NU'ERA COMMUNITY ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION
N.C.A.A.
If your not an athlete, go PRO in something other than sports!
Association Sponsors:
Rev. Allen D. Jenkins, Pastor First Missionary Baptist Church...Bay St. Louis, MS.
Rev. Mark Turner, Pastor Saint Luke Baptist Church...Gulfport, MS.
Academic and Life Skills Coach:
Otis Livingston MSA, MPH
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Business Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Mississippi State University BBA 1988
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Health Services Administration Central Michigan University MSA 1991
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Epidemiology~Health Education University of Oklahoma MPH 1996
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Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention CERTIFICATION Univ. of Oklahoma Medical School 1996
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CAD Drafting and Design CERTIFICATION East Arkansas Community College 2013
Talking Points:
You don't know what you don't know.
What you don't know can hurt you!
Early Awareness...even earlier...
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MSU - Nursing + 25 + 25 + 3.5
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Trajectory
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Career * Alcorn * W * UMMC
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Academics: Anatomy and Physiology
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Repeat, Repeat, Repeat....
5 Tickets to the Middle Class:
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Secure Job.
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Health Insurance.
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Owning A Home.
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College Education.
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Investment and Retirement
5 Key Dimensions of Well-Being:
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Purpose
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Social
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Physical
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Financial
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Community
3 Outcome Measures:
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Thriving
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Struggling
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Suffering
" college Is Increasingly the Key to a middle class life "
INFORMATION AGE
Did You Know ...$
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ACT ~ SAT
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GPA
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Math & Science
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English & Reading
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80 + STEM = Ag Econ
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College Major
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HBCU & MS
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Charity & MS
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Research + CC
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Credit + Application
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Questions & Answers:
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what people?
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how are they destroyed-Men-Spir-Emo?
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what knowledge?
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how was knowledge rejected?
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who is rejected? Clergy?
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what laws were forgotten?
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why children and whose children?
Why is youth wasted on the young?
If I could do it all over again...
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School Work - Learning
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Old Folk and Advice
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Health - Mental..Physical
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Motivation ~ Inspiration
Focus: Increase of Knowledge
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Awareness: Era, Times, Day and Age
Mass Psychosis : Cancer
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Mass: People and Community.
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Psychosis: disorder characterized by a disconnection from reality.
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Cancer: disease caused by uncontrolled division of abnormal cells.
Enviromental and Systematic
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longevity of exposure
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compliant: local, state, national
Awareness and Knowledge = Medicine
IV~Knowledge~Brain Science~Learning~Inspiration~Motivation
Cognitive Thinking:
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refers to the use of mental activities and skills to perform tasks such as learning, reasoning, understanding, remembering, paying attention, sitting still and more.
New Era Disconnect: Information / Tech Age
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Character: Criminal History, Drug Test, Medical Records - Children ADD, Social Media
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Reading (Basis for learning, motivation, inspiration, cognitive thinking, ....(3 Brothers and Barnes & Noble).
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License and Test: MD, JD, DDS, LCSW, PE, MCAT, LSAT, Praxis....
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Direct Correlation $ to Educational Success by Resources.
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Family Plus Loan and Credit. Major and Grants/Loans. Debt=1 Trillion dollars. Forgiveness Companies.
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High School Matriculation (ACT/GPA)= $.
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Overcome Environmental Factors.
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ACT/SAT Standardization.
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80% Science and Math. STEM. Article....
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Brain Science and New Era Teaching and Learning.
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TedX, Google, MOOCs, Barns & Noble, Internet Feeds.
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Career vs Job. Specialization 20hr. vs 10k...hrs.
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Un-Employment: Preston and Trustmark Bank.
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Under-Employment. Walmart and Philosophy Degree.
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College Matriculation: Major, Mentors, Programs, Certificates, Gatekeepers, Co-ops, Internships, SI-Supplemental Instruction, GA & TA, Writing Lab, Weed Out Classes, ACT, GPA, Loans, Essays, Community Service, AP Classes, Science Classes, MTAG. Imminent Scholar, Pell Grant and Major Declaration, Direct Subsidized and Un-subsidized Stafford Loans and drop out and defaults.
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MSU-UMMC Nursing, Miss. College & UMMC - Low GPA and admissions to Medical and Dental School.
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Life Skills: Credit, Credit App-Pt. System, Finance, EmotQuot, Consumerism.
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Too much: House, Car, and Entertainment. No Generational Wealth and No inheritance for children. Funeral Lesson.
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Dangers of Social Media. The Computer Server and Memory.
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Criminal History: The Computer Server and Memory.
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Distractions: Gaming, Phone, Social Media, Addiction-Instant Gratification and Drugs, Reality Shows, Internet, Socialization.
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Condoleezza Rice. Office Hours, Go get it on campus.
Methodology to Implementation :
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Seminars
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Workshops
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University Out Reach
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Speakers Bureau
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Town Hall Meetings
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Symposiums
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Book Clubs
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Career Days
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Fundraisers
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School Assemblies
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Church Lectures
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Blog and Social Media
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Modeling / Training
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Organizational Culture Training
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P.P.T.A. (Round Table)
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Clergy Community Service
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Sponsor Driven Service
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Financial Awareness Theatre
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Credit Debt Lyceum
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Spoken Word / Open Mic
Barriers to Opportunity:
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Knowledge of the Opportunity
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Financial Hardship
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Motivation and Inspiration
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Time and Transportation
Church and School: Community Information Centers.
Five key dimensions of well-being:
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Purpose: liked what they are doing.
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Social: how supportive they found the relationships in their lives.
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Physical: whether they felt healthy and energetic.
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Financial: manage economic lives and feel less stress and more secure.
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Community: feel connected to and proud of the places they live and spend most of their time.
Characterization of Success:
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Thriving
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Struggling
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Suffering