Dear Partners, Friends, and Colleagues,


CRSCAD's new Professional Development Program

November 2011 International Workshop with the University of São Paulo, Brazil

CRSCAD is pleased to announce that, in collaboration with University College, it now offers a Professional Development Certificate Program in Global Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Management. This non-credit Program, with its full course listing, schedule and registration on the university's website,  addresses the growing need for expertise in project and performance management during post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. It also offers a chance to explore new career paths or enhance those which prospective participants are on. The aim is to develop an international capacity to address the horrendous consequences of various forms of disaster. This online and "on-land" program consists of four required and one elective courses. Upon successful completion of each required course, the participant receives 3.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The required courses are: Reconstruction after the cameras have gone: Issues and Best Practices; Climate change, Global food and Water resources; Practical Project Management; and, Human dignity, Human rights and sustainable Post-disaster Reconstruction.  Students may choose one of the following electives: Social Vulnerability Approach to Disasters (3.5 CEUs); or, Performance Management in Government and Non-Profits (2.0 CEUs.)

Also, CRSCAD's forthcoming International Workshop, which is being organized in collaboration with the Chair in Multiculturalism at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, will be held at the University of Masschusetts Boston from November 17 to 18, 2011. It is titled: Innovation, Diversity and Sustainable Development in Areas of Social Vulnerability.

Please kindly join us in spreading the word around about these two important developments.

I thank you.