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
- Essex County Representative
12:45pm Principles of Volunteer Leadership
- Geraldine Cespedes, Essex County
- Dawn Wilkes or Chantal Folkes, Bergen County
- Alexis Santana or Sandy Camerson, 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