Tenured VITAS employees who worked on dedicated AIDS patient-care teams in South Florida remember their experiences as challenging, heart-breaking, heart-warming and immensely satisfying in ways that still give them pause. The Only Hospice in Miami to Care for HIV/AIDS Patients “We were...
Last thing I will say is if you know me, this type of training is not "check box training" - it's designed by police for police. These training and workshops have also be given specifically to negotiator teams including those recently in the FBI - NJ and Toronto. If your agency is in...
holding their hand, asking them if they would like to somebody to pray with them," said Allen Lenard, another volunteer. "As much as I believe were were a blessing to those people, I know as a matter of fact, that they were a blessing to me tonight." ...
On a Sunday in October, the Monarcas Internationals took the field. The other team, like all of the teams in this league except that of Coach Barajas, is made up of Hispanic children. Their supporters sit comfortably in the noonday sun under umbrellas and on portable chairs, their legs pr...
” The animator wrote, “I heard that many youths volunteered for the flying corps and that while they were on duty they died on air raids. I wonder whether the film that we made influenced their decision to volunteer… I thought, in the future I only wished to make a film that would...
where sensor data and citizen reports can be triaged and acted upon in real-time by distributed teams of professionals, this paper offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the overlapping domains of the Sensor Web, citizen sensing and 'human-in-the-loop sensing' in the era of the...
The initiative began when a volunteer from local NGO Itsrainingcoats posted a photo of workers drinking milk straight out of the carton because of a lack of mugs. The photo—which went viral on social media—sparked Ikea to donate 800 mugs to those affected, and the brand also threw ...
they know they have to come up with results in a very, very short time," says Song, a veteran team leader. "This is not a prison," one engineer tells me, "but it's not a volunteer job either." In April the managers invited the wives of Team Rainbow's researchers--of the 39 ...
Reputation and trust, both of emergency management personnel and members of the public that provide data, are equally important. Emergency management personnel often formad hocteams or networks during an event in which not all parties or individuals are known to each other. Emergency managers must ...