A Road Trip Through Recovery: “Are we there yet?”

1. A Road Trip Through Recovery: “Are we there yet?”

2. National Mass Care Strategy • Provide a unified approach to the delivery of mass care services to whole communities by establishing common goals that foster inclusive and collaborative planning • Develop common training and exercises to educate the whole community on national mass care capabilities

3. Whole Community “Engaging residents, emergency management practitioners, organizational and community leaders, and government officials to collectively understand and assess the needs of your respective communities and determine the best ways to organize and strengthen your assets, capacities, and interests.” (Source: National Mass Care Strategy, Ver. 4.0 June 18, 2012)

4. “Who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet each day”

5. Creating opportunity for improved coordination and participation • Identify and remove barriers that limit involvement (Common Ground, Occupy Sandy, Woody’s Tavern) • Create a national standard using common templates and definitions (LTRG model, IA model…) • Improve communications and create tailored messaging for political leaders, business leaders… and detail how they can support recovery (insert elevator speech here)

6. “Honey, it’s your turn to change The diaper”

7. Hurricane Katrina Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership (GNODRP) • Fostered coordinationand integrating approaches for rebuilding the human service sector to meet evolving needs • Provided leadership to identify and address long term recovery and rehabilitation • Advocated to key policy makers and public service providers • Led to the development of GNOVOAD

8. Whole Community LTRG The Chicken or the Egg? VOAD

9. Oklahoma Tornados Strong State to VOAD Model • Multi Agency Resource Center (M.A.R.C.) • Utilize regional approach to recovery coordination • Prevented confusion of available services and reduced duplication of benefits • Coordinated assistance and data sharing through use of CAN • Long term recovery groups were formed to address needs

10. Super Storm Sandy New Jersey Response/Recovery – “Stronger than the Storm” • Working in partnership with State, NGO’s, Faith Based • Strengthening existing partnerships and creating new ones • Coordinating with organizations in underserved geographical areas • Increasing public awareness of recovery programs • Recruiting volunteer groups for next hurricane season • Building VOads

11. Sharing is caring, or There’s going to be some swearing

12. Super Storm Sandy Southern/Northern Regional Long Term Recovery Group • Identifying common “problems” within LTRGs and providing creative resolutions • Providing leadership to identify and address long term recovery and rehabilitation • Providing advocacy for affected and underserved population

13. Illinois Sever Storms and Flooding Disaster Case Management Program FEMA/American Red Cross Interagency Agreement (I.A.A.) • Took burden off the State • Integral in expediting case management support • Seamless transition to Long Term Recovery groups through use of Coordinated Assistance Network (CAN)

14. Are we there yet?

15. Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

16. Questions? Paul Timmons/ paul.timmons@redcross.org Helpful websites: • http://nationalmasscarestrategy.org • http://www.fema.gov/national-disaster-recovery-framework • http://www.nvoad.org/ • http://www.disasterrecoveryhelp.info