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Homeland Security S&T Summit (SE Region)
Topic: Disaster Planning
Title: "Regional Emergency Planning Model for Continuous
Disaster Mitigation Response"
Speaker: Dr. Laura Myers
Emergency Management & Criminal Justice Professor
Western Carolina University
email: [email protected]
Date: April 7, 2009
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Topic: Regional Emergency Planning Model
Application to First Responders: A model process for enhancing regional emergency planning.
• Peer created, practical method for developing regional emergency plans.
•A manual for establishing the process.
•Customizable to the needs of first responder groups and to location.
•Expand regional boundaries.
•Enhance collaboration between different first responder groups.
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Topic: Regional Emergency Planning Model
Application to Preparedness: Provide users with an easy to use system on how to enhance regional planning efforts from any level of development. Assist users in…
•identifying appropriate critical infrastructure partners in the process and doing so at a regional level.
•identifying critical infrastructure protection needs at a regional level.
•developing protection plans regional in scope.
•allocating regional resources to more localized critical infrastructure protection plans.
•more…
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Topic: Regional Emergency Planning Model
Application to Preparedness: Provide users with an easy to use system on how to enhance regional planning efforts from any level of development. Assist users in…
•Developing local and regional private sector involvement.
•Developing and managing local and regional volunteers and NGOs.
•Developing regional medical, public health, and public utility involvement.
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Topic: Regional Emergency Planning Model
Application to the Southeast: Regional planning strategies for communities and regions of the Southeast.
• Piloted in Charlotte, NC.
•Tested in rural and urban communities in the SC Upstate.
•Peer developed with first responder groups from the Southeast.
•Informed by regionalization efforts and needs in the Southeast.
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Year 1 Counties
1.1 Mecklenburg, NC
1.2 York, SC
1.3 Gaston, NC
Year 2 Counties - Proposed
2.1 Anderson, SC
2.2 Abbeville, SC
2.3 Greenwood, SC
2.4 Oconee, SC
2.5 Pickens, SC
2.6 Greenville, SC
2.7 Spartanburg, SC
2.8 Cherokee, SC
2.9 Henderson, NC
Extended Counties - Proposed
3.1 McCormick, SC
3.2 Edgefield, SC
3.3 Rabun, GA
3.4 Habersham, GA
3.5 Stephens, GA
3.6 Franklin, GA
3.7 Hart, GA
3.8 Elbert, GA
3.9 Lincoln, GA
Nuclear Power Stations
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Topic: Regional Emergency Planning Model
Summary: The development of enhanced regional planning that results from use of the model process will permit…
Take-Aways:
• enhanced regional and local collaborations between first responder groups.
• better allocation of emergency response resources.
• a reduction in redundancy of efforts within a region.
• a better distribution of financial resources.
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See our poster session: Regional Emergency Planning