“Ready Families, Ready Children” Family Engagement Approaches that Matter

This presentation will explore examples of successfully implemented approaches to family engagement in a community collaborative environment. Approaches include the Family Café model adapted to different neighborhoods, schools, and missions, and incorporating different styles of parent leadership and involvement. Participants will explore ingredients for success, gathering and using feedback from parents and other stakeholders, and learning from experience. Planning resources for developing an engagement activity in the participant\u27s setting will be shared

A importância do emprego de materiais retardantes ao fogo nas galerias comercias da cidade de juiz de fora / The use important of lower ignition building materials in commercial galeries in Juiz de Fora city

A grande incidência de ocorrências de incêndios e a falta de efetivo do Corpo de Bombeiros unidos as condições precárias de trabalho, levaram a uma mudança de atitude quanto ao combate de sinistros. A prioridade agora é a utilização de medidas de prevenção e combate passivas, ou seja, aquelas que inibem e/ou retardama propagação das chamas e da fumaça visando possibilitar um tempo maior de evacuação do local e estendendo o tempo inicial do incêndio até a chegada dos Bombeiros. Uma particularidade da cidade de Juiz de Fora (MG) é o grande número de galerias localizadas no centro urbano, cerca de 61 (sessenta e uma) que variam de acordo com a classificação adotada em: comercial, residencial e mista –comercial e residencial; no que se refere a um projeto de segurança contra incêndio. A prevenção de incêndios é um conjunto de normas e ações dotadas de forma a mitigar as possibilidades de ocorrência do fogo, bem como a de reduzir sua extensão, quando este é inevitável. Sendo assim, a proposta aqui é levantar as características das galerias localizadas na área central da cidade, área delimitada pelas Avenidas Barão do Rio Branco, Presidente Itamar Franco e Francisco Bernardino sendo que, este trabalho analisará somente àquelas denominadas mistas com mais de 5 (cinco) pavimentos, totalizando 29 (vinte e nove) galerias. E, finalmente, apresentar sugestões de melhorias e adaptações a serem empregadas no local, baseadas na normalização vigente e nos materiais retardantes do fogo disponíveis no mercado, a fim de adaptar as galerias às condições mínimas de segurança necessárias e facilitar a emissão do Auto de Vistoria do Corpo de Bombeiros para as galerias de Juiz de Fora e similares.

Operation and Application of a Regional High-Frequency Radar Network in the Mid-Atlantic Bight

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARCOOS) High- Frequency Radar Network, which comprises 13 long-range sites, 2 medium-range sites, and 12 standard-range sites, is operated as part of the Integrated Ocean Observing System. This regional implementation of the network has been operational for 2 years and has matured to the point where the radars provide consistent coverage from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. A concerted effort was made in the MARCOOS project to increase the resiliency of the radar stations from the elements, power issues, and other issues that can disable the hardware of the system. The quality control and assurance activities in the Mid-Atlantic Bight have been guided by the needs of the Coast Guard Search and Rescue Office. As of May,, 2009, these quality-controlled MARCOOS High-Frequency Radar totals are being served through the Coast Guard\u27s Environmental Data Server to the Coast Guard Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System. In addition to the service to U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue Operations, these data support water quality, physical oceanographic, and fisheries research throughout the Mid-Atlantic Bight

Annual and Seasonal Surface Circulation Over the Mid Atlantic Bight Continental Shelf Derived From a Decade of High Frequency Radar Observations

A decade (2007–2016) of hourly 6‐km‐resolution maps of the surface currents across the Mid‐Atlantic Bight (MAB) generated by a regional‐scale High Frequency Radar network are used to reveal new insights into the spatial patterns of the annual and seasonal mean surface flows. Across the 10‐year time series, temporal means and interannual and intra‐annual variability are used to quantify the variability of spatial surface current patterns. The 10‐year annual mean surface flows are weaker and mostly cross‐shelf near the coast, increasing in speed and rotating to more alongshore directions near the shelfbreak, and increasing in speed and rotating to flow off‐shelf in the southern MAB. The annual mean surface current pattern is relatively stable year to year compared to the hourly variations within a year. The 10‐year seasonal means exhibit similar current patterns, with winter and summer more cross‐shore while spring and fall transitions are more alongshore. Fall and winter mean speeds are larger and correspond to when mean winds are stronger and cross‐shore. Summer mean currents are weakest and correspond to a time when the mean wind opposes the alongshore flow. Again, intra‐annual variability is much greater than interannual, with the fall season exhibiting the most interseasonal variability in the surface current patterns. The extreme fall seasons of 2009 and 2011 are related to extremes in the wind and river discharge events caused by different persistent synoptic meteorological conditions, resulting in more or less rapid fall transitions from stratified summer to well‐mixed winter conditions

Family/Parent Cafes

Find out how a Catholic University partnership with Catholic and public schools, early childhood centers, an Archdiocese, faith based and non-profit community organizations shared Family Cafes with an urban community. Learn how Family Cafes, based on the five protective factors of the Strengthening Families Initiative, provided parents, grandparents, relatives and caregivers with a simple process for sharing support, practical parenting ideas, and community resources. Easy to replicate

Community Partners and School Readiness

Join in an interactive presentation on the successful development of a collaborative partnership in action between a Catholic University, Catholic and public schools, early childhood centers, an Archdiocese, faith based and non-profit community organizations to improve early childhood quality for school readiness and parent empowerment in urban neighborhoods through communication, family empowerment and professional development