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Housing As A Community Asset, Milan Wall

Heartland Center for Leadership Development Materials

Slides of a presentation, Housing as a Community Asset, presented by Milan Wall, Co-Director of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, created December 19, 2007.

How Would You Describe Housing in Your Community?

December 2007 - Staff Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Diagnosis Of The July 6, 2002 Ogallala, Nebraska Flash Flood, David B. Radell, Mark R. Anderson, John W. Stoppkotte, James R. Mccormick

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

During the early morning hours of 6 July 2002, a mesoscale convective system (MCS) traversed southwestern Nebraska and produced more than 40 cm of precipitation, resulting in a flash flood that closed Interstate 80 and caused one fatality near Ogallala, Nebraska. Regional climatology yields that this flash flood ranked first in precipitation amount for a 24 hour period over the past one hundred years. Synoptic and mesoscale features similar to other flash flooding events and conducive to extremely heavy precipitation were in place over the Central Plains, including a weak upper level ridge, high precipitable water values (180% of normal), …

November 2007 - Staff Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Board Of Directors Training, Heartland Center For Leadership Development

Heartland Center for Leadership Development Materials

Board of Directors Development

Roles and Responsibilities

Time Devoted to Six Basic Elements

Obstacles

Strategies

Ethics

Recruitment

September 2007 - Staff Meeting Minutes-

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

2-1-1 In The Mid South Delta: A Collective Case Study, Nancy Shank

Nancy Shank Publications

In the summer of 2005, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded a $200,000 grant to the United Way of America to demonstrate the ability of three Mississippi Delta states to develop 2-1-1 services and enable community resource data sharing. The three states, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, face significant social and economic challenges, particularly in the Mississippi Delta region. The focus of the Kellogg Foundation funding was development of resource databases and 2-1-1 in Arkansas and Mississippi, with particular focus on the Mid South Delta area. The 2-1-1 for northeast Louisiana, located in Louisiana’s Delta area, also received funding to enhance their …

The Dialogue, Summer 2007

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

CONTENTS:
Ask the Field
Profile of the Center for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness
Program Design Elements of Successful Crisis Counseling and Outreach Programs Following a Disaster
A Model for Entry into Schools: A Practice Module Which Demonstrated Success
Remote Management of Crisis Counseling Program Teams in Colorado
Learning from the Past: Historical Disasters—Perspectives for the Field
Recommended Reading
Conference Highlights
Upcoming Meetings

Ask The Field, Denise Bulling

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

How can disaster behavioral health responders at the State and local levels use the techniques and tools of the Incident Command System (ICS) to target their response to and preparedness for disaster to work within the overall disaster response structure?

Denise Bulling: Disaster behavioral health is more than a set of clinical interventions or the delivery of psychological first aid. The behavioral health response has to be organized and deployed in a way that fits with the greater response to disaster or our ability to reach those who could benefit from education or intervention will be limited. ICS principles provide …

May 2007 - Staff Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

April 2007 - Advisory Council Meeting

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

April 2007 - Staff Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

2007 Unl Department Teaching Award

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Aglec Lands Honor (Universitywide Departmental Teaching Award)

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Materials and History

Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication will receive the University of Nebraska's highest departmental award for excellence in teaching. Announced April 6, AgLEC (part of the College of Agricultural and Natural Resources) will collect the Universitywide Departmental Teaching Award during an April 30 ceremony in Lincoln. The UDTA recognizes a department within the university that has made a unique and significant contribution to teaching. "AgLEC is a department where the faculty models the very best practices in college teaching and it shows in the results of their students," said John Owens, Vice Chancellor of IANR and NU vice president. "It sort …

February 2007 - Staff Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

January 2007 - Staff Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Gender, Education, And Age Upon Leaders' Use Of Influence Tactics And Full Range Leadership Behaviors, John E. Barbuto Jr., Susan Fritz, Gina S. Matkin, David B. Marx

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Relationships of gender, age, and education to leadership styles and leaders' influence tactics were examined with 56 leaders and 234 followers from a variety of organizations. Leadership behaviors were measured with the Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ—rater version). Influence tactics were measured with Yukl’s Influence Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ). Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was used to test behavioral differences attributed to leaders' gender, age, and education groups, as well as the interaction of age and education with gender. Results show that gender produced a small direct effect on leadership behaviors. The interaction of gender and education produced consistent differences in leadership …

December 2007 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

February 2007 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

September 2007 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

November 2007 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

May 2007 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

January 2007 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Annual Arctic Wolf Pack Size Related To Arctic Hare Numbers, L. David Mech

USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

During the summers of 2000 through 2006, I counted arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos) pups and adults in a pack, arctic hares (Lepus arcticus) along a 9 km index route in the area, and muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in a 250 km² part of the area near Eureka (80° N, 86° W), Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Adult wolf numbers did not correlate with muskox numbers, but they were positively related (r² = 0.89; p < 0.01) to an arctic hare index. This is the first report relating wolf numbers to non-ungulate prey.

