USDA 2018 Farm Bill Implementation Listening Session. February 2019

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USDA 2018 Farm Bill Implementation Listening Session
 

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is hosting a listening session for initial input on the 2018 Farm Bill. USDA is seeking public input on the changes to existing programs implemented by the Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Risk Management Agency. Each agency will take into account stakeholder input when making discretionary decisions on program implementation.

Deadline for registration to attend the event in person is February 22, 2019. Register at www.farmers.gov/farmbill.

The event will be streamed live on www.farmers.gov/farmbill for those who are unable to attend in person. 

No registration is required to view the livestream.

Written comments are encouraged by February 22, 2019; additional comments will be accepted through March 1, 2019. 

To submit comments, go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov  and search for Docket ID USDA–2019–0001.   

Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. 

You may also submit written comments at the listening session. 
Comments received will be publicly available on www.regulations.gov.

Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Aid. February 2019

Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Aid Humanitarian Essentials

Corruption, the abuse of entrusted power for private gain, disproportionately affects the world’s most vulnerable people. Even with their noble intentions, humanitarian organizations responding to a crisis are not immune from corruption. This course will help you recognize potential signs of corruption and apply appropriate measures to minimize it. Learn how to reduce the risk of corruption in your organization and contribute to a more transparent and accountable environment.

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Celebrate with your member Global Sustainable Partnership and World Water Day. March 20 , 2019.

Kimberly Fogg and GSP  we're with you.

To make giving even more attractive during GSP's fundraiser a silent auction of.....

                 2 Tanzania safari packages as part of our silent auction.  
               The safari packages will also include 2 days of going to 
               our schools to meet the kids and see how our project works  

Charles D. Sharp, 
CEO
Black Emergency Managers Association International

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I am happy to announce that GSP will be hosting our annual fundraiser recognizing World Water Day at Smith Commons Restaurant, 1300 H St., NE, on Wednesday, March 20^th, 2019, from 6 pm - 10:00 pm.

Join GSP and myself (BEMA International) to celebrate and enjoy live music and a silent auction.

GSP's last fundraiser raised enough money to purchase Hydraid Filters for 100 families including Albino families, People living with HIV, pregnant mothers and the elderly. 

This year, GSP hopes to surpass that number and provide for 200 households. And with your help, we can do it!

Please spread the word and invite others that would like to support our continued efforts in providing the gift of clean water for our children and their families in Tanzanian. 

Suggested donation for that evening is $50.00. If you believe in our mission and wish to help GSP achieve our fundraising goal as a member of our Host Committee, we ask that you make a 100.00 donation. 

We also have an amazing announcement to make, so stay tuned…

As you know, fundraising is the single most important activity to generate the resources needed to secure and support our clean water projects.  This is a "grassroots" effort, so we’re also having a month-long fundraising campaign from March 1 - March 31 and we are asking our friends/family/colleagues to help GSP spread the word through Facebook, Instagram, and emails. 

Below, please see other ways you can help. Together we have an extraordinary opportunity to bring children out of poverty and sickness by providing the gift of clean and safe drinking water globally.  

  

• March 22, 2019 is World Water Day - Conduct a fund-raising campaign on social media for that day
• Select 10 of your friends/family and ask them to make a donation or to match your donation
• Ask you friends/family/colleagues to participate in a fundraiser effort
• On Fridays at work have a blue jean day where everyone who wears their jeans donates $5 to GSP
• Give up a cup of coffee and/or bottled water for a month and donate that money to GSP
• Encourage your children to fundraise at school for World Water Day -- $1 per student to help the kids in Africa get clean water
• Ask your corporation for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding to support GSP
• Donate frequent flyer miles to GSP to assist in
• Ask your favorite businesses/restaurant to donate a % of their sales on March 22

Do you have friends/family/colleagues who can sing/want to be a part of a jam session at the fundraiser on March 20^th? If so, invite them to come and join the fun.

Webinar, Feb 28, 2019 1-2:15 ET. Protecting the Health of Children: A National Snapshot of Environmental Health Services

Protecting the Health of Children: A National Snapshot of Environmental Health Services Join us for an important conversation on strengthening environmental health services to protect children on Feb. 28 from 1:00 -- 2:15 p.m. ET. During the webinar we will examine the findings and recommendations expressed in the new APHA report, Protecting the Health of Children: A National Snapshot of Environmental Health Services. The webinar also will feature local perspectives from community leaders in Flint, Michigan.  Register Today! Welcome: Tia Taylor Williams, MPH, CNS Director, Center for Public Health Policy, Center for School, Health and Education American Public Health Association

Moderator: Nse Obot Witherspoon, MPH Executive Director, Children’s Environmental Health Network E. Yvonne Lewis, BS, BBA Founder/CEO, National Center for African American Health Consciousness Co-Director, Healthy Flint Research Coordinating Center Surili Patel, MS Deputy Director, Center for Public Health Policy American Public Health Association

Stay involved! Follow the conversation on social media @EH_4_ALL. Visit our website for more information on children’s environmental health.  This webinar was made possible with support from the W.K.Kellogg Foundation. The contents of this webinar are solely the responsibility of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the official views of APHA or WKKF.

