Agenda:
8:30am Registration & Breakfast
9:00am Welcome
9:15am Climate and Health 101: Access and Understand Local Climate and Health
Impacts Laptops needed!
- Vanessa Tropiano - Research Project Manager
NJ Climate Change Resource Center, Rutgers University
10:30am Break
10:45am Points of Entry for Health into Climate Change-Related Planning Processes.
Strategies to Address Climate-Health for Hazard Mitigation and Other Plans
- Pritpal Bamhrah - Senior Research Specialist
- Ashlyn Spector - Senior Research Specialist
NJ Climate Change Resource Center, Rutgers University
11:30am Lunch
12:15pm MRC Volunteer Highlights
- Peggy Schunk, Bergen County
- Robert Malberti, Passaic County
- Scott A. Maynard, Essex County
12:45pm Principles of Volunteer Leadership
- Geraldine Cespedes, Essex County
- Chantal Folkes, Bergen County
- Alexis Santana, Passaic County
1:15pm In Our Own Voice
National Alliance on Mental Illness, NAMI, Volunteers
2:15 pm De-Escalation Strategies
Dana Bernstein, Dare to Live Brave, LLC
3:15pm Closing, Evaluation & Raffle
3:30pm Conclude
Approved for 5.25 Public Health CEs
The Conference Center is located on the 7th Floor of:
University Hall – The College of Education and Human Services.
PLEASE READ: All guests must park their vehicle in the Red Hawk Deck. No other space or parking deck is available for guests on campus. A ticket will be issued for any space other than the Red Hawk Deck that is irreversible by Conference Services
Use Waze “Parking - Red Hawk Deck” or Google Maps “Red Hawk Parking Deck”
Once you arrive on campus -
● Take Normal Avenue
● Turn onto College Avenue (main campus entrance)
● College Avenue will bend to the left and the parking garage is on the right
● Parking for guests is in the Red Hawk Deck adjacent to the Alexander Kasser Theater.
Once you park -
Pedestrian pathway:
Exit the deck at the rear of level 5 – to north campus and there is a small ramp, make a right on the path (before passing the soccer field) then a left once you reach the asphalt roadway. Take this straight until you reach University Hall/The College of Education and Human Services (it is the second Spanish Mission style building on the left) Go through the lobby heading north, take the 2nd bank of elevators at the end of the hallway on the right and go to the 7th floor.
Shuttle:
Guests are welcome to ride a University shuttle when available (first stop is typically University Hall). Access the shuttle from the Red Hawk Deck parking garage level 2 – street level.