Friday, April 6, 2018

Get Involved now more than ever. FEMA has a 'blunt' new message: It won't be there for every future disaster


Saving lives is our primary mission as emergency responders.

U.S. States, Territories, Tribal Nations
Now more than ever is the time to get involved ensuring others awareness, educational & training opportunities in your communities within the U.S.  In our major metro areas (L.A., Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, etc.)  to the small townships, and communities affected by environmental hazards such as Flint, Michigan get involved. 

In Flint, Michigan DHS\FEMA provided advisory and support to the public health entities within the State, and not a lead response & recovery roll.  Will Flint, Michigan fully recovery?  More time (years) will tell when the community returns to some normal state of water security.

Get involved!  Attend your local emergency management agency\office planning, budget, exercises, and other events in your area.  Be informed of local, and STATE involvement in disasters\crisis\and emergencies in your area. 

There are priority lists of recovery from a disaster.  What are the priorities in your community?

GLOBALLY
What are your planning, response, and recovery plans from all hazards?

Take a position of, who will come, and how much recovery funding will be needed in a disaster?

You just may be alone.

Step up, and manage your local programs.

BEMA International



“FEMA will continue to fund the recovery for smaller disasters, but increasingly, we will be looking for state and local governments to manage those programs,” Kaniewski said. “I will assert, maybe that’s a high goal. It depends on what state or what community you’re talking about — whether or not they can step up and manage those programs.”
Daniel Kaniewski.  FEMA Deputy Administrator


BTW…..Going at an issue alone may be futile.  Working collectively with others (BEMA International, local NGO’s, and nonprofits) can make a difference.

Sister Cities International’s Cities Seeking Cities program offers support services to help U.S. and global members cities find new sister city partners. The Membership Department works closely with members and utilizes a wide range of channels, including foreign and U.S. embassies, federal agencies, municipal associations, twinning organizations, among others, to find potential matches and assist our members in establishing new relationships.


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“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

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

April 30-May 11, ....FEMA Invites Whole Community to Participate in National Level Exercise

FEMA Invites Whole Community to Participate in National Level Exercise

               
On April 3, FEMA announced that the agency is conducting its 2018 National Level Exercise for the whole community and would like to invite other government agencies, representatives and organizations in the private sector, communities, and individuals to participate in this historic exercise. The 2018 National Level Exercise (NLE), based on a mid-Atlantic hurricane scenario, represents one key step towards implementing FEMA’s recently released 2018-2022 Strategic Plan.

The 2018 National Level Exercise, which takes place April 30-May 11, is the first major exercise following the release of the 2018-2022 FEMA Strategic Plan. The exercise supports the three goals of the Strategic Plan: Build a Culture of Preparedness by empowering the country to participate and enhance their own preparedness for future disasters; to build FEMA, our state and local partners, and all participants’ readiness for potential catastrophic events; and to reduce the complexity of FEMA by closely incorporating our partners into the exercise side-by-side with FEMA as we execute our mission in an exercise.

The 2018 exercise will also employ and test lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane season. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate tested FEMA’s readiness, and incorporating those lessons into this exercise, and testing our response, will help build our readiness as an agency and as a nation for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season and future disasters across the country.

FEMA will also use the NLE to engage individuals, businesses, and community organizations on topics such as alerts and warnings, family communications planning, mitigation through insurance, business resilience, and mobilization of the private sector during disasters to help build a culture of preparedness.

This exercise also represents ongoing engagement with the private sector and infrastructure to test our coordination through all levels of government in exercise play, from engagement with the National Business Emergency Operations Center (NBEOC), to the regional level with FEMA Region III’s Regional Business Emergency Operations Center (RBEOC), and the state level with our state partners’ State Business Emergency Operations Centers. The private sector plays an invaluable role in helping communities respond to and recover from disasters, and this exercise empowers FEMA to work closely with those organizations and strengthen our partnerships for future events.

As part of FEMA’s goal of encouraging and building participation in the exercise across the nation, we developed fact sheets on how individuals, communities, and the private sector and infrastructure can respectively engage with us on this exercise. The 2018 National Level Exercise presents an opportunity to prepare for a potential hurricane using a scenario and lessons learned from the 2017 Hurricane Season as we look ahead to the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season starting June 1.

The 2018 National Level Exercise provides an opportunity for FEMA to put the 2018-2022 Strategic Plan into action, and FEMA is inviting you, our partners, to participate. We encourage you to open and share the fact sheets, and to take action to prepare for future hurricanes. The 2017 Hurricane Season has taught us many lessons, including the value of being prepared for the unexpected. Take action today to prepare for tomorrow.

To learn more, please visit: http://www.fema.gov/nle. Additionally, if you have any questions, please contact nle@fema.dhs.gov about participating in the 2018 National Level Exercise.

Ghana Ambassador Lucheon. Sister Cities. Thursday, April 12, 2018. Washington, D.C.




Diplomatic Luncheon Series: Ambassador of Ghana to U.S.

Join us at the City Club of Washington for our Diplomatic luncheon on Thursday, April 12. This month's speaker, His Excellency Dr. Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah, Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana to the United States, will speak about his work and the importance of citizen diplomacy while attendees enjoy lunch. 

Please email annalise.parks@clubcorps.com or call 202-347-0818 to RSVP. 

Download the informational flyer.

Deadline May 29, 2018. $23.7Million Grants for Serious Mental Illness

SAMHSA Is Accepting Applications for up to $23.7 Million in Grants To Treat Serious Mental Illness

Application Due Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2018

SAMHSA is accepting applications for its Assertive Community Treatment grants and expects to award up to seven grants, of up to $678,000 per year, for up to 5 years. The grants will be used to improve behavioral health outcomes by reducing the rates of hospitalization and death for people with a serious mental illness (SMI). SAMHSA expects that the program will also reduce the rates of substance use, homelessness and involvement with the criminal justice system among people with SMI.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Trauma and Mental Health. Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Children, Adolescents and Youth: Part 1

The state of emergency in the Black Community in the U.S. is no different than other communities torn by civil strife, war, and violence.

U.S. members consider taking this and other courses to deal with the trauma of disasters, violence, and other disruptive issues in our communities.

Our mental health has a priority, just as a physical health.

CDS.  CEO  BEMA International

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Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Children, Adolescents and Youth: Part 1

Understand the potential impact an emergency can have on children’s psychosocial wellbeing and learn the key approaches to strengthen the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of children and young people in humanitarian response programmes.

This course is Part I of a 2-part series. Both courses are available in English and Arabic.
 
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