CIP Update
December 28, 2007
This newsletter is for public
agencies, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders
involved or interested in public-private partnerships for joint emergency
preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.
Michigan State University (MSU) produces the newsletter through
the Critical Incident Protocol (CIP)-Community Facilitation Program under a
grant awarded by the Training & Exercise Integration Division, Federal
Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This
newsletter provides ideas, suggestions, best practices, and lessons learned to
establish critical incident protocols using public-private partnerships.
Through the CIP Program, Michigan State University facilitates public-private
partnerships for cities, counties, and regions across the nation. The CIP
Program is free of charge to participating communities.
Please visit our website at www.cip.msu.edu for more information about the program.
Participating Communities in the CIP Program
The CIP Program has been initiated in 34 communities
in 21 states with over 2,600 participants establishing
public-private partnerships for joint management of critical incidents.
We are looking to work with other cities, counties and regions. Is there a
location in the nation that you think may be interested in developing a
public-private partnership? If so, please let us know.
Currently,
we are working with the following communities:
Allentown, PA /
Annapolis, MD / Bethlehem, PA / Brooklyn, OH / Brown County, WI / Buncombe
County, NC / Carroll County, MD / Casa Grande, AZ / Clark County, NV / Dallas, TX / Dane County, WI / Douglas County, KS /
Evansville, IN / GCCC-St. Louis, MO / Greensboro, NC / Hoover, AL / Lake-Cook
Corridor, IL / Layton, UT / Lewis & Clark County, MT / Libertyville, IL /
Littleton, CO / Marquette County, MI / Milwaukee, WI / Monroe County, MI /
Mountain View, CA / Northampton County, PA / Norwalk, CT / Oakland County, MI /
Perkiomen Valley, PA / Redmond, WA / Racine, WI / Richmond, VA / Rockville, MD
/ Sandy City, UT
CIP
Program Activities
January 11, 2008 – Norwalk, CT (Norwalk Partnership
Meeting)
January 23, 2008 – Naperville, IL (Overview of CIP
Program)
February 14, 2008 – San Diego, CA (Presentation at
CA Homeland Security Conference)
March 6, 2008 – Eau Claire County, WI (Initiating
CIP Program)
March 19, 2008 – Santa Rosa County, FL (Initiating
CIP Program)
April 1, 2008 – Arlington County, VA (Initiating
CIP Program)
April 16, 2008 – Dallas, TX (Facilitating Tabletop
Exercise)
Public-Private
Partnership Website
Eau Claire County, WI has created a
website for their public-private partnership program, Businesses for a
Disaster-Resistant Community.
Their mission is to “help strengthen the
partnership between the public and private sectors to ensure a coordinated
disaster response, mitigate potential impacts, and maximize business continuity
in Eau Claire County (Eau Claire County, 2007, p.1)”. Grant
funding for the website and related program services was provided by the
Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance.
Communities
participating in the CIP Program have expressed interest in creating their own
website, and the Eau Claire County model serves as a template. Knowing the targeted audience includes
businesses, non-profit organizations, and public sector agencies, a website
should reflect this diversity, while balancing the amount of content on the web
pages. Web page construction should
reflect writing that is free of spelling and grammatical errors as well as
concise paragraphs and bulleted points which highlight the information.
If you are
interested in creating a website that focuses on partnerships, you may want to view
the Eau Claire County website at http://www.wcwrpc.org/thepartnership.mht.
Emergency Support Function (ESF)
18 / Business and Industry
Emergency Support Functions (ESF) provide the
mission, policies, structures, and procedures on preparing for, responding to,
and recovering from man-made and natural disasters. The federal government through the 2004 National
Response Plan and other documents provide guidance on the role and
responsibilities of ESF’s. States, tribes, and local agencies utilize ESF
in their plans as well. Some examples of
ESF’s are listed below.
o
ESF 1 – Transportation
o
ESF 4 – Firefighting
o
ESF 5 – Emergency Management
o
ESF 9 – Urban Search and Rescue
o
ESF 14 – Long-Term Community Recovery and
Mitigation
Many agencies across the nation have
expanded the role of ESF’s to include ESF 18 – Business and Industry. Florida’s Santa Rosa County Office of
Emergency Management has incorporated ESF 18 into their emergency management
plans. The purpose of ESF 18 is, “to
provide guidance and coordinate issues with Santa Rosa County’s business
community in all phases of emergency management – preparedness, response, recovery,
and mitigation (ESF 18, 2007, p. 1)”.
