Speaker:  Dick Bower, Building/Fire Safety/Emergency Management Director, City of Gig Harbor Lack of coordination between members of the emergency management community adversely affects our ability to protect citizens. While a host of federal, state and local sources provide the emergency management community with guidance through the four phases of emergency management, such guidance falls short of emphasizing the full value of an established multi-agency coordination (MAC) entity and system. By building relationships between the governmental agencies, response partners, private sector, non-governmental and faith based organizations that make up the community, effective multi-agency collaboration spanning the entire emergency management continuum can be developed. Such collaboration provides effective, efficient, and cost-effective emergency management across the full continuum of emergency management activities. By redefining Multi-Agency Coordination to include pre-incident/event collaboration planning, mitigation, response and recovery activities can be greatly improved.

1. Presented for 2011 Partners in Emergency
Preparedness Conference by:
Dick J. Bower, MS,CEM, ACO
Build./Fire Safety/Emerg. Mgmt. Dir.
City of Gig Harbor, WA

2. Housekeeping
Speaker intro
intro.

3. BUILDING COMMUNITY
THROUGH MULTI-AGENCY
MULTI-
COLLABORATION
San Francisco, 1906 unk.

4. Building Community
B ildi C it
Community:
“A body of persons or nations having a
common history or common social,
economic,
economic and political interests ”
interests…
“…A body of persons of common and
esp.
esp professional interests scattered
through a larger society”.
Merriam Webster,
Merriam-Webster, (2001)
Nauman, 2005

5. Resource Not Victim
“ With a strategy in which residents of
urban areas are t i d i search and
b trained in h d
rescue, first aid, fire suppression, care
and shelter emergency communications
shelter, communications,
and disaster mental health, the
community becomes a “resource” rather
y
than a “victim”.
Lichterman, J.D., (2000)
( )
N.I.H.
Unknown, n.d.

6. Professional community
Emergency management
g y g
community
Civic
Ci i communityit
Resident community
Business community

7. Possibilities
“Consider the possibilities of a disaster
Consider disaster-
assistance system that relies instead on a
network of partnerships among cities and
p p g
counties, supported by a sophisticated
database of human and material resources
for emergency response and recovery
…assets could be identified and local
government response teams could be
certified, trained, and deployed for all four
phases of a disaster”
disaster
Robert O’Neill, ICMA Exec. Dir.
Nauman, 2005

8. “To bring into proper order or
relation, adjust so as t h
l ti dj t to have
harmonious action.”
Webster’s New World College Dictionary (1996)
Reactive

9. FEMA Says:
“Multiagency coordination i
“M lti di ti is
a p ocess t at a o s a
process that allows all
levels of government and all
disciplines t work t
di i li to k together
th
more efficiently and
effectively”.
effectively”.
FEMA Multiagency Coordination Systems, n.d.

10. Multi-agency coordination entity/center
IS 701 – NIMS Multiagency Coordination
System
Dispatch
Centers
Jurisdictional
EOC’s Off-Scene
Incident
Command/Unified EOC’s and /
Command MAC or MAC groups
Groups
Documents

11. “To work together, esp. in
some lit
literary, artistic or
ti ti
scientific undertaking”. g
Webster’s New World College Dictionary (1996)
Proactive
P ti

12. Broad, stakeholder base
Continuum
IS 288 – The Role of Voluntary Agencies
in Emergency Management
IS 650 – B ildi P t
650.a Building Partnerships with
hi ith
Tribal Governments
http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp

13. Collaborative C
b Comm. Me
CBR
SD
embers
CBC
CC
NSR
Incident Continuum
NSR – Normal Situation Resources
CBR – Collaboratively Built Resources
SC – S
Surge D
Demand d
CC – Collaborative Capacity

14. CBR
Collaborativ Comm. Members
ve
SD CR
C
NSR
Incident Continuum
s
NSR – Normal Situation Resources
CBR – Collaboratively Built Resources
SD – Surge Demand
C – Collaborative Capacity
CR – Coordinated Resources

