Monday, January 24, 2022

FEMA 'Mass Exit' of Employees. Is there an 'Exit' at the State, County, City Level? January 2022

State by State is an 'Exit' of HS EM staff occurring?
  • Not just due to the current surge, but due to overall overall EEOC and other unharmonious work environment events and complaints filed?
  • Is this data readily available from federal, state, county, and city EEOC offices?
BEMA International




Saturday, January 22, 2022

Still don't get it. Is your College or University on the List? HS and EM Education & Training January 2022

 
  • Is the college or university you’re planning to attend, or are an alum of on the FEMA EMI College List
  • What number of HBCU’s, LatinX, First\Native American Nation colleges or universities on the list? 
  • Are these institutions taking advantage of the benefits for their students and the community members, the whole community members they serve?

 

Climate change and the current pandemic have changed the environment for all communities globally.  Professionals in every endeavor, every critical infrastructure field needs to be involved and understand how to address the system of addressing disasters\crisis\emergency management, the impacts of climate, and the inter-relationship within the community, business, agriculture, energy, transportation, water & food security, telecommunications, and more. 

 

The whole community must be a part of the change process.

 

Check to see if your local college or university are on the FEMA EMI (Emergency Management Institute) college list below.

 

Ask yourself, “Why aren’t they on the list?”

 

If not, “business as usual”.  A never-ending cycle.  We’ll be back where we are now in five, ten, twenty, or even thirty years. 

 

BEMA International

 

 

HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM (HiEd)                        

NATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION
DIVISION          

 • NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS DIRECTORATE                    

 

The College List, located at https://training.fema.gov/hiedu/collegelist/ , outlines programs at all levels of study in emergency management (EM), homeland security (HS) and related fields

 

 

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/01/fema-experiences-mass-exit-employees-amid-surge-disasters/360974/

FEMA Experiences ‘Mass Exit’ of Employees Amid Surge in Disasters

The agency is still dealing with 1,000 disasters as its workload continues to climb.

ERIC KATZ 

JANUARY 20, 2022 04:07 PM ET

 

 

Black Emergency Managers Association International


 

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bEMA International

 

Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)

 

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“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today.  We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.  In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late.  Procrastination is still the thief of time.  Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity.  This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos or community.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Where Are We Going From Here:  Chaos or Community’. 




BHM (Black History Month). Washington, D.C. Transit Equity Month 2022. Mark you calendar: Friday, February 4, 2022

 


Risk Management January 2022

 

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(Photo: IMF)

Essential Reading: Risk Management

Check out our eLibrary section on risk management, where you can find all the latest IMF research on issues related to cybersecurity, finance and business, insurance, and risk modeling.

IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) January 2022

 

Resilience and Sustainability

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(Image: Rose Kouwenhoven/IMF)

A New IMF Trust Fund

The IMF's Ceyla Pazarbasioglu and Uma Ramakrishnan laid out in a new blog this week how a proposed IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) will help low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries build resilience to balance of payment shocks and ensure a sustainable recovery.

The $50-billion trust fund would also be a place where countries could channel their Special Drawing Rights to more vulnerable nations.

--Key design features: About three quarters of the IMF's membership would be eligible for RST financing. This would include all low-income countries, all developing and vulnerable small states, and all middle-income countries with gross national per-capita income of less than roughly $12,000 per year.

The RST aims to address macro-critical longer-term structural challenges that entail significant macroeconomic risks to member countries’ resilience and sustainability, including climate change, pandemic preparedness, and digitalization. Access to RST financing would be determined case by case, based on the strength of reforms and debt sustainability considerations, and is expected to be capped at 150 percent of IMF quota or SDR 1 billion, whichever is smaller. 

--Timeline: Pazarbasioglu and Ramakrishnan said they hope for broad support from IMF membership and international partners. The aim is to secure IMF Executive Board approval before the upcoming Spring Meetings and for the trust to become fully operational before the year’s end.

Medical Reserve Corps. NACCO Publications and courses

 

NACCHO has published a number of new resources for MRC units in recent months. These include:

The NACCHO team shared details about each of these new resources during the January MRC Well Check Webinar. Watch the Listserv for a link to the recording.