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Dan Niederman

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  ICS Training Scholarships.

  I suggest you create a Federally Funded CERT/ICS Training package for college students that can be presented at the local and regional level. This could be presented in a resident four to six week “base camp/boot camp” type environment. Healthy fitness and lifestyle choice messages could also be presented as well as the performance of community service projects planned by the students as ICS managed events. Local response ...more »

  I suggest you create a Federally Funded CERT/ICS Training package for college students that can be presented at the local and regional level. This could be presented in a resident four to six week “base camp/boot camp” type environment. Healthy fitness and lifestyle choice messages could also be presented as well as the performance of community service projects planned by the students as ICS managed events.

  Local response and recovery resources would be exercised in providing the training (with federal funding assistance). Graduates of the program would then receive a Federal scholarship of say $500 for their next school year. This would create a reservoir of ICS qualified college graduates that could infuse these concepts into their business lifetimes assisting in the private sector learning and practicing the ICS model on their daily operations as well as during disaster.

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  Submitted by Dan Niederman 2 years ago

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  Jurisdictions need to plan to utilize and document non-affiliated and spontaneous volunteers

  Vulnerability is the combination of risk of an incident times the probability minus the mitigation efforts employed to reduce the impact of that incident. Regardless of the cause of a presidentially declared incident (Flood, storm, earthquake, or human incident, etc), under the Stafford act, all jurisdictions are vulnerable to the financial vulnerability of the non-federal share, or local match, of the FEMA Public Assistance ...more »

  Vulnerability is the combination of risk of an incident times the probability minus the mitigation efforts employed to reduce the impact of that incident. Regardless of the cause of a presidentially declared incident (Flood, storm, earthquake, or human incident, etc), under the Stafford act, all jurisdictions are vulnerable to the financial vulnerability of the non-federal share, or local match, of the FEMA Public Assistance Grant Program. The local match for FEMA category A and B subgrants can be mitigated against by training, coordinating and documenting volunteers to perform eligible emergency work during the incident response as Donated Resources. Pre-incident agreements for volunteer management are essential to ensure NIMS compliant interoperability of the volunteers responding within the incident. Additionally, the costs associated with managing volunteers are FEMA reimbursable under the Public Assistance Grant Program. Jurisdictions need to plan to utilize and document non-affiliated and spontaneous volunteers to mitigate their financial vulnerability of the local match under a presidentially declared event under the Stafford Act.

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  Manage non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers more effectively

  I suggest you...Promote and facilitate the use of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers in response and recovery through the development of a standardized, Type Classified, NIMS Compliant, Volunteer Management Strike Team (VMST). The VMST would provide onsite supervision of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers while performing appropriate accountability and maintaining safety awareness. The VMST would ...more »

  I suggest you...Promote and facilitate the use of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers in response and recovery through the development of a standardized, Type Classified, NIMS Compliant, Volunteer Management Strike Team (VMST). The VMST would provide onsite supervision of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers while performing appropriate accountability and maintaining safety awareness. The VMST would ensure that work performed was properly documented in order to be eligible as (FEMA) Category A or B Donated Resources during a presidentially declared incident. The VMST would provide situational awareness and a management tool of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers to the on-scene Incident Commander.

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  Manage non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers more effectively

  Promote and facilitate the use of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers in response and recovery through the development of a standardized, Type Classified, NIMS Compliant, Volunteer Management Strike Team (VMST). The VMST would provide onsite supervision of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers while performing appropriate accountability and maintaining safety awareness. The VMST would ensure that work ...more »

  Promote and facilitate the use of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers in response and recovery through the development of a standardized, Type Classified, NIMS Compliant, Volunteer Management Strike Team (VMST). The VMST would provide onsite supervision of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers while performing appropriate accountability and maintaining safety awareness. The VMST would ensure that work performed was properly documented in order to be eligible as (FEMA) Category A or B Donated Resources during a presidentially declared incident. The VMST would provide situational awareness and a management tool of non-affiliated and/or spontaneous volunteers to the on-scene Incident Commander.

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