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Governor’s EMS and Trauma Advisory Council (GETAC) Injury Prevention and Public Education Committee Meeting Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Agenda
Agenda
Governor’s EMS and Trauma Advisory Council (GETAC)
Injury Prevention and Public Education Committee Meeting
Department of State Health Services (DSHS)
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
DoubleTree by Hilton Austin, Phoenix Central Ballroom
6505 N Interstate 35
Austin, TX 78752
This meeting will be conducted live and virtually through Microsoft Teams.
Virtual meeting links are posted to the GETAC webpage at
www.dshs.texas.gov/dshs-ems-trauma-systems/governors-ems-trauma-advisory-council.
Mary Ann Contreras, RN, Chair, Courtney Edwards, DNP, Vice Chair
Della Johnson, RN, Ruben Martinez, Council Liaisons
Jorie Klein, RN, Joseph Schmider, DSHS
Call to Order – Mary Ann Contreras, RN, Chair, and Courtney Edwards, DNP, Vice Chair
Reading of the GETAC Vision and Mission Statements – Courtney Edwards, Vice Chair
GETAC Vision:
A unified, comprehensive, and effective Emergency Healthcare System
GETAC Mission:
To promote, develop, and advance an accountable, patient-centered Trauma and Emergency Healthcare System.
Review and approval of March 7, 2023, minutes – Committee Members
GETAC Chair comments – Alan Tyroch, MD, GETAC Chair
EMS/Trauma Systems Update – Jorie Klein, MSN, MHA, DSHS
Update from the Office of Injury Prevention: National Violence Reporting System – Jia
Benno, MPH, DSHS
Stakeholder Reports
- Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Program update – Sam Vance, LP
- Stop the Bleed Coalition – Christine Reeves
- Texas Suicide Prevention Coalition – Christine Reeves
Discussion and possible action on the following items – Committee Members
- Collaborative projects updates – Christi Thornhill/Belinda Waters from GETAC Pediatric Committee and Cassandra Dillon
- Pediatric Concussion/Head Injury Education Initiative
- Magnet/Battery Ingestion Workgroup
- Safe Storage and Firearm Education presentation- Steve Hall, Hunter Education Manager, Texas Parks and Wildlife.
- Workday Update: Spectrum of Prevention
- Suicide Prevention
- Safe Storage Prevention
- Continued discussions toward community collaboration
- Other partners; state, local facility-level collaborations
- Integration of social determinants of health (SDOH) in the role of Injury and Violence Prevention (IVP)
- Concepts of how to operationalize into IVP work
- Texas System Performance Improvement Plan and injury prevention outcome measures
- Initiatives, programs, and potential research that might improve injury prevention and public education efforts in Texas – Mary Ann Contreras, Chair, and Courtney Edwards, Vice Chair
General Public Comment – Comment time may be limited at Chair’s discretion.
Summary of action items for GETAC meeting report – Committee Members
Announcements – Courtney Edwards, Vice Chair
Review and list agenda items for next meeting – Committee Members
Future meeting dates – Courtney Edwards, Vice Chair
Adjournment – Mary Ann Contreras, Chair
Public Comment: The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) welcomes public comments pertaining to topics related to Emergency Health Care. Members of the public are encouraged to participate in this process by providing written public comments to DSHS by emailing Jorie.Klein@dshs.texas.gov no later than 5:00 PM, June 2, 2023. Please include your name and either the organization you are representing or that you are speaking as a private citizen. Written comments are limited to three minutes and will be read during the meeting for consideration by the Council. The request must contain your name, the name of the organization you represent or that you are speaking as a private citizen, and your direct phone number.
Public comment is limited to three minutes. Speakers must state their name, affiliation, and on whose behalf they are speaking. Public members who are using handouts are asked to provide an electronic copy in accessible pdf format that will be distributed by DSHS staff to Council members and state staff and for public distribution. Handouts are limited to two pages of documentation (paper size: 8.5″ by 11″, one side only). Handouts must be emailed to DSHS no later than 5:00 PM, June 2, 2023, and include the name of the person who will be commenting.
Note: These procedures may be revised at the discretion of DSHS.
Contact: Questions regarding agenda items, content, or meeting arrangements should be directed to Jorie Klein, DSHS, at 512-535-8538 or Jorie.Klein@dshs.texas.gov.
