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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear NHERI Council, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="color:black">I am so pleased to share with you an announcement regarding our most recently released CONVERGE Training Module – this one focused on Understanding and Ending Gender-Based Violence in Fieldwork.
I hope you will access and share this free online course with others in your facility and network. Also, please consider joining us next week for a brief demonstration webinar. More details follow.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="color:black">Sending warm wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="color:black">Lori</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Understanding and Ending Gender-Based Violence in Fieldwork Training Module and Demonstration Webinar</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The CONVERGE facility, headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, is excited to announce the release of a sixth CONVERGE Training Module. This online course,
which was developed in partnership with </span><a href="http://fieldworkinitiative.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">The Fieldwork Initiative</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, focuses on
<b><i>Understanding and Ending Gender-Based Violence in Fieldwork</i>.<i> </i></b>You can register and access the free module here:</span><a href="http://converge-training.colorado.edu/courses/cultural-competence/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
</span></a><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/training-modules"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://converge.colorado.edu/training-modules</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">To learn more, please join us
<b>Tuesday, March 16, 2020, from 3:00-3:30 p.m. Mountain Time</b> for a <b>live webinar</b> where our team will provide a demonstration of the CONVERGE
<i>Understanding and Ending Gender-Based Violence in Fieldwork Training Module.</i> To register for the upcoming webinar, please visit:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/communications/webinar-series/understanding-and-ending-gender-based-violence-in-fieldwork-training-module"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://converge.colorado.edu/communications/webinar-series/understanding-and-ending-gender-based-violence-in-fieldwork-training-module</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This new module is part of a larger series designed to accelerate the training of a diverse hazards and disaster workforce. The new module focuses on the understanding and recognizing gender-based
violence in fieldwork and helps researchers learn how to prevent and address these issues in the field. This module, like the others in the series, concludes with a 10-question quiz. Upon successful completion of the quiz, users receive a certificate. These
modules can be useful for classroom assignments as well as other activities. Please see the CONVERGE Assignment Bank for sample activities:
</span><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/training-modules/assignment-bank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/training-modules/assignment-bank</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">You can sign up for additional free resources and updates at the CONVERGE website at:
</span><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/signup"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://converge.colorado.edu/signup</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">. Thank you! </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Acknowledgements:
</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The CONVERGE Training Modules are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NSF Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, conclusions,
or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lori Peek, Ph.D. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor, <span style="color:#4472C4"><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/sociology/"><span style="color:#4472C4">Department of Sociology</span></a></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Director, <span style="color:#4472C4"><a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/"><span style="color:#4472C4">Natural Hazards Center</span></a></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Principal Investigator, Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure
<span style="color:#4472C4"><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/"><span style="color:#4472C4">CONVERGE Facility</span></a></span>, Social Science Extreme Events Research (<span style="color:#4472C4"><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/research-networks/sseer"><span style="color:#4472C4">SSEER</span></a></span>)
Network, and Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Extreme Events Research (<span style="color:#4472C4"><a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/research-networks/iseeer"><span style="color:#4472C4">ISEEER</span></a></span>) Network
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4472C4"><a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/biography/lori-peek"><span style="color:#4472C4">https://hazards.colorado.edu/biography/lori-peek</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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