Assignment

Overview

This project is the creation of a presentation that introduces a community working group to emergency management.

The building of emergency management programs and their included emergency management plans are essential for the construction of resilient communities. Emergency managers must be able to lead all of their respective communities' or organizations' stakeholders to common ground on matters pertaining to protection against, prevention of, mitigation of, response to, and recovery from all hazards and threats. Emergency managers need to understand federal, state, and local regulatory drivers that govern emergency planning in their jurisdictions. Emergency managers must understand and apply Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency directives and guidelines in the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Preparedness System (NPS) in their planning and program building in order to ensure the greatest degree of all-hazards preparedness for their jurisdictions.

For this project, you will assume the role of a municipal emergency manager in your own community or another of your choice. As such, imagine you have put together the community's first emergency management working group to assist you with the construction of thecommunity's emergency management program. The working group consists of key stakeholders from throughout the community, many of whom have no understanding of emergency management, but all are eager to help make their community more disaster-resilient.

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

- Analyze emergency management regulatory drivers for informing development of programs that comply with federal guidelines.

- Analyze information in current appropriate federal agency reports for its applicability in guiding construction of community or organizational emergencymanagement plans

- Assess components of real-world community or organizational emergency management plans for the extent to which they comply with appropriatefederal agency guidelines

- Analyze basic federal emergency management principles for informing development of programs that comply with federal guidelines

- Evaluate emergency management plan and program building methodologies for their compliance with appropriate federal guidelines for ensuringeffective emergency response and mitigation

Prompt

Your task in this assignment and this scenario is to construct a presentation using presentation software such as PowerPoint or Prezi that introduces the working group to emergency management, the community's potential hazards, the process involved in the construction of the city's emergency management program, and the all-hazards emergency management plan.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed (the order in which they are addressed in your presentation is at your discretion):

I. Emergency Management Regulatory Drivers

A. What are the provisions of the Stafford Act, and how might the act inform or impact the community's emergency management plan? Be sure tosupport your position with evidence and examples.

B. What are the key points of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, and how might the act inform or impact the community'semergency management plan? Be sure to support your position with evidence and examples.

C. Provide a timeline of the federal regulatory drivers (since 1950) that have impacted the nation's emergency management system. You mayinclude this as a diagram with text, or in parenthetical format.

D. For each of the drivers noted on your timeline, provide a brief explanation of the importance and impact each of the regulatory documents hashad on the development and direction of the nation's emergency management system. Be sure to substantiate your claims with evidence andexamples.

E. Analyze the state-level regulatory drivers that pertain to your community. In other words, what effect will these drivers have on yourcommunity's emergency management plan? Be sure to justify your rationale.

II. Trends and Constructing Plans

A. What is the "whole community" concept, and how will it help to direct the tasks that you expect the working group to fulfill? Be sure to provideexamples that illustrate your point.

B. What is "community resiliency," and how will it help to guide the activities of the working group? Be sure to support your position withevidence.

C. What aspects of FEMA's private sector initiative do you feel can benefit your community, and why?

III. Compliance

A. What is the importance to your community of putting identified threats and hazards into context? How might this be used within an overall all-hazards analysis? Be sure to defend your rationale.

B. Analyze the risk assessment process as outlined by the Department of Homeland Security for your working group. In other words, what aresome of the tasks that might be given to the working group members in gathering information to help you, as the emergency manager, tocomplete this process?

C. What are the basic components and tenets of the National Preparedness System, and why are they important to your working group?

IV. Basic Emergency Management Principles

A. Select multiple principles from FEMA's eight basic emergency management principles and explain them to your working group. Tocomprehensively address this element, you must choose a minimum of three (3) of the principles.

B. What is the importance of the principles you selected to the process of building an emergency management program? In other words, why didyou choose these particular principles with regard to the community's plan-building process? How are they relevant or applicable?

C. How you will use the principles you selected in building the community's emergency management program? Be sure to support your position with evidence and examples.

V. Ensuring Effective Response and Mitigation

A. What are the similarities and differences among the Department of Homeland Security's types of formatting available for plan construction?

B. Select the plan format that you feel is most appropriate for your community's plan in terms of effective emergency response and mitigation, and justify your rationale.

C. Analyze for your working group the role the members might be expected to play in the emergency management plan-building process. Consider providing examples of the types of tasks the members may be assigned under this process.

D. What are some of the pitfalls that your working group may encounter in the plan- building process, and what recommendations would you make for avoiding them? Be sure to support your recommendations with evidence and examples.

Guidelines for Submission:The presentation should contain 20-30 slides and include sufficient speaker notes on each slide to communicate the slide's purpose.

All citations and references should be formatted according to current APA guidelines.