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FEMA will host a webinar on how to develop after-action reports for real-world incidents, from 1-2 p.m. ET on Thursday, Dec. 14. This webinar, held by the agency’s Continuous Improvement Technical Assistance Program, will emphasize approaches for completing incident after-action reviews outlined in FEMA’s National Continuous Improvement Guidance. Please note that this webinar will be presented in Spanish.
After-action reports remain the most common continuous improvement product in emergency management. During this webinar, FEMA will equip participants with a systematic after-action approach for identifying and building on strengths and potential best practices and addressing areas for improvement. The webinar will also review resources focused on developing after-action reports that are available within FEMA's Preparedness Toolkit.
The webinar is designed for of state, local, tribal and territorial partners, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and other entities involved in emergency management functions engaged in continuous improvement efforts.
To attend the webinar, register in advance by visiting the event page on FEMA.gov and click the "Register Here" button. If an issue arises while registering or logging in, email FEMA-CITAP@fema.dhs.gov.
Participe en el seminario en línea en español de FEMA sobre cómo desarrollar un informe de resultados de un incidente
El Programa de Asistencia Técnica de Mejora Continua (CITAP, por sus siglas en inglés) de FEMA organizará un seminario en línea en español sobre cómo desarrollar informes de resultados (AAR, por sus siglas en inglés) para incidentes en el mundo real, de 1p.m. a 2 p.m., hora del Este, el jueves 14 de diciembre de 2023. Este seminario en línea enfatizará los enfoques para completar revisiones posteriores a la acción de un incidente descritos en la Guía Nacional de Mejora Continua de FEMA.
Los AAR siguen siendo el producto más común de mejora continua en el manejo de emergencias. Durante este seminario en línea, FEMA equipará a los participantes con un enfoque posterior a la acción sistemático para identificar y desarrollar las fortalezas y mejores prácticas potenciales y abordar áreas de mejora. El seminario en línea también revisará los recursos enfocados en el desarrollo de AAR que están disponibles en el sitio web del kit de herramientas de preparación de FEMA.
El seminario en línea está diseñado para colaboradores estatales, locales, tribales y territoriales, organizaciones no gubernamentales, el sector privado y otras entidades involucradas en funciones de manejo de emergencias que participan en los esfuerzos de mejora continua.
Para asistir al seminario en línea, inscríbase con anticipación visitando la página del evento en FEMA.gov y haga clic en el botón "Register Here". Si surge alguna dificultad al inscribirse o iniciando la sesión, por favor comuníquese a través de correo electrónico a: FEMA-CITAP@fema.dhs.gov.
FEMA is reaching out directly to Spanish speaking communities with a newly translated new “IDEA Guide” – Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in Exercises: Considerations and Best Practices.
By translating the IDEA Guide, FEMA strives to help Spanish speaking audiences help involve the whole community, particularly underserved communities, in exercise development, conduct and feedback processes. The guide offers exercise planners insights and tools around key considerations for exercises that better reflect the full spectrum of a community’s stakeholders.
These new materials are intended to be used by exercise practitioners and emergency managers at all levels of government, the private sector and nonprofit organizations. By providing these documents in Spanish, FEMA hopes to engage planners and participants who have previously been unable to participate.
Please find the English and Spanish language documents below:
For more information about exercises, go to Exercise and Preparedness Tools | FEMA.gov
FEMA will host a webinar on Wednesday, Dec. 13, focused on Other Federal Agency disaster assistance resources, capabilities and mechanisms that support survivors.
Co-hosted by FEMA’s Voluntary Agency Liaisons and the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the webinar will:
- Highlight resources, tools or examples of practices that explore different disaster resources supporting people before, during and after disasters.
- Provide contact information and ways to stay connected.
Webinar Information:
- Topic: Disaster Resources from Other Federal Agencies
- Date: Dec. 13
- Time: 2-3:30 p.m. ET
- Location: Please register at ZOOM
- Passcode: FEMAVAL
Speakers:
- Colt Hagamier, Assistant Administrator, FEMA Recovery Directorate
- Marcus Coleman, Director, DHS Center of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
- Jonathan Halfon, Deputy Division Director (A), FEMA Interagency Coordination Division (ICD), FEMA Recovery Directorate
- Sheila Daniels, Special Advisor, Office of Disaster Management, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
- Joshua Barnes, Recovery Director of the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Roberto Garza, Commander, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and Director (A) of the Division of Recovery Operations, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Ben Dinsmore, Recovery Support Function Coordinator and Program Manager, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
For further questions, please email FEMA-VAL@fema.dhs.gov.
