spokane community organizations active in disasters
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Spokane Community Organizations Active in Disasters: Meeting Minutes
COAD Vision Statement
To create a community resilient from disasters. COAD Mission Statement
Be prepared by bringing together community partners and individuals to foster greater community resiliency within Spokane County through: Cooperation, Coordination, Collaboration and Communications. Spokane COAD is a coordinating organization and will not assume direct operational responsibility in any disaster situation. Meeting Date: June 5, 2018 Fire Training Center
Call to Order: 0900 Introductions:
Presentations:
Leonard Westermeyer
Betsy Bertelsen, Spokane Regional Health District – Infectious Disease Cindy Thompson, Spokane Regional Health District – Infectious Disease Emergency Response Hot Topics & Agency Updates:
Agency Updates:
• Reminder: 2018 Family Safety & Prep Fair, October 6, 2018 from 10:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Adventist Community Services:
• 225 emergency preparedness buckets were filled for disasters and if there is no use for the
buckets, the buckets will be sent to Texas for use.
Aging & Long Term Care of Eastern Washington:
Data
• 1800 people under case management and 1400 with care coordination. • The State of Washington leads the nation with 85% percent patients Medicare completed at home
or community based setting.
Amateur Radio:
• Provided communication for the 2018 Armed Forces Torch Light Parade and had an approximate
of 30 to 50 people involved. • Amateur Radio has provided communication for the Torch Light Parade for the last 40 years.
• Field Day is June 23–24, 2018 (Setting up at remote locations).
Eastern Washington University:
• Technological and staff changes for the next football season are being made. • EWU police and local law enforcement active shooter drill August 22.
Greater Spokane Emergency Management (GSEM):
• New location: 1121 W Gardner Ave. 99201. • October Preparedness Fair applications have been sent out. Flyers will be available in July.
• North Pines Middle School June 16, Rescue Task Force exercise. • Animal exercise July 26, in which the exercise will feature a review and a test of the new activation
and coordination procedures with sheltering agencies. HEART will also have an exercise
coinciding with the July 26, animal exercise for members to have the ability to practice setting up
and operating a temporary animal shelter.
Latter Day Saint’s Public Affairs:
• Spokane Valley Partners Inland Northwest Diaper Bank – If you are in need of diaper assistance,
please call (509) 927-1153.
Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC):
• Next meeting is June 20, Spokane Co. Regional Water Reclamation Facility.
Medical Reserve Corps:
• CPR Training (AHA Classes) – To arrange on-sight training, contact Summer Warfield
[email protected]. • MRC is planning to implement a new Senior Evacuation Preparedness Project in mid-August that
will provide basic education and materials to better equip and prepare senior citizens for an
emergency by having an emergency preparedness evacuation kit with important information as
well as considerations for pets.
Spokane C.O.P.S.:
• 1st Annual C.O.P.S. Mounted Patrol Fundraiser – Saturday, July 14, from 3:00 – 8:00 PM at the
238 Brewing Company (10321 East Day Mt. Spokane, Green Bluff, WA).
Spokane Public Schools:
• “Stop the Bleed” training: o June 26, 27 and 28 from 9:00 to 11:00 AM
o August 7 from 9:00 to 11:00 AM
o August 20, 21, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM
o September 4, 6, 18 and 20 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
• To register for the “Stop the Bleed” training, please contact Denise McCurdy at
[email protected], or call (509) 474-4924.
Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD):
Influenza Update
• 615 influenza hospitalizations within Spokane County, this season with 398 for A, and 217 for B
(current data for 2018).
• 287 influenza deaths have been reported in Washington State (current data for 2018).
• 41 deaths have been reported in Spokane County (current data for 2018).
Avoid Contact with Bats
• Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) created a suite of prevention and education materials,
under the name BatSmart, located at srhd.org/batsmart.
• If SRHD staff determine an exposure to a human may have occurred, a bat should—with proper
precautions and support from SRHD—be tested for rabies.
Washington Poison Control:
• Reminder that the Medical Reserve Corps does train on how to use Narcan (Narcan can be
purchased at Walgreens).
• So far, there is a total of four lives that have been saved in Washington State from administering
Narcan during a drug overdose (Medical Reserve Corps – Spokane Police Department).
Spokane COAD: Meeting Minutes
NEXT MEETING – Tuesday, August 7, 2018, from 9:00 to 11:00 A.M.
Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Betsy Bertelsen, RN, BSNEpidemiologist
Spokane Regional Health District
Topics to Cover
• Overview of Epidemiology• Management of Reportable Conditions• Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance• Hot Topics in Epi – Flu and Mumps • Mitigation Strategies during outbreaks • Special Pathogens Unit and Recent Exercises • SRHD as a resource in disaster response
Epidemiology
At SRHD, we have epidemiologists who:• Work to explain the social determinants of health• Work to evaluate and assess health concerns and the
programs/efforts that address them• Work to control communicable disease
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health related problems
Surveillance and Assessment Definitions
Surveillance: Collection, analysis and use of data to target public health intervention
Assessment: Systematic collection and analysis of data and information to provide a second basis for decision-making and action
Controlling Communicable Disease
To protect people from communicable disease and other health threats through prevention, early detection, and swift response
Why Report?
Generally, the goal of any epidemiologic investigation is to prevent another case.
Our mission:
Communicable Disease/Notifiable Conditions
• Local health jurisdictions and/or state health departments– Some conditions (measles, meningococcal disease, TB)
reportable immediately– Others within 24 hours (salmonella, pertussis)– Some within 3 days (STD)– Few monthly (chronic hepatitis B and C)
Reportable to:
Per Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 246-10
What is reported?Notifiable condition categories:• Zoonotic and vector-borne diseases• Food and water-borne diseases• Vaccine-preventable diseases• Bloodborne pathogens• Sexually transmitted diseases• Diseases spread by the respiratory route• Other diseases of public health significance or
bioterrorism originOther conditions of concern to the public
Communicable Disease Interviews
• Verify the diagnosis (laboratory, clinical), check the EMR• Interview case related to:
– Demographics, including occupation– Symptoms, including onset and duration– Predisposing conditions, if appropriate– Incubation period: travel, foods eaten, contact with
animals, activities, health of friends, family and co-workers• Advise about how to avoid transmission to others• Hypothesize source of illness• Implement interventions as needed
Control Measures
Higher public concern if disease is:• Easily transmitted• Severe• ControllableAlways involves education and may also include:• Treatment/prophylaxis/vaccination• Infection control• Isolation or quarantine• Removing exposure (food, water)
Guided by the importance of avoiding secondary cases and varies according to agent
Herd Immunity
CDC & World Health Organization
VPD Surveillance
• Some of the VPDs Spokane has seen:
• Measles – 2 cases in 2015• Mumps – 2 separate outbreaks in 2016/17
– 4 cases on a university campus– 333 cases over a 6 month period
• Pertussis – outbreak in 2012, uptick in 2016
VPD Surveillance
• Meningococcal disease – a few individual cases over the past few years
• Hepatitis A and B – all cases are reportable
• Influenza – hospitalizations and LTC outbreaks
• Varicella – outbreaks are reportable
Flu Overview 2017-18
Severe Flu Season!• Globally• Nationally• Locally
Vaccine Effectiveness:• 36% overall • 25% against H3N2
• This Season’s Vaccine:• Quadrivalent• 2 Flu A strains, 2 Flu
B strains• Cases have primarily
been Flu A H3N2 – is covered by the vaccine
About Mumps
• Caused by the mumps virus• Spread but contact with saliva or
respiratory secretions• No specific treatment• Signs and symptoms including swelling
of the salivary glands in one or both cheeks (parotitis)– Also fever, headache, muscle aches,
tiredness, loss of appetite, hearing loss
• Incubation period 12-25 days• Contagious three days prior to
symptom onset to five days after
Mumps Cases, United States, Vaccine Era
Mumps Reporting Baseline and Epidemic Threshold, Washington State
2016-17 Mumps Outbreak
• Mumps outbreak started in King County in October 2016, spread to Spokane County by December
• Affects 15 counties (including several in the east: Grant, Benton, Ferry, Okanogan, Stevens and Yakima)
• Data from June 2, 2017
Statewide Mumps Cases by Age (June 2)
Statewide Epi Curve (June 2)
Spokane County Epi Curve (June 6)
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Mitigation Strategies in an Outbreak
• Control measures were covered earlier to prevent secondary cases
• WAC 246-110-020• In outbreak scenarios, the health officer at a
Local Health Jurisdiction has the ability to take additional steps, which may include:– Closing schools, daycares or workplaces – Excluding non-immune individuals from school
