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FEMA recently added two new stories to its Mitigation Best Practices webpage: one is about successfully financing coastal resilience and one describes how teamwork boosts outreach and engagement to lower flood risk.
Financing Coastal Resilience
Bourne, Massachusetts, experiences coastal flooding, erosion and severe storms. The town’s estuaries also have water quality issues. As a result, many high-priority projects must compete for limited funding. Building upon Bourne’s hazard mitigation plan, the planning team and partners developed a Coastal Resilience Financing Assessment report. This report established a financing system that provides a consistent source of seed funding for lower-cost projects as well as local match dollars for bigger projects.
Teamwork Approach to Outreach and Engagement Reduces Flood Risk
Tulsa, Oklahoma, used to be the nation’s most frequently flooded city. It now leads the nation in stormwater management and hazard risk reduction. For over 40 years, a dedicated team has promoted integrated planning, stronger regulations, outreach and education. The result is more citizen involvement, sound political leadership and wise long-term actions.
In addition to the Mitigation Best Practices, another comprehensive resource includes the Hazard Mitigation Planning Success Stories Story Map. This story map highlights stories of communities across the United States that are becoming more resilient through outstanding hazard mitigation planning.
FEMA will host a discussion to introduce the 2022 – 2026 FEMA Strategic Plan to partners and stakeholders of the agency’s Office of Disability Integration and Coordination and the Department of Homeland Security Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
The event will take place at 11 a.m. ET on Feb. 24.
The discussion will center around the process and intent of the plan, its overarching goals and the importance of partnerships to achieve the plans goals and objective.
Presenters for the event include:
- FEMA Office for Disability Integration and Coordination Director Linda Mastandrea.
- Department of Homeland Security Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Director Marcus Coleman.
Register in advance for this meeting via FEMA's Zoom webpage. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
FEMA, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is hosting a series of webinars for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Nonprofit Security Grant Program. These webinars are for all nonprofit organizations interested in learning more about the program and its priorities, eligibility and application process.
Through a competitive process, the program provides funding support for facility hardening and other security enhancements to nonprofit organizations at high risk of a terrorist attack. The program also promotes emergency preparedness coordination and collaboration between public and private community representatives, as well as state, local, tribal and territorial governments.
FEMA and its partners are committed to providing quality customer service to all our partners including socially vulnerable, underserved and underrepresented communities.
Each webinar will present the same content, including:
- Physical Safety and Security: Vulnerability Self-Assessment Information and Tools.
- Nonprofit Security Grant Program Overview and FY 2021 Program Recap.
- Preparation for the FY 2022 Nonprofit Security Grant Program: What Nonprofit Organizations Should Do Now.
- Open Forum: Moderated Question and Answer Session.
To register, click on your preferred session below:
Due to the potential number of participants and the limited capacity of online meetings, the webinar will open 30 minutes prior to the published start time of each event. If you are unable to join or if the event is at capacity, please join the next available offering. All webinars will cover the same content. No prior registration is available or required.
Additional program information can be found on FEMA.gov. The vulnerability self-assessment tool, as well as other helpful safety and security information for nonprofits, can be found at the Hometown Security webpage at CISA.gov.
For questions regarding the webinars or to request special accommodations, contact FEMA-NSGP@fema.dhs.gov.
FEMA is hosting a webinar to highlight Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) use, trends in IPAWS adoption and major developments with the IPAWS program during 2021. The webinar will be held at 1 p.m. ET on March 9.
Wondering who is using IPAWS and when? FEMA will share statistics from the past year and discuss some new resources available to IPAWS users.
This 30-minute discussion will be led by FEMA’s IPAWS Stakeholder Engagement team and will be followed by a question-and-answer period.
The webinar will be recorded for future viewing. However, FEMA encourages live attendance to maximize the time for Q&A with the presenters.
To join the webinar, visit FEMA's WebEx webpage. For questions, contact FEMA at fema-ipaws-stakeholder-engagement@fema.dhs.gov.
