This was only a dream, or was it a nightmare.
HBCU in ________ creates open door admission policy for local jurisdiction to support the 'whole community approach' to address social, political, economic, and to future opportunities in STEMM education and other national issues.
Program is being instituted under the following guidelines with and initial admission of 100 candidates in their jurisdication with a yearly increase based on the success of the program.
Criteria:
1. African-American male
2. Graduation from local high school
3. Completion of SAT within one-year of admission
4. Initial admission as General Education major for first two-years of attendance
5. Selection of STEM, or education major can be selected early based on
first year grades improvement
5. Participation in campus CERT team, and other community related organizations
mandatory. Salaried and volunteer opportunities in these areas based on
funding.
6. Financing based on tuition of lowest community college fees in jurisdiction
This is only a dream.
Totally thinking outside of the box. Looks as though the dreamer got out of the box and re-designed it.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Trauma: Post Disaster Crisis Counseling
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and National Crisis Counseling Toll-Free Lines Established for Disaster Survivors
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Release Number: 4025-125
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Project Keystone, a federally funded crisis counseling program for survivors of Tropical Storm Lee, has initiated a toll-free-phone number for individuals emotionally affected by the disaster. The number is 1-855-789-7890.
Project Keystone counseling services are available to residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who live in Bradford, Columbia, Lebanon, Luzerne, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Snyder, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Union, and Wyoming Counties.
U.S. residents anywhere in the country who are experiencing emotional distress as a result of a disaster can call the first nationwide Disaster Distress Helpline (DDH) dedicated to providing disaster crisis counseling. The number is 1-800-985-5990.
The Helpline operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Operators are multilingual. People may also text the DDH Helpline by using 'TalkWithUs' to 66746. Spanish speakers can text 'Hablanos' to 66746. Standard text messaging/data rates apply.
The Disaster Distress Helpline connects individuals under stress to trained professionals from the closest crisis counseling center in its network. The DDH staff provides free confidential counseling, referrals and other support services.
A National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is also available. That number is 1-800-273-TALK (8255). It is a 24-hour, toll-free, confidential suicide prevention hotline for anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Release Number: 4025-125
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Project Keystone, a federally funded crisis counseling program for survivors of Tropical Storm Lee, has initiated a toll-free-phone number for individuals emotionally affected by the disaster. The number is 1-855-789-7890.
Project Keystone counseling services are available to residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who live in Bradford, Columbia, Lebanon, Luzerne, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Snyder, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Union, and Wyoming Counties.
U.S. residents anywhere in the country who are experiencing emotional distress as a result of a disaster can call the first nationwide Disaster Distress Helpline (DDH) dedicated to providing disaster crisis counseling. The number is 1-800-985-5990.
The Helpline operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Operators are multilingual. People may also text the DDH Helpline by using 'TalkWithUs' to 66746. Spanish speakers can text 'Hablanos' to 66746. Standard text messaging/data rates apply.
The Disaster Distress Helpline connects individuals under stress to trained professionals from the closest crisis counseling center in its network. The DDH staff provides free confidential counseling, referrals and other support services.
A National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is also available. That number is 1-800-273-TALK (8255). It is a 24-hour, toll-free, confidential suicide prevention hotline for anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
Last Modified: Friday, 16-Dec-2011 14:42:28
Thursday, December 15, 2011
OPM Dismissal Procedures
New Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Dismissal Procedures for incidents within the Washington, D.C. area are posted.
These procedures are broad in nature with much of the decision-making being left to individual agency management, and the employee on decisions for early dismissals to decrease the number commuter traffic issues in a major incident that effects federal government, city, and community operations.
The shelter-in-place (SIP) guidelines should be of particular importance for individuals that would rather ride out the storm in a safe and secure location.
For individuals with children these procedures become even more complex for custodial, and non-custodial parents.
In any case remember safety is the key factor.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Perceptions of discrimination: A black and white story
By Stephanie Siek, CNN
"Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama," released Monday by the nonprofit Greenlining Institute, found a link between white survey respondents' perception of blacks and whether they believed discriminition to be a major problem in today's society.
White people who said there was "some" or "a little" discrimination were more likely to agree with statements such as "Irish, Italians, Jewish and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up.
Blacks should do the same without any special favors," and, "It’s really just a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites."
The Greenlining Institute study analyzed data from the American National Election Panel Survey (ANES) conducted by the University of Michigan and Stanford University, as well as census data. The ANES researchers spoke with a representative sample of about 1,800 Americans on 12 occasions between January 2008 and July 2010. Greenlining is a nonprofit policy and leadership institute whose stated goal is to work for economic and racial equality.
Tim Wise is anti-racist essayist and activist whose work often deals with white responses to racism. He says that white disbelief in black claims of discrimination is nothing new – and that white people need to take a closer look at why so many people of color believe they are subject to prejudice.
Among the study's other findings:
- Although 62% of white people questioned in the survey believed that blacks' level of health was about the same as their own, only 43.8% of blacks agreed. But according to statistical data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Office of Minority Health, there are definite disparities in health and health care. As of 2007, white life expectancy at birth was 4.8 years higher than for blacks. The infant mortality rate among black women was almost two and a half times higher than for white women. The asthma rate among black children is double that of white children.
- More than two-thirds of black people surveyed (67%) believed that black people in general make less money than whites. But the majority of whites (59%) believed that they made about the same. According to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, blacks' median weekly earnings were as much as $500 less than the median earnings of whites between 2009 and 2011.
- Another question asked who the U.S. government treated better: blacks or whites. Twenty-eight percent of whites believed that blacks were treated better, and 63% thought the races were treated about equally. But only 1 percent of blacks thought they were treated better, and most blacks believed that whites either received better treatment (56.4%) or were treated about the same by the federal government (42.5%).
"No matter what I want to do with my life, to demonstrate that I know the reality of people of color is not going to be on the test," Wise said.
"But for people of color to get a job, any job, they’re going to have to
know the things that white folks in those fields think are valuable pieces
of information...............................................
People of color have to know white knowledge, white wisdom,
and what their experience is, but white people don’t have to know
the experiences of people of color."
Posted by Stephanie Siek -- CNN
Filed under: Black in America • Community • Ethnicity • How we live • Race • What we think
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