People with disabilities who wish to attend the meeting and require auxiliary aids or services should contact Jorie Klein at 512-535-8538 or Jorie.Klein@dshs.texas.gov at least 72 hours before the meeting so appropriate arrangements can be made.
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Ilana Glazer Just Wanted To Make A Comedy About 'Real-Ass Women'
Ilana Glazer is so excited to do nothing. It’s T-minus 48 hours to the theatrical premiere of Babes, the millennial mom comedy starring Glazer and Michelle Buteau, and the comedian’s promotional calendar is predictably packed. Think of the busiest day you’ve ever had in your work life, and then triple it — that’s how much Glazer’s life currently resembles a compression packing cube.
“Don’t tell my agents, but I want to Clear. My. Schedule,” Glazer, 37, tells Rolling Stone about what she’ll do (or won’t do) after this press blitz for Babes, which also stars Hasan Minaj, John Carroll Lynch, Stephan James, and Oliver Platt. “I want to get lunches with friends. I want to have a spa day. I want to have dates with my husband. I want to go to the museum. I want to smell my child’s scalp and her feet. I want to pick her up from school. I want to get high, put sunglasses on, and just get lost in Prospect Park.”
That everyone would want a piece of Glazer right now is understandable. Since its premiere at SXSW 2024, Babes, co-written by Glazer (who also produced) and Josh Rabinowitz (Ramy) and directed by Pamela Adlon (Better Things), has been raking in accolades for its absurdist, truthful, and sincere look at pregnancy, motherhood, and ride-or-die best friendship.
Before she can Homer Simpson-into-the-bush, however, Glazer has a flurry of press appointments to make. Currently, she’s seated in the back of a car, zooming through New York. The first time we meet, however, Glazer is mid-glam in her room at the London West Hollywood — the type of establishment where you need a special key card to even ascend beyond the lobby. “I keep saying I’m being shuffled around like Norman Lear,” Glazer cracks as a hairstylist straightens her trademark tight curls into a sleek bob. As we make small talk about New York versus Los Angeles (“The desert makes me nervous,” Glazer, who was born in Long Island and lives in Brooklyn, says firmly), a makeup artist draws on lip liner and nail techs tackle her hands and feet.
This would be an unusual routine for her character in Babes, where Glazer plays Eden, a free-spirited Queens yoga instructor who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant after a one-night stand. Beside her is Buteau as Dawn, a married dentist, Eden’s childhood best friend, and mother of two who promises to help shepherd her bestie through pregnancy’s horny highs and lonely lows — possibly at the expense of everyone’s time and sanity. The end result is a funny yet brutally honest look at what no one ever tells you about pregnancy and parenting, and how even the closest friendships are bound to fluctuate amid all of these changes.
“I love that it digs into the unsexy realities of pregnancy and parenthood,” Adlon tells Rolling Stone. “It’s so rare to see that portrayed honestly on the screen. The comedy was there, and I knew I could tap into the emotional honesty. It’s essential for women to laugh at what is uniquely and privately theirs and portray it authentically.”
As Glazer tells it, Babes began to take form when executive producer and manager Susie Fox noticed “a gaping hole for good-ass studio comedies.” Fox envisioned Glazer, who had recently wrapped her 2010s-defining Comedy Central series Broad City, potentially filling that gap. “With my insatiable desire to be loved, I said, ‘I see that as well. I bet I could do that for you,’” Glazer says.
As Fox laid out the broad strokes of her idea for a pregnancy buddy comedy, Glazer says she revealed her own real-life pregnancy to Fox — Glazer and her husband, David Rooklin, welcomed a daughter in July 2021 — and found out that Rabinowitz and his wife were also expecting. “We put together a list of the most surprising and absurd experiences we were having becoming parents and as new parents,” she says.
True enough, Babes showcases birth-ready cervixes (“Your vagina looks like it’s yawning,” Eden tells an in-labor Dawn early in the film), pregnancy-induced horniness, placenta-birthing, and the medieval-seeming nature of prenatal medical procedures, like an amniocentesis.
By the same token, not all of Glazer and Rabinowitz’s list items were physical. “The thread that continued to come up for us was how your friendships change,” Glazer says. “We’d all been on the other side when our friends chose to have kids, and then we watched those friends turn into zombies and eventually return to human form… Josh and I were so naive to the loss when you gain a beautiful child in your life. It’s scary, the shift of your friendships.”
