PLAYFUL CITIES: Why cities need play and placemaking to foster children's wellbeing and city resilience Thursday, 21 January 2021 - 08.00 AM EST

 

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2021 Cities on the Frontline Speaker Series Session #01 PLAYFUL CITIES: Why cities need play and placemaking to foster children's wellbeing and city resilience Thursday, 21 January 2021 - 08.00 AM EST / 1:00 pm GMT / 09.00 PM SIN/KUL  Play and leisure are central to ensuring that children grow up happy and healthy. More time playing outside links to higher levels of happiness, however, our cities often lack opportunities or a city-wide approach to play. Covid-19 associated stresses faced by children and their families are a reminder to reclaim and integrate places to play in everyday life beyond the playground. The first session of 2021 Cities on the Frontline Speaker Series, jointly organized by Resilient Cities Network and the World Bank, will focus on “PLAYFUL CITIES - Why cities need play and placemaking to foster children’s wellbeing and city resilience”. This special session is organized in partnership with the Real Play Coalition.  The session will showcase the City of Tirana, winner of the Real Play Challenge. Anuela Ristani, Deputy Mayor for Foreign Affairs, will explain how playful placemaking interventions are enabling the city to build back better from the impacts of COVID-19.  We will also be joined by Louise Thivant Johannsen, Child Friendly Cities Initiative Advisor, UNICEF and representative of the Real Play Coalition, and Hans Karssenberg from PlacemakingX.       Register   Access previous sessions   Cities on the Frontline is a virtual thought leadership speaker series. The series, which began in 2020 co-organized by the Resilient Cities Network and the World Bank Group’s City Resilience Program, provides city practitioners and the industries and residents that they support, an understanding and means for responding to the pandemic and associated stresses, as well as solutions for planning towards a more resilient recovery.   For questions, please contact: media@resilientcitiesnetwork.org

New Orleans. Disaster Unemployment Assistance Available to Hurricane Zeta Survivors January 18, 2021

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Jan. 18, 2021 Contact: LaTonya Norton For Media Inquiries Only communications@nola.gov (504) 658-4962

Disaster Unemployment Assistance Available to Hurricane Zeta Survivors NEW ORLEANS — Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) is now available to certain workers in Orleans Parish who lost income as a direct result of Hurricane Zeta. The purpose of DUA is to help workers whose primary incomes are lost or interrupted by a federally declared disaster. DUA may be available if the disaster affected your employment — even if you’re self-employed, a farmer or a farm worker — and you fall under one of the following categories: Your workplace was damaged or destroyed by the disaster Transportation to work was unavailable as a direct result of the disaster You could not get to your job because you had to travel through the disaster area The disaster prevented you from starting a new job Your business suffered because you relied on the disaster area for most of its income You cannot work due to an injury caused as a direct result of the major disaster You became the breadwinner or major household support because the head of your household died as a direct result of the disaster You became unemployed as a direct result of the disaster Affected workers must first apply for regular unemployment insurance prior to starting a DUA application. Apply by visiting www.laworks.net, the Helping Individuals Reach Employment portal. Apply for disaster unemployment assistance by Feb. 12.   Claimants may also file by telephone by calling the Benefits Analysis Team at 866-783-5567 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. For the latest information on Hurricane Zeta, visit https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4577. Follow the FEMA Region 6 Twitter account at twitter.com/FEMARegion6.   # # #