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Partnerships in Emergency Management

Partnerships in Emergency Management. Capital Area Association of Contingency Planners Workshop March 29, 2005. What do we do?. Coordinate a community-wide program for preventing (mitigating), preparing for, responding to, and recovering from major emergencies and disasters.

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Partnerships in Emergency Management

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  1. Partnerships in Emergency Management Capital Area Association of Contingency Planners WorkshopMarch 29, 2005

  2. What do we do? • Coordinate a community-wide program for preventing (mitigating), preparing for, responding to, and recovering from major emergencies and disasters.

  3. No, this is not it!

  4. It’s more like this

  5. Emergency Management 101 • Coordinate and Integrate programs • Who is doing what? • What are connections and interdependencies? • Does everything fit together into a coherent whole? • What are the roadblocks? Which way around them? • Systems Integrator.

  6. Facilitate • Convene work groups, • Act as disinterested party, • “Shepherd” (or catherd) the process, • Focus on meaningful “product” at the end, • Develop written documents and plans.

  7. Build Teams • Get people to perceive themselves as part of a larger emergency management team, • Treat team members equally, • Help all agencies achieve their individual goals, • Focus on achievement of team goals, • Recognize team achievements.

  8. Plans are nothing … planning is everything General Dwight Eisenhower. • Define the scope of the plan, • Involve key players, • Develop a format that is useful to target audience, • Carefully document decisions and content, • Get buy-in from agency heads, • Integrate plans into a coherent package.

  9. Implement the Plan • Paper plans are worthless if no one has read them and nobody is capable of executing them! • Plan briefings, • Departmental SOPs supporting the plan, • Exercise the plan, • Revise regularly.

  10. Emergency Operations Center

  11. Inter-agency Coordination • Focus on interagency solutions, • Develop strategic policies, • Compile community-wide situation status, • Identify priorities and develop action plan, • Coordinate public information and warning, • Request outside resources.

  12. Recovery • Damage assessment, • Disaster Recovery Centers, • Information hotlines, • Debris removal, • Donations management, • Unmet needs, • Manage public assistance grants.

  13. All of this requires partnerships • But with whom?

  14. Local agencies • City of Austin and Travis County • Fire department • Law enforcement agencies • EMS • Public works • Utilities – Austin Energy, Water Utility • School districts

  15. State agencies • Division of Emergency Management • Office of Homeland Security • Department of State Health Services

  16. Federal agencies • Dept. of Homeland Security • FBI • Dept. of Health and Human Services

  17. Non-profits • American Red Cross • Salvation Army • Southern Baptist Men • Churches and ministries • Hospitals

  18. Private sector • Local Emergency Planning Committee • High tech firms – Motorola/Freescale, AMD • Hospitals (for profit) • Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA)

  19. Partnerships with the public Not a high priority Until this

  20. Volunteer initiatives • Disaster Ready Austin • Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) • Disaster Mental Health • Medical Reserve Corps • Austin Police Civil Defense Battalion

  21. Disaster Ready Austin • Assist OEM • Public education • Exercises - victims • EOC staffing • Disaster Assistance Centers • Hotlines • Damage assessment

  22. CERT • Field assistance during emergencies. • Self-activate and assist until safety forces arrive. • FORT – Field Observation Response Team.

  23. Disaster Ready Austin – CERT Merged • The two separate initiatives have now merged into one program with a total of 250 recruited and trained.

  24. Disaster Mental Health • Focus on surging capacity of professionals who are specially trained to provide post-disaster assistance. • Psychologists • Counselors • Therapists • Clergy • Victim advocates • Over 600 trained and certified.

  25. Austin Police Dept.Civil Defense Battalion • Focus on assisting Police Department as well as other City agencies. • Assist with critical facility observation • Assist with security at ABIA • Assist various agencies during emergencies such as floods or ice storms.

  26. Medical Reserve Corps • Recruit unaffiliated or inactive physicians, nurses, respiratory technicians and other allied healthcare professionals. • Support major medical emergencies caused by natural disasters, disease outbeak, or terrorism • Help staff hospitals and clinics, medical distribution centers, auxillary health centers, home health care.

  27. Why are these partnerships important? • Government does not have the resources to effectively manage many disasters. • Many members of the public have the skills and education that are needed. • Many members of the public are highly motivated and anxious to “do their part”. • Working with government agencies helps people understand how government works. Many become “ambassadors” of the organizations they support.

  28. Know someone who wants to volunteer? Call Amber King 974-0450.

  29. Questions? • Steve Collier, DirectorOffice of Emergency ManagementCity of Austin • P. O. Box 1088, Austin, TX 78767-1088 • (512) 974-0461 • Steve.collier@ci.austin.tx.us

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