during the outbreak aka “school exclusions”
Special Pathogens Unit
Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response
Cindy ThompsonPreparedness Specialist
Spokane Regional Health District
Public Health Response
Managing Responses
Tranquil Terminus Exercise
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sazo852rm3U&index=1&list=PL2yCiHZinHl0fVjoKCHB6eF43pWIc9O4-&t=0s
Tranquil Terminus Exercise
Public Health Response
• Response Teams consist of:Public Health expertsHealthcare Coalition Medical Reserve Corp
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Region 9 Healthcare and Public Health Emergency Preparedness Training
June 2018
Table of Contents:
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Region 9 PHEPR/HCC Training Events: June 2018
Workshops
Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
June 4 – 8 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Lacey, WA O-305 Type 3 AHIMT Training Course
A basic introduction to the activities and processes of a USFA Type 3 AHIMT. This course meets the needs of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Response Frame-work (NRF). The USFA Type 3 AHIMT course focuses on the importance of developing and operating as a functional USFA Type 3 AHIMT. Event information: https://reg.abcsignup.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0038-0021-ad1316629ae048e9b89bd22b292d6a7a
Register HERE Contact: Tim McClung, MEP Washington Department of Health, Office of Emergency Preparedness & Response (360) 480-8688 [email protected]
Incident mgmt/Emergency mgmt/Incident Command System (ICS) change mgmt, EMS, Firefighting and hazardous materials response, Law enforcement, Public health/Medical, Public works, Search and rescue, Animal control/Veterinary, Mass care, Aviation, Emergency mgmt.
June 6 – 7 8:30 am to 5:00 pm daily
Spokane, WA G318: Mitigation Planning Workshop
The two-day workshop covers the fundamentals of natural hazards mitigation planning for tribes and local jurisdictions. Participants will not only understand the FEMA planning requirements, but will learn how to go above and beyond minimum requirements to ensure an effective mitigation plan may be implemented. This workshop will lead participants through the planning process, discuss developing the planning team, address public engagement opportunities, identify approaches to profiling natural hazards and assess risk, demonstrate effective mitigation strategies and integration opportunities with other local plans. It includes the basic elements of the plan review, approval, and update cycle, as well as tips for implementing and maintaining an approved plan, tracking performance, keeping stakeholders involved, and preventing plans from lapsing or expiring.
Tuition is free for those accepted. Apply HERE For certifications credits, see the following: • Certified Floodplain Managers
(CFMs): You can receive 12 CEs through ASFPM
• American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP): This course can be used for up to 8 self-reporting CEs
• This is one of the five courses to take if you are completing your “Advanced Professional Series for Emergency Managers Certificate”
Including, but not limited to, local and tribal government officials, land use planners, emergency managers, floodplain managers, storm water managers, public works staff, communication specialists, natural resource planners, building officials, wildfire mitigation specialists, planning contractors, federal/state agencies and others who are involved in natural hazards mitigation planning.
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Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
June 14 8:00 am to 12:00 pm
Hayden, ID AWR – 136 Essentials of Community Cybersecurity
The Essentials of Community Cybersecurity (ECCS) course provides information on how cyber attacks can impact, prevent, and/or stop operations and emergency responses in a community. The course also provides a cursory introduction to cybersecurity vulnerabilities, risks, threats, and countermeasures. The course introduces actions communities can take in establishing a cybersecurity program. The course introduces the Community Cybersecurity Maturity Model (CCSMM) as a framework for understanding community cybersecurity and offers a brief introduction to low-cost or no-cost approaches to securing a community against cybersecurity threats and attacks. The course sets the stage for further efforts in which a community can build a cybersecurity program.
Free Register HERE by June 1, 2018 For questions or assistance contact: Natalie Lahti Idaho Office of Emergency Management State Training Specialist (208) 422-3417 [email protected]
For individuals, community leaders, and first responders.
