, response, and recovery from these events.

For our community advocate and other nonprofessional members please review and implement the STEPs with the reference material listed below if you have not started CERT team training in your community.

Obtain additional information that will be posted on our web\blog page at www.blackemergmanagersassociation.org.

Be safe, be prepared for your family and your community.

Charles D. Sharp

Charles D. Sharp
Chief Executive Officer
Black Emergency Managers Association
           International
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“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” ¯   David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)             A 501 (c) 3 organization.


STEP 1
Awareness, true interest, and commitment for family, and community

STEP 2  -  Take the online course

FEMA IS-317: Introduction to CERT (Online)
"Introduction to Community Emergency Response Teams," IS-317, is an independent study course that serves as an introduction to CERT for those wanting to complete training or as a refresher for current team members. It takes between six and eight hours to complete the course. Those who successfully finish it will receive a certificate of completion. It has six modules with topics that include:
  • ·        Introduction to CERT
  • ·        Fire Safety
  • ·        Hazardous Material and Terrorist Incidents
  • ·        Disaster Medical Operations
  • ·        Search
  • ·        Rescue


IS-317 can be taken by anyone interested in CERT. However, to become a CERT volunteer, one must complete the classroom training offered by a local government agency such as the emergency management agency, fire or police department. Contact your local emergency manager to learn about the local education and training opportunities available to you. Let this person know about your interest in taking CERT training.

Click here to take the course.  



STEP 3  -  Get others in your community involved with a commitment

a.  25 individuals in our community
b.  Setup your non-profit CERT Team name, mission & vision
c.  Get 5 of the 25 to be trained as Program Manager, and Train-the-trainers
            -Work with local Emergency Management office/agency to gain support
            to attend the FEMA EMI CERT Program Manager and Train-the-Trainer
             courses.
        Courses:   E-427, E-428, 
f.   Train your CERT Team members
g.  Coordinate\Partner\Collaborate with local Emergency Manager office\agency
     and Fire EMS Department



STEP 4 – Mitigation Grant Funding  ONLINE COURSES
                -Recommend 5 individuals that will be program managers from your team
                   complete this training individually and as a team.

  1. IS-0030.b Mitigation eGrants System for the Subapplicant
  1. IS-0031.b Mitigation eGrants System for the Applicant
  1. IS-0032.a Mitigation eGrants System for the FEMA Reviewer



CERT Comprehensive Material for Reference
CERT Basic Training & Material (Online and Classroom)

Training & Materials

This section includes all of the curriculum developed for the CERT program, and features instructor guides, participant manuals, and slide decks for conducting the CERT training. In addition to the basic CERT training, materials are also available for the CERT Train-the-Trainer and Program Manager Courses, as well as the CERT supplemental modules, which are intended to provide additional training in specific areas to participants who have already completed the basic course.

Course Overview
The CERT Basic Course is delivered in the community by a team of first responders, and other qualified volunteers. The organization and timing of training and meeting varies from program to program.

It is often broken up into two to four hour blocks over a series of evenings or weekends

  • ·        Disaster Preparedness: Addresses hazards specific to the community. Materials cover actions that participants and their families take before, during and after a disaster as well as an overview of CERT and local laws governing volunteers.
  • ·        Fire Suppression: Covers fire chemistry, hazardous materials, fire hazards and fire suppression strategies. However, the thrust of this session is the safe use of fire extinguishers, controlling utilities and extinguishing a small fire.
  • ·        Medical Operations Part I: Participants practice diagnosing and treating airway obstruction, bleeding and shock by using simple triage and rapid treatment techniques.
  • ·        Medical Operations Part II: Covers evaluating patients by doing a head to toe assessment, establishing a medical treatment area and performing basic first aid.
  • ·        Light Search and Rescue Operations: Participants learn about search and rescue planning, size-up, search techniques, rescue techniques and rescuer safety.
  • ·        Psychology and Team Organization: Covers signs and symptoms that might be experienced by the disaster victim and workers, and addresses CERT organization and management.
  • ·        Course Review and Disaster Simulation: Participants review and practice the skills that they have learned during the previous six sessions in a disaster activity.


During each session participants are required to bring safety equipment (gloves, goggles, mask) and disaster supplies (bandages, flashlight, dressings) which will be used during the session.  By doing this for each session, participants are building a disaster response kit of items that they will need during a disaster.



CERT Basic Training Course Materials
English CERT materials

Spanish CERT materials

CERT Train-the-Trainer Course Materials

CERT Program Manager Course Materials

CERT Supplemental Training
·        Flood Response for CERTs
·        CERT Firefighter Rehab
·        CERT Exercise Swaps

Video Materials
This section includes the eight downloadable CERT Training Videos for the CERT basic training and the CERT Train-the-Trainer courses, as well as the CERT in Action Video. All videos include closed captioning, and transcripts are available for each. This section also includes links to the Teen CERT videos.

