Engaging Communities in Exercises
Recorded Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 2 p.m. EDT
Overview
The Community Preparedness Webinar Series hosted a webinar highlighting exercises that had a focus on community preparedness and participation. The webinar featured presentations from emergency management practitioners who have been involved in the design and execution of exercises.
Emergencies often involve a “whole community” effort with help from volunteer organizations, schools, businesses, faith-based institutions, and a range of other organizations; therefore, it is important that emergency management agencies partner with community-based organizations and integrate them into their jurisdiction's emergency plans and exercises.
We hope the ideas, strategies and practices shared during this webinar will help other communities design and conduct exercises that enhance community preparedness and participation.
Presenters
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Tom Crane, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Individual and Community Preparedness Division
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Bonnie Nahas, Volunteer Prince William, Prince William County, VA
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Marcelo Ferriera, Fairfax County, VA Office of Emergency Management
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Rachel Coles, State of Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
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Brenda Emrick, Costa Mesa, CA Fire Department
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Mary Jo Flynn, City of Anaheim, CA Fire Department, Emergency Management Division
How to view our webinars
The Community Preparedness Webinar Series is conducted via DHS's HSIN Connect system. You do not need to register in advance, nor do you need a HSIN account in order to view our webinars. Audio for this webinar will be broadcast within HSIN Connect; there will not be a concurrent, phone-based teleconference. Questions and answers will be moderated via text-based chat inside the webinar. In order to ensure that your computer is capable of viewing our webinars and webcasts, we highly recommend that you read the below documents and perform the compatibility test prior to the start of the event. In addition, please ensure your computer's speakers are working prior to the webinar. If for any reason you have trouble accessing the system, please send an email to citizencorps@dhs.gov.
Additional information about this webinar
This webinar is free to the public and will accommodate the first 500 visitors that enter the site. This webinar will last approximately one hour. In addition to airing live, the webinar will be recorded and viewable at a later date and linked from this web page. The live webinar will offer Closed Captioning and a transcript of the webinar will be posted with the recorded version of the webinar.