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Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry

Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry. Belinda Hare State Disaster Volunteer Coordinator Community Preparedness Section Texas Department of State Health Services. Birth of ESAR-VHP. ESAR-VHP = Emergency Systems for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals Tragic events of 9/ll

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Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry

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  1. Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry Belinda Hare State Disaster Volunteer Coordinator Community Preparedness Section Texas Department of State Health Services

  2. Birth of ESAR-VHP ESAR-VHP = Emergency Systems for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals • Tragic events of 9/ll • Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002

  3. Growth of ESAR-VHP • HRSA’s National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program (NBHPP) • Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) • Starting in 2009, must be in place or no cooperative agreement funding

  4. Purpose/Functions • Federal perspective: single, nationwide interoperable network of state-owned, state-operated systems • Primary functions: • Advance registration • Licensure verification • Credentialing

  5. Additional Functions • Call down capabilities • Search queries • Volunteer management • Volunteer tracking • Reporting, administrative tools

  6. Texas Customizations • Useful tool for locals • Integration with existing systems • Must include the lay individual • Simple, secure, 24/7/365 availability • Help build local ranks of volunteers

  7. Registry Data Elements • Contact information • Military service, languages spoken • Geographical deployment preferences • Willingness to be federalized • Affiliations with other volunteer groups • Link to local volunteer groups

  8. Search capabilities • Profession and specialty • Credentialing level • Languages spoken • DSHS Health Service Region • City and/or County • Zip code

  9. Benefits of registry • Resource/asset assessment • Effective utilization of assets • Automated call downs/confirmations • Rapid response to emergencies • Volunteer tracking • Administrative tools • Minimize spontaneous volunteers

  10. Benefits to volunteer • Liability • Training • Relationship building • Safety • Effective use of volunteer skills • Helping your neighbors

  11. Phase One • Purchase technology to support registry • Ensure sustainability • Engineer linkages with key boards/regulatory entities • Engineer credentialing linkages • Identify/train state-level administrators

  12. Phase One (con’t) • Physicians, physician assistants • RNs, LVNs, nurse practitioners • Pharmacists, pharmacy techs & interns • EMTs/paramedics • Social workers, marriage & family therapists, licensed professional counselors

  13. Phase One (con’t) • Start state-level recruitment • Place Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry logo on Web sites • Populate via linkages/recruitment with state partners (TMA, TOMA, TNA, TPA) • Exercise/improve

  14. Phase Two • Integrate additional disciplines • Dentists • Respiratory therapists & techs • Surgical technologists • Medical & clinical laboratory techs • Veterinarians • Others

  15. Phase Two (con’t) • Operationalize on local/regional levels • Identify local/regional administrators • Train administrators on system • Integrate linkages with local/regional volunteer systems • Assist with local/regional recruitment

  16. Phase Two (con’t) • Integrate Protect Texas SNS volunteers • Integrate public health staff into system • Explore linkages with faith-based and other community volunteer groups • Identify/incorporate minimal training standards/competency into system

  17. Access to Registry • Local EOC, hospitals, public health: access to city/county volunteers • Health Service Regions/SNS Planners: access to volunteers in geographic area • DSHS Multi-agency Coordination Center: access to volunteers statewide

  18. Registry logo/icon

  19. Volunteer Physicians Local EOC Texas Disaster VolunteerRegistry Nurses Local Hospital Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry Pharmacists Local Public Health Licensure Verification Recruitment EMT Paramedics Health Service Region Credentialing Credentialing Entities Mental Health Workers State MACC

  20. STATE Region Region Region Region Region Region Region Region Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local Local

  21. For more information… Belinda Hare State Disaster Volunteer Coordinator Texas Department of State Health Services Belinda.Hare@dshs.state.tx.us Phone: (512) 458-7219

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