By now, you should have received an email from NENA with a link to your 2014 NENA dues notice. Help NENA go green and save a stamp by choosing to pay online by check or credit card. If this is not an option for you or your agency, the email also contained a link allowing you to print out a copy of your invoice for local processing.
Instantly renew your membership online in just a few easy steps:
1) Simply log in to the NENA website
2) Go to your Manage Profile page
3) Click on Membership under the "Account History" header to view your renewal options.
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5) Print out a receipt for your records
In appreciation of your continued support, when you renew online by credit card before December 31, 2013, you will receive free access to an upcoming NENA webinar of your choice - a $50 value!
We look forward to sharing many new and exciting member benefits with you in the coming year!
Attendees of our conference are always looking for new and better ways of doing things in their professional and personal lives. Feedback from previous conferences shows that attendees expect to walk out of each breakout with key takeaways that are new and can be immediately implemented when they return to their offices.
This is where we want your help. The NENA 2014 Conference Team is looking for session proposals in the following topic areas: Accessibility; Analytics & Big Data; Applications & Emerging Technologies; Databases & Data Management; Funding, Regulation, Policy, & Governance; GIS; Interpersonal Issues, Stress, & Morale; Leadership & Management; Next Generation 9-1-1; Personal & Professional Development; Preparedness & Contingency Planning; PSAP Training; Public Education & Outreach; Social Networking & Media; Staffing & Consolidation; Telecommunicator Issues; and Text Messaging.
Please remember that sessions should issue-focused, not product-focused (i.e. vendor-neutral or vendor-all-inclusive).
Submit your great ideas by October 18, 2013. The online submission form for session abstracts is available at www.nena.org/nena2014/cfp. You can email Chris Nussman with any questions you may have.
The NENA Executive Board is currently accepting applications from members in good standing to serve on the Nominating Committee. This group is tasked with reviewing and certifying candidates for the 2014-15 Executive Board Election pursuant to NENA's bylaws, policies, and procedures. If you are interested, please send an email to Chris Nussman by COB on October 31 that includes your home chapter and a few sentences on why you would like to serve.
NENA is pleased to open the nominations process for our 2014-2015 Executive Board election! This election will be for the following positions: Second Vice President, Southeastern Regional Director, Western Regional Director, and Private Sector Director. All nominees must be current members in good standing and current Emergency Number Professionals (ENPs). Nominees for the position of Regional Director must reside in the region they wish to represent.
The nomination deadline is March 14, 2014. Contact Bri Robinson with any questions about the nomination process, eligibility requirements, or general election details.
NENA's Center Manager Certification Program (CMCP) is designed to equip recently hired, newly promoted, and aspiring PSAP and 9-1-1 Authority managers and supervisors with the tools needed to effectively manage their agency through a rigorous 40-hour course of lecture and lab-based education. For more seasoned 9-1-1 professionals, the CMCP may serve to fill in some of the gaps and strengthen core competencies required in emergency communications center management.
The CMCP, unlike many other upper-level emergency communications training programs, utilizes a real-world, hands-on approach that is focused on topics encountered daily by managerial and supervisory level personnel: Business Writing, Financial Management, Human Resources, Legal Issues, and Communications Skills. With a curriculum built by current and former 9-1-1 center managers with decades of combined supervisory and training experience, the program will provide you with knowledge and skills that can immediately and drastically improve your on-the-job effectiveness and enhance your agency's everyday operations.
NENA members can save up to 32% off UPS Express air and international shipments. That's a significant savings over FedEx published rates!* All this with the peace of mind that comes from using the carrier that delivers outstanding reliability, greater speed, more service, and innovative technology. UPS guarantees delivery of more packages around the world than anyone, and delivers more packages overnight on time in the U.S. than any other carrier, including FedEx.
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We are excited to announce the launch of a new rewards program - available exclusively to you as a member of NENA! To join, log in to nena.org and click on the Member Rewards link from your member profile menu.
Designed to provide exclusive money-saving offers to our members, the new Member Rewards program gives you immediate access to THOUSANDS of discounts from a wide variety of exciting companies like AMC Theatres, Sprint, Walt Disney World, Red Lobster, 1-800-Flowers, Macy's and many more. There is an annual fee of $19.95* to join.
Join now, browse great deals, and start saving today! PLUS, a small portion of the proceeds will go to support NENA initiatives and help keep your membership dues low. Thank you for your support ... and happy savings.
Make sure the addresses (email and postal) that we have on file for you are current! Please log in to your online member account to verify or update your information, or send an email to Bri Robinson.
The NENA Information Document for Handling Text-to-9-1-1 in the PSAP is intended to provide a guideline for PSAPs with recommendations for emergency calling to 9-1-1 using text messaging.
