CIP
Update
December 23, 2005
This newsletter is for cities, counties and communities involved
in public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness, planning and
prevention.
Please go to www.cip.msu.edu for more information
about the program.
Participating
Communities
Allentown, PA /
Annapolis, MD / Bethlehem, PA / Brooklyn, OH / Carroll County, MD / Casa Grande, AZ / Clark County, NV / Evansville, IN / Hoover, AL / Marquette County, MI /
Milwaukee, WI / Monroe County, MI /
Northampton County, PA / Oakland County, MI / Perkiomen
Valley, PA /
Redmond, WA
/ Racine, WI / Richmond, VA / Rockville, MD / Sandy City, UT
We are currently working with 20
communities and will work with another
24 cities, counties or communities over the next couple of years. Of the 24 available CIP Programs, we are in contact with 10 communities.
Is there a
location in the nation that you think may be interested in building a public-private partnership for
joint emergency preparedness?
CIP
Website / WWW.CIP.MSU.EDU
Please take a few
minutes to look at our website and we encourage you to share the web link with
others, which is at www.cip.msu.edu.
There
are a number of features, including the availability of past issues of the
newsletter on the website. If someone else you know wants to sign up for
the newsletter they can do that. Recently, we updated the PowerPoint
presentation, which provides an overview of the CIP Program, along with listing
the goals, deliverables, resources, and other information. Feel free to
download the PowerPoint program. Show it to prospective organizations or
develop your own PowerPoint presentation for your community and incorporate
some of the information from the CIP program.
The
Critical Incident Protocol – A Public and Private
Partnership publication is on the website, and can be downloaded. If
you are discussing risk or threat assessment, take a look at the tool we use,
which also has step-by-step directions on how to conduct a risk assessment.
Lastly,
if you have any suggestions for the website, please contact the CIP staff.
Public-Private
Partnership Program: Community Preparedness Planning Process
MSU is always looking for
examples of public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness that
we can share with you. Following is a vibrant, grass roots program that
incorporates long-term guidance using local resources.
The
Regional Institute for Community Policing (RICP) based out of the
RICP
facilitates the creation of intra-community planning teams that focus on preparedness, in
addition to creating plans where gaps exist, communicating these to vested
stakeholders, and educating residents about community-wide preparedness.
By utilizing a community policing, problem-solving model, community leaders and
members respond to threats through preventative measures and the assessment of
community resources.
There
are five sessions over a period of four to six months. Session One involves a commitment from elected and key officials,
ensuring all relevant entities will be involved and verifying participant expectations.
Session Two includes a community assessment questionnaire, information sharing
and a tabletop exercise to identify gaps. Session Three involves an
extensive review of the tabletop exercise. Sessions Three and Four
involve proceeding through the analysis and response stages of the
problem-solving model. Additionally, strategic planning development
begins to take place at this point, including the development of mission,
goals, objectives, and performance measures. Session Five concludes with
an additional tabletop exercise and an explanation of the intra-community
plan. The second tabletop exercise determines if previously identified
problems have been rectified and continues to
identify other/new areas for improvement.
The RICP is part of a national network of 27 regional institutes
across the country and is supported by funds from the U.S. Department of
Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. For more
information on this program, please contact the Regional Institute for Community
Policing at http://ricp.uis.edu
A Few Stats on
the CIP Program
On February 20, 2002 the first CIP
Program was initiated, which was in
Since
that date we kicked off the program in 20 communities and committed to bring it
to another 24 communities through 2007.
A total
of 983 people have attended these workshops!
Currently,
the CIP Update is distributed to
1000 subscribers, who forward it throughout their networks.
Using
social capital surveying the average pre and post test indicate the following
on participating organizations:
-increased
from 83% to 96% in those who have a critical incident response plan.
-increased
from 44% to 71% in those who participated in joint public-private sector
meetings focusing on risk reduction.
