Coping in Today's World: Community Psychological First Aid 8/22/2014 Hagerstown, Maryland.

AN UNRECOGNIZABLE ILLNESS........at a personal, family, community, and national level.

Are you, family, and community members under so much stress?

Ebola pandemic, climate change, race relations, water & food security issues, crime, violence in the Middle-East, the list goes on and on.


Check with your local public health agency\office for psychological first-aid training available. 

Title Coping in Today's World: Community Psychological First Aid Location Region II - Hagerstown County Start Time 8/22/2014 8:30 AM End Time 8/22/2014 12:30 PM Address  American Red Cross 1131 Conrad Court Hagerstown, MD 21740

The purpose of the Community Psychological Frist Aid is to provide a set of steps and actions to be used by responders, helping professionals, and lay persons to: 

•Strengthen their own psychological resilience and that of their children,

•Enhance their capacity to recognize stress in adults and children and how people react to it

•Provide immediate support and introduce coping skills to neighbors, friends and members of their families and others by using psychological first aid.

 

By drawing on Red Cross expertise, this course can help families, friends, and neighbors provide better emotional support to one another in times of stress, crisis and disaster. Persons completing this course will be able to provide and teach community residents how to apply PFA to themselves, family members, friends and neighbors during times of distress. 

Click Here to Register

http://preparedness.dhmh.maryland.gov/SitePages/RegistrationForm.aspx

Ebola and the Law: What You Need to Know, on Tuesday, August 12, 2014, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).

Special Announcements

Ebola and the Law: What You Need to Know
The Network for Public Health Law (the Network), CDC’s Public Health Law Program (PHLP), and the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) are co-hosting a free webinar, Ebola and the Law: What You Need to Know, on Tuesday, August 12, 2014, from 1:00 to  2:30 pm (EDT). The webinar will describe the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, discuss legal issues that arise when infected patients enter  the US, and explore legal powers and duties health department personnel have if an Ebola outbreak occurs in the US. Speakers will accept questions from participants at the end of the presentation.  



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Joint Criminal and Epidemiological Investigation Workshop August 19, and August 21, 2014. Maryland Emergency Management Agency

Workshops are filling up. 

Members throughout the U.S., check with The Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness to schedule a workshop in your community.

Check with FBI on crime scene data\evidence collection, or investigation courses for first responders or follow-on responders.  (Review bullet #2 below).

All agencies working together and sharing information.

BEMA

REGION IV    -   COURSE DATE AND LOCATION

Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay

100 Heron Blvd

Cambridge, Maryland

               Tuesday, 8/19/2014   8:30 AM -  4:30 PM

REGION III    -   COURSE DATE AND LOCATION              
       STATUS:  CLOSED FULL CAPACITY

Mt. Washington Conference Center

5801 Smith Avenue

Baltimore, Maryland 21209

               Thursday, 8/21/2014   8:30 AM -  4:30 PM

MARYLAND Emergency Management Agency in conjunction with The Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness

Title	Maryland Forensic Epi Training
Description	​ JOINT CRIMINAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION WORKSHOP The unique challenges of responding to a biological incident necessitate a high level of cooperation between law enforcement and public health officials during their respective investigations.  The Joint Criminal and Epidemiological Investigation Workshop is conducted by subject matter experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  The purpose of the workshop is to train law enforcement and public health professionals how to work closely together for notification and information sharing purposes in order to successfully and rapidly respond to a suspected biological incident.  While each discipline has distinctive investigative roles and responsibilities, there are common goals shared by law enforcement and public health that unite the two disciplines: ·       Early identification and notification that an event has occurred; ·       Rapid and ongoing assessment of whether an event is manmade or naturally-occurring; and ·       Protecting public health and public safety during a response. Specific topics covered during the workshop include: ·       Roles, responsibilities, and authorities during a biological incident; o   Law enforcement investigations and threat assessment o   Public health epidemiological and medical investigations ·       Identification of assets and capabilities for each discipline; ·       Joint investigation models and protocols; ·       Demonstration of the types of information gathered by law enforcement and public health and how sharing information can advance both investigations; and ·       Best practices for conducting a joint law enforcement-public health interview. At the conclusion of the workshop, students demonstrate how to conduct a joint investigation by participating in a scenario-based exercise designed to apply what they have learned during the course to include notification policies, initial threat assessment, analysis and sharing of data, identifying the threat, mitigating the threat and identifying the cause. Students will receive a copy of the FBI/CDC Criminal and Epidemiological Investigation Handbook as well as other tools that can be shared with colleagues.   A .pdf version of the handbook can be accessed at http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/wmd/criminal-and-epidemiological-investigation-handbook.
Category	Training
Does this event need Registration?	Yes
Click Here to Register	http://preparedness.dhmh.maryland.gov/SitePages/Events.aspx

August 2014. Getting on a U.S. Military Base Will Now Include an FBI Background Check

DOMESTIC

Getting on a U.S. Military Base Will Now Include an FBI Background Check

Members of the defense community, starting this Friday, automatically will be screened against the FBI’s criminal database when they try entering military installations and pulled aside if the system shows an arrest, felony or outstanding warrant.

The new Defense Department tool is part of a larger, government-wide effort to continuously vet people with access to secure facilities, following shootings at Fort Hood and the Navy Yard.

Identification smartcards issued to troops, veterans, relatives and other individuals permitted to enter military bases have long been checked against a DOD database before access is granted. But an instant FBI background check has never been part of the process.

Beginning this week, DOD’s information technology system will tap the FBI’s National Crime Information Center system. 

The entire article can be found here: http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/08/getting-us-military-base-will-now-include-fbi-background-check/90530/?oref=d-river

Situational Awareness. 2015. 10-year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Approaching

The 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina will be approaching in August 2015. 

How far have we come as a nation, and within our communities in ensuring that this type of devastation will never occur within the U.S. borders?

Are the problems that affect under-served communities only an issue with the U.S., or have other African-Descent communities have similar attributes in their response to disasters and emergencies?

Check our ‘RECOMMENDED READING LIST’ at  http://www.blackemergmanagersassociation.org/p/bema-recommended-reading-list.html

Highly recommend reading Davis, Vincent B. (2012).  Lost and Turned Out:  Preparing Under-Served Communities for Disasters as one of many gauges to determine how far we’ve come in addressing issues within our communities worldwide.

Be safe, be prepared.

Black Emergency Managers Association
1231  Good Hope Road  S.E.
Washington, D.C.  20020
Office:   202-618-9097
bEMA
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas