January 26th Chat

January 26th we will have a chat at 2000 hours (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time) entitled "Practical Applications of the FEMA Individual Assistance and Public Assistance Programs".

William M. (Bill) Cover, has been the Director of the Cass County Nebraska, Emergency Management Agency for the last twenty years retiring at the end of 2011. In this capacity he has coordinated the county’s response to 11 Federal disaster declarations including the 1993 Midwest floods and tornadoes, the 2010 winter storms and the Missouri River Flood of 2011. He holds a Masters in Security Management from Bellevue University and has earned the coveted designations of Certified in Emergency Management, (CEM) from the International Association of Emergency Managers and Certified in Homeland Security (CHS-V) from the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security. He has also held National Registry Certification as an EMT Basic (REMTB) since 1976 and has been an instructor in emergency medical services since 1982.

Bill says "I will be discussing the FEMA Public and Individual Assistance programs for the Great Missouri River Flood of 2011 from the perspective of a single rural/suburban county. I will give an overview of the incident tying in the FEMA response as it occurred along the incident timeline. I hope this will be of interest to your students who have not had the fun of working a FEMA declared disaster and to those students who have but have not worked an incident where the response phase lasted almost four months."

If you are interested in joining this chat please copy and paste this link into your browser link http://philau.adobeconnect.com/iaem/

Fwd: FW: HSEEP Course Offering

HSEEP course offering in CT in January 2012 for those that may be interested.

 

Andy McGuire

Subject: HSEEP Course Offering

 

Happy Friday all,

For anyone interested, DEMHS is offering the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) course will be offered on January 10, 11, 12, 2012 at Brainard Road, Hartford, CT.  See attachment for information on the course.

 

Have a great weekend and Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Joe

 

 

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Fwd: Formidable Footprint - Pandemic Exercise - National Community / Neighborhood Exercise Series

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From: Chris Floyd <chrisfloyd@drc-group.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:17 PM
Subject: Formidable Footprint - Pandemic Exercise - National Community / Neighborhood Exercise Series
To: nfrdstf.disasterdude@gmail.com

 

National Community / Neighborhood Exercise Series

 

On January 28 neighborhood, community and faith based organizations across the country will have the opportunity to assess their capabilities in preparing for and responding to an Influenza Pandemic by participating in the Formidable Footprint Pandemic Exercise.

 

During the past year teams from across the United States have been participating in the internet based series of Formidable Footprint exercises. These exercises have provided participants with the opportunity to assess their capabilities to respond to various disaster threats.

 

Pandemic Exercise – January 28 2012

 

Exercises have also been scheduled for the following scenarios:

Earthquake – Flood – Hurricane – Tornado – Wildfire

 

The Formidable Footprint exercise series has been developed in accordance with Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) protocols. The objectives of the exercises are for CERTs, Neighborhood Watch Programs, Neighborhood Associations, Community / Faith Based Organizations, Citizen Corps, Fire Corps and others to work as a team to become better prepared for the next disaster their community may face.

 

There is NO CHARGE for participation in any of the Formidable Footprint exercises.

 

For additional information or to register for the up-coming Tornado Exercise please access the following web site today:  

 

www.FormidableFootprint.org

 

Please Share This Important Disaster Exercise Opportunity With Others

 

 

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Center for Homeland Defense and Security

Greetings from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS),

Approximately six weeks remain to submit an entry for the 2012 CHDS Essay Competition. Entries for the competition are being accepted through January 31, 2012.

This year's competition asks writers to: Identify a theory or insight from a field outside homeland security that has not been applied to homeland security but should be.

The winning entry and four top finalist essays will be considered for publication by Homeland Security Affairs, the online academic journal published by the CHDS.

This competition strives to stimulate original thought on issues in homeland security and homeland defense. Responses may be general or focus on a specific aspect (organizational, policy, strategy, practice, technological innovation, social impact, etc.) or discipline/field, (emergency management, public health, law enforcement, critical infrastructure, intelligence, etc.). Essays may be written from any perspective - e.g. government, private sector, cultural, local community or citizen.

Previous winning entries have addressed the power of social media in homeland security, the possibility of linking emergency response and public health with the poison control system and promoting the use of rhetorical tools to help frame the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's mission. Last year's winning entry, authored by Yee San Su of CNA Safety and Security in Alexandria, Va., was titled "On the Challenge of Assessing National Preparedness."

