Webinar: 11/07/2012. Engaging Families in Community Service and Preparedness

Wednesday, November 7th
3:00 p.m. EDT

Plan ahead and be prepared for National Family Volunteer Day on November 17^th  by joining the FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division and Ready.gov for a FREE Webinar on Wednesday, November 7.  National Family Volunteer Day is held the Saturday before Thanksgiving and kicks off National Family Week. National Family Volunteer Day was created to mobilize family members within the community and is a great opportunity to get families involved in service, including projects and activities that help communities to prepare for disasters. Our guest speakers will discuss ways that you can capitalize on this event and engage families in your community, and encourage those who haven’t yet made a family service-day commitment to do something that will help prepare their community for disasters. Helping others provides opportunities for family members to be role models and brings them closer together, while also making a difference in their communities.

Speakers from the Hands On Network and Serve Alabama will share their own service initiatives and efforts to engage the public in volunteer opportunities and service projects.

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If you have questions regarding this event, please contact citizencorps@dhs.gov. 

Deepwater Horizon: Long Term Effects. October 2012

Press Release

Deepwater Horizon Incident
Joint Information Center

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Coast Guard approves plan to secure containment dome

10/25/2012 10:56 AM EDT

NEW ORLEANS - The Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in New Orleans authorized BP to proceed with a plan to cap and plug the containment dome.

In 2010, the 40-foot-tall containment dome was used as a part of an attempt to capture oil and allow it to flow through a pipe to a barge on the surface. The technique was unsuccessful and the equipment was moved away from the well head and riser and set in its current position approximately 500 meters from the original Macando well head.

The operation, which began Tuesday, included BP mobilizing a remotely operated vehicle from the offshore construction vessel Skandi Neptune to the containment dome to place a cap on top of the stove pipe and plug the ROV connection ports on the sides and top of the structure. The cap and plugs were successfully put in place and no further oil emissions from the containment dome were observed.

BP has collected data via satellite throughout the operation and will continue to do so for a five-day period following, in order to detect changes in the surface sheen and to evaluate the effectiveness of these actions in abating or eliminating the sheen. In addition, the Coast Guard plans an overflight of the area later in the week.
Representatives from the Coast Guard, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and Gulf Coast Incident Management Team's Department of Interior Liaison, as well as state on-scene coordinators from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida observed the controlled feed in New Orleans.

The FOSC has further directed BP to submit a feasibility plan that considers the next steps toward either removing or remediating the threats of oil posed by the riser pipe and containment dome.

The operation and proposed plan were in response to an oil sheen in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon incident first reported to the National Response Center Sept. 16. The Coast Guard issued a Notice of Federal Interest to BP and Transocean after the reported sheen was correlated to the oil that originated from BP's Macondo well.

The public is reminded to contact the National Response Center at 1-800-424-8802 to report all pollution incidents or the 8th Coast Guard District command center at 504-589-6225 in the event of a marine emergency.

Webinar: Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

Raising Resources and In-Kind Donations The next MLK Day planning webinar is on Wednesday, October 31st at 3 P.M. ET. It will include information about how to raise resources and in-kind donations. Such as: Creating a fundraising committee Utilizing leaders and champions Identifying resource goals Looking for in-kind donations Making the ask Acknowledging donors Register for this webinar!

Webinar: EMForum. Attacker Types and Threat Assessment. October 24, 2012

Mass Shootings

Attacker Types and Threat Assessment
October 24, 2012 -- 12:00 Noon Eastern Time

EMForum.org is pleased to host a one hour presentation and interactive discussion Wednesday, October 24, 2012, beginning at 12:00 Noon Eastern time (please convert to your local time). In follow up to a previous EMForum program, this session will focus on various types of attackers and threat assessment of advance warnings and indicators. Our guest will be August Vernon, instructor, author, and Operations Officer for the Forsyth County, NC Office of Emergency Management.

Please make plans to join us, and see the Background Page for links to related resources and participant Instructions. On the day of the program, use the Webinar Login link not more than 30 minutes before the scheduled time. The password is attend. As always, please feel free to extend this invitation to your colleagues.

 

In partnership with Jacksonville State University, EIIP offers CEUs for attending EMForum.org Webinars.  See http://www.emforum.org/CEUs.htm for details.

Is your organization interested in becoming an EIIP Partner? Click here to review our Mission, Vision, and Guiding Principles and access the Memorandum of Partnership.

 

 

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This educational opportunity is provided by the Emergency Information Infrastructure Project (EIIP).

First Responders: Wills for Heroes Foundation

Wills for Heroes

The YLS is an affiliate of the Wills for Heroes Foundation and proudly organizes volunteers for Wills for Heroes events.

Wills for Heroes is a free and easy service that provides Wills, Living Wills, Health Care and Financial Powers of Attorney to first responders and their spouses/partners.  The foundation was started in response to the tragic events of 9/11. Of the 403 first responders who died that day, most did not have a will in place. First responders risk their lives each day to make our communities safer. This program provides free wills and other estate planning documents to our local heroes in about one hour using a program supplied free-of-charge by LexisNexis.

http://www.yls.org/sec_comm/sections/yls/projects.asp

The Effectiveness of Collaboration

Collaborative networks are crucial

Working together is not often the smoothest way to get things done. However, collaboration by definition in emergency management is the collective agencies, departments, as well as all internal and external stakeholders working towards shared objectives, and goals. This means that collaboration takes place at all levels.

Collaboration should be taking place from agencies and organizations that hope to improve upon and make strides in effectively providing disaster aid to affected communities. To do this you need to have mutual trust in each other’s capabilities, decision support on all levels, and shared values and goals. You cannot be separate on any of the above qualities if you hope to have a collaborative network. Each of these qualities should be fostered in the foundation of each organization in the collaboration to have it be effective long term.

Further, for more insightful and effective outlooks on collaboration and its effects I suggest readingCollaboration and Leadership for Effective Emergency Management, by (Streib & Waugh Jr., 2006). The authors discuss leadership and effectiveness of collaboration in disaster situations, why they have failed in the past, and how they can improve in the future with the use of collaboration.

Whether or not you feel you know it all, it is always best to have partners, to bring in experts in different fields, and to have many stakeholders. Essentially it is important to collaborate at every level so that when you need the support you have a strong network to back up your community.

Works Cited:

Streib , G., & Waugh Jr., W. L. (2006). Collaboration and Leadership for Effective Emergency Management.Public Administration Review .

Posted 7 hours ago by Justin Shoemate

Labels: Effective Leadership Emergency Management Collaboration

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