Background: Mary Meyer is the Project Director of the Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP) grant at the Economic Opportunity Council of Suffolk, Inc. located in Suffolk County, New York.  The CAPP program helps to decrease adolescent pregnancy through a comprehensive approach to reducing the risk of initial and repeat pregnancies, reducing STDs and HIV/AIDS rates among adolescents, and promoting healthy sexual behaviors. The initiative – which receives funding from the New York State Department of Health – addresses the underlying issues associated with adolescent parenting as well as race, ethnic, and geographical disparities related to adolescent sexual health outcomes. CAPP encourages alternatives to sexual activity by promoting an optimal transition into healthy young adulthood with after-school programs, evidence-based interventions, and community service learning. Mary is also a licensed social worker, receiving her Masters of Social Work from Stony Bro

New York Times 2-14-2016 Can Health Care Providers Afford To Be Ready For Disaster?  At the Institute for Managing Risk at the Manhattanville School of Business, we will be talking about how organizations assess their risks and how they decide to manage their risks.   An Op Ed in the February 14, 2016, New YorkTime s highlights the tradeoffs that companies make.   The article, “Can Health Care Providers Afford to Be Ready for Disaster,” addresses potential Federal regulations specifying certain levels of planning, preparation, and testing for nursing homes and hospitals.   Are full preparations for another Hurricane Katrina or a Superstorm Sandy reasonable and appropriate?   How much back-up power capacity, which might be useful for continuing operations through events far less catastrophic and possibly more frequent than these two weather-driven disasters, is reasonable and appropriate?   How should a hospital assess its risks?   Are there reasonable minimum standards that mi