If anyone can claim expertise in non-romantic companionships, it’s Glazer. From 2014 to 2019, the comedian co-produced and starred in Broad City, a coming-of-age sitcom that captured the wacky and often-humiliating experiences of two twenty-something best friends (Glazer and real-life pal Abbi Jacobson) living in New York. Based on Glazer and Jacobson’s independent web series of the same name, Broad City tended to draw comparisons to HBO’s Girls. But where Girls was cringely provocative and satirical about over-educated, under-employed millennials, Broad City was slapstick, surrealist, and unpretentious. A typical season would escalate young-adult minutia — psychedelic trips to Whole Foods, debating whether to peg your crush — into a farcical comedy of errors.
For all of its situational ridiculousness, the friendship between Glazer and Jacobson was the beating heart of Broad City. Babes follows suit by honing in on the bond between Glazer and Buteau, who have been friends since meeting in the New York comedy scene in the late 2000s. Casting Buteau took a few tries at first — Glazer says she received three or four “no”s before they finally got her on board. “We were looking at these lists of actresses who would guarantee a box office [draw] — women who I so admired,” Glazer says. “But seeing these lists of women reminds me of Mitt Romney’s ‘binders full of women.’ Just a complete flattening of women into a monolith. I found the process so un-sexy. I truly woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, like ‘Michelle. Michelle. Michelle. It’s Michelle.’”
At the time, Buteau was busy filming the first season of Netflix’s Survival of the Thickest. “She passed, and then I called her again, and she passed, and then I called her manager, and she passed,” Glazer says. “But the vision was so clear: to portray a friendship from the inside out with two real-ass women was such an important opportunity that once I got Michelle and her manager to see this vision, they couldn’t unsee it. Thank God.”
“What drew me to Josh and Ilana’s script was the raw honesty,” Buteau tells Rolling Stone. “The emotions that you go through, the emotions that you can’t put a name on or have vocabulary for. But also, I just laughed.”
The “real-ass women” trifecta was completed after Glazer secured Pamela Adlon to direct what would be her debut feature-length film. “The script had a lot of elements that I love,” Adlon tells Rolling Stone. “It’s a rom-com — a bromance, if you will — but the relationship is two lifelong female friends whose lives are hitting the inevitable fork in the road.”
Glazer didn’t know Adlon before Babes, but she admired how honest Better Things could be about older motherhood. “She has this classic rockstar energy that was so spontaneous and colorful,” Glazer says. “She’s a real champion of actors. If I felt stuck, or was struggling, she would help erase everything that I was holding. She would break off a piece of herself to give to me and take into that scene.”
Understandably, pregnancy and motherhood have been top of mind for Glazer ever since she became a parent. That same year, she co-wrote and starred in the Hulu horror film False Positive, a Rosemary’s Baby-esque story about a young woman (Glazer) who struggles to conceive and seeks help from a fertility doctor played by Pierce Brosnan. “False Positive embodied my fears of becoming a parent,” Glazer says. “It also embodied my fears of the vulnerable experience of entering the misogynist medical system when you are a pregnant person. It’s dehumanizing — our healthcare system in this country.”
However frightened Glazer was about carrying a child and being a parent, she is actively embracing this latest life stage, which she says has “given me new colors to see and sounds to hear… False Positive to Babes definitely illustrates this growth.”
In an age of Millennial mom anxiety and dread, Glazer doesn’t claim to be chasing the zeitgeist. “I think reality is the funniest place to write from,” Glazer says. “Comedy is the tension between joy and suffering. It’s the point where light becomes dark. That’s where the funny thing is.”
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Paramount+ Show in Austin, TX Seeks Fresh Faces for Hospital Roles
Paramount+ is seeking fresh faces to take up roles of hospital staff and visitors in a forthcoming show. The casting directors are scanning through actors, models, and talent to feature in the background scenes. The filming will take place in Austin, TX.
Key Talent Needed
Producers are on the hunt for newcomers willing to portray the roles of hospital staff and visitors. This opportunity presents an ideal platform for aspirants looking to kick-start their journey in the entertainment industry by participating in a TV show production.
To Apply for a Role
Candidates keen on these roles need to join Project Casting to gain access to the job posts and apply directly.
