Attending FEMA EMI Higher Education Conference. June 4-7th

From June 4-7, 2012 Attending FEMA EMI Higher Education Conference in Emittsburg, Maryland.


Charles D. Sharp
Chief Executive.  Founder
Black Emergency Managers Association

Maryland Health Enterprise Zones.

The DHMH Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities urges Marylanders to become involved.  READ message below and visit the website shown at the end of the message.

>>> hez 6/1/2012 3:39 PM >>>

The Maryland Community Health Resources Commission (CHRC) and Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) are excited to provide an update on the state's continued work to eliminate racial and ethnic health and health care disparities under the Maryland Health Improvement and Disparities Reduction Act of 2012.

 

The new Health Enterprise Zones (HEZ) program, spearheaded by Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown and passed by the General Assembly earlier this year, will direct health resources to areas in the state that are most in need.  Funds will be available to community nonprofit and government agencies to implement innovative health care programs, along with tax incentives for health care providers to practice in the HEZ.  The state will devote $4 million in fiscal 2013 to two-to-four geographic areas in Maryland that will be established through a competitive application process.

 

Public forums on the application process will be held this summer and applications will be accepted and reviewed this fall. The first HEZs are expected to be designated by the end of the year.

 

The Maryland Health Resources Commission and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are working together to launch this new program.  Please visit http://dhmh.maryland.gov/healthenterprisezones for more information or email Hez@dhmh.state.md.us with your questions.  

FINAL CALL: Autism - Missed diagnosis, missed opportunity

By Saeed Shabazz  -Staff Writer- | Last updated: May 24, 2012 - 9:32:51 AM

Parent, advocates fight racial disparity in services, care for Autistic children

Eight-year-old Carl Woody suffers from autism. His mother, Claire Woody, is a member of Family Voices of D.C., which advocates on behalf of Black and Latino children who have the behavioral disorder. Photo courtesy of Claire Woody

(FinalCall.com) - For 20 years Lisa Alexander, of Stafford, Va., has been fighting for her son Reginald who is autistic. She has battled school administrators, doctors and law enforcement officials—anyone who she feels has hindered getting services her son needs.   
    
“I did not know the word ‘Autism.’ They kept telling me at the beginning of his formative years about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and saying I should put him on medication which I did not do,” Ms. Alexander told The Final Call.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Autism is a group of developmental brain disorders, collectively known as “Autism Spectrum Disorder.” The term “spectrum” refers to the wide range of symptoms, levels of impairment or disability and skills children with the disorder may have.

“Some children show signs of autism in early infancy. Other children may develop normally for the first few months or years of life but then suddenly become withdrawn, become aggressive or lose language skills they’ve already acquired. Though each child with autism is likely to have a unique pattern of behavior,” according to an article posted on www.mayoclinic.com.

The behaviors may be related to social skills, such as failing to respond to his or her name, poor eye contact, appearing not to hear at times, resistance to cuddling and holding, an apparent lack of awareness of others’ feelings, seeming preference to play alone (retreat into his or her ‘own world’), to language difficulty, such as talking later than age two other developmental delays, losing previously acquired ability to say words or sentences, not making eye contact when making requests, speaking with an abnormal tone or rhythm (may use a singsong voice or robot-like speech), inability to start a conversation or keep one going, repeating words or phrases verbatim, but doesn’t understand how to use them, said the article.

Physical behaviors may include performing repetitive movements, such as rocking, spinning or hand-flapping, developing specific routines or rituals, becoming disturbed at the slightest change in routines or rituals, constant movement, fascination with parts of an object, such as the spinning wheels of a toy car, may be unusually sensitive to light, sound and touch and yet oblivious to pain, said the mayoclinic.com article.
“As they mature, some children with autism become more engaged with others and show less marked disturbances in behavior. Some, usually those with the least severe problems, eventually may lead normal or near-normal lives. Others, however, continue to have difficulty with language or social skills, and the adolescent years can mean a worsening of behavioral problems,” it continued.