The competition is open to everyone with an interest in homeland defense and security. Current CHDS faculty, staff, students and graduates are not eligible. Winners will be announced no later than May 31, 2012. The winning entry receives a $1,000 cash prize.

For information and instructions, visit www.chds.us/?essay/overview. If you have any questions please contact Heather Issvoran, Director, Strategic Communications, Center for Homeland Defense and Security at hissvora@nps.edu or by cell at 831-402-4672.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security - HS STEM Summer Internship Program - Summer 2012

2012 Internships for Undergraduate Students
10 week research experience; $5000 stipend plus travel expenses

Areas of research: Engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological/life sciences, environmental science, emergency and incident management, social sciences

Projects offered at: National research laboratories: Argonne, Idaho, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, Sandia, Savannah River

DHS laboratories: Transportation Security Laboratory

Other research facilities, including Air Force research Laboratory, Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Locations include: CA, CO, ID, IL, MD, NM, NJ, OH, SC, TN, WA & VA

US citizenship required

Application deadline: January 5, 2012

www.orau.gov/dhsinternships

Administered by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

IAEM Student Chapter Chat

Please join us for the IAEM student chapter presentation with Steven Schenkel at 8:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on, Thursday, December 1, 2011 via Adobe Connect. Steven Schenkel, CPIM, is a Supply Chain professional who specializes in Production and Inventory Management. He brings 15 years of experience in the retail and hospitality industries in operations, production planning, and logistics for both domestic and international markets. Currently, Steven is a Global Supply Planner at Levi Strauss and Co. headquarters in San Francisco, where he is also on the Emergency Response Team. He calculates production flow for worldwide sales demand and regularly works with factories in China, India, Mexico, and Turkey.

He holds a Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) from APICS, the Association for Operations Management. Previously, Steven has worked for Cost Plus World Market, Williams-Sonoma, DFS, and Club Med Resorts.

In 1998, Steven joined the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as on-call Disaster Assistance Employee. He was attached to the National Logistics Cadre and underwent training at the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Virginia. He served until 2001. In 2009, Steven rejoined FEMA as a DAE assigned to the Logistics Cadre of Region IX in Oakland, CA.

When Hurricane Irene hit the Eastern Seaboard in August 2011, Steven was deployed to New Jersey to assist with recovery efforts. He took a military leave from Levi’s and spent the month of September in Neptune, NJ as the Receiving and Distribution Manager overseeing supplies for state-wide relief efforts.

Steven used his private sector knowledge to “aggressively address the shipping/receiving process” and implemented protocols to adapt to FEMA methods, which were “directly related to the successes attained in this disaster response,” according to his Deputy Logistics Section Chief.

A Cleveland native, Steven received a BS in Speech Communication from Syracuse University in New York. He currently lives with his girlfriend in San Francisco, but remains a long-suffering and loyal Cleveland Indians fan.

The link for the chat is http://philau.adobeconnect.com.iaem/.

Fwd: Upcoming Conferences

December 14, 2011 Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA North Carolina Burn Disaster Symposium (3rd Annual) Focused on Radiation, Nuclear Sources, Trauma and Burn Care, the agenda is:

http://www.ncburndisaster.org/images/2011%20North%20Carolina%20Burn%20Disaster%20Agenda%20-%20Revised.pdf

Deadlines for discounts December 1st.

For more information: http://www.ncburndisaster.org/Symposium.html

January 12, 2012 Asheville, North Carolina USA

Disaster Preparedness Symposium

Mountain Area Trauma Regional Committee

Hospital Evacuation Experiences, Pungo Hospital Hurricane Irene, Spring Tornadoes, Joplin, Mo

The Joint Commission Emergency Standards

February 10/11, 2012 Wilmington, North Carolina USA

Includes presentations from Jeff Hamilton of St Johns Mercy Medical Center, Joplin MO

As well as a number of topics related to Trauma

http://www.seahec.net/traumasymposium/

Randy D. Kearns, DHA MSA CEM
Non-Attending Faculty
University of North Carolina, School of Medicine Chapel Hill, North Carolina Randy_kearns@med.unc.edu
www.ncburndisaster.org
www.hospitaldisaster.org