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Enhancing Public Health Emergency Preparedness for Special Needs Populations - A Toolkit for State and Local Planning and Response

Sun, 2012-07-22 01:42 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                                                       

rand.org - - by Jeanne S. Ringel, Anita Chandra, Malcolm Williams, Karen A. Ricci, Alexandria Felton, David M. Adamson, Margaret M. Weden, Meilinda Huang

Building Community Resilience to Disasters - A Way Forward to Enhance National Health Security

Sun, 2012-07-22 01:04 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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Community resilience, or the sustained ability of a community to withstand and recover from adversity has become a key policy issue at federal, state, and local levels, including in the National Health Security Strategy. Because resources are limited in the wake of an emergency, it is increasingly recognized that resilience is critical to a community's ability to reduce long recovery periods after an emergency. This report provides a roadmap for federal, state, and local leaders who are developing plans to enhance community resilience for health security threats and describes options for building community resilience in key areas. Based on findings from a literature review and a series of community and regional focus groups, the authors provide a definition of community resilience in the context of national health security and a set of eight levers and five core components for building resilience. They then describe suggested activities that communities are pursuing and may want to strengthen for community resilience, and they identify challenges to implementation.

U.S. declares drought-stricken states largest natural disaster area ever

Sat, 2012-07-14 00:34 — Maeryn Obley

U.S. declares drought-stricken states largest natural disaster area everImage: Primary and contiguous counties designated under drought fast-track (USDA & FSA)

news.yahoo.com - Dylan Stableford - July 12th, 2012

The United States Department of Agriculture has declared natural disaster areas in more than 1,000 counties and 26 drought-stricken states, making it the largest natural disaster in America ever.

The declaration—which covers roughly half of the country—gives farmers and ranchers devastated by drought access to federal aid, including low-interest emergency loans.

"Agriculture remains a bright spot in our nation's economy," U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday while announcing the assistance program.

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Overcoming Inertia - Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI)

Tue, 2012-07-10 11:41 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Tom McGinn

                                  

June 2012 CARRI News - By Warren Edwards, Executive Director, CARRI

Guidelines for securing business records in hurricane season

Fri, 2012-06-15 13:34 — Maeryn Obley

Submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - June 12, 2012

Recall, a data protection specialist, the other day issued records information management (RIM) best practices guidelines. Recall says that as hurricane season begins, the company developed these guidelines to assist businesses along the Atlantic coastline to assess their business continuity in preparation for the hurricane season. Recall has experience in managing business records in more than twenty countries.

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Proceedings for the 2011 Community Health Resiliency Workshop are Now Available

Sun, 2012-03-25 19:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

       

 

Thank you for attending the 2011 Community Health Resiliency Workshop; your participation helped make this event a success!

Material from the workshop is now available for download in the attachment below, and at: http://www.communityhealthresilience.com/proceedings.html. 

Respectfully,

The Community Health Resilience Workshop Coordination Team

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Anticipating The Perfect Storm of Impossible Events

Tue, 2012-02-21 22:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Jonathan King

By: Rich Miller - datacenterknowledge.com - February 20, 2012

Jesse Robbins is a trained fireman. He also has managed some of the world’s largest Internet infrastructures. Robbins says the lessons of fire readiness can be applied to building reliable systems.

“You cannot learn the lessons of failure without experiencing it,” said Robbins, the co-founder and Chief Community Office at Opscode. “That’s why we do fire drills.”

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Supply Chain Resilience Project Seeks Input

Wed, 2011-11-23 21:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Supply Chain Resilience Project Seeks Input
The Mid-Atlantic Supply Chain Resilience Project cultivates private-public involvement to enhance regional readiness for a catastrophic event in Washington D.C. or surrounding states. This group has identified several key strategies necessary for supply chain resilience. The current working draft of the Strategic Playbook is scheduled to be finalized by Dec. 16, 2011 and is currently open for review.

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HSPI - Preparedness, Response & Resilience Task Force

Mon, 2011-11-14 21:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute

HSPI's Preparedness, Response, and Resilience Task Force brings together experts from government, academia, and the private and non-profit sectors to consider contemporary policy issues facing the nation's homeland security, first responder, and emergency management communities. To this end, the Task Force convenes sessions with the nation's policymakers and publishes policy papers and reports with actionable policy recommendations for the future.  The Task Force is predicated on the idea that a more nuanced approach to these policy issues can contribute to a greater level of resiliency for all levels of government, the private sector, and the public writ large.

Recent considerations of the Task Force include the meaning of resiliency; the critical junctures that exist between policy and implementation; the nexus between preparedness, response, and resilience; and the future of resiliency as it relates to a diverse and changing operational environment.

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