“Most children with autism are slow to gain new knowledge or skills, and some have signs of lower than normal intelligence. Other children with autism have normal to high intelligence. These children learn quickly yet have trouble communicating, applying what they know in everyday life and adjusting in social situations. A small number of children with autism are ‘autistic savants’ and have exceptional skills in a specific area, such as art, math or music,” the article noted.

“If a Black child twitches in a chair, they say he has ADHD. The problem is there is very little culturally-aware literature or programming available for Black and Latino parents who have an Autistic child,” said Jay Coleman, a District of Columbia school teacher with a Masters in Special Education, specializing in emotional and behavioral disorders.

“The system will use your ignorance against you,” Mr. Coleman continued. The bottom line is access to resources, Mr. Coleman said, adding, “That is why it is important to emphasize the need for the right literature for Black and Latino parents.” He has put together a grassroots entity SlickFish LLC, available online at www.slickfish.org and on Facebook, SlickFish Education and Therapy.

Medical professionals say three-years-old is the latest a child should be diagnosed for a utism. “When I asked why it took so long for the right diagnosis, I was told my son had simply slipped through the cracks,” Ms. Alexander said. Many Black families lose out by not getting a correct and timely analysis, she added. She formed a grassroots online movement, “A Voice for Neli,” to focus attention on the plight of families facing Autism service disparity.

Doreen Hodges, executive director of Family Voices of the District of Columbia, Inc., told The Final Call there are 16,032 children in the District of Columbia diagnosed with special health care needs from A to Z: “However, we find most of the Black and Latino boys are diagnosed as having ADHD.”

Ms. Hodges shared plans for a rally the first week of June at city hall. The purpose is to call attention to the need to provide grassroots’ counseling for families with autistic children on how to access public services, such as early intervention testing.

“White children are diagnosed as early as 18 months; but for most of our families the children are normally diagnosed at eight- or nine-years-old,” explained Ms. Hodges.
The delay in diagnosis leads to greater challenges for families, more stress and anxiety, and poorer developmental outcomes, she added.

Ms. Hodges said her five-year-old was observed by someone riding the subway and who helped point her in the right direction to get him help. “And it still took me 250 phone calls before getting the right agency to provide the Intense Behavior Analysis to stop him from doing things that were harmful,” she recalls laughing.” He was four-years-old at the time.

Family Voices plan to use the rally as a means to convince the D.C. City Council, and the city’s Dept. of Health to spend some of the over $2 million available for grassroots grants on a health leadership program. “The money must be spent by September and we need the grant money to form a support group that informs Black and Latino families on where to access the information on available services for their Autistic children,” Ms. Hodges said.

“Later interventions result in a poorer developmental outcome that can have a lasting impact on the child’s and the family’s quality of life,” notes Dr. Martell Teasley, associate professor at the Florida State University at Tallahassee College of Social Work. “No one is advocating for African American children nationally; it is widely known that our children are getting the later diagnosis for autism,” he told The Final Call.
There are no subjective criteria for diagnosing a utism; only brain scans can truly provide appropriate diagnoses, “because we are dealing with biological and chemical imbalances in the brain,” explained Dr. Teasley. Dr. Teasley co-authored a study that examines the disparity, “About one in every 110 children is diagnosed with autism. There is no racial disparity in the rates in which Black and White children are diagnosed,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education noted a short reference to Dr. Teasley’s study.
The answer to the disparity is forming grassroots self-help advocacy groups “because the national advocacy people don’t care about the African American child,” Dr. Teasley stressed.

The Final Call contacted Autism Speaks, which promotes itself as the nation’s largest Autism science and advocacy organization, for their view on Autism service and diagnosis disparity. “Children and parents of higher socio-economic status are in general diagnosed earlier,” Autism Speaks admitted in an e-mail.
“Differences in the age of diagnosis among ethnic groups may be due to differences in access to health services, including diagnostic services,” it continued. “Autism Speaks has launched a new initiative aimed at better understanding the barriers that families of diverse ethnicities experience when trying to access autism services,” the e-mail said.

The Autism advocacy organization said its goal was for more families “to identify Autism earlier and to receive intervention services earlier.”