National Reentry Resource Center. February 2019

SCA Highlights, Publications, Funding Opportunities, and more. View this email in your browser

Featured NRRC Posts Berkeley Study Shines Light on the Pressures of Being a Corrections Officer It’s widely known that jails and prisons can be violent and stressful places to work. But the well-being of corrections officers, while a priority for corrections departments across the country, has rarely been the subject of formal study. This is a gap that Dr. Amy Lerman at the University of California, Berkeley; the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) union; and the CCPOA Benefit Trust Fund aim to fill. “We started this project because we want to better understand the impact of the work environment on our members and the research wasn’t there,” said Stephen Walker, director of Governmental Affairs for the CCPOA union. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE STUDY _____________________________________________________ Legislation to Fund the Federal Government for Fiscal Year 2019 Includes $87.5M for Second Chance Act President Trump signed the omnibus fiscal year 2019 spending bill, which provides $30.9 billion for the U.S. Department of Justice and includes $3.02 billion for various state and local law enforcement assistance grant programs. SEE THE FUNDING BREAKDOWN Funding Opportunities Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children This program provides funding to promote and expand services for incarcerated parents and their children under the age of 18 as well as helps children of incarcerated parents gain more access to services that support their needs. The deadline to apply is April 15.  LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY Innovations in Supervision Initiative–Community Corrections-Led Violence Reduction Grant Program This grant program is inviting proposals from states, localities, and federally recognized tribal jurisdictions to serve as models for probation and/or parole partnerships with law enforcement and/or prosecuting agencies to reduce violent crime and recidivism among people under supervision. The deadline to apply is March 8.  LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY _____________________________________________________ “How Being Trauma-Informed Improves Criminal Justice System Responses” Train-the-Trainer Events for Individuals SAMHSA GAINS Center Deadline: Feb. 22 Policy Advancing Transformation and Healing (PATH): A Young Adult Mental Health Policy and Systems Change Initiative Center for Law and Social Policy Deadline: Mar. 6 Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Planning, Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center Initiative BJA Deadline: Apr. 16 Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives Program NIJ Deadline: May 13 MORE OPPORTUNITIES Featured Publications and Resources In Focus: Collecting and Analyzing Baseline Data Stepping Up Initiative Fact-Based Policy: How Do State and Local Governments Accomplish It? The Hamilton Project Mass Incarceration Threatens Health Equity in America Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco Top Trends in State Criminal Justice Reform, 2018 The Sentencing Project Tribal Reentry Advocacy Guide: A Roadmap for Increasing Access to Justice & Opportunity for Tribal Members with Criminal Records through Collaboration & Partnership Root & Rebound and the Yurok Tribal Court   Getting Talent Back to Work Toolkit Society for Human Resource Management in partnership with Koch Industries State Strategies for Establishing Connections to Health Care for Justice-Involved Populations: The Central Role of Medicaid The Commonwealth Fund Investing in Futures: Economic and Fiscal Benefits of Postsecondary Education in Prison Vera Institute of Justice and the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality Making Good on the Promise: Building Trust to Promote Equity in Career Technical Education (CTE) Advance CTE   MORE PUBLICATIONS Upcoming Events 2019 Legislative Conference National Association of Counties Mar. 2–6, Washington, DC 2019 Winter Training Institute American Probation and Parole Association March 7–13, Miami, FL Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children Program [New Applicant Webinar] OJJDP Mar. 15 Twelfth Academic Health & Policy Conference on Correctional Health Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health Mar. 21–22, Las Vegas, NV   Twenty-fifth Annual Conference National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities Apr. 29–May 1, Cleveland, OH Thirty-eighth Annual Conference and Jail Expo American Jail Association May 18–22, Louisville, KY 2019 Transforming Juvenile Probation Certificate Program Annie E. Casey Foundation, CSG Justice Center, and the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform Nov. 4–8, Washington, DC MORE EVENTS Media Clips How California Wants to Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs at Community Colleges LAist—California The Future of Prison Reform in Florida WLRN—Florida [Opinion] Lock the Parole-Prison Revolving Door—Rethink a System That's Sending Far Too Many People Away for Minor Violations Daily News—New York Cummings and Other Lawmakers Press to Eliminate Job Discrimination against Former Felons Baltimore Fishbowl—National Prison Animal Programs Are Benefitting Both Inmates and Hard-To-Adopt Dogs in Florida, Experts Say ABC News—Florida   Tennessee Will Open First Prison Housing Units for Military Veterans Nashville Tennessean—Tennessee Delaware Department of Correction Awarded Two Rare Federal Grants to Help Fight Recidivism WDEL—Delaware Newsom Plans to Move California Juvenile Justice Division out of Corrections Department Los Angeles Times—California [Opinion] Rehabilitation Through Spirituality and Faith: Why Isn’t the Prison and Reentry Reform Movement Focused on the Capacity Building of Responsive and Compelling Change Agents? Berkley Forum—National New Mental Health Screening for Inmates Could Change Lives, Anderson Officials Say Independent Mail—South Carolina JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT THE CSG JUSTICE CENTER Facebook Twitter LinkedIn This project was supported by Grant No. 2016-MU-BX-K011 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.