Essential Job Details
The casting for the Paramount+ show is managed by Brock Allen Casting. Alongside providing an exciting learning opportunity, it also offers a chance for participants to contribute to the production of a television show.
Responsibilities on the Job
The selected individuals will work as background performers, replicating the roles of hospital staff and visitors in the diverse scenes under the director’s guidance and other production staff.
Expected Conduct on the Set
All participants should maintain professionalism while on set and adhere to the filming schedule. The role might require long hours on set involving varied conditions.
Job Requirements
Interested candidates, irrespective of their acting experience, can apply. However, maintaining professional conduct is non-negotiable. The specified shoot dates are Thursday, May 9th, and Friday, May 10th. Participants must manage their travel and lodging as the company does not provide these facilities.
Legally eligible to work in the U.S.
Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the U.S. People of all ages and backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Compensation Details
For an 8-hour day, a compensation of $90 is ensured.
Time to Apply!
Anyone aiming for a taste of the entertainment industry should not miss this golden chance! Apply now!
Additional Opportunities Available
Apart from this casting call, other opportunities are also cropping up on Project Casting. These include getting cast in Netflix’s Cobra Kai season 6, which is currently looking for cast members in Atlanta, Georgia.
On the other hand, there are opportunities to be part of ‘Mayfair Witches’ Season 2 being filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana. This show has already made waves in the entertainment industry and is now providing opportunities for fresh faces.
In addition, Project Casting is hosting a casting call for a Wyndham Resort commercial, offering a handsome remuneration of $1500.
Project Casting certainly plays a vital role in bridging the gap between talent and the relevant opportunities in the entertainment world. Paramount+’s cast call for hospital staff roles is undoubtedly an excellent chance for aspiring actors to make their entrance into the industry. Apply now! Don’t miss your chance to be a part of these exciting projects!
For more details, visit Project Casting Blog on https://www.projectcasting.com/blog/casting-calls-acting-auditions/paramount-show-casting-call-for-hospital-staff/
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NCAA Softball Tournament 2024: Super Regionals Bracket and Schedule Info
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Fourteen of the top 16 teams in the NCAA softball tournament advanced through the regional round to next weekend’s super regional round.
The top-seeded Texas Longhorns and No. 2 seed Oklahoma Sooners were among the teams who swept through their respective regional rounds from Friday to Sunday.
The Arizona Wildcats and Baylor Bears produced the only upsets of the weekend. Arizona beat fellow unseeded team Villanova in the Fayetteville regional in which No. 12 Arkansas lost twice in three games. Baylor upset No. 13 seed Louisiana in the regional final.
Each super regional is a best-of-three series that will take place between Friday and Sunday. The full schedule when released can be found on NCAA.com.
No. 16 Texas A&M vs. No. 1 Texas
No. 9 LSU vs. No. 8 Stanford
Arizona vs. No. 5 Oklahoma State
No. 14 Alabama vs. No. 3 Tennessee
No. 11 Georgia vs. No. 6 UCLA
No. 10 Duke vs. No. 7 Missouri
No. 15 Florida State vs. No. 2 Oklahoma
Texas backed up its No. 1 seed with a dominant weekend in Austin.
The Longhorns outscored opponents 26-2 and pitched a pair of shutouts, one in the opener against Siena and one in the regional final versus Northwestern.
Texas will be favored to advance to the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, but it could be locked in a battle with old rival Texas A&M.
A&M had an equally as dominant weekend with a pair of shutouts as well, but maintaining that same level against the top seed in the tournament will be more difficult.
Three-time reigning national champion Oklahoma will have a familiar foe come to its home for the super regionals as well.
The Sooners take on Florida State, who it beat twice in the WCWS championship series in 2021 and 2023.
Both the Sooners and Seminoles scored five or more runs twice in three regional games, so that may be one of the higher-scoring super regional matchups.
Arizona and Baylor will try to continue their upset-minded runs on the road. The Wildcats visit Oklahoma State, who allowed three runs in the regional round. The Bears make the trip to face Florida, the No. 4 seed who put up 24 runs this weekend.
The other super regional showdowns could be decided by only a few runs because they pit seeded teams against each other.
The must-watch matchup could be No. 10 Duke versus No. 7 Missouri. Duke won the ACC, but it was robbed of a top eight seed when the bracket came out. The Blue Devils are the toughest opponent on paper that a host faces next weekend.
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