The Centers for Disease Control’s Science Office was also contacted and e-mailed a response: “Data from the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network has been used to document racial and ethnic disparities in identification of children with Autism. The data points to the need for greater provider education and awareness of Autism spectrum disorders in minority populations, and more studies to better understand the source of the disparities, such as socioeconomic factors affecting access to services,” said the federal agency.

Brenda Eason of Norfolk, Va., has firsthand knowledge of the importance of getting the early diagnosis. “I had my daughter, Zaamiya, diagnosed at the age of three, and after the diagnosis, I wanted to know all I could to help her get better,” she said.

Ms. Eason advises parents not to become discouraged at the first signs that a child is having a hard time adjusting to everyday life. “Do not be in denial—use the Internet—go online and find other parents with the same issues, reach out,” Ms. Eason stressed.

Los Angeles attorney and Autism advocate Areva Martin, a mother with an Autistic child, did not allow Black and Latino parents in California to become discouraged after the L.A. Times revealed in a series of December 2011 articles that there was racial disparity in spending on services for autistic children.
The newspaper noted that the state Developmental Services Agency spent $11,723 per White child compared to $6,593 per Black child, and for the Latino child, age three to six, $7,634. “In January we launched Equality for Our Kids, a campaign to get the message out that there was a need to look closer at the disparity in spending. We sent a letter from our organization, the Special Needs Network, to the governor demanding an immediate end to the discrimination,” Ms. Martin told The Final Call.
The next step was to push for a hearing hosted by the state’s Committee on Autism, according to the author of the 2010 book “The Everyday Advocate: Standing Up for the Autistic Child.”

“At the hearing we called for legislators to provide greater accountability on how funds for people with developmental disabilities were being spent,” Ms. Martin said.

One thing discovered was that these political entities do not like revealing how they spend money in Black communities, Ms. Martin offered. “We did get a commitment from the committee chairman for better transparency,” she said, adding, “And the L.A. Board of supervisors said they would set aside $1.8 million for Black and Latino families with autistic children. I guess you can say we led the charge; but we are not done, just getting started.”

Related link:

 Autism Resource Directory (TheAutismResource.com)

Please help Focusing Our Resources for Community Enlightenment (FORCE) win $8,500 by voting daily for FORCE CNY85 Giving Project

Greetings Bema Members!

Please help Focusing Our Resources for Community Enlightenment (FORCE) win $8,500 by voting daily for FORCE CNY85 Giving Project.

To vote visit www.cny85.org.

In the Search Project or Organization box please enter: Ready Syracuse or FORCE

In celebration of its 85-year anniversary, the Central New York
Community Foundation is hosting The CNY85 Giving Project. The project
will award grants to deserving nonprofit organizations working to
improve the quality of life in Central New York. The project that
receives the most public votes at the end of the voting period will
receive $8,500.

Individuals can vote once a day beginning today, June 1, 2012 until
June 30, 2012.

Our Project: Educating Vulnerable Communities in Emergency Preparedness

Here are some tips to help us collect votes for our worthy project:

- Email your donors, clients and vendors with a link to cny85.org.
- Share on your social networks. (Don't forget to include #CNY85 in  your Tweets!)
- Encourage your employees, friends and family members to vote each
day. Ask them to pass the message along to their contacts as well.
- Put a link to CNY85.org on your organization's website.

We appreciate you support.  Thank you.

Keith Muhammad
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
Focusing Our Resources for Community Enlightenment

Reformed Church of Syracuse (Rear)
1228 Teall Ave, Suite 105
Syracuse, NY 13206
315-214-5110

www.forcecny.org

BEMA "I CARE..." Campaign

Join the Black Emergency Managers Association in their on going 'I CARE..' campaign, and taking an active role in caring about health, family, and our communities.

"I Care....about my health."

"I Care...about my family."

"I Care...about my community."

Two words, "I Care..." and apply it to your family, friends, job, church, and community.

"I Care.....because you care."

