Don't Be An April Fool!

Welcome to April 2006! It's time to prepare yourself to prevent becoming an April Fool! As with every issue of our newsletter, this one is full of useful and interesting articles, tips, suggestions, and news about Almeda University. This month, it's all about preventing foolish decisions in your life. If you have an idea for future topics for articles, please drop us an e-mail and let us know about it. We may even include your comment or suggestion in our newsletter.

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared by Presidential Proclamation that April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Since that time, child abuse prevention awareness activities have been promoted across the United States during April. In the spring of 1989, a Virginia grandmother, named Bonnie, began the blue ribbon campaign as a tribute to her grandson. The three-year-old died at the hands of his mother's abusive boyfriend. Since that time, concerned citizens all over the country have worn the blue ribbon as a symbol of the need to prevent child abuse and neglect. Bonnie sends this message to you: "The blue ribbon serves as a constant reminder to fight for protection for our children. We must protect our most precious gift of all our children. Please wear a blue ribbon . . . put one on your car . . . give one to your friends . . . tell them my story . . . tell them what the blue ribbon means to you. In this small way, you may save a child's life."

Citizens and parents concerned about the problem of child abuse and neglect can be challenged to display a blue ribbon in every business, every church and synagogue, every school, every hospital, every home . . . everywhere the eye can see. Thousands across the nation have responded to this challenge each year in April.

Attention Alumni!

Is a new career a part of your personal spring cleaning strategy? Make sure to stop by our Career Center for help in your job search! Please log into our alumni status page for more information: Alumni Login

Don't be an Unscrupulous Lender's Fool!
Do you know how to recognize a financial scam when you see one?

Not a single person can honestly consider himself or herself completely immune from every kind of scam- there are an awful lot of scams out there, after all. Furthermore, scam artists are always coming up with new ways to trick their victims into forking over their money. To make matters worse, if you're young, inexperienced in finances, or in debt, you become the ideal target for such perpetrators because you are the most likely to want a quick fix and will be duped into scams and fraudulent or exploitive financial practices. This is not to say in any way that you are any less intelligent than anybody else. Falling victim to a scam can happen to the brightest of us...Read full article

Don't be a Neighborhood Burglar's Fool!

As much as we don't like to think about it, burglaries are an extremely common occurrence. They happen to everyone, no matter who they are or where they reside. Nobody is completely safe from the pursuits of a determined burglar, but there are some things that you can do to make your home and your possessions unattractive as potential burglary sites... Read full article

Don't be a Fool and Work without a Goal!

Have you ever sat down and thought about what you really want to accomplish in your job or your career? What is your goal? What is it that would make you happy at work? If you haven't decided on that yet, it's time to get started. When you work without a goal, you're being destiny's fool.

By doing this, you're depending on life to hand you a path that you haven't set up for yourself. It's true, life will always hand you a path, but it may not be the one you wanted. Avoid being destiny's fool, and decide ... Read full article

Don't Be Anger's Fool

Anger is one of the most misunderstood and misused of all the emotions we experience. This is because anger is an emotional reaction that we feel towards something, instead of being a planned action. It is also because anger is so easy to show- after all, everyone gets angry. Often, the feelings underlying the anger we are displaying are actually vulnerability and weakness. By displaying the anger, we somehow feel- at least temporarily- that we have some sort of control over our situation... Read full article

Most of what children learn about relationships is learned from their first and most important teachers, their parents. Unfortunately, children who live with domestic violence learn to live with fear, shame, guilt, anxiety and most importantly, they learn to live with the lie. The lie is what they learn about their family dynamic. It is crucial to the batterer that his abuse is kept secret. What is good for the batterer becomes vital to his victims, his wife and children. In order to protect themselves and each other the lie becomes the wall the family hides behind. The children often believe that society will separate them from their mothers. They are taught by the perpetrator that you don't "wash your dirty laundry in public". Even when the police do become involved children may see their father arrested only to return to the home angrier than ever while they have endured the shame of having a parent incarcerated... Read full article

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