June 14 – 15 June 14: 1:00 to 5:00 pm June 15: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Hayden, ID MGT – 384: Community Preparedness for Cyber Incidents
Community Preparedness for Cyber Incidents, is designed to provide organizations and communities with strategies and processes to increase cyber resilience. During this 12-hour course, participants will analyze cyber threats and initial and cascading impacts of cyber incidents, evaluate the process for developing a cyber preparedness program, examine the importance and challenges of cyber related information sharing and discover low to no-cost resources to help build cyber resilience. Prerequisites: AWR – 136 Essentials of Community Cybersecurity
Free Register HERE by June 1, 2018 For questions or assistance contact: Natalie Lahti Idaho Office of Emergency Management State Training Specialist (208) 422-3417 [email protected]
Community representatives interested in increasing cyber resilience including personnel from: Emergency Management, Information Technology, Risk Management, Emergency Planning, Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery, Public Works, Wastewater and Water, Schools, Universities, Communication Sector, Transportation, Energy, Defense, Industrial Base Sector, Elected and Appointed Officials, Financial Sector, Health Care, Emergency Services
June 18 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Seattle, WA T-Rex Initial Planning Meeting
Full scale 2019 distribution exercise planning meeting. This will cover exercise objectives and letters of intent. This is an important meeting and we regret there will be no webinar or phone-in option. Be on the lookout for the future agenda and materials Crown Plaza SeaTac Madrona Room 17338 International Blvd. Seattle, WA 98188
No pre-registration is needed. There is a parking fee. Contact: Dianna Trotter 360-236-4079 [email protected]
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Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
June 20 – 21 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Kennewick, WA Mass Prophylaxis Preparedness & Planning MGT-319 Medical Countermeasures: Point of Dispensing, Planning and Response
This course is a guide for local health officials and their partners to coordinate plans to provide mass distribution of medical countermeasures in response to a large-scale public health incident. This course focuses on planning considerations, recommendation to achieve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) 48-hour standard for Mass Prophylaxis, and the local community’s Mass Prophylaxis and Point of Dispensing (POD) site preparedness. The course material is applicable to pandemic influenza, bio-terrorism, and other public health emergencies. For more information see: https://teex.org/documentsresources/MGT-319-Mass-Prophy.pdf
Free Register HERE
Law Enforcement, Emergency Medical Services, Hospital Personnel, Physicians, Nurses, Mental Health Professionals, Public Health Services, Public Works, Emergency Management Organizations, Tribal, County, State, and Federal, Private Industry, School Personnel, Volunteer Organizations, Community Emergency Response Teams, Dispatchers.
June 25 – 27 November 19 – 21
Seattle, WA Emergency Safety Officer Training
This course will familiarize attendees with hazards and stressors that may impact the health and safety of workers and responders at a disaster site. Students will apply their knowledge of safetiy and incident command in a disaster scenario and employ Incident Command System methodology to review and/or develop safety and medical plans, safety messages, and a safety analysis of an Incident Action Plan.
Standard Registration: $710 Government Rate: $660 Group and Student discounts available. To register, please visit HERE or call 206-685-3089.
Personnel who serve as command, safety officers, Emergency responders who may fulfill the role of a safety officer, or technical safety staff in an ICS, Emergency managers and planners, Industrial hygiene and safety professionals from general industry, construction, maritime, who have assigned responsibilities in an emergency response.
June 28 – 29
Wenatchee, WA Hospital Evacuation/ Shelter-In-Place (SIP) Training
The purpose of this course is to train hospital emergency personnel with planning, activation triggers and operations including command and control of an event that would require the hospital to fully or partially evacuate its patients.
Save-the-date - Hosp EVAC SiP training.pdf
Free If your hospital is interested in sending a team or you would like more information please email Heidi Wilson at [email protected]
June 30 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Cheney, WA Early Response Team – Basic Training Class
Be ready to help when a disaster strikes. Learn how to clean out a flooded home, sift through ashes and work alongside survivors while staying safe.
Register before June 22, 2018. Fee of $25 includes training materials, lunch and snacks. See HERE for more information.
Open to anyone over 18 years of age.
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Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
June 30 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Seattle, WA Western Washington Medical Reserve Corps Training
This training is an opportunity to further develop disaster response skills and promote cohesion within our widespread units. MRC members will have the chance to connect with fellow volunteers from neighboring counties while participating in a variety of classes instructed by MRC unit leaders, the American Red Cross, King County Public Health, and other partners.
See HERE for registration and more information.
MRC Volunteers
July 24 – 25 Lynnwood, WA ICS 400 This course provides advanced training in the application of the ICS, expanding upon information covered in the ICS 300 course. Prerequisite: E-300 or equivalent ICS 300 course, IS – 100, 200, 700 and 800
To Apply, use FEMA Form 119-25-1 Application: http://training.fema.gov/Apply/119-25-1.pdf Justin Fordice,State Training Program Supervisor Phone: (253) 512-7056 Fax: (253) 512-7206 [email protected]
Federal, state, tribal, and local EM and response personnel who require ICS 400 training within their organizations. Typically, required personnel include all mid-level management who will be involved in incident response or senior management who will be supporting the response.