Sincerely,

Charles D. Sharp

Charles D. Sharp 
Chief Executive.  Founder
Black Emergency Managers Association

 bEMA

"One of the true test of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."       Arnold H. Glasgow

www.blackemergmanagersassociation.org

June is Men's Health Month. Let's take care of ourselves, so that we can care for our families.

http://www.menshealthmonth.org/

NRRC: Juvenile Justice Program Deadlines Approaching

Supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance

Center for Juvenile Justice Reform Certificate Program Application Deadlines Approaching

The application deadlines for the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform’s 2012 Certificate Programs are approaching. CJJR is offering three Certificate Programs at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC:

• Information Sharing Certificate Program, October 1-4, 2012 (final application deadline is June 28, 2012)
• Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare: Multi-System Integration Certificate Program for Public Sector Leaders, October 10-17, 2012 (final application deadline is June 21, 2012)
• Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare: Multi-System Integration Certificate Program for Private Sector Leaders, November 7-14, 2012 (final application deadline is July 17, 2012)

The Certificate Programs are periods of intensive study designed for organization and system leaders working with youth known to the juvenile justice and child welfare systems—youth commonly referred to as "crossover youth." The programs utilize a multi-systems and multi-disciplinary approach that focus on policies, programs and practices designed to improve outcomes for this population. The certificate programs are ideal for public and private sector leaders working in the juvenile justice, child welfare, judiciary, behavioral health, education and other systems that serve crossover youth. Upon completion of the program, participants apply the knowledge they gain via a Capstone Project—a reform agenda they implement in their organization/community. In order to enhance the potential for implementing cross-systems change after returning from the program, applicants from the same jurisdiction or organization are encouraged to apply as “mini-teams.”
For more information and to apply, please visit http://cjjr.georgetown.edu and click on “Certificate Programs” or email CJJR at jjreform@georgetown.edu.

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This is a National Reentry Resource Center Announcement. This announcement is funded in whole or in part through a grant (award number: 2010-MUBX-KO84) from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this announcement (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided).  

Webinar: June 26th. U.S. Nuclear Industry A Year After Fukushima

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Don't miss the latest complimentary webinar in The Council of State Governments' Policy Webinar Series -- "The U.S. Nuclear Industry A Year After Fukushima," which will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 26. Register Now! The events at Japan's nuclear power reactors following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami have important implications for the U.S. nuclear energy industry and state policymakers. Experts from the Nuclear Energy Institute, Joe Pollock, executive director of Fukushima coordination, and Marshall Cohen, senior director, state and local government affairs, will update state policymakers on the steps the U.S. nuclear energy industry is taking to ensure that U.S. reactors could respond to events that may challenge safe operation. They also will provide an outlook on nuclear power, discuss the current status of nuclear-related policies in the U.S. and provide an update on the status of moving nuclear waste to volunteer storage sites.

THE BEMA MISSON. Job Search

Dear BEMA members (All):

Our membership reach is expanding not only within the U.S. but throughout the world.

An International member of BEMA that has completed a masters program in engineering crisis management at George Washington University is in search of a full-time position in the U.S. or Caribbean Basin in emergency management but due to two factors running into a Catch 22 situation.
 
Experience, and U.S. citizenship for positions being advertised.   If any member has knowledge of a position available that would provide some full-time employment even a waiver on the U.S. citizenship requirement would help.

Send me any information, or I could forward our member resume to you and put you indirect contact with the member.

Job searching doesn't end until the first pay check is received, then the search starts again.

Sincerely,

Charles

Charles D. Sharp
Chief Executive.  Founder
Black Emergency Managers Association  


"One of the true test of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."       Arnold H. Glasgow

AP IMPACT: Almost half of new vets seek disability

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Associated Press

America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen.

A staggering 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now seeking compensation for injuries they say are service-related. That is more than double the estimate of 21 percent who filed such claims after the Gulf War in the early 1990s, top government officials told The Associated Press.

What's more, these new veterans are claiming eight to nine ailments on average, and the most recent ones over the last year are claiming 11 to 14. By comparison, Vietnam veterans are currently receiving compensation for fewer than four, on average, and those from World War II and Korea, just two.

It's unclear how much worse off these new veterans are than their predecessors. Many factors are driving the dramatic increase in claims — the weak economy, more troops surviving wounds, and more awareness of problems such as concussions and PTSD. Almost one-third have been granted disability so far.