FEMA Seeks New Members for National Advisory Council
FEMA is seeking qualified individuals to lend their expertise and serve on the agency’s National Advisory Council.
The National Advisory Council includes a geographically diverse and substantive cross-section of 35 members who advise the FEMA Administrator on all aspects of emergency management, ensuring input from and coordination with state, local, tribal and territorial governments as well as the private and nonprofit sectors. For more information about what each position entails, please see the council’s charter.
If you are interested in applying to serve on the National Advisory Council, please follow the instructions found in the Federal Register for submitting an application package no later than midnight ET on March 31.
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FEMA Seeks Public Comment to Enhance the Agency’s Programs
As part of its commitment to advance equity in underserved communities, FEMA proposes collecting demographic information from applicants participating in certain FEMA programs.
Collecting this information will help FEMA ensure that people who apply for assistance are treated fairly and that FEMA programs comply with civil rights, nondiscrimination and equity requirements. Participation is voluntary. FEMA urges stakeholders, community groups and the public to comment on the information collection initiative.
The deadline to submit comments is March 28. Learn more and submit your comments on the Federal Register website.
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FEMA Seeks Public Feedback on How-To Guide
FEMA is seeking public feedback on an updated "Emergency Operations Center How-To Quick Reference Guide." The 30-day national engagement period opens today and will conclude at 5 p.m. ET March 1.
To provide comments on the drafts, complete the feedback form on the webpage and submit the form to fema-nims@fema.dhs.gov.
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FEMA Accepting Applications for the Youth Preparedness Council
FEMA is accepting applications for the Youth Preparedness Council. All applications are due no later than midnight on March 6. If you know a teen interested in preparedness and community service, encourage them to apply.
Members of the council work on projects that help increase preparedness in their communities. They share their opinions, experiences, ideas and solutions with FEMA leadership and participate in the annual Youth Preparedness Council summit.
We spoke to three members of the current council to find out more about their experiences. Visit the FEMA Blog to read their stories.
To learn more about the Youth Preparedness Council, visit Youth Preparedness Council | Ready.gov.
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Resilience Exchange Series: Strengthening Climate Equity
The Resilience Nation Partnership Network and the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships is hosting this month’s “Ideation Hour” from 2 - 3:15 p.m. ET on Feb. 23.
The event will explore and discuss the many factors behind strengthening climate equity for the whole community.
To register and for additional event information, visit Eventbrite.com. Contact FEMA-ResilientNation@fema.dhs.gov for questions.
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FEMA Offers Exercise Assistance Through the National Exercise Program
FEMA is accepting requests for exercise support through the National Exercise Program. State, local, tribal and territorial partners can request no-cost assistance for exercise design, development, conduct and evaluation to validate capabilities across all mission areas.
FEMA is hosting webinars for all interested government and other community partners on the exercise support process.
Visit the webinar page to register. The webinar dates are:
- Webinar 3: 2 p.m. ET on Feb. 24.
- Webinar 4: 2 p.m. ET on March 1.
- Webinar 5: 2 p.m. ET on March 3.
- Webinar 6: 2 p.m. ET on March 8.
Spring 2022 requests for support are due no later than April 1. To submit a request for exercise support, download the support request form and email the completed form with supporting documentation to NEP@fema.dhs.gov. Awardees will be notified by May 6. FEMA will hold additional exercise support rounds in fall 2022 and spring 2023.
For questions, contact FEMA at NEP@fema.dhs.gov.
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FEMA Hosts National Resource Hub Webinars
FEMA is hosting a National Resource Hub webinar series to walk users through the toolkit resources. The webinars will focus on the Resource Inventory System, OneResponder and the course equivalent tool.
Advance registration is required due to space limitations. To register, click on your preferred webinar session from the list below:
Resource Inventory System Introduction
OneResponder and Course Equivalency Tool Introduction
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