After a disaster, affected communities depend heavily on local and national volunteer organizations to provide trained volunteers and much-needed donated supplies. For 40 years, FEMA has worked with these voluntary organizations to help people before, during and after disasters.
Check out the new video, FEMA Celebrates Partnerships 2023, highlighting the more than four decades of collaboration between voluntary and faith-based organizations and the agency.
“Our voluntary and faith-based organizations are critical lifelines to communities,” said Administrator Criswell. “They are on the front lines providing resources and services that improve communities each and every day.”
FEMA builds relationships with the agency’s voluntary agency liaisons (VAL) and the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
VALs work with government, voluntary, faith- and community-based, private sector, philanthropic and whole community partners who help communities manage disasters. The Center seeks to build bridges across the whole community to help overcome coordination challenges and engage a broad cross-section of faith-based organizations in all stages of the disaster cycle.
Through these relationships, FEMA supports the delivery of inclusive and equitable services and strengthens the capabilities of communities to address disaster-caused unmet needs.
To learn more about Faith-Based and Volunteer Partnerships, visit Voluntary and Community-Based Organizations | FEMA.gov.
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, speaking to more than 2,000 tribal leaders and emergency managers at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) 80th Annual Convention, unveiled FEMA’s first of its kind 2023 Tribal Strategy Progress Report and announced the opening of registration for the ninth annual Tribal Nations Training Week, to be held in March 2024.
“We are creating tailored strategies to ensure Tribal Nations have the tools they need to help tribal citizens before, during and after disasters,” said Criswell.
Leveraging FEMA’s National Tribal Strategy, which re-defined how FEMA can better meet the needs of Tribal Nations, the Progress Report provides a synopsis of how FEMA has been helping build Tribal Nation capabilities and capacity. These efforts include increasing in-person engagement with Tribal leaders in Indian Country and at FEMA headquarters in a manner that acknowledges tribal sovereignty and educating and improving the FEMA workforce that serves Indian Country.
In her remarks to NCAI, Administrator Criswell affirmed FEMA’s commitment to equity and meeting the climate resilience and preparedness needs of all communities. One important aspect of this work is FEMA’s update of the Tribal Disaster Declarations Guidance. Upon its creation, the Guidance provided Tribal Nations with the long overdue tribal pathway to request their own Presidential Disaster Declarations. It expedites federal funding and helps Tribal Nations recover from disasters more effectively and efficiently.
In 2023, FEMA held nine government-to-government tribal consultations and tribal listening sessions across Indian Country specifically focusing on this critical tribal resource. These sessions, both in-person and virtual, provided FEMA with feedback to rework the Guidance so that it better meets the needs of Tribal Nations. FEMA is also working to update the Tribal Mitigation Planning Policy Guide.
At the convention, Administrator Criswell announced the opening of registration for FEMA’s ninth annual Tribal Nations Training Week. The training will be held March 9-16, 2024, at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama. For nearly a decade, FEMA has provided no-cost, in-person training for tribal leaders, tribal emergency managers, communications, information technology, grants, health care staff and even Indian Health Services staff. In 2023, 215 students from 77 Tribal Nations attended, and FEMA seeks to increase participation for 2024.
The 2023 Tribal Strategy Progress Report and accompanying Fiscal Year 2023 FEMA Tribal Engagement Map are available on the FEMA Tribal Affairs web page.
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell provided tribal leaders with FEMA updates and announcements during the National Congress of American Indians 80th Annual Convention.
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, FEMA Region 6 Regional Administrator Tony Robinson, and FEMA National Tribal Affairs Advocate Kelbie Kennedy (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), with Tribal Council Vice Chair Nita Battise of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas at the National Congress of American Indians 80th Annual Convention.
On Nov. 1, FEMA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) held their eighth tribal consultation with dozens of tribal representatives to discuss the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program. The application deadline for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program is Wednesday, Jan. 10.
Consultations began in June 2022 to provide structured communication for tribal input and feedback, with the goal of using this feedback from tribal leaders and representatives to shape policies and procedures for grant programs. This includes the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program, the Tribal Homeland Security Grant Program and the Emergency Management Grant Program, among others.
The tribal cyber grant program, which began in FY 2022, provides funding to federally recognized tribal governments to address cybersecurity risks and threats to information systems owned or operated by or on behalf of tribes. The most recent consultation is being used to improve the program for FY 2024.
The FY 2023 program funding is $18.2 million, including unused rollover funding from the FY 2022 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. To learn more about the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program, including several changes based on input from the consultation, visit FEMA.gov.
Do you know how to be #WinterReady? Join FEMA Region 3 at 3:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Dec. 12, for a free, family-friendly holiday-themed webinar. This webinar will feature winter, holiday and home fire safety tips to help foster a safer and healthier environment for everyone. This fireside virtual event will intertwine the joy and peace of the holidays with safety and preparation.
