November 2015


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Southeast Care Coalition Hosts Air Pollution Solutions ‘Thank You Celebration’


OVER 1,000 PETITIONS COLLECTED


Newport News, Virginia - The Southeast CARE Coalition, a broad, community-based partnership, created to specifically address environmental concerns in the Southeast Community of Newport News, and the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club, hosted a thank you celebration to


recognize


the achievement of over one thousand signatures on their petition to place an air quality monitor and establish a


community-based air monitoring program in the Southeast Community.


The celebration occurred as part of the Southeast CARE Coalition Meeting at the Moton Community House located


at 2101 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Virginia.


"It is exciting to see such a diverse array of folks in the community who care about this issue,” Kendyl Crawford, Conservation Coordinator for the Virginia


Program Sierra


Club said. “From churches and community


organizations Community to folks


on the city council, everyone really seems to be coming together in support of taking action for clean air in the Southeast News.”


of Newport


“I’m proud of the work that we have been doing to highlight the air pollution and asthma issues our community is facing” said community activist and Southeast CARE Coalition member Rebecca Thayer.


Petitions have been collected by


the organizations since early summer. In December, petitions will be hand delivered


in Richmond to Virginia


Secretary of Natural Resources Molly Ward as well as copies hand delivered to Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott in Washington DC.


“Links between poor air quality and diseases such as asthma and cardiovascular


are well established


in both the scientific and medical literature. In the Southeast Community, where there are numerous sources of toxic air emissions and residents experience disproportionately higher rates of asthma and cardiovascular disease, a better


understanding of


outdoor air quality is a must.” Dr. Erica L. Holloman, Program Coordinator for the Southeast CARE Coalition said. “I am excited and proud that citizens locally and statewide are standing in solidarity for clean air in the Southeast Community of Newport News. It is my hope that our administrators and legislators are inspired to take action and assist us by establishing air monitors and a community/citizen based air monitoring program in the Community.”


Contact Kendyl Crawford at (757) 268-8810 or at kendyl. crawford@sierraclub.org


for


additional information regarding the this project.


You are cordially invited to attend...


City Council meetings... Norfolk - regular meetings are held on the first and fourth Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. and the second and third Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.


Chesapeake - regular meetings are held on the second, third and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m.


Newport News - regular business meetings are held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 7:00 p.m.


Suffolk - regular meetings are held on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Hampton - typically take place on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m.


Virginia Beach - meets on the first four Tuesdays of each month. In July the meetings are scheduled on the first two Tuesdays only. Formal session begins at 6 p.m. Portsmouth - meeting dates are the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m.


The Hampton Roads Messenger 3


HU Receives $1.2 M to Train Speech-Language Pathologists


Hampton, VA - The Hampton University Department


of Communicative Sciences


and Disorders has received a $1.2 million grant to train minority scholars to work in high poverty schools.


The grant from Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (DOE-OSEP), will provide tuition assistance to 24 highly-qualified communicative sciences and disorders graduate program candidates.


will be focused on the acquisition


and the development the specialized


These scholars of knowledge skills sets


of


requisite for working with children living in high-need local education areas.


pathologists Dr. Carla J. Jones According to Dr. Carla J. Jones,


the grant’s principal investigator and associate professor, the demand for speech-language exceeded


has the


many years. “This


available supply for gap is particularly


applicable to the need for school-based clinicians where a pervasive shortage exists in both urban and rural high poverty


settings nationwide,” According to the Speech-Language said


Jones. “Further, the gap in the number of certified minority speech-language pathologists continues to widen.”


American and Hearing


Association, of the approximately 140,000 certified speech-language


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what is to come in the future. He stated that since he was just at the home of Vice President Biden last week and shook VP Biden's hand - his goals may not be so far off.


Vincent also speaks well of the woman he calls his better half. “Delores is


a social media genius while I’m out there on the front lines. Our combination of efforts has truly helped us become successful.”


Vincent Schilling’s accolades and accomplishments include interviewing


Sally Jewell, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, photographing President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, membership in the Native American Journalists Association and is an author of four books for Native youth available on native- voicesbooks.com. He also received a human rights award by Mayor William D. Sessoms for his Native American awareness efforts in the Hampton Roads area. In addition to his work as the VP of Schilling Media, Inc., he currently serves as the Arts and Entertainment, Sports and Pow Wow's editor at a Native American media network.


"I've come a long way from growing up on Compton Blvd. in California as a kid," says Vincent. "I hope you can make it to our event, it's free."


pathologists, racial of


only Communicative College 6.9 percent are


minorities. HU’s Department Sciences


and


Disorders, founded by Dr. Robert M. Screen, is not only the oldest degree- granting program at an Historically Black


has trained any


Nation. more other


can Speech-Language than


Institution the Thus, this funding provides


a much needed impetus which will be most helpful in the recruitment of minority undergraduate students from collaborative


institutions into the


Department’s Graduate Program. Drs. Tamara Freeman-Nichols


and Dorian Lee-Wilkerson are co-in- vestigators on the grant.


or University, it African-Ameri- Pathologists in


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