Government officials and some veterans' advocates say that veterans who might have been able to work with certain disabilities may be more inclined to seek benefits now because they lost jobs or can't find any. Aggressive outreach and advocacy efforts also have brought more veterans into the system, which must evaluate each claim to see if it is war-related. Payments range from $127 a month for a 10 percent disability to $2,769 for a full one.

As the nation commemorates the more than 6,400 troops who died in post-9/11 wars, the problems of those who survived also draw attention. These new veterans are seeking a level of help the government did not anticipate, and for which there is no special fund set aside to pay.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is mired in backlogged claims, but "our mission is to take care of whatever the population is," said Allison Hickey, the VA's undersecretary for benefits. "We want them to have what their entitlement is."

The 21 percent who filed claims in previous wars is Hickey's estimate of an average for Operation Desert Storm and Desert Shield. The VA has details only on the current disability claims being paid to veterans of each war.

The AP spent three months reviewing records and talking with doctors, government officials and former troops to take stock of the new veterans. They are different in many ways from those who fought before them.

More are from the Reserves and National Guard — 28 percent of those filing disability claims — rather than career military. Reserves and National Guard made up a greater percentage of troops in these wars than they did in previous ones. About 31 percent of Guard/Reserve new veterans have filed claims compared to 56 percent of career military ones.

More of the new veterans are women, accounting for 12 percent of those who have sought care through the VA. Women also served in greater numbers in these wars than in the past. Some female veterans are claiming PTSD due to military sexual trauma — a new challenge from a disability rating standpoint, Hickey said.

The new veterans have different types of injuries than previous veterans did. That's partly because improvised bombs have been the main weapon and because body armor and improved battlefield care allowed many of them to survive wounds that in past wars proved fatal.

"They're being kept alive at unprecedented rates," said Dr. David Cifu, the VA's medical rehabilitation chief. More than 95 percent of troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have survived.

Larry Bailey II is an example. After tripping a rooftop bomb in Afghanistan last June, the 26-year-old Marine remembers flying into the air, then fellow troops attending to him.

"I pretty much knew that my legs were gone. My left hand, from what I remember I still had three fingers on it," although they didn't seem right, Bailey said. "I looked a few times but then they told me to stop looking." Bailey, who is from Zion, Ill., north of Chicago, ended up a triple amputee and expects to get a hand transplant this summer.

He is still transitioning from active duty and is not yet a veteran. Just over half of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans eligible for VA care have used it so far.

Of those who have sought VA care:

—More than 1,600 of them lost a limb; many others lost fingers or toes.
—At least 156 are blind, and thousands of others have impaired vision.
—More than 177,000 have hearing loss, and more than 350,000 report tinnitus — noise or ringing in the ears.
—Thousands are disfigured, as many as 200 of them so badly that they may need face transplants.

One-quarter of battlefield injuries requiring evacuation included wounds to the face or jaw, one study found.
"The numbers are pretty staggering," said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who has done four face transplants on non-military patients and expects to start doing them soon on veterans.

Others have invisible wounds. More than 400,000 of these new veterans have been treated by the VA for a mental health problem, most commonly, PTSD.

Tens of thousands of veterans suffered traumatic brain injury, or TBI — mostly mild concussions from bomb blasts — and doctors don't know what's in store for them long-term. Cifu, of the VA, said that roughly 20 percent of active duty troops suffered concussions, but only one-third of them have symptoms lasting beyond a few months.

That's still a big number, and "it's very rare that someone has just a single concussion," said David Hovda, director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center. Suffering multiple concussions, or one soon after another, raises the risk of long-term problems. A brain injury also makes the brain more susceptible to PTSD, he said.

On a more mundane level, many new veterans have back, shoulder and knee problems, aggravated by carrying heavy packs and wearing the body armor that helped keep them alive. One recent study found that 19 percent required orthopedic surgery consultations and 4 percent needed surgery after returning from combat.

All of this adds up to more disability claims, which for years have been coming in faster than the government can handle them. The average wait to get a new one processed grows longer each month and is now about eight months — time that a frustrated, injured veteran might spend with no income.

