CIP Update
January 26, 2007
This newsletter
is for cities, counties, and communities involved in public-private
partnerships for joint emergency preparedness, planning, and prevention.
Michigan State University (MSU) produces the newsletter through the Critical Incident Protocol
(CIP)-Community Facilitation Program under a grant awarded by the Office of
Grants & Training, Preparedness
Directorate, 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.
Please go to: www.cip.msu.edu for more information
about the program.
Participating Communities
Allentown, PA /
Annapolis, MD /
Bethlehem, PA / Brooklyn, OH / Brown County, WI / Carroll County, MD / Casa
Grande, AZ / Clark County, NV / Douglas County, KS / Evansville, IN / GCCC-St. Louis, MO / Hoover, AL / Layton, UT / Lewis & Clark County, MT / Libertyville, IL /
Littleton, CO / Marquette County, MI / Milwaukee, WI / Monroe County, MI /
Northampton County, PA / Norwalk, CT / Oakland County, MI / Perkiomen Valley,
PA / Redmond, WA / Racine, WI / Richmond, VA / Rockville, MD / Sandy City, UT
We are currently working with 28 communities and will work with another 21 cities, counties, and communities over the next couple of
years. Of the 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? If so, please let us know.
Welcome Gateway
Citizen Corps Coalition,
Please
welcome our newest community to the CIP Program, which is the Gateway Citizen
Corps Coalition (GCCC). The program goals are to create or enhance
public-private partnerships for joint management of critical incidents.
In working with cities, counties and regions across the nation we have learned
that program flexibility works best, as each community is different. The
GCCC represents two states, seven counties, and the City of St. Louis, MO in
this region.
The
Gateway Citizen Corps Coalition is somewhat new and they were familiar with the
CIP Program. The Board of Directors reviewed the program and wanted MSU
to facilitate a modified program that focused on enhancing the public-private
partnership, further define goals and objectives, review program
implementation, and enhance strategic planning processes.
Through
the CIP Program, MSU facilitated a strategic planning workshop for GCCC.
This workshop is a modification of one of the three workshops we offer.
Citizen
Corps is a component of the USA Freedom Corps coordinated through the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security that provides oversight and training in the
following programs: Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Neighborhood
Watch Program (NWP), Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS), Fire Corps, Medical
Reserve Corps (MRC), and Citizen Corp Councils. For more on these
programs, please go to http://www.citizencorps.gov.
Specialized CERT
Training for Colleges and High Schools
The
Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) program is offered across the
For universities and
colleges there is a Campus-CERT three day train-the-trainer program offered by
For high schools, there is
a Teen-CERT 20-hour program offered by
Recovery or Business Resumption
Process
A quick recovery from an
incident will get the community back on the path to normal activities.
The process may be short or long term; however, planning for the recovery phase
(preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery) will decrease recovery
time. Both public and private sectors must collaborate to ensure a quick
recovery.
During a critical incident,
the business team begins the recovery phase. The public sector Incident
Commander should collaborate with the business team to discuss recovery.
Unfortunately, many public sector agencies focus on the response phase, while
the impacted business is working on both response and recovery.
Businesses that are seriously affected by a critical incident and have a longer
recovery time period will impact the community through loss of revenue to the
public sector, loss of products or services to the community, and a perception
to potential investors that the impacted businesses and community do not have
enough resources for managing critical incidents.
Communities and public-private partnership groups should review
the following recovery issues through collaboration and planning:
·
Develop
a system to include experts who focus on recovery
·
Utilize
outside resources to support the recovery process
·
Conduct
an assessment of affected businesses which informs the public sector on the
impact to the community
·
Develop
an understanding of the financial impact to the community
·
Develop
a joint process to solicit support and understanding by the community (Jones,
2000)
These recommendations are based on discussions was pulled from
the Critical Incident Protocol – A Public and Private Partnership, a
42-page how-to-guide for public sector agencies, businesses, non-profit
organizations, and others on how to create partnerships for critical incident
management. You can download or view the publication either from our
website at www.cip.msu.edu
or from http://www.cj.msu.edu/~outreach/CIP/CIP.pdf.
Measuring the Effectiveness of a
Partnership
There are many types of
public-private partnerships that are usually formed as a result of a common
interests or regulatory issues. Partnerships are formed at the local, state,
regional, national, and international levels. The CIP Program is a
partnership program, which is funded by the Office of Grants & Training,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security; therefore, the program is provided
through federal tax dollars. It is important that processes are analyzed
to ensure that DHS programs are meeting the mission and needs from the federal
down to local levels.
The CIP Program creates or
enhances a public-private partnership at the decision-maker level (executives,
administrators, managers, etc.) for cities, counties, and regions. MSU
uses two to four different types of workshops over a period of six to twelve
months to build the partnership.
How do you
measure the effectiveness of a partnership? To answer that, MSU administers
a social capital survey that measures the level of networking and critical
incident preparedness based on public-private partnership. The survey
assesses perceptions about community groups, as well as public governmental
agencies regarding the working and developing of partnerships to solve
community problems. Feedback from the survey will assist the community in
identifying strengths and weaknesses in the experiences and relationships of
the participants specifically in the area of the joint critical incident
preparedness process.
Below are
some of the results from a recent analysis on 15 communities who completed the
survey through the CIP Program relative to their level of critical incident
preparedness. Pre and post test percents are provided.
The social
capital survey also measures the level of networking in a community on how
certain public sector disciplines and private sector professions
collaborate. If you would like to know more about social capital, either
contact MSU staff or please visit our website at www.cip.msu.edu
and go to the menu and click on social capital.
CIP Happenings
The CIP Program represents 30 communities in 19 states
with 1,923 attendees and is growing. We are looking for more communities
to work with.
If you would like to attend one of our workshops, please
contact us. We have finalized dates to initiate the CIP Program in the
following locations:
Recent
Postings to CIP Information Exchange Website
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. Click on CIP, which
launches to the main menu.
Located in the folder "Bulletin Board -
Information for all Communities" are a variety of postings, including the
following:
“Training
Video – Threat Against Transit System”
“
“The
Center for Public Health Preparedness is Offering Training, via Internet”
“Governors
Loses –
“NIC
Recommends Adoption of NFPA 1561 and NFPA1600 Standards”
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.
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 wish to be on this list, please
reply to this email.
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
Source
Jones,
R.W. (2000). Critical Incident Protocol—A Public and Private
Partnership. Office for Domestic
Preparedness,
Brit Weber
Work:
(517) 355-2227 Cell: (517) 206-1640
Visit our website at: www.cip.msu.edu