August 28 – 29 7:00 am to 5:15 pm
Seattle, WA Chemical and Radiological Agents of Opportunity for Terrorism
With growing concern that many likely terrorist threats will involve, “agents of opportunity” or materials that are readily available in most communities, first responders are tasked with knowing more about chemical and radiological threats than ever before. This two day course will include practical information about: Scene safety for first responders, Chemical and biological exposures, and Proper decontamination procedures related to radiological materials.
Free Registration opens in early June. For more information, contact the Washington Poison Center at 206-517-2350
WashingtonPoisonCenterSavetheDate-Agen
Public Health & Emergency Preparedness Professionals, Emergency Medical Services, Healthcare Providers, Emergency Dept and Hospital Staff, Law Enforcement, First Responders,City and County Emergency Preparedness Staff, Local and State Elected Officials
FEMA Resident Trainings
• Please note: All the following FEMA trainings are free. Many require pre-requisites
Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target
Capability June 18 – 23
Anniston, AL Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management
Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management (FRAME) is a four-day course designed for personnel who are responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance, and administration of emergency management programs and plans for healthcare facilities and/or systems (e.g., hospitals, clinics, or community health centers). Functional areas addressed in this course include: relevant standards, regulations, and organizations; integration with agencies and stakeholders; the Incident Command System (ICS) as it applies to healthcare; plans and the planning process; facility and personnel preparedness; exercises and training; and surge and related mass casualty issues (including patient care and/or ethics, evacuation, public affairs, and risk communications), recovery, and finances/reimbursement.
https://cdp.dhs.gov/find-training/public-health/course/AWR-900 Course number: FRAME AWR-900
Emergency Management, Emergency Medical Services, Healthcare and Public Health.
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Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
June 25 – 30 July 29 – August 4
Anniston, AL Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT)
The Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) course addresses healthcare response at the operations level for the facility and its personnel. This three-day course prepares healthcare responders to utilize the Hospital Incident Command System — integrating into the community emergency response network while operating an Emergency Treatment Area as hospital first responders during a mass casualty incident involving patient contamination. The healthcare responders will determine and use appropriate personal protective equipment and conduct triage followed by decontamination of ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients as members of a Hospital Emergency Response Team.
https://cdp.dhs.gov/find-training/healthcare/course/PER-902 Course number: HERT PER-902
Hospital staff members who comprise a Hospital Emergency Response Team, such as physicians, nurses, administrators, security personnel, environmental staff, and other hospital staff.
July 15 – 20
Anniston, AL Environmental Health in Emergency Response - Operations
The Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response Operations (EHTER Ops) is a four-day course providing participants with the operations-level knowledge and skills needed to respond to disasters of natural- or human-caused and to use appropriate protocols and equipment to achieve mission objectives. Much of the course is conducted through hands-on operational practice or response to simulated events. Participants perform Environmental Health Responder tasks while wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) Levels C and D. The course also includes training at the outdoor Northville Training Complex, part of the Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, and Radiological (COBRA) Training Facility, where participants engage in scenario-based exercises in which they employ critical-thinking skills related to the selection and use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) detection and sampling instruments.
https://cdp.dhs.gov/find-training/public-health/course/PER-309 Course number: EHTER OPS PER-309
Environmental Health Responders assigned to a local, State, Territorial, or Tribal Emergency Response Team, who perform environmental health tasks in emergencies and disasters.
July 29 – August 4
Anniston, AL Advanced Radiological Incident Operations
The Advanced Radiological Incident Operations course is a five-day course that provides participants with the advanced skills necessary to safely respond to and manage incidents involving radiological hazards. Participants apply these skills in tabletop exercises based on realistic radiological incident scenarios, set within the Incident Command System structure.
https://cdp.dhs.gov/find-training/public-health/course/PER-905 Course number: ARIO PER-905
Any member of a federal, state, local, or tribal radiological/hazardous materials response team who responds to or manages a radiological incident. Members of federal, state, tribal, local, and private-sector response teams. Local or tribal participants should reside within either of two Emergency Planning Zones (EPZ).