The document defines roles and
responsibilities, lead agencies, alerts, and actions, and should include the
following:
o
Assist in the development and testing of methods for
communicating emergency information to businesses at risk from a disaster.
o
Participate in all hazards exercises involving Emergency
Support Function 18.
o
Plan and coordinate activities to be implemented in the EOC
with support agencies.
o
Maintain a list of Emergency Support Function 18 member
companies, and jointly held assets that can be deployed during an emergency.
o
Provide business owners with the appropriate
expertise to participate in activities designed to reduce or minimize the
impacts to businesses from future disasters.
o
Assist local businesses needs in the
aftermath of a disaster event to better coordinate and target response
activities.
o
ESF18 will operate under the ICS (Incident
Command System) structure in the EOC (Emergency Operations Center) and will
coordinate liaison staffing as needed and required to represent the business
community in the EOC (ESF, 2007, p. 2-3).
The local chambers of commerce have
been designated as private sector lead agencies and their responsibilities in
the Santa Rosa County ESF 18 are to:
o
Serve as the designate point of contact..….representing
the business community in the EOC during a disaster or emergency.
o
Coordinate the dissemination of information
to member and non-member businesses following a disaster, including supporting
agencies.
o
Provide status information to the Planning
Section for inclusion into EOC briefings and Incident Actions Plans (ESF, 2007,
p. 3).
Public sector agencies, businesses, and
non-profit organizations that are not familiar with the ESF 18 / Business and
Industry model may utilize this document as a template to design a community
partnership model. To download the
document, please go to the CIP Information Exchange database and click on
Integrating Business & Industry into Public Emergency Support Function
(ESF-18). Directions to access the CIP
Information Exchange are provided below.
Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) and MSU Extension Office
Across the nation, land-grant colleges
and universities have historically provided program services through county and
regional extension offices under guidance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA). An excellent resource for
emergency preparedness and disaster recovery is the Extension Disaster
Education Network (EDEN), a collaboration of Land Grant University systems and
the USDA. Although EDEN is primarily
available to extension offices, it provides a wealth of expertise and
networking capabilities for food safety.
For more on EDEN, go to www.EDEN.lsu.edu.
An additional national, state, and local resource
within the industry is the Michigan State University (MSU) Extension Office,
which provides leadership in the area of emergency management. The MSU Extension emergency management
program provides services in:
o
Agricultural Safety
o
Family Safety & Security
o
Homeland Security
o
Wildfire Mitigation
o
Animal Emergency Planning
o
Food Safety & Security
o
Exotic & Foreign Animal Disease
o
Families, Children & Stress
o
Sanitation, Mold & Odors
o
Portable Generator Use & Safety
o
Land Use & Hazard Mitigation
To learn more, go to www.msue.msu.edu/emergency.
Free Computerized Incident Command System (ICS) Program
If you are interested in simulated
crisis scenarios with realistic time delays and resource limitations, the “Incident
Commander” is available at no cost to participants. Test your skills by working on large scale
emergencies as the incident commander of the police, fire, EMS, public works,
and school administrators. Up to 16
participants on a shared computer network may collaborate on the organizational
and tactical responsibilities of responding to and recovering from a crisis.
The National Institute of Justice,
Office of Justice Programs is offering the Incident Commander that enhances
management training. Participants
utilizing the Incident Commander will respond to a school hostage situation,
chemical spill, possible terrorism incident, and the aftermath of a severe
storm. Through this program, the roles
of Incident Commander and the command team are assigned.
The National Criminal Justice Reference
Service website at http://www.ncjrs.gov is offering the “Incident Commander” program. This website provides several resources,
documents, and other materials. To order
your free copy, go to http://www.incidentcommander.net.
Recent Postings to the CIP Information Exchange Website
The CIP Information Exchange
website is a vast database for public and private sector professionals
interested in homeland security, emergency preparedness, business continuity,
disaster recovery, and emergency management. It also contains research
publications, government documents, news items, and more.
To enter the CIP Information Exchange website, please go to https://angel.msu.edu and enter “msu.msu@angel” in the User/NetID and “partnership” (both without quotation marks) as the password to log in. On the next page, please click on CIP, which launches the main menu.
Located in the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all
Communities" are a variety of recent postings, including:
o DHS – Resolve to be Ready Campaign 2008
o Securing America’s Passenger Rail System
(RAND)
o Public Health Emergency Response: A Guide
for Leaders and Responders
o Integrating Business & Industry into
Public Emergency Support Function (ESF-18)
o What FEMA Aid Can Cover
There
are numerous other resources located on the website. To locate a specific
topic, utilize the "search" function.
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
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Disclaimer
The views expressed here are those of the
author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security or Michigan State University.
Sources
Eau Claire County Office of Emergency Management, WI. (December 2007). Businesses for a
Disaster-Resistant Community website.
Retrieved on 12-28-07 from http://www.wcwrpc.org/thepartnership.mht.
Santa Rosa County Office of Emergency Management. (December, 2007). Emergency Support Function (ESF) 18 /
Business and Industry.
Brit Weber
Program Director
CIP-Community Facilitation
School of Criminal Justice
Michigan State
University
1407 S. Harrison
Rd., 335 Nisbet Bldg.
East Lansing, MI
48823
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(517) 355-2227 Cell: (517) 206-1640
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