Pendant les étés 2000 à 2006, j’ai compté les jeunes loups arctiques et les adultes (Canis lupus arctos …

Nebraska Judicial Structure And Administrative Task Force Final Report, Nebraska Judicial Structure And Administration Task Force

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

The Nebraska courts face a challenge shared by many state courts, determining the optimum number of judges needed to successfully do the work of the district, county and juvenile courts. Maintaining an adequate level of judicial resources is essential to effectively manage and resolve court business while providing meaningful access to the courts for the citizens of Nebraska. In order to meet these challenges, an objective assessment of the number and allocation of judges needed to handle caseloads is necessary. To this end, the Administrative Office of the Courts contracted with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) to conduct …

Behavioral Health Guidelines For Medical Isolation, Denise Bulling, Robin Zagurski, Stacey Hoffman

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

Contents:

I. Introduction and Background

II. Behavioral Health Guidelines for use with Hospital Isolation Precautions
Section I: Patients
Section II: Staff
Section III: Family (of Patients
Section IV: Community
Table: Summary of Behavioral Health Guidelines for use with Hospital Isolation Precautions

Appendix I: TEMPLATE – POLICY AND PROCEDURE

Appendix II: Sample Suicide Precautions Protocol

Appendix III: Screening Resources

Appendix IV: COMMON STRESS REACTIONS

Precedent Of The European Convention On Human Rights To The Cia's High Value Detainees Program In And Through Europe, Tarik Abdel-Monem

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

Rendering terror suspects to nations that permit the use of torture is one of several methods the United States has added to its national security arsenal in recent decades. News leaks and reports regarding the "outsourcing of terror" are not new, especially after September 11, 2001. According to a former CIA official, "[w]e pick up a suspect or we arrange for one of our partner countries to do it. Then the suspect is placed on civilian transport to a third country where, let's make no bones about it, they use torture. If you want a good interrogation, you send someone …

Nebraska Judictial Structure & Administration Task Force Final Report

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

The Nebraska courts face a challenge shared by many state courts, determining the optimum number of judges needed to successfully do the work of the district, county and juvenile courts. Maintaining an adequate level of judicial resources is essential to effectively manage and resolve court business while providing meaningful access to the courts for the citizens of Nebraska. In order to meet these challenges, an objective assessment of the number and allocation of judges needed to handle caseloads is necessary. To this end, the Administrative Office of the Courts contracted with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) to conduct …

The Public Engagement Project On Community Control Measures For Pandemic Influenza Findings And Recommendations From Citizen And Stakeholder Deliberation Days

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

The Public Engagement Project On Community Control Measures for Pandemic Influenza was carried out in October and November 2006 to engage the public in discussions and deliberations about the economic and social tradeoffs associated with community control measures to slow the spread of the disease. The project was sponsored by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and The Keystone Center, serving as a third party neutral facilitator. Fourteen other organizations participated, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To conduct this public engagement, the sponsors made use made use of the Policy Analysis CollaborativE (PACE), …

Western Nebraska Health Information Exchange: Public Health Reporting – Where Does All The Data Go?, Keerun Kamble, Nancy C. Shank, Kim Woods, Mark Dekraai, Elizabeth T. Willborn

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

The Public Health Reporting - Schematics and Matrix outlines the current requirements of public health surveillance and reporting from rural healthcare providers to local, state, and national entities. The report was created to enhance the understanding of public health reporting for members of the Western Nebraska Health Information Exchange Network.

The Public Health Reporting- Schematics and Matrix:

- Highlights the complex processes, duplicate steps, and challenges with public health reporting and information sharing in Western Nebraska.

- Enables public health administrators, educators, and policy makers to make reporting systems more efficient.

- Illustrates an effective way to document a public …