-increased
from 64% to 82% in those who adopted a common incident command system for
public-private sectors
Another Voice on
Public-Private Partnerships
The CIP staff has found
another resource on public-private partnerships for joint emergency
preparedness. We are fortunate to have connected with someone who is
proficient in this domain, in addition to other areas of expertise. John Laye, FBCI is managing partner and principal consultant of
Contingency Management Consultants with a practice exclusively in emergency
management, recovery, and mitigation. We met John through mutual
organizations in
I
read his article on Public - Private Coordination - Are
We Doing it Wrong? and recalled the challenges that CIP communities encounter
in developing strong coalitions. Laye made
reference to Lord Peter Levene, Chairman of Lloyd's,
"More than half of
When
trained communities focus on joint preparedness they can mitigate the impact of
disasters, and as Johns states, "Most policy-makers realize that when a
major disruptive event occurs, a community's revenues, self-image and quality
of life depend on public and private coordination, cooperation, and performance together to restore interrupted services and get the community's economic
drivers back on line (Laye,
2005).” You can see that Laye is intimately
familiar with public-private partnerships for joint critical incident
management.
It
is nice to hear another voice in this arena. John Laye can be contacted via e-mail at johnlaye@businesscontinuity.com
CIP
Community Happenings
Here
are a few activities going on in the CIP Communities.
Exercising
The School of Criminal Justice offers a certificate in Homeland Security
studies, which is a credit or non-credit three (3) course program. One of
the courses is the Public-Private Partnerships for Emergency Preparedness,
which is taught by Rad Jones, founder of the CIP
Program. One of the modules in the course is on exercising, which is a
valuable tool for the CIP communities to use in joint public-private
partnership operations.
When looking at the purpose of exercising, Jones states, “Why
exercising? Because training exercises are crucial to the preparedness
process. Exercises can accomplish the following: clarify
responsibilities, identify roles, enhance skills, assess capabilities, evaluate
performance, measure resources, motivate employees, build confidence, and gain
public recognition and support (Jones, 2005).”
Exercising can also reveal planning weaknesses and identify areas
that need improvement. Exercise development should be from a strategic
perspective with the objective of training personnel and assessing readiness.
Lastly, an important component of developing exercises is
creativity, but balanced and designed in terms of real life situations (Jones,
2005).
Recent
Postings to CIP Information Exchange Website
To enter the
"CIP Information
Exchange" website, please go to https://angel.msu.edu and enter your user/password ID (or use msu.msu@angel in
the User/NetID and "partnership" as the password
to log in). Click on CIP, which goes to the main menu.
Located in the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all
Communities" are just a few of the following postings:
“Security
Grants to be Based on Risk”
“Incident
Command: Failure to Establish a Unified Command Structure”
“Study
Shows Americans Poorly Prepared for Emergencies”
“Business
Continuity Planning and the Media”
There are numerous other resources located on the website.
To locate a specific topic, use the "search" function, which can be
found on the main menu page on the right-hand side in the green task bar.
Corrections
In
the last newsletter of 12-05-05 we made a mistake in the article CIP
Initiatives. The 2006 seminar in
Starting
a CIP Program
Feel free to make
a referral to the MSU staff about possibly starting a CIP Program elsewhere in
the
Past
Newsletters
If you are interested in
viewing past CIP Update
newsletters, please go to www.cip.msu.edu and select “Newsletters”
from the main menu.
Closing
If you have any topics
and/or ideas for a future CIP Update newsletter, please
contact Brit Weber at weberbr@msu.edu or (517) 355-2227 or
other MSU staff members. About every
three weeks you will receive this newsletter via email. If you no longer
want to be on this list, please reply to this email.
Sources
Laye, John. (2005, August
31). Public – Private Coordination Are
We Doing it Wrong? From Continuity e-Guide online
newsletter.
Jones, Radford. (2005). Public
and Private Partnership for Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security.
Instructor Comments.
Brit Weber
Work: (517) 355-2227
Cell: (517) 206-1640
weberbr@msu.edu
Visit our website: http://www.cip.msu.edu