FEMA, in partnership with organizations
that collectively represent the emergency management profession, released today
the first two video presentations from the PrepTalks Symposium on May 30, 2018,
at Long Branch High School in New Jersey. These presentations are from thought leaders
in youth preparedness and provide concrete actions that can reduce children’s
vulnerability to disasters.
Dr. Lori Peek’s PrepTalk,
“Children and Disasters: Reducing Vulnerability and Building Capacity,” brings
to life the progress, ongoing challenges, and possibilities to reduce the
vulnerability of children to disasters. Dr. Peek shares her extensive experience
working with children during disasters, including a young survivor of Hurricane
Katrina. Peek gives emergency managers
five specific actions to take to reduce the vulnerability of children to
disasters right now.
Sarah Thompson’s
PrepTalk, “Youth: The Key to Building a Culture of Preparedness,” highlights
how children are great mobilizers, actors, and connectors within their
communities for building a culture of preparedness. Thompson uses her
experience and sociological data to show how emergency managers can use the
natural curiousity of children to build preparedness in their communities.
Videos of the presentations and
question-and-answer sessions, a discussion guide on youth preparedness, and related resources are available at https://www.fema.gov/preptalks. The final two videos from the May 2018 PrepTalks Symposium are
scheduled to be released on July 24.
PrepTalks are a partnership between FEMA, the
International Association of Emergency Managers, the National Emergency
Management Association, the National Homeland Security Consortium, and the
Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
How do you move a whole town out of harm’s way while
preserving the town’s history and keeping it as a functional community space?
For more than 100 years, a small riverside town in Waverly,
Indiana, endured repeated flooding. By 2005, state and local officials began to
address the problem, and over the last decade the community has transformed
into a living history park with restored and reclaimed historical structures,
added walking paths, canoe/kayak portage sites, and other amenities. On this
week’s episode of the FEMA Podcast, we visit this transformed landscape to
learn more about the FEMA hazard mitigation grants and additional state, local,
and private sector funding that was used to acquire properties in the
floodplain. Property owners voluntarily sold their property so the land could
be returned to open space, reducing the amount of emergency response resources
that are required during flood events in Morgan County.
The FEMA Podcast is a new
audio program series available to anyone interested in learning more about the
Agency, hearing about innovation in the field of emergency management, and
listening to stories about communities and individuals recovering after disasters.
The FEMA Podcast is available on Apple iTunes
to stream or download. Approximately 20 to 30 minutes in length, the podcast
will be updated with a new episode on a weekly basis. By subscribing, new
episodes will automatically update on a listener's device. For more
information, visit www.fema.gov/podcast.
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FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) hosts a series of “One Link, One Bridge, Many Voices” e-Forums every Wednesday from 3-4 p.m. EDT. EMI e-Forums are one-hour, moderated webinar discussions that provide an opportunity for EMI and the emergency management community to discuss matters of interest on national preparedness training. The e-Forums showcase whole community partners and peers, sharing their experiences. The panel format offers opportunities to provide technical assistance in training management by facilitating peer-to-peer sharing of best practices.
July EMI e-Forums
- 7/11 Continuity Excellence Series, Level I (Professional Continuity Practitioner) and Level II (Master Continuity Practitioner) with Cynthia Adams, National Continuity Programs, Federal Emergency Management Agency
- 7/18 Healthcare Facility Emergency Management. Is it really a different animal?: Best Practices in the Healthcare Community with Derrick Jaastad, Plans Branch Chief, Veteran’s Healthcare Administration Office of Emergency Management, VA
- 7/25 Emergency Management Professional Program: Emergency Management Professional Reading List and Book Club with Mr. Kelly Garrett, EMPP Manager, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Participation link: https://fema.connectsolutions.com/emieforums
Conference call-in: 800-320-4330, PIN 107622
Questions: https://training.fema.gov/contactus/sendcomment.aspx
Register for the Emergency Management Institute's Cyber Virtual Tabletop Exercise
FEMA’s Emergency
Management Institute (EMI) Virtual Tabletop Exercise (VTTX) Program will offer
three cyber security breach scenarios August 7, 8, and 9, 2018. The VTTX
occurs 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET. To participate, send an email to Doug
Kahn at douglas.kahn@fema.dhs.gov
or call 301-447-7645. Also, send a courtesy copy email to the Integrated
Emergency Management Branch at fema-emi-iemb@fema.dhs.gov
or call 301-447-1381. Content is the same each day and participants should
attend only one session. Additional information is available at https://training.fema.gov/programs/emivttx.aspx.
The registration deadline is July 20.
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