Cal OES Announces new "Prepare California" Notice of Funding Opportunity, Plus Updated HMGP Timeline January 2022

 

 

Cal OES Announces new "Prepare California" Notice of Funding Opportunity, Plus Updated HMGP Timeline The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) recently announced an update to the timeline for the 2021 funding opportunity for FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). In addition, Cal OES announced a new one-time, state-funded initiative (“Prepare California”) to help socially vulnerable and high hazard risk communities jumpstart their progress toward greater resilience through advanced outreach, technical assistance, and funds to subsidize local mitigation and resilience initiatives. Please review the updated Notice of Funding Opportunity linked below for further details on the revised HMGP timeline and information on two new opportunities for funding under the Prepare California Initiative: ·    The PrepCA Jumpstart program will provide capacity building funding for eligible socially vulnerable and high hazard risk communities. ·    The PrepCA Match program will cover 100% of the local cost share for HMGP for eligible socially vulnerable and high hazard risk communities. This information and additional resources are available on the Cal OES HMGP webpage.

 

Revised 2021 Notice of Funding Opportunity

 

For questions, more information or to discuss your project, reach out to Cal OES staff at hma@caloes.ca.gov.

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

https://www.govexec.com/.../fema-experiences-mass.../360974/

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   Washington, D.C.  20020 bEMA International   Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization

“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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