As the ever-changing evolution of technology is advancing, it introduces numerous challenges in processing the new means of communication for emergency services. The nation’s telecommunicators have done an excellent job in processing verbal 9-1-1 calls for service. Non-verbal communications will establish additional challenges to overcome when it comes to processing additional data. With that comes unique challenges in the validity of the 9-1-1 call along with the proper format in processing the data stream. This document will address those issues and offer proper guidelines in processing 9-1-1 calls for service.
Click here to learn more and download the document.
Chrysler Group LLC recently announced that, as part of its new suite of connected services called Uconnect® Access, select vehicles now come equipped with a built-in data connection as well as a 9-1-1 button on the rear-view mirror. Occupants in vehicles with Uconnect Access can push the 9-1-1 button to connect to the appropriate PSAP who can dispatch responders to an accident scene, if necessary.
This bulletin does not represent an NENA endorsement of the Chrysler product. NENA’s only intent in distributing this information is in ensuring that our membership, and public safety in general, have as much information as possible regarding a new service which will impact PSAP operations and personnel.
Click here for more information and to review the FAQ.
Having adjudicated all comments, the subject document is now considered "stable." Per NENA IPR, Section 4.2.2 a "Stable Form Notice" is being issued and is shown below.
4.4.2 Disclosure During Review Period
When any Deliverable is in stable form, but before it undergoes review by the NENA Process Review Committee the Committee Resource Manager shall send a Stable Form Notice to all NENA Development Group participants giving notice of a deadline, at least sixty (60) days from the date of the announcement, by which all Patent Holders with respect to the Deliverable must submit a completed copy of the Licensing Declaration Form in Annex B to the Committee Resource Manager. All Stable Form Notices shall also be posted to the Committee Management Website.
Once the 60 days have passed, the document will go to the NENA Process Review Committee for approval.
Stable Form Notice
Background The NENA Intellectual Property Rights ("IPR") Policy, available at www.nena.org/ipr, requires Participants in NENA Committees to disclose certain Patent IPRs during the process of developing a Deliverable such as a Technical or Operations Standard Document (i.e., any Standard). After receiving this notice, all Patent Holders have 60 days in which to submit a Licensing Declaration Form.
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The Deliverable listed below has reached stable form and will be submitted to the NENA Process Review Committee in 60 days. Any and all Participants who hold Patent IPRs which may be implicated by the Normative Requirements of this Deliverable must submit a Licensing Declaration Form to the Committee Resource Manager within that time.
The Pew Charitable Trusts is looking for a dynamic individual to launch and run their new Next Generation 9-1-1 initiative. The initiative will have three primary objectives that, if met, would position states to move expeditiously and wisely on important policy reforms: (1) Raise the profile of Next Generation 9-1-1 so that policy makers at all levels of government understand the benefits of modernizing the system and the consequences of failing to act; (2) Help state leaders gain a better understanding of the costs of moving to Next Generation 9-1-1 and how to fund the transition and ongoing implementation; and (3) Give lawmakers access to policy-relevant, user-friendly information — including best practices used by other states — and credible experts and resources in the field. For more information, please review the position description
or contact Andrew Zalman, Senior Executive Recruiter, at azalman@pewtrusts.org or 202.540.6618.
NENA recently launched a FREE email news service called Public Safety SmartBrief. It provides a weekly summary of news, trends and updates on public safety issues - not just 9-1-1, but police, fire and EMS. Knowledgeable editors handpick key articles from hundreds of publications, summarize them, and provide direct links to the original sources.
In other words, we do all the research and you get the latest news in your inbox or on your handheld device, absolutely free.
NENA's new and improved career center now offers more options and search functionality to job seekers and recruiters, including the ability to browse openings by category, subscribe to receive email notifications of new openings, and apply for openings directly online. Recruiters can now view and rate candidates applying for openings, search the resume database of available candidates (members-only feature), and manage postings online.
NENA and URISA are pleased to announce the newly re-engineered Locating the Future Conference (formerly known as the URISA/NENA Addressing Conference). The conference will take place at the historic Union Station in St. Louis, MO, from November 3-6, 2013.
With the new theme comes an invigorated slate of topics relating to location, addressing, public safety, emergency management, and 9-1-1. The world is changing at a rapid pace, and technologies related to location are more and more common. How do location and addressing adapt?
*NEW* Click here to review the preliminary event agenda.
Click here to learn about event sponsorship opportunities!
Housing Information The conference will take place at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel. We were able to obtain an extremely attractive room rate of $119 single/double. Reservations must be made by October 2, 2013. Make your reservation now while there is availability.
