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Announcement for Outreach to Minority and Women Veterans Project

The King County Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) is pleased to announce the release of an RFP for its Outreach to Minority and Women Veterans Project. DCHS is accepting proposals from agencies to provide outreach services to connect minority and women veterans to veterans’ benefits, services and other resources in a culturally appropriate manner. The purpose of this project will be to locate, identify, engage and refer minority and women veterans and their families, to veterans benefits, services and resources, and other regional housing, health and human services available to them, providing advocacy and follow-up as needed. Agencies will be expected to develop or expand their knowledge of issues facing veterans and their families; to retain and report performance measures; and to follow-up with clients once a referral has been made. Collaborative, inter-agency proposals will be accepted. All applications need to be received by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, February 19, 2010...

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SCC's MLK Day Food Drive tops 25,000 lb. Goal

Question: Can a group of Shoreline Community College students who find inspiration in the words and example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., collect 25,000 pounds of donated food in just one day?

Answer: No, they can collect 26,233 pounds in one day, add to the total the next day and then donate it all to local food banks

The project involved putting donation sites and volunteers in front of nine participating grocery stores across the north end of King County on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. While the project was coordinated through the Center for Service Learning, Caldwell also worked with SCC Veterans Center coordinator Jonathan Phillips and student Ava Munson, who serves in student government as Minister of Social Justice. A number of college administrators and staff also volunteered for the project...

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UWB, CCC students participate in Day of Service

To celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and take part of the MLK Day of Service, students from UW-Bothell and Cascadia helped with projects around Bothell on Saturday Feb 16th.

Highlights of note:

200 volunteers including staff, students and faculty at Cascadia and UWB planted 500 seedlings at Juanita Woodlands; removed yards of blackberry brambles at Blythe Park; visited three senior centers in Bothell; assisted a foster care home with yard and house chores; donated 200 food items to Greater Bothell Parent Resource Center; decorated 100 additional food bags; wrote messages in 75 cards for Children's Hospital; did prep work for the mural that will be completed at Maywood Hills Elementary by Cascadia art students later this quarter; and participated in MLK Day reflection activities. Also, on day of the MLK Holiday, 20 people gathered to participate in dialogue with Bothell Mayor Lamb and attend the march through downtown Bothell.

Veterans in Construction Electrical

About Veterans in Construction Electrical (VICE)

The Puget Sound Electrical Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (PSE-JATC) is offering career opportunities in the highly skilled trade of electrical construction. In cooperation with NECA and IBEW local 46, PSEJATC has created and launched a new training program for US military veterans returning from active duty. “VICE” is a 14 week intensive training program for selected veterans with an aptitude for the electrical industry. PSEJATC is proud to assist transitioning veterans enter into an exciting career within the electrical construction industry.

http://www.viceforvets.org/Veterans_In_Construction_Electrical/HOME.html

Textbook Publisher to Rent to College Students

In the rapidly evolving college textbook market, one of the nation’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, announced Thursday that it would start renting books to students this year, at 40 percent to 70 percent of the sale price.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/education/14textbook.html?_r=1&em

Dependable Strengths Training for Vets - FREE!

We have been able to secure a no-cost training opportunity for student veterans to be offered at Edmonds Community College on January 22 from 8-12:00.

Dependable Strengths (DS) was created by Bernard Haldane who worked extensively to help military personnel back in 1945 transition from military to civilian life. The Dependable Strengths Articulation Process has since become part of the alumni placement process for the Harvard Business School and has been taught around the world in China, South Africa, South Korea, Japan, and England with college and university students, k-12 system, prisons and prisoners, major corporations and employees, unemployed workers and the list goes on. Haldane, now deceased, has a quote that best summarizes the work:

“Because you’re unique, there’s something you are better at than anybody else. You have a unique pattern of Dependable Strengths…when you know the core skills of your pattern, you have power over how they are developed, combined, and applied. Then you gain job security, resilience, employability, focused energy, new possibilities and more.”

While the training typically occurs over a 2 day period, this training consists of an initial four hour session followed by another if participants want one one. The cost is usually around $750 for the full training and the trainers also bill something like $600/day. The DS crew wants to honor the service of our vets and this training is at no cost to them. So far there are 10 enrolled for the class with a maximum of 20.

All those interested should contact Peter Schmidt at peter.schmidt@edcc.edu