·       Unit 2: Fire Safety: The CERT Member's Role
This training video covers the basics of fire size up, use of extinguishers and fire safety. Fires are dangerous and can change quickly. As in all CERT operations, the CERT members safety is always the number one priority. Safety measures presented in the video include use of protective gear and the proper equipment to extinguish small fires, working with a buddy and a team, planning for safe entry and exit, maintaining a safe distance and position from a fire and using the P.A.S.S. procedure to operate fire extinguishers.

·       Unit 3: CERT Triage: Handling Mass Casualty Situations
Disaster Medical Operations Part 1. CERT trainers will be able to use the material presented in the video to start a dialogue about the potential challenges CERT members may face.  Medical triage is the key to doing the most good for the most people whenever there are more victims than rescuers, resources are limited and time is critical. This training video provides an overview of the medical triage process and portrays the steps that CERT members need to follow to provide victims the most effective lifesaving support available until professional responders arrive on scene. This video will support the materials presented in the CERT Basic Training course.

·       Unit 5: Safety in the After-Disaster Environment
Light Search and Rescue Operations. CERT trainers will be able to use the materials presented in this video to start a dialogue about the potential challenges CERT members may face.
CERT members can prepare to work in a post-disaster area by understanding more about the potential hazards, by preparing their own safety kit and by wearing the right gear. The purpose of this training video is to prepare the CERT members for the kinds of hazards they may experience after a disaster and to help them stay safe as they work in the disaster area. This video will support the materials presented in the CERT Basic Training course

·       Unit 6: CERT in Action
CERT trainers will be able to use the video to start a dialogue about CERTs use of ICS and other critical features of successful team operations.
In CERT in Action, a fierce storm has struck the local community. CERT members activate in their neighborhood, set up an Incident Command Post and assess damage throughout the area. They use their CERT skills to respond to damage and injured victims in the local community center, managing the situation until professional responders are able to arrive. This video provides a useful introduction to the CERT concept for new program participants and others who may be interested in the program.

·       Demonstrating Victim Carries
Lt. Gregg Karl of the Arlington County, Virginia, Fire Department demonstrates three different types of victim carries to a class of CERT trainees. This video is recommended for use in the CERT Train-the-Trainer course to demonstrate effective instructional techniques for teaching victim carries.

·       Demonstrating Head-to-Toe Assessment
Lt. Byron Dixon of the Arlington County, Virginia, Fire Department demonstrates a head-to-toe assessment for a class of CERT trainees. This video is recommended for use in the CERT Train-the-Trainer course to demonstrate effective instructional techniques for teaching head-to-toe assessments.

·       Coaching Hands-On Practice - Victim Extrication
Lt. Gregg Karl of the Arlington County, Virginia, Fire Department walks a group of CERT trainees through a cribbing and leveraging exercise. This video is recommended for use in the CERT Train-the-Trainer course to demonstrate effective instructional techniques for teaching victim extrication.

·       CERT Training: Disaster Psychology
CERT participants, trained to support the first responders during a disaster, will be challenged in many ways during and after response operations. However, if CERT members are prepared for the stress, they will be more successful and helpful during the event and more able to rebound when the crisis is over. This training video provides an overview of stress reactions and strategies for dealing with people under stress during a disaster, including the needs of disaster workers themselves.

·       Drills and Exercises
Drills are excellent opportunities for CERT programs to practice, assess and improve emergency response plans and on-the-ground operations while engaging their volunteers and refreshing the concepts and skills learned in CERT training.

These exercises were developed according to national guidance and principles outlined by the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program. It is important that CERT programs tailor their exercises to reflect realistic events that may impact their community to practice skills they need to test or practice most.




Sunday, January 6, 2019

UPDATE 1-January 2019. U.S. delays key agriculture reports due to government shutdown

UPDATE 1-U.S. delays key agriculture reports due to government shutdown

Published 11:21 AM ET Fri, 4 Jan 2019
(Adds context, background)
CHICAGO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) delayed several major U.S. and world crop reports because of the two-week-old partial government shutdown, the agency said on Friday.
New release dates for the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report and other data originally scheduled for Jan. 11 will be set once government funding is restored, USDA said.
Traders regard the supply and demand report as the gold standard for crop forecasts. Its release often roils Chicago Board of Trade grain and soy futures and sets price direction. Farmers rely on the data to make their planting and harvesting plans.
Aside from U.S. forecasts, the report includes USDA's latest fix on everything from corn and soy production in Brazil and Argentina, both key exporters, to projected wheat exports from top suppliers such as Russia, the European Union, Argentina and Australia.
Also delayed are a quarterly report on U.S. grain stocks, a final U.S. crop production report for 2018 and USDA's report on winter wheat seedings for harvest in 2019.
The shutdown was triggered last month by President Donald Trump's demand for $5 billion to fund a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Democrats who now control the House of Representatives have vowed to fund the government through legislation, but Trump has insisted that any plan to reopen the government include wall money.
Trump and congressional leaders were to meet on Friday to discuss breaking the impasse. About one-quarter of the federal government, including many from the USDA, are off the job.
Farmers already battered by the U.S.-China trade war may also face delays in crucial aid and loan payments from the federal government because of the shutdown. (Reporting by Julie Ingwersen; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

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Saturday, January 5, 2019

Plan during shutdown. Jan 2019. SAMHSA. Applications Being Accepted for New Intensive Technical Assistance Opportunity for Peer Run Organizations, Recovery Community Organizations, Family-run Organizations, and Youth- and Young Adult-run Organizations

Let's hope the federal sector is back up and running by the deadline.