August 12 – 17 Anniston, AL Hazardous Materials Evidence Collection for CBRNE Incidents
Hazardous Materials Evidence Collection for CBRNE Incidents (HEC) is a four-day course, during which responders receive instruction in hazardous evidence preservation and sampling, field screening, evaluating physical evidence, responsibilities of evidence collection teams, and methods for evidence documentation and packaging. Students perform advanced, practical tasks in the Nation's only toxic chemical-agent training facility, the Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, and Radiological (COBRA) Training Facility.
https://cdp.dhs.gov/find-training/hazardous-materials/course/PER-201 Course number: HEC PER-201
Law Enforcement, Fire Service, and Hazardous Materials technicians who require training and practice in hazardous evidence collection.
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Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
August 27 – 30 Emmitsburg, MD
Recovery from Disaster: The Local Community Role
This 4-day course covers foundational concepts in disaster recovery and the latest guidance on recovery planning. Participants will either assess their own recovery plan or a sample against this national planning guidance. Following that, participants will discuss how a disaster recovery effort can be organized, managed, and led along with the types of challenges faced by recovery managers. Scenario activities throughout the course give participants the opportunity to target information strategies, address local capabilities and challenges, and analyze experiences from Joplin, Missouri. The capstone activity is meant to apply all of the knowledge acquired in the course, through further examination of all of the elements of a pre-disaster recovery planning document in the context of a realistic recovery scenario. Travel dates: Travel days; Sunday before class and Friday after.
Registration details HERE Course number: E0210
Local and tribal elected officials; city/county managers and planners; members of Regional Planning Commissions and Economic Development Districts; Emergency Managers and staff; Public Works Directors; Health Care Administrators or Planners; Public Information Officers; Housing Directors or Planner/Staff; Voluntary Agency Coordinators; Faith-Based Leaders; and State Recovery Staff and Partners.
Webinars/On-Line Training
Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target
Capability On-demand Online courses Rural Domestic
Preparedness Consortium
Online courses from the RDPC are a perfect fit for those struggling to work training into their busy schedule. All online training is self-paced and offered at no cost. Browse the catalog of online courses and enroll today.
Find courses HERE
On-demand Online National Institute of Health: Social Media Analysis During Disasters
The purpose of this course is to help you develop and implement a plan that will help you effectively monitor and analyze disaster information on social media. This self-paced course fulfills one of the requirements of the MLA Disaster Information Specialization, Advanced Level. The course provides three Medical Library Association (MLA) continuing education (CE) credits.
Find Course HERE For emergency managers, information specialists, and other decision makers responding to large-scale disasters.
On-demand Online Hospital Incident Command Systems: How to Lead When a Crisis Occurs
SHEA/CDC Outbreak Response Training Program (ORTP) presents Hospital Incident Command Systems: How to Lead When a Crisis Occurs This online simulation is designed to highlight effective leadership techniques in the face of various health crises. Expert faculty provide their insights on Hospital Incident Command Systems; communications with staff, media, and the general public; and patient safety concerns. Be sure to download the resource list for helpful information related to this activity.
Free This course if available HERE.
This program is designed to give US hospital epidemiologists who oversee infection control programs the skills, knowledge, and tools to provide effective leadership during facility-level outbreaks and large-scale public health emergencies.
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Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
On-demand
Online FEMA and Management Partner Organizations PrepTalks
PrepTalks are given by subject-matter experts and thought leaders to spread new ideas, spark conversation, and promote innovative leadership for the issues of confronting emergency managers now and over the next 20 years.
Visit FEMA.gov/PrepTalks for more information.
FEMA encourages emergency managers to watch these PrepTalk presentations with relevant partners.
On-demand Online Pediatric Issues in Disasters
Learn how to identify and incorporate pediatric special considerations into preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery, and resilience-building plans and actions. Focus:
• Be prepared every day for an emergency. • Integrate pediatric issues into healthcare preparedness plans,
trainings, and exercises. • Provide lessons learned and examples that are easily implementable
for facilities and jurisdictions immediately. • What are the tools you need to fill gaps in pediatric emergency
planning?
Summary of Q&A, PowerPoint, Recording, and Speaker bios are available HERE. You will be asked to enter your name and email address prior to accessing the recording
Local, Regional, State, and Federal entities.
On-demand Online National Institute of Health: Social Media Analysis During Disasters
The purpose of this course is to help you develop and implement a plan that will help you effectively monitor and analyze disaster information on social media. This self-paced course fulfills one of the requirements of the MLA Disaster Information Specialization, Advanced Level. The course provides three Medical Library Association (MLA) continuing education (CE) credits.
Find Course HERE For emergency managers, information specialists, and other decision makers responding to large-scale disasters, it is challenging to filter through the volume of noise on social media to identify valid, actionable information.
On-demand Online NACCHO: Building Workforce Resilience through the Practice of Psychological First Aid – A Course for Supervisors and Leaders
Individuals in health, public health, and emergency management leadership roles are faced with many challenges when their organizations are activated in response to a disaster. Although mechanisms and processes are in place to support these responses, the abrupt change in focus from normal operations to disaster response operations and the intensity of these devastating events increase the level of urgency and stress for the entire organization. The course introduces leaders to the concept of Psychological First Aid as a leadership tool to build workforce resilience and provides an opportunity for leaders to apply PFA within scenario-based exercises
Free Register HERE
Individuals in health, public health, and emergency management leadership roles
On-demand Online videos Disaster Resilient Communities Group Disaster Training Video of the Day
The videos found in this library cover disaster related mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery training. Videos include: Home Fire Evacuation for Seniors Understanding the Insider Threat Preparing Your Community for a Flood
Free
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Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
June 5 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Webinar The Psychology of a Crisis
CDC’s CERC Webinar on the Psychology of a Crisis addresses how people process information differently during a crisis. We’ll examine the psychological barriers to communication that tend to emerge in crises, factors that impact perception of risk, and how to build trust to communicate more effectively.
See HERE for more information.
• Public health professionals • Administrators • Emergency responders • Program managers • Certified health educators
June 7 8:00 am to 9:00 am
Webinar Emergency Services Sector Continuity Planning Suite
The Emergency Services Sector Continuity Planning Suite (ESS-CPS) provides a centralized collection of existing guidance, processes, products, tools, and best practices to support the development and maturation of continuity planning. Continuity planning enables first responders to complete their essential functions and fulfill their mission to save lives, protect property and the environment, assist communities impacted by disasters, and aid recovery from emergencies. This webinar will provide a live look at the ESS – CPS capabilities. Attendees will be able to look at all the videos and documents within the suite and develop an understanding of how to use the ESS - CPS for their respective disciplines.
To register for this event, please see HERE.
First responder community
June 12 10:00 am to 11:15 am
Webinar Healthcare System Readiness for Highly Pathogenic Infectious Diseases
ASPR TRACIE and the National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC) will host a webinar on U.S. healthcare system readiness for highly pathogenic infectious diseases. Speakers will: provide an overview of the current situation in the DRC; describe the regional, tiered system established to manage patients suspected and known to be infected with EVD or other special pathogens; provide updates on current Ebola readiness and trends; reinforce the “Identify, Isolate, and Inform” response framework; and share best practices and lessons learned from previous experience.
Register HERE.
This webinar is intended to be both an introduction for those new to the threat of highly pathogenic infectious diseases and a refresher for those with previous experience.
June 13 10:00 am
Webinar The Train Learning Network: Working Together to Build Capacity in Emergency Preparedness
The Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals presents this webinar. Powered by the Public Health Foundation (PHF), TRAIN brings together agencies and organizations in the healthcare, public health, and preparedness sectors to share, disseminate, and track training through a joint learning network. Together, TRAIN’s 26 state health and preparedness agencies, three federal partners (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medical Reserve Corps, and Veterans Health Administration), as well as additional national partners, offer more than 3,800 online opportunities to build skills and knowledge.
Register HERE. For more information contact: Kristine Sanger [email protected] 402-552-3099
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Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
June 13, 20, and 27 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Webinar Emergency Management Institute Weekly EMI e-Forums
EMI e-Forums: EMI e-Forums are 1-hour, moderated, webinar discussion forums that provide an opportunity for EMI and the emergency management community to discuss matters of interest on national preparedness training. EMI e-Forums facilitate a discussion of whole community-presented best practices. The panel members are whole community, with topics relevant to whole community.
• 6/13 Preparing School Districts for Armed Assailants • 6/20 Training with Digital Volunteer Networks to Build Capabilities • 6/27 L/G0506: Religious and Cultural Literacy and Competency in
Disasters
Login link: EMI e-Forums See Training announcement. For questions contact the Emergency Management Institute
These exchanges of ideas are free of charge and available to anyone who wishes to participate.
