CIP Update
June 1, 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, 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 Training
& Education Division, National Preparedness Directorate, 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.
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 31 communities in 20 states with over 2,200 participants
collaborating on 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 / Douglas County, KS / Evansville, IN
/ GCCC-St. Louis, MO / Greensboro, NC / 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
CIP Program Activities
June 6, 2007 –
Schnecksville, PA (Presentations on
Business Continuity and Public-Private Partnerships)
June 15, 2007 – Madison,
WI (Presentation on CIP Program for Dane
County)
July 11, 2007 – Auburn
Hills, MI (Presentation on Building
Public-Private Teams)
July 19, 2007 – Brown
County, WI (Tabletop Exercise through
CIP Program)
July 24, 2007 – Riverwoods,
IL (Initiate CIP for Lake-Cook Regional
Illinois)
July 26, 2007 –
Schaumburg, IL (Initiate CIP for
Schaumburg, Illinois)
August 16, 2007 –
Asheville, NC (Tentative Tabletop
Exercise through CIP Program)
September 12-13, 2007 –
Dallas, TX (Tentative Tabletop Exercises
through CIP Program)
Building Community
Resilience – Surveying Private Sector
The former chairman
Michael Dunaway of the Chesapeake Critical Incident Partnership (CCIP) group in
Annapolis, MD, developed a research project through the University of
Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to
Terrorism (START). MSU initiated the CIP
Program in Annapolis in 2004 and the CCIP was subsequently formed using the
public-private partnership for joint crisis management model.
MSU encourages
communities to identify capabilities and needs on emergency preparedness,
response, and recovery. Traditionally,
many communities have completed assessments or evaluations regarding the
ability of public sector agencies to respond to man-made and natural
disasters. Additionally, several
communities have identified their ‘critical infrastructure’, along with completing
vulnerability assessments on the critical infrastructure. However, there is still more to do across the
nation. The ‘Building Community
Resilience’ project is designed to survey businesses and non-profit
organizations to identify emergency preparedness and business continuity
practices. Ultimately, the survey
results can be utilized in a variety of ways to foster community resilience.
The survey is structured to achieve
four main goals:
1.
Provide information to the Office of Emergency Management and Chamber of
Commerce in order to identify characteristics of private sector preparedness
within the region and develop programs to support community public-private
partnerships for emergency preparedness;
2.
Identify existing networks between local government, emergency
management, the private sector, and local non-profit organizations that may
reinforce emergency preparedness and response;
3.
Raise awareness regarding the need for emergency preparedness and
business continuity planning across the private sector and educate local
business owners on resources available for assistance;
4.
Develop a model survey that can be used to conduct assessments in
communities across Maryland or nation-wide.
Specific research questions to be
pursued in this study:
1.
Characteristics of businesses that may or may not maintain emergency and
continuity of operations plans and who writes, maintains and executes the
plans;
2.
Local perceptions of threats to business survival, community cohesion,
and continuity of operations;
3.
Current extent of business continuity and emergency planning and
potential inhibitors to planning;
4.
Initiatives to motivate private sector adoption of business continuity
planning and emergency preparedness measures;
5.
Recommendations of local business and industry on initiatives that may
increase private sector participation to ensure the security and resilience in
the community.
The
survey will identify potential points of interjection for training, education,
and community initiatives that may enhance public and private sector
preparedness within the community. Moreover, the survey provides an opportunity
for analysis of public and private sector perceptions of threats to community
stability and security; levels of current and desired preparedness; inhibitors
to action for emergency preparedness and business continuity planning; and
where responsibility for COOP or disaster preparedness planning resides within
a given enterprise. Additionally, the survey will provide a snapshot of a
community’s level of emergency preparedness, as well as an assessment of
private sector resilience across business and industry categories by business
size, type, revenue, and assets (publicly traded, privately owned, or
non-profit).
To learn more
about START, go to http://www.start.umd.edu.
Our thanks to Michael Dunaway for sharing this information with MSU.
Creating
Vigilant, Prepared, and Resilient Communities
MSU
profiles organizations, workshops, or training opportunities relating to public-private
partnerships for joint critical incident management. The following program is ‘free’ for
communities and is subsidized by the same federal agency which funds the
CIP-Community Facilitation Program at MSU.
The
Western Community Policing Institute (WCPI), Western Oregon University is
offering the ‘Creating Vigilant, Prepared, and Resilient Communities for
Homeland Security: A Community Outreach Approach to Homeland Security' program
across the nation. The workshops are for
both the public and private sectors. In
the workshops, participants will collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams to
draw on collective skills, knowledge, and resources to address existing or
potential homeland security threats at the community level. Topics include problem-based learning, group
dynamics, critical thinking, leadership, community policing, community
responsibility, and more for this 2-day course (WCPI Program Brochure,
2007).
To learn
more about the program, please go to http://www.westernrcpi.com/docs/WCPC_HS_brochure_2.pdf
and to contact WCPI, please visit http://www.westernrcpi.com.
Building
a Public-Private Partnership for Joint Crisis Management
An
excellent resource for agencies, businesses, non-profit organizations, and
interested stakeholders on how to build a partnership between the public and
private sectors for joint collaboration on managing disasters, emergencies, and
crisis is the ‘Critical Incident Protocol – A Public and Private Partnership”
publication. Through a federal grant
awarded to MSU, thousands of this 42-page how to guide were distributed in the
United States and overseas. Topics in
the publication include mutual benefits of joint planning, leadership begins at
the top, critical incident planning, exercising the plan, business resumption,
media relations, and much more.
For
example, on critical incident planning one begins with developing the plan,
identifying responsibilities, and using managing command systems, such as the
Incident Command System (ICS). One of
the first steps in emergency preparedness planning is identifying the risks or
threats to the entity. In the risk
assessment segment of the publication, the first step is to conduct an
assessment of the organization, incorporating the public sector into the
private sector’s risk assessment process, and reviewing the mitigating factors
in the process (Jones, 2000).
The
publication is available at no cost on the CIP Program website at www.cip.msu.edu and downloading it from the
main menu. Or you may download it
directly from http://www.cip.msu.edu/cip.pdf.
Recent Postings to the CIP
Information Exchange Website
The CIP Information Exchange website is a large database for public and private
sector professionals interested in homeland security, emergency preparedness,
business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management. It also
contains research, 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 to the main menu.
Located
in the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all Communities" are
a variety of postings, including the following:
·
Terrorists
Increasingly Rely on Crime (Congressional Research Service)
·
GAO
Report School District’s Emergency Preparedness – Challenges and Strengths
·
Free
Email Services Protection for Businesses in Florida During 2007 Hurricane
Season
·
Video
Game Training for First Responders on WMD Incidents (EMR-ISAC)
There are numerous other resources
located on the website. To locate a specific topic, use 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 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 Michigan State University.
Sources:
Western Community Policing
Institute (WCPI). (2007). Program brochure. Retrieved on June 1, 2007 from:
http://www.westernrcpi.com/docs/WCPC_HS_brochure_2.pdf.
Jones,
Radford. (2000). Critical Incident Protocol – A Public and
Private Partnership. Office for Domestic
Preparedness, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Brit
Weber
School
of Criminal Justice
Michigan
State University
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