Register in advance for the one of a kind "A Partridge and a Prepared Me" webinar via Zoom. Once registered, you will receive an email with a link and passcode to join.
Everyone is welcome to join, especially kids who would like to speak with a firefighter about home safety and hear a preparedness spin on a classic holiday tale. For more information, visit FEMA.gov.
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Application Period Now Open for Vanguard Executive Crisis Leaders Fellowship
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced that the agency is accepting nominations for the 2024 cohorts of the Vanguard Executive Crisis Leaders Fellowship. The program brings together the most experienced crisis leaders from different sectors, including federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, private, academic and non-profit.
There will be three cohorts in 2024: February/April, May/June and July/August. Each cohort will comprise 25 participants representing federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, academic, non-profit, philanthropic and private sector crisis leaders. The application for all 2024 cohorts closes Dec. 15.
Executive leaders interested in applying should submit their resume, personal statement and preferred cohort dates to fema-emi-superintendent@fema.dhs.gov. For additional details on the application process, visit www.training.fema.gov/programs/vanguard.
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Tribal Consultation Informs Cyber Grant Program
On Nov. 1, FEMA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) held their eighth tribal consultation to discuss the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program with dozens of tribal representatives. The application deadline for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program is Wednesday, Jan. 10.
Consultations began in June 2022 to provide structured communication for tribal input and feedback, with the goal of using this feedback from Tribal leaders and representatives to shape policies and procedures for grant programs. This includes the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program, the Tribal Homeland Security Grant Program and the Emergency Management Grant Program, among others.
The tribal cyber grant program, which began in FY 2022, provides funding to federally recognized tribal governments to address cybersecurity risks and threats to information systems owned or operated by or on behalf of tribes. The most recent consultation is being used to improve the program for FY 2024.
The FY 2023 program funding is $18.2 million, including unused rollover funding from the FY 2022 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. To learn more about the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program, including several changes based on input from the consultation, visit FEMA.gov.
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FEMA Publishes Resources for Developing BRIC and FMA Grant Applications
On Oct. 12, FEMA announced $1.8 billion available in funding for the Fiscal Year 2023 Building Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) and Flood Mitigation Assistance grant programs. The BRIC funding level will be $1 billion and the Flood Mitigation Assistance funding level will be $800 million.
FEMA published several program support materials and launched a series of webinars and on-demand videos that provide important resources and information for prospective applicants and sub-applicants. These resources can be used to help develop applications for these two FEMA hazard mitigation grants. The application period for both programs closes on Feb. 29, 2024.
These program support materials are resources to help state, local, tribal and territorial governments preparing applications for this grant cycle. The following program support materials are:
Information about the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities and Flood Mitigation Assistance Funding Opportunities Webinar Series is available online and includes an opportunity to watch the video or download the presentation. This webinar provides an overview of and guidance on how to request Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Direct Technical Assistance in fiscal year 2023. More information about this opportunity is available on the BRIC Direct Technical Assistance webpage. Please complete this form by Feb. 29, 2024.
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FEMA Announces $211M to Fund Dam Safety Grants
FEMA will commit more than $211 million in funding to enhance dam safety efforts across the nation to ensure that communities have the critical infrastructure needed to protect against disasters and prevent flooding.
The Rehabilitation of High Hazard Potential Dams program is making about $185 million available and another approximate $26 million available through the National Dam Safety State Assistance Grant Program. The investments funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help protect communities from flooding, avoid disaster costs and strengthen resilience to climate change.
National Dam Safety State Assistance Grant Program is available for any state or territory with an enacted dam safety program. The state administrative agency, or an equivalent state agency, is eligible to apply. Each eligible state or territory may submit only one grant application. The funding opportunities are open now and will close on Feb. 29, 2024. Available opportunities may be found on Grants.gov.
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FEMA Announces Second Round of Funding to Mitigate Repetitive Flooding
Another $300 million in Swift Current funding is available to help property owners across the nation become more resilient to flooding. This funding opportunity is the second time that FEMA is using funds from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for Swift Current, part of the Flood Mitigation Assistance program. Swift Current makes homes safer and more resilient for National Flood Insurance Program policyholders with repetitively flooded properties. To be eligible, buildings must be insured through the National Flood Insurance Program.
FEMA will work with states, Tribes and territories to explore their participation during this cycle. Potential applicants who have questions may contact their FEMA regional office. The application period opened on Nov. 15 and the last eligible disaster declaration date is May 31, 2024. The funding opportunity is available on Grants.gov.
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