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National Urban League’s 9th Annual Legislative Policy Centennial Conference
“Employment and Education Empower the Nation”
March 6-8, 2012
The Liaison Capitol Hill, An Affinia Hotel
415 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC.

This year’s LPC is designed to make sure that our Nation’s leaders know exactly who the 98 affiliates and 2.6 million clients of the National Urban League are and what we are doing to make a difference in the communities that they were elected to serve. It will provide you with opportunities to not only engage in a “rolled-up sleeves” conversation with key staff at important federal agencies but to participate in both an exhibit hall and panel conversations that will re-introduce – and in some cases introduce – NUL’s work to staffers on the Hill.

Once again, this conference will provide you with the opportunity to take your stories and your demands directly to your elected officials as we bring in key decision-makers to speak with you through our Conversation with the Leaders series, Congressional Black Caucus Awards Breakfast, and Congressional Awards Reception. As with last year’s program, we will conclude the conference with the release our State of Black America 2012 report followed by a spirited town hall conversation with high-profile commentators and students at Howard University.

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HAULYP will support the City of Houston along with other local organizations to protect our local parks on Arbor Day. The focus of Arbor Day is to begin a multi-year effort called Re-Plant Houston dedicated to reforesting Houston parks devastated by the drought of 2011.  Our city parks enhance the quality of urban life throughout the city. Arbor Day volunteers will be setup at four parks, including MacGregor Park in the Third Ward community and Memorial Park, where HAULYP will participate in replanting trees to help restore the parks.

Please register to participate via http://teamhaulypforarborday.eventbrite.com by this Thursday, January 19th.

For more information regarding Arbor Day, visit http://www.houstontx.gov/parks/arborday.html. If you have any questions regarding the upcoming project, contact communityoutreach@haulyp.org.

The Houston Area Urban League (HAUL) is offering scholarships to young adults seeking a short term occupational skills certificate from a community college of their choice. Upon completion, HAUL will work with participants to find employment and track them for a year to ensure they have all the soft-skills needed to maintain employment.

Requirements:

• Participants must be 18 to 21 years old, out of school and unemployed
• Living in a home with the head of house receiving some kind of government assistance (SNAP/TANIF/SSI etc.), receiving assistance personally or family income meets WIA qualifications. Must have check stubs for last 20 pay periods to prove income.
• Must have picture ID, social security card and birth certificate
• Must have one youth barrier (pregnant teen, struggling reader, run away, felony, etc.)

For more information, please contact the HAUL Education & Training Center at (281) 220-6012 Monday – Friday from 8am to 5pm or visit the office at 5320 Griggs Road, Houston, Texas 77021.

Kim Roxie, World Renowned Beauty Educator/Make-Up Artist.

With a whisk of her magical wand, also known as her make-up brushes, Kim Roxie transforms her clients into a work of art, something like a magician. Birthed in 2004, Kim Roxie, a licensed aesthetician and make-up designer has created an entire cosmetic conglomerate, LAMIK Beauty that features a make-up line, facial care, eyelash enhancement with her own line of custom lashes, and eyebrow sculpting bar.

Holding a Bachelors of Art degree in Public Relations from Clark Atlanta University, her calling into the beauty industry was more of a ministry than a career, she wanted to break the often artificial and plastic stereotypes that often influenced self-esteem issues. For the longest, beauty has been defined by certain looks and if you didn’t look that way, you weren’t considered beautiful explains Kim Roxie. Kim Roxie’s passion for what she does is evident through her explanation: I love enhancing women’s beauty. I love helping to build their self-esteem by making them feel good and giving them more than what they expected in terms of revealing their natural beauty. That is why she has won the hearts of many women going natural.

What separates Ms. Kim Roxie is her devotion for teaching others, recently opening a make-up academy in the Atlanta Georgia area. She travels extensively and has taught many workshops at Beauty Expos across the United States and Canada. Her much anticipated workshops includes: Eco Chic Beauty Revelation: Put your Best Face Forward in Under 10 minutes and Beauty Outside-In.

Kim Roxie has worked with some of the most celebrated people in the entertainment industry, such A-List Celebs Yolanda Adams, Chrisette Michele and the cast of the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Her works has also graced magazines worldwide and award show stages.

Currently the world renowned beauty expert, Kim Roxie, is leading her company through the doors of Macy’s and launching her cosmetic line in-stores and on-line with Macy’s.com.

Visit Website lamik-beauty.com