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Announcements:
January MI-NENA Updates
Happy New Year to all of our NENA Members! To kick off the New Year
right, we will have our FIRST ever combined APCO & NENA meeting on
Friday, January 20th at 10:00 a.m. in Sterling Heights. There will
be an ENP Study Group session prior to the meeting from 8-9:30 a.m.
Click here for further information.
It is my pleasure to announce the following MI-NENA appointments for
2012:
SNC Representative - Pat Coates
Member At Large – Mark Jongekrijg
Member At Large and NDC Representative - Mike Muskovin
MI-NENA Committee work:
ENP Recruitment and Training Committee: responsible for actively
recruiting NENA members who are or may be interested in obtaining
their ENP credentials. This committee helps to establish study
groups and coordinates training sessions for prospective ENP’s.
Committee Chair, Don Glasgow can be contacted at
glasgowd@barry911.org.
Public Education Committee: responsible for collecting, data
warehousing and creating public education materials for PSAP’s to
use in various situations. This committee will work with the MI-NENA
webmaster to create a page to house the information. Committee
Chair, Jill Fish can be contacted at
jfish@calhouncountymi.gov.
Michigan Standards for NCMEC: responsible for working with the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to establish a
Standard for Michigan PSAP’s when receiving and processing calls
regarding missing children. Committee Chair, Suzanne Cratin can be
contacted at
scratin@midland911.org.
By-Law Review Committee: short term committee responsible for
reviewing the current By-Laws and make recommendations to the Board
of any changes that need to be made. Committee Chair, Mark
Jongekrijg can be contacted at
mjongekrijg@occda.org.
Training Committee: responsible for coordinating with APCO and MCDA
to combine training whenever possible. Responsible to work with the
MI-NENA webmaster to update training materials on our website. When
necessary may create and/or ensure distribution of training
materials for Michigan’s PSAP’s. Committee Chair, Jeri Tapper can be
contacted at
tapperje@vbco.org.
A big thank-you goes out to those individuals who have chosen to
take on leadership roles within your NENA Chapter. Their hard work
and dedication is appreciated. If you are interested in
participating in any of the committee’s please contact the Chair of
that committee.
For those of you who are planning to attend the National Development
Conference (NDC) in February, we are putting together a Michigan
NENA attendee contact list. Please send me your contact information
and I will send the completed list out to all attending.
Mark your calendars:
9-1-1 Goes to Washington will be March 26-29th. This is an amazing
opportunity for 9-1-1 Professionals to educate our National Elected
Officials of the challenges facing 9-1-1 today. See the National
NENA website for further information.
APCO & NENA will be hosting training towards the end of March.
Please be watching for the training announcement that will be coming
soon.
Michigan NENA Conference is May 21-23 at the Lexington Lansing
Hotel, with a pre-conference course scheduled for May 20th. Please
watch the Michigan NENA website for further details as they are
available.
Michigan NENA’s 2012 Annual Conference will be May 20-23, 2012 and
will be held in Lansing, MI. This ‘Call for Papers’ invites
industry associates and professionals to submit a written proposal
to be added to the conference educational track.
Click
here for 2012 Call for
Papers Form.
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