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Development Committee Chair Development Committee Chair

Cole County Sheriff Greg WhiteCole County Sheriff Greg White

…a Genesis for

Vision Integration

A Major Disaster Occurs…

• 8.6 on the New Madrin Fault• Catastrophic Hydroelectric Dam Failures• Nuclear Plants Scram• Massive Earthquake and Flood Damage• Long Term Widespread Power Outages• Worse than Katrina from Mid-Missouri to

the Gulf Coast

…WHAT DO WE DO?!

Program Implementation

• Statewide Roll-out

• Regional Symposiums

• County Integration of Faith-Based Action and Government Response

Faith Community Implementation

• Safety Team Development Including All-Hazards Planning

• Individual and Family Preparedness

• Identification of Faith-Based Social Ministry During a Disaster and Integration with Local Emergency Management

Faith Based Organization Disaster Initiative Faith Based Organization Disaster Initiative (FBO) (FBO)

A GuideA Guide for the Faith-Based Organizationfor the Faith-Based Organization

Phase 1Phase 1: Continuity of Operations Introduction

Getting your Safety Team organized

FBO Security Issues – know your membership and other clientele

All-Hazards Plan

Understanding the Continuity of Operation Plan (COOP)

Read and become part of the Local Emergency Operations Plan

Phase 2:Phase 2: Preparing the Families and Individuals in your Membership

•Ready-in-3: Individual and Family Preparedness (2 weeks on your own)

•Ready-In-3 Materials for the FBO

•Ready-In-3 and the Pandemic

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(FBO) (FBO)

A GuideA Guide for the Faith-Based Organizationfor the Faith-Based Organization

Faith Based Organization Disaster Initiative Faith Based Organization Disaster Initiative (FBO) (FBO)

A GuideA Guide for the Faith-Based Organizationfor the Faith-Based Organization

Phase 3Phase 3: FBO Action integrated with Government Response

•Ministries During a Disaster

•American Red Cross and the FBO Safety Team

•Integrating with the Local Emergency Operations Plan

Missourians rely on Missourians rely on Communities of Faith Communities of Faith

for help; especially for help; especially during a disaster.during a disaster.

Be prepared!

An FBO without a An FBO without a mitigation and recovery mitigation and recovery

plan is plan is notnot ready to support ready to support its membership or its membership or

community.community.Read and become part of

your Local Emergency Operations Plan!

Vision to MissionOur Faith-Based

Organizations are Spiritual Lighthouses and it is within

our power to make them Physical Lighthouses as

well…let’s give legs to the Vision.

For More Information…For More Information…

Greg White, Cole County Sheriff

(573) 634-9160 gwhite@colecounty.org