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FEMA Private Sector Office of External Affairs. FEMA Mission. Private Sector Overview. Private Sector Overview.
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FEMA Mission Private Sector Overview Private Sector Overview FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against,respondto,recoverfrom, and mitigate all hazards.
Who is the Private Sector? • Businesses • Academia • Voluntary • Faith-based • Non-governmental Organizations
We can always communicate • Ground Floor • Connecting the Dots • Dialogue • Two-Way Communication • Actionable • Information • Increased Understanding
Success Stories: Prepare More than 300 first responders, some who came from as far away as Germany, converged in College Station over the weekend to sharpen their search and rescue …
Success Stories: Protect Most campuses use video surveillance…Queens College built an IT solution to detect an unattended bag, a particular license plate, or a certain individual, and then automatically initiate actions such as notifying staff…
Success Stories: Recover • Lynn University students visited Haiti to help orphans and handicapped children, adults and the elderly. • After the earthquake, four students and two professors were lost and a memorial fund was established in their honor.
Benevolence Advice & counsel Get a kit. Make a plan. Be informed Prepare our facilities Prepare our constituents and communities Advance Technology Work together to prepare, protect, respond, recover, mitigate Your best ideas…. What We Can Do Together
Web Resources www.fema.gov/privatesector
Contact Information E-mail us at: FEMA-Private-Sector@dhs.gov