More than 560,000 veterans from all wars currently have claims that are backlogged — older than 125 days.

The VA's benefits chief, Hickey, gave these reasons:

—Sheer volume. Disability claims from all veterans soared from 888,000 in 2008 to 1.3 million in 2011. Last year's included more than 230,000 new claims from Vietnam veterans and their survivors because of a change in what conditions can be considered related to Agent Orange exposure. Those complex, 50-year-old cases took more than a third of available staff, she said.

—High number of ailments per claim. When a veteran claims 11 to 14 problems, each one requires "due diligence" — a medical evaluation and proof that it is service-related, Hickey said.

—A new mandate to handle the oldest cases first. Because these tend to be the most complex, they have monopolized staff and pushed up average processing time on new claims, she said.

—Outmoded systems. The VA is streamlining and going to electronic records, but for now, "We have 4.4 million case files sitting around 56 regional offices that we have to work with; that slows us down significantly," Hickey said.

Barry Jesinoski, executive director of Disabled American Veterans, called Hickey's efforts "commendable," but said: "The VA has a long way to go" to meet veterans' needs. Even before the surge in Agent Orange cases, VA officials "were already at a place that was unacceptable" on backlogged claims, he said.

He and VA officials agree that the economy is motivating some claims. His group helps veterans file them, and he said that sometimes when veterans come in, "We'll say, 'Is your back worse?' and they'll say, 'No, I just lost my job.'"

Jesinoski does believe these veterans have more mental problems, especially from multiple deployments.

"You just can't keep sending people into war five, six or seven times and expect that they're going to come home just fine," he said.

For taxpayers, the ordeal is just beginning. With any war, the cost of caring for veterans rises for several decades and peaks 30 to 40 years later, when diseases of aging are more common, said Harvard economist Linda Bilmes. She estimates the health care and disability costs of the recent wars at $600 billion to $900 billion.

"This is a huge number and there's no money set aside," she said. "Unless we take steps now into some kind of fund that will grow over time, it's very plausible many people will feel we can't afford these benefits we overpromised."

How would that play to these veterans, who all volunteered and now expect the government to keep its end of the bargain?

"The deal was, if you get wounded, we're going to supply this level of support," Bilmes said. Right now, "there's a lot of sympathy and a lot of people want to help. But memories are short and times change."

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http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-almost-half-vets-seek-disability-160656481.html

Government Contracting: A Three-Part Webinar Series. June\July\August 2012

BEMA Network members (Individual\Private, Affiliate, Community Participation, Critical Infrastructures):

Something of special interest to Non-profits, and Affiliate members.  


If you are outside of the Washington, D.C. area knowing even the D.C. contracting requirements could be of some us.

Federals workers and their families live either within D.C. or the neighboring communities that stretches even further then Baltimore, Maryland in the North, Richmond, Virginia in the South, Delaware in the East, and West Virginia in the West..  The degrees of seperation are far less then you think. 

 

It doesn't hurt to know how business is conducted in the District of Columbia.

Charles

Charles D. Sharp 

Chief Executive.  Founder 

 

"One of the true test of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."       Arnold H. Glasgow

Government Contracting: A Three-Part Webinar Series           Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Webinar Registration
This three-part webinar is designed for small business owners, including sole proprietors, business partnerships, general managers and owners of LLCs. Participants will learn the basics of government contracting from experienced attorneys at WilmerHale.

Thursday, June 21, 2012         "Intro to Federal Government Contracting and Subcontracting"

Thursday, July 19, 2012         "Government Contacting as a Small and Disadvantaged Business"

Thursday, August 16, 2012    "Contracting with the DC Government & Performing Government Grants"

Each webinar will start at 12 noon Eastern Time and last 60 minutes.
       Presenters: Joe Smith, Counsel, WilmerHale                     Matthew Haws,  Counsel, WilmerHale
                   Carla Weiss, Associate, WilmerHale                   Leslie Harrelson, Associate, WilmerHale

Please note: Registering here signs you up for all three webinars.       https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/353658632%3E