Women in Leadership Symposium 2025
Jasmine May2025-05-14T01:33:54-07:00This year's symposium will center around the importance of fostering robust and dynamic relationships and partnerships with women in all-hazard fields
Women in Leadership 2025
Jasmine May2024-07-30T19:18:21-07:00We are thrilled to announce the Women in Leadership Symposium 2025, hosted by the Center of Excellence - Homeland Security Emergency Management, will be held at Lower Columbia College in Longview, WA.
Women in Leadership 2025 Location Announcement
Jasmine May2024-06-21T18:44:12-07:00We are thrilled to announce the Women in Leadership Symposium 2025, hosted by the Center of Excellence - Homeland Security Emergency Management, will be held at Lower Columbia College in Longview, WA.
Rosie the Riveter
Jasmine May2024-05-01T21:07:21-07:00Rosie the Riveter By Nancy Aird The iconic face of Rosie promoted the female defense workers during World War II, but the name of the worker was unknown. The first poster image was titled “We Can Do It!”. J. Howard Miller created the iconic women in a red bandana with her flexed bent arm in a rolled-up shirt sleeve in 1942 as part of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. wartime production campaign. Norman Rockwell created a cover on The Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943. The women had a blue jumpsuit, red bandana in her hair, and was eating a [...]
A Salute to “Rosies” Past and Present
Jasmine May2024-05-01T20:51:13-07:00It never hurts to look back on our history, if for no other reason than to avoid repeating it!
Women in Leadership Symposium 2024
Jasmine May2024-05-09T18:27:15-07:00This year's symposium will center around the importance of fostering robust and dynamic relationships and partnerships with women in Resilience Management and associated fields
Musings on the Illusion of Certainty
Jasmine May2023-05-25T18:19:57-07:00“The great deception of life is to assume that what is so today will be so tomorrow” (former Senator Bill Bradley, writing in ”Time Past, Time Present).
Mental Health Resources
Jasmine May2022-06-28T18:57:37-07:00Mental Health Resources 2-1-1 Washington Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Stress and Coping Mental Health America Mental Health Resources in Washington Washington State Department of Health Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 SAMHSA’s Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 (Toll Free - English and Español) SMS: Text TalkWithUs to 66746 National Child Traumatic Stress Network Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) resources Green Cross Academy of Traumatology Training Courses: https://greencross.org/training-ce/ Memberships: https://greencross.org/membership/
College/Program resources
Jasmine May2022-06-28T18:35:31-07:00College/Program Resources Below are available resources for college/program courses: Inventory of courses offered at SBCTC Colleges https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/programs-services/professional-technical/default.aspx Career Pathway Course Maps Social Service Mental Health (AA-DTA) with Certificate Career Pathway Course Map Social Service Mental Health (AAS) Career Pathway Course Map Social Service Mental Health Certificate Career Pathway Course Map SBCTC Positive Mental Health https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/programs-services/basic-education-for-adults/beda-handbook/beda-biennial-conference-positive-mental-health.aspx?expandall=y&term=mental Bellevue College Bachelor of Applied Science: Health Promotion and Management https://catalog.bellevuecollege.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=7&poid=1659&returnto=292 Bellevue College Bachelor of Applied Science: Health Promotion and Management https://www.sbctc.edu/resources/documents/colleges-staff/programs-services/bachelors/approved-proposals/bellevue-bas-proposal-health-promotion-management-final.pdf Centralia College: Behavioral Healthcare (BAS-BH) https://www.centralia.edu/pathways/bachelors/bas-bh.aspx Clark College: Holistic Approach to Behavior Health (BAS) https://www.clark.edu/academics/programs/public-service-society-and-education/bashs/index.php Columbia Basin College: Applied [...]
Storytime: The Equal Rights Amendment and Me
Jasmine May2022-06-28T17:38:29-07:00Storytime: The Equal Rights Amendment and Me by Jim Mullen From 1973-75 I was an ombudsman in Jacksonville, Illinois, an exempt employee of a self-proclaimed “reform” Governor, Dan Walker. Though my “day job” was to advocate for citizens wrongly deprived of government services to which they were entitled, my “exempt” status meant the intrusion of state politics “after hours” was inescapable. The formal amendment of the US Constitution to include the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) required ratification in 2/3rds of the 50 states. In 1974-75, the supporters of the ERA needed only a handful of states to amend the Constitution. [...]