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02/18/2024

Grant Opp: For Business Owners who are mothers:

The Kitty Fund is a $25,000 fund will make investments of $1,000 to 25 mother-led business owners in the form of grants.

04/05/2022

Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. shedding it’s icy darkness for another year. I look forward to moving my reading outdoors, to feel the breeze and the soak in the sun. I always appreciate this time of transform...

02/24/2022

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02/18/2022

With hit sitcoms like 'Moesha' and 'The Parkers,' the network gave voice to a new generation of Black storytellers and creatives. But a change in strategy ahead of a merger with The WB led to "all these … pretty white teenager shows, and it was very separate and unequal."

02/11/2022

A reminder to never give up on your dreams! Shark Tank investors told Lip Bar founder Melissa Butler to quit, but 10 years later, her beauty company is booming! Viewers have tuned in for 13 seasons to watch Shark Tank, the uber popular ABC show where entrepreneurs get a chance to pitch their company...

02/11/2022

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01/26/2022

Viral star turned showrunner Quinta Brunson talks writing roles for Black actors to play normal characters in 'Abbott Elementary'

01/21/2022

Job Posting for Registered Nurses in the State of Michigan

Position Title: Vaccine Coordinator
Location: Central Office - Office of School Health and Wellness
Salary: $75,000-$90,000
Reports to: Senior Director of Nursing
Bargaining Unit: N/A
Benefits Eligible: Yes
This position may be funded through Federal COVID Relief funding. If so, the position will expire on June 30, 2023 and may not guaranteed to be funded beyond that date.

Position Summary: Vaccine Coordinator monitors and performs the inventory, storage, and transport of all vaccines. The Vaccine Coordinator completes all weekly and monthly reports and submits to MDHHS/Vaccines for Children’s Program. The Vaccine
Coordinator monitors and performs vaccine administration, documentation into MCIR, and all duties related to ordering immunization supplies, vaccines, and maintaining
balanced inventory.

Minimum Qualifications:
 Bachelor’s degree (or higher) required.
 Current, unencumbered license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.
 Knowledge of immunization administration and practice, including COVID-19 vaccinations.
 Reliable transportation and ability to travel to various DPSCD sites, including multiple sites in a single day.
 Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Registered Nurse.

Essential Functions:
1. Monitors the storage and temperature of vaccine equipment daily.
2. Maintains and documents weekly inventory of vaccines.
3. Ensures that all transport equipment is properly functioning.
4. Ensures that students have appropriate consent forms on file prior to receiving vaccines.
5. Leads the administration of Immunizations at DPSCD sites with the assistance of a medical assistant.
6. Ensures that all vaccines administered are properly entered into MCIR.
7. Promotes and adheres to all DPSCD efforts to remain in compliance with state mandates for immunization compliance.
8. Assists the school MCIR administrator and users, as needed with all activities related to immunization compliance.
9. Monitors the work of the medical assistant, in interpretation of orders and administration of vaccines.
10. Provides education to students and parents on the vaccine schedule, and care following immunizations.
11. Ensures that parents and students receive documentation of all administered vaccines.
12. Provides care in the event of urgent/emergent episodes occurring as a result of immunization.
13. Ensure that storage equipment temperatures are documented twice daily.
14. Follow proper protocol in response to temperature excursions or equipment failure.
15. Remain current with all Vaccine for Children Program trainings and requirements.
16. Remain current with all MCIR trainings.
17. Prepare and participate with all Vaccine for Children Program audits.
18. Monitor and assist with the safe transfer of vaccines in event of emergencies, power failures, or equipment failure.
19. Assist with the training and skills validation of members of the health team.
20. Perform other duties as assigned.


Security Clearance:

External Applicants
In alignment with Michigan law, if you are hired to fill a position, you will be required to submit to a Detroit Public Schools Community District criminal background check.
Information regarding required background checks will be shared at point of hire.

Method of Application:
Applicants must apply through the online application system. Only applications submitted through the online application system will be considered for any posted position and all applications require a resume to be considered.

Successful candidates are required to submit official transcript(s) at point of offer to hire.
Teaching service outside of the Detroit Public Schools Community District must be verified by the applicant's prior employer(s) prior to hire. It is the applicant's responsibility to provide all documentation (including copies) as requested.

Applicants requesting assistance during the application process should contact the Office of Human Resources via email at [email protected] or phone at (313)
873-6897.

01/20/2022

Mac Miller reflects on his journey's peaks and valleys in a boisterous set of songs from Swimming, featuring special guest Thundercat on "What's the Use?"

01/19/2022

Activist and scholar Angela Davis has released a new edition of her 1974 autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison nearly 50 years ago. The book details Davis’s remarkable early life, from growing up in a section of Birmingham, Alabama, known as Dynamite Hill due to the frequency ...

01/16/2022

Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau.

01/14/2022

01/13/2022

EXCLUSIVE: Following a bidding war that saw several major players in the mix, Paramount Pictures has landed the rights to the Children of Blood and Bone trilogy, the action fantasy film based on th…

01/12/2022

Next week will be the closest the asteroid has come to Earth since 1933.

01/12/2022

Ford offered a look inside the train station and shared details about community spaces that will be open to the public when the project is completed.

01/11/2022

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01/10/2022

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01/09/2022

The Open Source Afro Hair Library, slated to launch on Juneteenth 2023, will be the gaming world’s first free database of 3D-modeled Black hairstyles.

12/15/2021

The prolific author, poet, cultural critic, feminist and professor, who wrote more than three dozen wide-ranging books, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Ky.

12/08/2021

Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future. As the late Mark Fisher said, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” We can...

12/08/2021

12/07/2021

The newly released clip offers a unique glimpse into Baldwin’s private life—as well as his resounding feelings toward white fragility.

12/07/2021

Content by women that’s meant to empower other women - now that’s what I like to see.

12/01/2021

Barbados removed Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and became a republic in a grand ceremony that started late Monday and included Prince Charles and Rihanna.