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Cheryl Horvath is a Division Chief, assigned to Training, for the Northwest Fire District in Tucson, Arizona and Co-President of The International Association of Women in Fire and Emergency Services (WFES). She has been in the fire service since 1992, working as a full-time firefighter in Illinois where she served as union president for four years. Cheryl is a field instructor for the Illinois Fire Service Institute, teaching in the fire suppression, rescue, and management programs. In April, Cheryl along with WFES Co-President Laurie Mooney introduced “A National Report Card on Women in Firefighting (PDF) .” In a recent conversation, we posed this question to Cheryl: If you had the power to make some changes what would they be? |
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Modesty is a very important ideology for Muslims. In Muslim focus groups conducted by FIRE 20/20, the need for women to cover themselves was identified as one area that could affect safety. “A traditional Muslim woman might not leave a burning building until she was covered or she might rush back in to get a covering. Be aware of this and be prepared with a blanket to offer the woman.”
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Dr. Carol Chetkovich is now a professor of Public Policy at Mills College in Oakland, California. Real Heat started as research for her dissertation. In 1992, Carol started following “the men and women of the Oakland Fire Department Class 1-91 through their academy training and eighteen-month probation. Real Heat explores how the process of becoming a firefighter interacts with the dimensions of race and gender to support some and discourage others.” Its relevance just got revalidated with the recently published study “A National Report Card on Women in Firefighting.” |
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I’m a 39-year-old Black man and I’m a racist …against other Blacks no less. Say what? Well, that’s what a University of Chicago online psychological test tells me. Click here to take the test yourself and tell us how you score! In-kind sponsor, DiversityInc, publishes a monthly magazine and has an online site that “provides news, resources and commentary on the role of diversity in strengthening the corporate bottom line.” While we’re from the non-profit, public service world, we have found new learning and pearls of wisdom and had ah-hah moments! So for those reasons, we reprint some of their articles. This month, we’ve obtained permission to reprint the article, I’m a Racist? Huh? Eric Hinton’s article links to exams that are “supposed to test unconscious levels of prejudice on everything from race and gender to age.” We think you’ll enjoy taking these tests. [Take advantage of a FIRE 20/20 sponsored electronic subscription to DiversityInc magazine at www.diversityinc/fire2020.] |
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Partner Perspective Terri Morrison has a model for cultural orientation that can help predict “how people in certain cultures will speak, act, negotiate, and make decisions.” While the context for her model is conducting business, we believe it has applicability to better understand the ‘culture’ of the fire service as well as the fire service’s interactions with its multicultural communities.
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FIRE 20/20 will be at Booth #1 which is located outside of the main exhibit hall with other non-profits. - Preview our recruitment video, Why I Chose FireTM. - Learn about our training program, Recruiting & Retaining Diversity.x - Let us know how we can help your department ‘partner for prevention’ with your multicultural communities. x
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FIRE 20/20 welcomes Scott Health & Safety
As a sponsor of the recruitment video, Why I Chose Fire and the training program, Recruiting & Retaining Diversity, Scott is demonstrating its commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace. |
