The Office for Victims of Crime welcomes your attendance at the National Crime Victims' Service Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 23rd from 3:00-4:30 p.m. (eastern time) at which we will honor individuals, programs, and organizations for their outstanding service in supporting victims. This year's ceremony is a virtual event and open to the public.

COVID inoculation rates in U.S. minority communities are dismal, hovering around 8%. They are currently eight times higher in white communities. Studies show that causes include misinformation about vaccine effectiveness and safety, lack of trust in government institutions and drug companies, the digital divide, language barriers, inaccessibility of vaccination sites, deportation fears by undocumented immigrants, identifying and reaching under...

ASPA's Annual Conference provides a yearly opportunity to bring together public administrators from across the discipline.The 2021 Annual Conference will take place virtually starting April 9. Bringing attendees together around the theme, "Picking Up the Pieces: Pandemics, Protests and the Future of Public Service," we look forward to a global collaboration to share information about 2020's challenges and help us all figure out what next steps...

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Threat Intelligence and Global Strategy & Policy teams will provide a briefing on SolarWinds. They will cover the campaign's scope, timeline, impact, lessons learned, and policy implications in the wake of the most damaging supply chain attack in recent memory. This briefing will strictly focus on their knowledge of the SolarWinds hack and the threat it poses for government organizations at every level. The brief...

Fortunately, COVID vaccines have been developed at a record pace. How has that been done, were any testing corners cut, safety standards violated and vaccines rushed into the public domain? In the second Public Health webinar in the series with the American Public Health Association, the Milken Institute, MDB and SSF, will convene vaccine research, manufacturing, and regulatory experts to answer these questions and provide you with important i...

Join us virtually, February 17-18, 2021, for the IJIS Institute National Symposium. This event will highlight national priority initiatives benefiting all levels of government and brings together industry solution providers, government leaders, and representatives from nonprofit and academic organizations to network and collaborate in a neutral, non-sales environment. The National Symposium offers the unique opportunity to hear first-hand from...

This is an interactive course designed to help participants learn about key tools that will help improve emergency preparedness and enhance communication during dam and levee failures and incidents. Participants will gain a better understanding of the emergency action planning process, including evacuation planning and emergency response methods. Key takeaways attendees will receive from this course: Learn how to improve the integrated operati...

ANME WINTER 2021 IS GOING ONLINE After months of discussions with our ANME Las Vegas partners and our ANME community, we have made the decision to forgo the “in-person” ANME Winter 2021 in Las Vegas. This was not a decision we took lightly but due to the continuing pandemic and current state regulations, there is little certainty regarding our hosting a “live” event in Las Vegas. This decision to cancel has been made wi...

Online and virtual learning can present unique student safety challenges. This one-hour Microsoft Teams training provides an overview for both administrators and educators to understand best practices for setting up policies and administer meetings and channels with recommended controls. These settings will help ensure a safer and more productive environment for your students using Microsoft Teams for distance learning. Participants will leave...

The need to effectively manage wildfires is obvious. California’s 2018 wildfire season resulted in the deaths of 104 people and $24 billion dollars in damage alone. The numerous wildfires that have ravaged Australia during the country’s 2019-20 wildfire season continue to show that effective wildfire management is a principal issue for governments, companies and the public at large. Since 1970, wildfires have increased in frequency...