Exercises
Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target
Capability June 5, 6, 7 June 19, 20, 21 July 17, 18, 19
Virtual Tabletop Virtual Tabletop Virtual Tabletop
Cyber Coordination Catastrophic Incidents/Recovery Coordination Catastrophic Incidents
3rd Quarter Fiscal Year 2018 planned broadcast dates for Virtual Tabletop Exercises in support of the 2017-1018 seven Principle Objectives: 1. Intelligence and Information Sharing 2. Non-Stafford Act Incidents 3. Complex Terrorist Attacks 4. Cyber Coordination 5. Recovery Coordination 6. Infectious Disease and Biological Incident 7. Catastrophic Incidents For more information please see HERE and HERE.
Scenario: CYBER Course: V0001 Virtual TTX Scenario: Earthquake Course: V0001 Virtual TTX Scenario: Dam Failure Course: V0001 Virtual TTX
The VTTX program is designed for a “community-based” group (not individual participation) of at least five or more personnel from local or State emergency management organizations with representation from all emergency management disciplines - public safety, public works, public health, health care, government, administrative, communications, military, private sector, non-governmental, and critical stress professionals.
Spring 2019 King County Full Scale Medical Countermeasures Exercise
King, Pierce, Snohomish and Clark counties will be conducting a full-scale exercise around medical countermeasures distribution.
For more information please contact Cristin Corcoran [email protected]
2022 State Cascadia Rising 2.0
Not yet released
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Resources
Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target
Capability Resource Online U.S. Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) Security of Soft Targets and Crowded Places Resource Guide
Security of Soft Targets and Crowded Places Resouce Guide was recently released. The guide contains matrices as well as resource descriptions and links and contact information.
SecuritySoftTargetsCrowdedPlaces+ResourceGuide.pdf
Everyone, businesses, government, and first responders.
Resources
Online
Preparedness & Emergency Response Learning Centers
Search over 400 competency-based online trainings and other learning materials to find resources for building knowledge and skills in emergency preparedness and response.
http://perlc.nwcphp.org/perlc-training-search
On-demand
Online Courses FEMA distance based learning courses
Emergency Management Institute (EMI) offers self-paced courses designed for people who have emergency management responsibilities and the general public. All are offered free-of-charge to those who qualify for enrollment.
Find website here
Resources
Online Emergency Management Division of Washington
The Washington Military Department is committed to its goal of minimizing the impact of disasters on our communities, property, economy and environment in Washington state. That means leading a comprehensive Training and Exercise program to ensure our first responders, emergency managers, government leaders, non-governmental partners, and private citizens have the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to perform key tasks when a disaster strikes. The Washington State Training and Exercise Plan (TEP) 2018-2020 (PDF) provides a roadmap to accomplish this goal.
Training and Exercise information is located HERE Contact Justin Fordice, State Training Officer/Training Program Supervisor at (253) 512-7056 or email [email protected]
Resources
Online
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice Training Catalog
NWCPHP is pleased to announce the release of a new online catalog with more than 400 emergency preparedness trainings and other learning materials. Public health professionals and their partners can use these resources to enhance the preparedness and response skills of individuals and teams.
Information HERE
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Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target Capability
Resources Website TRACIE
ASPR has launched a Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE), a gateway developed to meet the needs of regional ASPR staff, healthcare coalitions, healthcare entities, healthcare providers, emergency managers, public health practitioners, and others working in disaster medicine, healthcare system preparedness, and public health emergency preparedness. New resource: Disaster Behavorial Health. Includes the provision of mental health, substance abuse, and stress management services to disaster survivors and resoponders.
For more resources, consult the ASPR TRACIE website and view new news HERE.
Resources Online US Department of Health and Human Services: Hurricane Response – Resources for Children with Special Health Care Needs
In the wake of the 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, ensuring children and their families remain connected to the services and support they rely on is important to recovering communities. This is especially true for children with special health care needs (CSHCN). CSHCN are a population that may need additional attention and support during an emergency. CSHCN have or are at increased risk for having chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions. They require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that typically required by children.
Find resources HERE
Conferences
Date/Time Location Title Information Registration Target Audience /Target
Capability June 6 – 8 June 6: 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm June 7: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm June 8: 8:00 am to 11:00 am
Shelton, WA 2018 Washington State LEPC/Tribal Conference
The 2018 Conference will include: • Multiple HazMat Incident Presentations and Panels • Exercise Tool Workshop
EMD is conducting this year’s Training and Exercise Workshop (TEPW) the day before the LEPC Conference on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. The intent is to consolidate travel for personnel who participate in both events.
Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2018-LEPC-Tribal-Conf Directions to book rooms at the Little Creek Resort will be provided during the online registration process.