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Gulf Oil Spill: The Road Ahead

Gulf Oil Spill: The Road Ahead. Where we’ve been today: Ecological Impact Economic Impact Human Impact Where we’re headed: South Mississippi Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (SMVOAD) Long Term Recovery Model. South Mississippi Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster

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Gulf Oil Spill: The Road Ahead

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  1. Gulf Oil Spill: The Road Ahead Where we’ve been today: • Ecological Impact • Economic Impact • Human Impact Where we’re headed: • South Mississippi Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (SMVOAD) • Long Term Recovery Model

  2. South Mississippi Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster GULF OIL SPILL SUMMIT

  3. Voluntary Organizations Active In Disasters (VOAD) Who we are: • National VOAD • MSVOAD • SMVOAD SMVOAD Board Officers: • American Red Cross, MS Gulf Coast Chapter • Interfaith Disaster Task Force • International Relief and Development, US • Lutheran Episcopal Services of Mississippi • The Salvation Army • United Way of South Mississippi

  4. SMVOAD What we do: • Four C’s of Community Service: • Communication • Coordination • Collaboration • Cooperation

  5. SMVOAD How we do it: • Discuss common concerns • Identify gaps in services • Minimize unnecessary duplication of services • Promote better use of available resources • Manage disasters more efficiently & effectively through organized long term recovery

  6. The Recovery Cycle • FEMA Prepare, Recover, Rebuild • VOAD Response, Relief, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness • Partnership for Long Term Recovery

  7. SMVOAD Long Term Recovery Model Key Components • Collaborative Response • Public-private sectors • Federal, state, local agencies • Nonprofits and businesses • Activate Long Term Recovery Committee (LTRC) • Leverage Resources • Each agency presents its unique capabilities to LTRC • Public and private funds distributed to provide services • Agencies agree to collaborate with LTRC to ensure client recovery

  8. Steps to Recovery – Oil Spill • Assess Community Needs: • Gulf Coast Business Council (Businesses) • Mississippi Center for Nonprofits (Social Service Agencies) • SMVOAD Neighbors Helping Neighbors (Community Residents)

  9. Steps to Recovery – Oil Spill • Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Principles • Outreach to broad sectors of residents • Listen to needs and provide assurance • Give access to current relief and recovery resources • Gap analysis: need vs. current resident situation

  10. Steps to Recovery – Oil Spill • “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” • Nonprofits in each county reach out to community residents • Provide assurance that assistance is available • Provide information and referrals to current community resource providers • Assess financial and non-financial impacts • Recommend strategies to address residents’ needs through LTRC collaboration • Develop community action response plan coordinated by LTRC

  11. Neighbors Helping Neighbors • Agency Program Model Design • Client services only (e.g. mental health, case management) • Client services + direct assistance (e.g. rental assistance, foreclosure prevention, job training, food assistance) • Direct assistance only • Agency Model Must Address • Assistance/advocacy regarding claims • $20 Billion dollar new claims facility with Aug 1 target start date • Fear factor and collateral impact • Unique Mississippi impacts

  12. Neighbors Helping Neighbors • Key Components • Identify Long Term Recovery Resources • BP funding • State and federal funding • Private donors and foundations • LTRC awards grants • Agencies agree to offer services and/or direct aid • Agencies bring to LTRC unmet client needs and share best practices

  13. Process- Long Term Recovery Model Forming: • LTRC identifies major goals and begins to tackle tasks: form committees, decide on scope of services, identify funding sources, and set meeting schedules Storming: • LTRC determines scope of problems to be solved and determines leadership structure to foster joint action Norming: • LTRC partners are settling into their role within the LTRC and committing to the plan of action Performing: • LTRC functions as a unit, holding partners accountable, to get the job done smoothly

  14. LTRC Community Impact – Hurricane Katrina • Clients served: 3,389 • Community Value of Houses Rebuilt: $25.2 million • Community Value of Houses Rehabbed: $8.6 million • 700,000 Volunteers contributed 7 million hours • Volunteer Leveraged Funding: $140 million

  15. Long Term Recovery Collaborative Process SMVOAD Outreach/Assessment SMVOAD Activates LTRC LTRC Receives Funding Agencies Collaborate through LTRC Agency Funded Agency Funded Agency Funded • Clients Served • Clients Served • Clients Served

  16. Call to Action Complete your form “Willing to Join LTRC”

  17. Contact Lori West, IRD Gulf Region Director SMVOAD, Vice Chair 228-864-6677, office 228-223-3047, cell lwest@irdgulfcoast.org 1223 30th Avenue, Suite A Gulfport, MS 39501

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