Assignment

Complete the following for the project:

• Develop a comprehensive, strategic 5-year plan for your community relating to current homeland security hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities.

o Including the details on how to facilitate or manage the planning process.

• Your plan must include a training outline that incorporates new members and existing members.

o The outline should address the various levels of operation: policy, strategic, tactical, and task.

• Select an appropriate organizational construct for your region.

o Determine which agencies will be involved in your larger group, and explain why they belong.

- Frame the strategic plan from the big-picture point of view, expanding upon the details of the collective group strategic plan.

• Include the financial plan to support your agency's strategic plan, training plan, and involvement in a regional collaboration (or other organizational construct).

o Give detail on your funding sources.

- This aspect may have a great impact on your selection of an organizational design.

• Defend each of your decisions and positions, and provide support from your research and from the course materials.

Assignment Guidelines

• Clearly identify the discipline for which the strategic plan is being developed: emergency management or homeland security.

• Specifically identify the agencies or the membership of the strategic planning group.

• Identify the goals and objectives.

• Identify the method of assessing the environment by using a SWOT analysis or other method.

• This analysis should be specific.

• A timeline should be identified listing the key steps in the process.

• The plan should be written at the strategic level so that the tactical-level members of the organization can use the strategic plan as guidance in developing their operations.

• A detailed financial plan should be included that specifically identifies normal, emergency, and recovery funding sources from local, state, county, and federal sources.

o Include the requirements and restrictions of these funding programs.

• Provide a list of resources that are available compared to a shortfall of anticipated resources.

o List the mutual-aid capacity where these shortfall items may be obtained.

• Supply a sample MOA that identifies emergency funding, procedures, and policy that support the selection and use of vendors that would be used in lieu of mutual-aid resources.

• Supply a policy or procedure for emergency purchasing, including a chain-of-command identification by position of function, not by individual name.

o This procedure should include actions that address the compromise of the normal flow to ensure that the system will function and not rely upon individuals only.

• Add a scenario that is based on a strategic planning model (in general terms) that addresses the following:

o The idea of scenario planning as an alternate method
o A biological event at the local level.

• This may be as simple as community-acquired influenza of no specific origin (a difficult flu season).

• Be sure to reference all of your sources using APA style.