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Applications Being Accepted for New Intensive Technical Assistance Opportunity for Peer Run Organizations, Recovery Community Organizations, Family-run Organizations, and Youth- and Young Adult-run Organizations 

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) is pleased to announce the 2019 Capacity Building Opportunity, an intensive technical assistance (TA) opportunity for peer-run organizations, recovery community organizations, family-run organizations, and youth- and young adult-run organizations.
The 2019 Capacity Building Opportunity contributes to SAMHSA’s mission to reduce the impact of substance misuse and mental illness on American communities. Applicants are encouraged to consider SAMHSA’s activities related to mental illness and substance abuse disorders in the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee and its report to Congress, the SAMHSA Strategic Plan FY2019–FY2023, and Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health.
The 2019 BRSS TACS Capacity Building Opportunity will offer sustained, individualized consultation, training, and peer-to-peer support for up to 25 peer-run, recovery community, family-run, or youth and young adult-run organizations in one of the five designated focus areas.
  1. Partnering with State Systems to Advance Recovery 
  2. Developing an Integrated Workforce
  3. Building Infrastructure and Organizational Capacity 
  4. Sustaining Access to Treatment and Recovery in Educational Settings  
  5. Supporting Reintegration
For more information on eligibility and how to apply, please review the complete overview and application at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BRSSTACSCapacityBldg2019
Applications are due by Thursday, January 31, 2019, at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.  
You may email BRSS TACS at BRSSTACSCapacityBuilding@center4si.com with questions pertaining to this opportunity.

 

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) is pleased to announce the 2019 Capacity Building Opportunity, an intensive technical assistance (TA) opportunity for peer-run organizations, recovery community organizations, family-run organizations, and youth- and young adult-run organizations.
The 2019 Capacity Building Opportunity contributes to SAMHSA’s mission to reduce the impact of substance misuse and mental illness on American communities. Applicants are encouraged to consider SAMHSA’s activities related to mental illness and substance abuse disorders in the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee and its report to Congress, the SAMHSA Strategic Plan FY2019–FY2023, and Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health.
The 2019 BRSS TACS Capacity Building Opportunity will offer sustained, individualized consultation, training, and peer-to-peer support for up to 25 peer-run, recovery community, family-run, or youth and young adult-run organizations in one of the five designated focus areas.
  1. Partnering with State Systems to Advance Recovery 
  2. Developing an Integrated Workforce
  3. Building Infrastructure and Organizational Capacity 
  4. Sustaining Access to Treatment and Recovery in Educational Settings  
  5. Supporting Reintegration
For more information on eligibility and how to apply, please review the complete overview and application at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BRSSTACSCapacityBldg2019
Applications are due by Thursday, January 31, 2019, at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.  
You may email BRSS TACS at BRSSTACSCapacityBuilding@center4si.com with questions pertaining to this opportunity.

Friday, January 4, 2019

BE PROACTIVE. Harvard University Free Course. The Health Effects of Climate Change.


This course is not an elegy for the planet, but a call to action. Enroll now to learn what you can do to reduce the harm caused by global warming.

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The Health Effects of Climate Change

Learn how global warming impacts human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts.



About this course

Our world’s climate is changing. Of the top twenty hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred in the last two decades. This warming has already had a profound effect. Many feel powerless in the face of this challenge, but you can make a difference.

By looking at air quality, nutrition, infectious diseases, and human migration, this course will show you how increases in greenhouse gases impact public health. Experts working in a variety of settings will present their recommendations for responding to these challenges, and interested students will have the opportunity to learn about the research methods that measure the health effects of climate change.


Created with support from the Harvard Global Health Institute, this course will explain how climate change impacts people around the globe, but also how it directly affects you and your life. Though your risk rises with the rising global temperatures, climate change is a solvable problem, and there are things you can do to mitigate that risk.

This course is not an elegy for the planet, but a call to action. Enroll now to learn what you can do to reduce the harm caused by global warming.

What you'll learn

  • Climate change’s impacts on nutrition, migration, and infectious diseases
  • The research methods used in this field
  • Strategies to mitigate and adapt to the health impacts of climate change
  • How changes in Earth’s atmosphere affect health outcomes
  • How to assess the various ways of addressing the health effects of global warming



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