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State Shelter Taskforce

This State Shelter Taskforce provides guidelines for consistent disaster shelter operations across the state, covering resource management, reporting, reimbursement, and mutual aid. Discover applicable statutes, staffing requirements, training, and facility considerations.

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State Shelter Taskforce

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  1. State Shelter Taskforce Tools, Tips and What’s Next

  2. State Shelter Taskforce Purpose • To develop guidelines that provide a framework for the counties, state and sheltering partners in opening and operating disaster shelters in a consistent manner across the state. The guidelines will describe resource management, reporting, reimbursement and requesting mutual aid, state or EMAC staff.

  3. Taskforce Objectives Statewide Guide for Sheltering • Applicable Statutes and Regulations • Shelter staffing requirements • Pets • Functional Needs and IDD • Training Requirements, Facility Requirements, Forms, Reporting

  4. Who Should Be Involved Who Should Be Involved In Your Shelter Planning • Emergency Management • Social Services • Public Health and EMS • Mental Health • Animal Services • LEO/Security • Amateur Radio • National Guard

  5. Other Considerations • Needs to tie back to the CRES • Taskforce has three local EMs representing each branch • NCEM - Steve Powers, Todd Brown, Abby Cameron, Wendy Pulley, Robin Dail and Keith Acree • State and local shelter partners: Public Health, Social Services, NC Ag, Mental Health, NCNG, Red Cross

  6. Shelter Resources in WebEOC* Sheltering 101 • Who makes the decision • Legal Considerations • Site Selection • Access & Functional Needs • Reimbursement • Resources Concept of Operations • Authorities • Purpose • Shelter Typing • Staffing Matrix • Training Requirements • Reporting

  7. Shelter Resources in WebEOC* • Feeding 101 • MOU template between County DSS and DHHS • Email sent to all County DSS Directors Re: shelter training • Red Cross shelter training contacts by county • NC Shelter Interpreters SOG • Instructions on taking Red Cross shelter training * North Carolina Shelter Taskforce in File Library

  8. What’s Next? NCEM Human Services Manager will reconvene State Shelter Taskforce in January 2019

  9. Florence & Michael Lessons Observed • Communications (Hardware and Relational) • Structural evaluation • Triggers for shelter opening • Expansion and Overflow • Shelter Management (who will manage shelter?) • Shelter Staffing (shelter workers, nurses, security) • Shelter Feeding Plan (who and where) • Logistics (Water, Cots, Narcan, Fuel) • Long Term Sheltering

  10. Florence & Michael Lessons Observed • Post-Storm Home Evaluations • Other • Medical Support Shelters • Evacuating Assisted Living/Memory Care/Group Home • Sex Offenders • Exotic Pets • Pre-Disaster Homeless • Transportation • CRES (review, rewrite, expand)

  11. Questions?

  12. Norman Bryson, Onslow CountyNorman.Bryson@OnslowCountyNC.gov(910)347-4270Brent Fisher, Nash CountyBrent.Fisher@NashCountyNC.gov(252)459-1204Karyn Yaussy, Catawba CountyKyaussy@CatawbaCountyNC.gov(828)465-8989

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