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2014 年 8 月 22 日
（星期五）
OAPIA Announces a Request for Applications for the FY2015
Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Grant
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The
Mayor’ Office on Asian and Pa⁃
s
cific Islander Affairs (OAPIA) is⁃
sued its Request For Applications
(RFA) for the FY 2015 Asian
American and Pacific Islander
Community Grant. Copies of the
RFA can be found at www.apia.dc.
govor at OAPIA’ office located
s
at 441 4th Street, NW, Suite
721N, Washington, DC 20001.
OAPIA is soliciting grant ap⁃
plications from qualified communi⁃
Building on Mayor Vincent
C. Gray’s Sustainable DC plan,
On July 30th,OAPIA promoted en⁃
vironmental awareness through the
art mural project for the District’
s youth. The art mural project al⁃
so helped to raise awareness
OAPIA Event
about the environment among
young people, and engaged them
in the conversation about green
initiatives within their communities.
“When it comes to sustain⁃
ability, everyone, including our
youth, can get involved to help
ty-based
organizations
(CBOs)
serving the District’ Asian Amer⁃
s
ican and Pacific Islander (AAPI)
community. The grant is intended
to fund programs that provide ser⁃
vices to the District’ AAPI resi⁃
s
dents and/or merchants in the ar⁃
eas of employment, small busi⁃
ness support, public education,
public safety, housing services, le⁃
gal services, health and human
services, arts, culture and the hu⁃
manities, Vietnamese American
youth academic and mentoring ser⁃
vices, and domestic violence inter⁃
vention.
A pre-bidders meeting will
be held on Wednesday, August
20, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:
00 noon in Room 1112 South at
441 4th Street, NW, Washington,
DC. The deadline for submission
B11
of grant applications is Monday,
September 15, 2014 at 12:00
noon.
CONTACT: Andrew Chang
(EOM)
202.727.5560;
andrew.
chang@dc.gov
For more information, please
visit www.apia.dc.gov .
make the District more socially
equitable, environmentally responsi⁃
ble, and economically competi⁃
tive,” said Soohyun “Julie” Koo,
OAPIA Director.
Montgomery County Human Trafficking Task Force to Conduct Public Forum
The issue of human traffick⁃
ing will be the subject of a pub⁃
lic forum hosted by the County
Executive’ s Human Trafficking
Task Force (HTTF), on Wednes⁃
day, September 10 at 7 p.m., at
the
Council
Office
Building,
Third Floor Hearing Room, 100
Maryland Ave., Rockville. The
HTTF was appointed in June by
County Executive Isiah Leggett to
explore possible new County legis⁃
lation to combat human traffick⁃
ing, raise awareness of the forms
human trafficking takes in the
County and review ways to im⁃
prove services provided by the
County to victims of trafficking.
The task force is hoping to re⁃
ceive testimony from organizations
or individuals with expertise or ex⁃
periences they want to share.
The task force is comprised
of members from the County Exec⁃
utive’ Office, the County Coun⁃
s
cil, Police Department, State’ At⁃
s
torney’ Office, County Attorney’
s
s Office, Circuit Court, Sheriff’
s
Office, Department of Health and
Human Services, Department of
Permitting Services, the Commis⁃
sion for Women, the Commission
on Human Rights, Office of Com⁃
munity Partnerships, non-profit ad⁃
vocacy organizations Montgomery
County National Organization for
Women and Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority and non-profit service
providers Maryland Rescue and
Restore Coalition.
Maryland law defines human
trafficking for sexual purposes in
Helping Children To Get Ready for School
Where does the time go? It
seems just yesterday that students
headed home after a school year
extended by a winter of snow
and ice to a summer filled with
sun and fun. And now every⁃
where I turn, the stores are filled
with reminders that it’s almost
time to go“Back to School!”
#And with fewer than three
weeks left before school, Dr. Sa⁃
mantha Ahdoot, secretary of Inova
Alexandria’ Department of Pediat⁃
s
rics, offers these tips to help par⁃
ents get their children ready:
#Re-establish bedtime rou⁃
tines: One week before school, en⁃
force earlier bedtimes and wake
times to give children’s bodies
time to readjust. Dr. Ahdoot says
school-age children need about
10 and a half hours of sleep
each night; teenagers need even
more.
#Eat a healthy breakfast: Fo⁃
cus on foods that promote energy
from protein, like eggs, milk and
yogurt, or offer low-calorie, low
By Christine Candio
sugar options like whole-grain ce⁃
reals or oatmeal with fruit.
#Set limits on electronics/
screens: Dr. Ahdoot doesn’ rec⁃
t
ommend taking away kids’ elec⁃
tronics; rather, parents should es⁃
tablish times when screens and
electronics are and aren’t al⁃
lowed. For example, no cell
phones after 9 p.m.
#Visit
school:
Attend
a
back-to-school
orientation
or
schedule a meeting with your
child’ teacher. This is especially
s
Liberating Education
May 18 was a glorious Sunday
in the Boston area. Tens of thousands
of families and friends descended on
one of the nation’ best-known edu⁃
s
cation corridors to celebrate the class
of 2014. My husband and I were
among the happy crowds joined by
my family from Shanghai for our son
Andrew’ graduation from Tufts Uni⁃
s
versity.
We fully immersed ourselves in
the joy of gathering, cheering, listen⁃
ing, reflecting and photo snapping—
including some selfies. Our weekend
of celebration culminated with An⁃
drew’ commencement speech on be⁃
s
half of the Sociology Department. In
a mother’s unbiased opinion, his
5-minute speech was brilliant, per⁃
ceptive, and entertaining, an affirma⁃
tion of the value of his college educa⁃
tion in shaping his outlook on self
and the society. Surrounded by fami⁃
ly, I cheered and laughed as I lis⁃
tened to him. It was a moment of pur