Educational. U.S. State Department.

http://exchanges.state.gov/programs/secondary-school.html

For U.S. Participants

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX)

The CBYX program is for German and American high school students, vocational students, and young professionals.

National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y)

American students learn less commonly taught languages in overseas immersion programs.

Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Abroad (YES Abroad) Program

American students study in Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mali, Morocco, Oman, Thailand, or Turkey.

Youth Leadership Programs

Students from various countries study topics that include civic education, leadership development, and community service. Programs include: Youth Leadership Programs, Youth Ambassadors, Benjamin Franklin Summer Institutes, American Youth Leadership Programs. 

Educational. International Students. U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

http://exchanges.state.gov/programs/secondary-school.html

For non-U.S. Participants

American Serbia and Montenegro Youth Leadership Exchange (A-SMYLE)

Serbian and Montenegrin students have the chance to live with a host family and attend a U.S. high school.

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX)

The CBYX program is for German and American high school students, vocational students, and young professionals.

English Access Microscholarship Program

The English Access Microscholarship Program provides a foundation of English language skills to talented 14–18 year-olds from disadvantaged sectors through after-school classes and intensive summer sessions.

Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program

Students from Eurasia have the chance to live with a host family and attend a U.S. high school.

Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program

The YES program allows students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend up to one academic year in the U.S..

TechGirls

TechGirls, a U.S. Department of State initiative, is an international exchange program designed to empower young girls to pursue careers in the science and technology sectors.

Youth Leadership Programs

Students from various countries study topics that include civic education, leadership development, and community service. Programs include: Youth Leadership Programs, Youth Ambassadors and Benjamin Franklin Summer Institutes. 

"Generations of Power" 8th Annual NAACP Leadership 500 Summit May 24-27, 2012

8th Annual NAACP Leadership 500 Summit
"Generations of Power"

Leaders are not born, they're developed.

 Either because of opportunity or necessity, someone takes charge and leads the way. Effective leadership is a destination achieved through careful thought, consideration and action.

TEXT L500 to 62227 (NAACP) to receive updates and announcements about the 2012 Leadership 500 Summit. (Standard message & data rates may apply)


          Hotel Registration   Welcome from the Chairman   Schedule-At-A-Glance

               
Register here for the Sandestin   
Please be sure to make your hotel reservations for the Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort Village of Baytowne  Wharf  Grand Complex.  The complex consists of the Grand Sandestin (main building), The Lasata, The Bahia, The Elation.


Resort Amenities include: Complimentary on-property resort transportation; two bicycles per unit for up to four hours of usage daily; fitness center usage; one hour per day of tennis court time (based on availability) one hour per day usage on either a canoe, kayak or boogie board.


  Roslyn M. Brock
Chairman, NAACP Board of Directors
Chairman & Founder, Leadership 500 Summit
The NAACP Leadership 500 Summit offers a venue for corporate, business, academic, community, and civic leaders to participate in leadership development seminars and forums that provide the opportunity for the NAACP to directly engage them in its current civil rights agenda. I look forward to your participation in this year's Summit.


 

Get a detailed view of all the events planned for the 2012 NAACP Leadership 500 Summit.

For general questions regarding the 2012 NAACP Leadership 500 Summit, please contact the Chairman's Office at (410)580-5102  

http://www.l500.org/index2.html

Gathering will set agenda, create continuing network of nation’s emerging leaders

No Ties!

The NAACP 8th Annual Leadership 500 Summit will be held May 24 – 27, 2012, at the Sandestin Resortin Destin, Florida. Participants will attend 2 ½ days of thought provoking,  interactive panel discussions, strategy sessions, and facilitated general sessions led by prominent private sector, non-profit, corporate and community leaders.
“Leadership By Design; Ensuring Our Legacy” strategy sessions will address the NAACP “Game Changer” Initiatives that strengthen our ability to be effective advocates individually and collectively effecting  real social change in our communities. Throughout the weekend, economic development and entrepreneurship; civic engagement and voting rights; criminal justice; education; health advocacy and environmental justice are topics for discussion. Professionals in finance, education, political leaders, lawyers, healthcare providers, environmentalists, and leaders in the civil rights and social justice arena, will lend their knowledge to help create innovative and effective strategies for advancing positive change for our families, communities and our society.
Since its inception in 2005, Leadership 500 has served as a fertile training ground for leadership development, professional networking, partnerships and effective civil rights and social justice advocacy for more than 3,500 mid-level professionals who have attended the Summit.  They have returned to their respective professions in the public and private sector, empowered as leaders, to contribute in a meaningful way to their place of business and to their respective community.
Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. With more than ½ million members in state/area conferences, branches and youth units, throughout the United States and abroad, the NAACP is the paramount voice of advocacy for civil rights, social justice, and equal opportunity for all in communities throughout the world.

National Guard: Command post helps National Guard respond to possible disasters

By Army National Guard Spc. J.p. Lawrence
New York National Guard

UTICA, N.Y. (5/17/12) - The scenario is as horrific as it is potentially tragic: what if terrorists attacked the United States with chemical weapons?

About 1,000 National Guard Soldiers, Airmen and New York Guard volunteers trained to respond to such a scenario at the Utica National Guard Armory as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency II Homeland Response Force validation training, May 16.

The FEMA II Homeland Response Force - which is a robust, specialized, rapid-response task force made up of National Guard Soldiers and Airmen to reinforce first responders in times of disaster - included members of the New Jersey, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands National Guards.

The organization supports civil authorities in response to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) or Hazardous Material incidents that requiring the evacuation, decontamination and medical triage of casualties.

Army Maj. Aron Sacchetti, executive officer of the Command and Control Element of the HRF, helps the unit coordinate with civilians in the response to national disaster.

Army Spc. Louis Cesario, focuses while training as a liaison officer for the Homeland Response Force Tactical Operations Center in Utica, N.Y. May 16, 2012. Cesario helps the TOC provide important information to the civilian first responders in the event of an emergency situation. (Army National Guard photo by Spc. J.p. Lawrence)(Released)
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“We’re working as the primary command and control unit here to ensure that we are able to recommend to the commander what our current status is here, how long we can continue to operate, and if we need anything,” Sacchetti said.

If a disaster hits the FEMA area of New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico or U.S. Virgin Islands, the HRF command post would be responsible for keeping track of the military units that would respond. This includes hourly reports on the supply, equipment and personnel levels of the military response. That information would go to the civilian in charge of the total efforts of the military and civilian first-responders.

“We provide that information to the civilian first responders who are controlling the overall response to make sure that he’s got the information he needs to coordinate the efforts of the civilian and the military folks to deal with the situation as efficiently as possible,” Sacchetti said. “The goal is to save people’s lives.”
Components of this response have been tested in the world, but the process of combining disaster response with a traveling central command hub is brand new.

“This is all brand new, which helps with the excitement and the enjoyment – the fact that we’re building this program now,” Sacchetti said. “We hope that we never have to use it in real life, and so far, we have not had to.”
Sacchetti said the exercise has already helped them build relationships with civilian first responders, but he hopes to continue building relationships in the future in order to respond to the unthinkable.

“We’re all very proud to be part of this mission,” Sacchetti said. “We realize the seriousness of this and we take our training very seriously.”

http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/archives/2012/05/051712-Command.aspx?src=rss

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