The Importance of Long Term Recovery Committees

1. The Importance of Long Term Recovery Committees Putting the pieces back together. Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

2. COADs = Community Collaboratives Members work together proactively to reduce risks and vulnerabilities, build capacities and strengthen connections. Whole Community Response and Recovery - COAD

3. THE GOAL = RESILIENTCOMMUNITIES Can withstand, quickly adapt and successfully recover from a disaster. COAD members collaborate to build community: Social capacity Physical capacity Psychological capacity Economic capacity RESILIENCE - Whole Community Response and Recovery - COAD

4. Disaster Strikes – Joplin, May 2011 Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

5. Response that night- SHELTERING - MSSU Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

6. Response – Hope amid Chaos Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

7. Day 1 – Response Daily Partner Meetings begin to coordinate relief efforts Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

8. Partners Working together Local, State, Federal Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

9. FEEDING – 14 mobile units and 3 Fixed sites Red Cross 458,000 Meals & Snacks ServedSalvation Army and others also serving daily. Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

10. BULK DISTRO - 21 Emergency Response Vehicles 205,000 Relief Items DistributedPoints of Distribution (PODs) throughout Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

11. Comforting families- 161 lives were lost due to the tornado Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

12. Day 7 – May 29Multi-Agency Resource Center Opens Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

13. RESPONSE/RECOVERY Multi-Agency Resource Center1,531 Cases Opened – Over 5,000 served Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

14. Day 17 – June 8, 8:30amLong Term Recovery Committee stands up Response shifts to RecoveryCOAD meets at Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce • 68 attendees • LTRC Chair and Co-Chair Appointed by COAD chair and affirmed Unanimously Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

15. The Importance of Long Term Recovery Committees Why are they needed? What do they do? • Need - Becomes evident that not all individuals and community needs will be able to be addressed through immediately available State, Federal, or local resources • Primary objective of the Long Term Recovery Group is to return the community, as a whole, to the “new normal” - the sustainable state of the community post disaster. Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

16. Long Term Recovery Committee Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

17. LTRC – The NEED • 7,500 residential dwellings damaged • More than 17,000 people affected by tornado • 4,000 homes destroyed left 9,200 people displaced • 3,500 more structures like businesses damaged or destroyed Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

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19. For the Record: FEMA CAN provide financial assistance (Loans or Grants) to verified uninsured disaster losses FEMA does NOT provide intensive one-on-one case management, counseling, goods, or services not mandated by law SEMA CAN provide long-term recovery support, technical guidance, coordination of agencies, and information referral services (including to other government assistance agencies) SEMA does NOT provide direct assistance to disaster survivors Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

20. Day 21 – June 12Multi-Agency Resource Center ClosesDisaster Case Management CenterOpens Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

21. Long Term Recovery – Disaster Case Management Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

22. The Importance of Long Term Recovery Committees How is Case Management related to the Long Term Recovery Committee? • The LTRC depends on Case Management to bring legitimate cases to them • Case management depends on the LTRC to find the needed resources for recovery. Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

23. The Importance of Long Term Recovery Committees What are the advantages to survivors and community? • Prevents confusion and duplication. • Clients receive help to fill out necessary paper work • Receive information about how various systems work (FEMA, SBA) • Clients receive financial aid from various partners. • Survivors immediately begin spending the money in the affected areas. Local businesses supported; put tax revenue back into the local economy.  • Families quickly able to locate temporary housing near the affected area: keep communities intact, support local businesses and prevent loss of tax revenue in the community. • Because families receive health and mental health services immediately after the disaster – short and long-term needs identified and addressed. Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

24. The Importance of Long Term Recovery Committees What are the advantages to survivors and community? If a family affected by disaster does not return to a level of self-sustainability within two years of the disaster, usually they will: • Continue to need all the supports that community has to offer or • Leave the community, taking away school enrollment, income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, etc. It is in the best interest of the community to ensure that every affected family reaches the self-sustainability level Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

25. SUCCESSES Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

26. Day 768 – June 30, 2013Disaster Case Management CenterCloses Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness

27. THE GOAL = RESILIENTCOMMUNITIES Can withstand, quickly adapt and successfully recover from a disaster. Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness