the importance of long term recovery committees

The Importance of The Importance of Long Term Recovery CommitteesLong Term Recovery Committees

1Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, PreparednessApril 2013

Putting the pieces back together.

COADs = Community Collaboratives

2Whole Community Response and Recovery - COADApril 2013

Members work together proactively toreduce risks and vulnerabilities,

build capacities and strengthen connections.

Can withstand, quickly adapt and successfully recover from a disaster.

RESILIENCE - Whole Community Response and Recovery - COAD

Physical capacity

Economic capacity

Social capacity

Psychological capacity

THE GOAL = RESILIENT COMMUNITIES

COAD members collaborate to build community:

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Disaster Strikes – Joplin, May 2011

April 2013 Whole Community Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness 4

Response that night- SHELTERING - MSSU


Response – Hope amid Chaos


Day 1 – Response Daily Partner Meetings begin to coordinate

relief efforts


Partners Working together Local, State, Federal


FEEDING – 14 mobile units and 3 Fixed sites Red Cross 458,000 Meals & Snacks Served

Salvation Army and others also serving daily.


BULK DISTRO - 21 Emergency Response Vehicles 205,000 Relief Items Distributed

Points of Distribution (PODs) throughout


Comforting families - 161 lives were lost due to the tornado


Day 7 – May 29Multi-Agency Resource Center

Opens


RESPONSE/RECOVERY Multi-Agency Resource Center

1,531 Cases Opened – Over 5,000 served


Day 17 – June 8, 8:30amLong Term Recovery Committee stands up

Response shifts to RecoveryCOAD meets at Joplin Area Chamber of

Commerce


68 attendees LTRC Chair and Co-Chair

Appointed by COAD chair and affirmed Unanimously

Why are they needed? Why are they needed?

What do they do?What do they do?

The Importance of The Importance of

Long Term Recovery CommitteesLong Term Recovery Committees


Need - Becomes evident that not all individuals and community needs will be able to be addressed through immediately available State, Federal, or local resources

Primary objective of the Long Term Recovery Group is to return the community, as a whole, to the “new normal” - the sustainable state of the community post disaster.

Long Term Recovery Committee


LTRC – The NEED


• 7,500 residential dwellings damaged• More than 17,000 people affected by tornado• 4,000 homes destroyed left 9,200 people displaced• 3,500 more structures like businesses damaged or destroyed

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Sequence of DeliverySequence of Delivery

InsuranceInsurance

HAHA

SBASBA

ONAONA

LTRC LTRC AssistanceAssistance

EmergencyEmergencyAssistanceAssistance

Cora BrownCora BrownFundFund


For the Record:• FEMA CAN provide financial assistance (Loans or Grants) to

verified uninsured disaster losses

• FEMA does NOT provide intensive one-on-one case management, counseling, goods, or services not mandated by law

• SEMA CAN provide long-term recovery support, technical guidance, coordination of agencies, and information referral services (including to other government assistance agencies)

• SEMA does NOT provide direct assistance to disaster survivors


Day 21 – June 12Multi-Agency Resource Center

ClosesDisaster Case Management Center

Opens


Long Term Recovery – Disaster Case Management


How is Case Management related to the How is Case Management related to the Long Term Recovery Committee?Long Term Recovery Committee?




The LTRC depends on Case Management to bring legitimate cases to them

Case management depends on the LTRC to find the needed resources for recovery.

What are the advantages to survivors and What are the advantages to survivors and community?community?

Prevents confusion and duplication.

Clients receive help to fill out necessary paper work

Receive information about how various systems work (FEMA, SBA)

Clients receive financial aid from various partners.

Survivors immediately begin spending the money in the affected areas. Local businesses supported; put tax revenue back into the local economy.

Families quickly able to locate temporary housing near the affected area: keep communities intact, support local businesses and prevent loss of tax revenue in the community.

Because families receive health and mental health services immediately after the disaster – short and long-term needs identified and addressed.




What are the advantages to survivors and What are the advantages to survivors and community?community?

If a family affected by disaster does not return to a level of self-sustainability within two years of the disaster, usually they will:

•Continue to need all the supports that community has to offeror

•Leave the community, taking away school enrollment, income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, etc.

It is in the best interest of the community to ensure that every affected family reaches the self-sustainability level




SUCCESSES


Day 768 – June 30, 2013Disaster Case Management Center

Closes


Can withstand, quickly adapt and

successfully recover from

a disaster.


THE GOAL = RESILIENT COMMUNITIES

the importance of long term recovery committees

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