15. Efficient planning for 4 phases of EM
Mutual Aid Resources
Public Private P t
P bli – P i t Partnerships hi
Pre-established contracts
Business continuity planning
Neighborhood response
Training/Exercise
Communications
C i ti

16. Mitigation planning
Continuity planning
Sustainable development
Long-term
Long term partnerships
Immediate recovery assistance
Long term recovery planning

17. The New Emergency Management
“In discussing what may be called the “new
emergency management,” it will be argued that
g y g g
the factors that contribute to its environment
and the challenges that shape it require a
broader, t t i
b d strategic, and more proactive
d ti
orientation for the emergency management
profession
profession”.
Robert Schneider, n.d.
FEMA/UNC
Nauman, 2005

18. Genesis of KPGHIMACC
2002 update to1995 regional plan
Recognize existing relationships
g g p
Update contacts
NIMS compliance
p
Public/Private/NGO Partnerships
White, 2009

19. NIMS planning needs
Collaboration important
Mitigation workgroups
Integrating partners
Ongoing gap analysis
White, 2009

20. F
Focusing E
i Event
t
Hanukkah Eve Storm 2006
Coordination of utility, first
y
responder, and public works
resources.
resources
Activating MACC improved
efficiency of response and
recovery efforts.
NOAA,2006

21. Water
Sewer
Electric
Phone
Cell Phone
Internet
Gas
Unknown, n.d.

22. Diverse Membership
Government/First responders
Utilities
Schools
Faith-based orgs
Health care
Dept. of Corrections
NGO’s
Economic infrastructure

23. Government/First Responders
Cities/Counties/State
Emergency M t
E Mgmt.
Public Works
Building / Fire Safety
Public Transit
National/State Guard
First Responders
Local/County/ State Law Enforcement
Fire/Rescue/EMS
Transit/Port/Campus Police/Fire
FEMA , 2005

24. Schools
Public Schools
Private Schools
Child/Adult Daycare
Higher Education Institutions
Technical/Vocational Schools
Bower, 2011

25. Faith-
Faith-Based Organizations
Salvation Army
Latter-Day-
Latter-Day-Saints
United Methodist Church
Presbyterian Church
Adventist Disaster Response
Peninsula Communities of Faith
Thurston Co. Faith Communities Disaster
Preparedness http://www.co.thurston.wa.us
/em/faith/faith.asp
em/faith/faith.asp
Nauman, 2005

26. Health Care
Hospitals
Urgent Care
Assisted Living
Public Health
Mental H lth
M t l Health
Clinics/Private providers
p
Bower, 2011

27. Red Cross
PEP-C
Community Emergency Response Teams
ARES/RACES
Service Clubs
CAP, Scouts, Safe Streets, etc.

28. Local businesses
Small Business Admin.
Chamber of Commerce
Industry
Major retailers
Transportation
Port of Tacoma, n.d.

29. CERT
Homeowners Associations
Garden Clubs
Other?
Nauman, 2011

30. Collaboration Builds Community
Emergency management
Inter-agency
Responders/providers
R d / id
Neighbors
g
Nauman, 2005

31. Statewide summit 2010
Diverse participation
Dialogue and relationship building
Two mutual aid bills in 2011
Rogers, 2010

32. Gig Harbor
Key Peninsula
Fox Island
Raft Island
Tacoma
Puyallup
Pierce Co
Co.
White, 2009

33. Monthly collaboration meetings
Joint training/exercises
g
Earthquake Exercise
Portal Training
ICS
Active shooter

34. Community Outreach
High risk population planning
workshop
k h
Chapel Hill Emergency
Preparedness Fair
PEP-C/GH Map Your
C/G ap ou
Neighborhood
Pierce Co PC-Net
Co.
Nauman, 2010

35. Multi-
Multi-Agency Collaboration
Builds capacity
Builds resilience
Builds relationships
Builds
B ild community it
Nauman, 2005

36. Thank You
Questions
For More Information Contact:
Dick J B
Di k J. Bower, MS,CEM,ACO
MS CEM ACO
Bower Associates
7188 P k t
Parkstone L SW
Ln.
Port Orchard, WA 98367
360.710.4789
360 710 4789
Nauman, 2005

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