November 22,
2006
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 / Hoover,
AL / Layton, UT / Lewis
& Clark County, MT / Libertyville, IL / Littleton, CO / 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 26 communities and will work with another 23 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.
Happy
Thanksgiving
From
the staff at
CIP
Program Spreads Across
In
1998, MSU received its first grant from the federal government to
research the best practices and lessons learned in public-private
partnerships for joint crisis management. In 2000, we published
the Critical Incident Protocol –
A Public and Private Partnership, which is a 42-page guide
for businesses, agencies, organizations, and communities on how to
create partnerships between the sectors. Due to the success and
interest in the publication the federal government asked MSU to develop
a program where we would facilitate partnerships for cities, counties,
and regions throughout the nation. This program, which is at
no-cost for communities, began in 2002 and involves two to four
workshops over a period of six to twelve months. This program is
called the Critical Incident Protocol (CIP) – Community Facilitation,
otherwise known as the CIP program.
Since
2002, there are 28 participating communities in 17 states. In the
workshops, a total of 1,730 people have collaborated on the issues that
reflect the community’s and participants’ desire to create
partnerships. Additionally, a total of 1,546 participants have
attended 35 seminars, conferences, and workshops facilitated or
co-sponsored by MSU on the value of partnership building.
Over
the next months, the following communities will be joining the CIP
Program:
Yet,
we are still looking for more communities!
Tabletop
Exercises – Train Accident, LPG Leak, Traffic Congestion, Media,
Evacuation
In
the CIP Program, the last workshop for each community is a tabletop
exercise. For each community we facilitate two to four
workshops. The first focuses on the development of the
partnership, followed by sustaining the partnership, and, finally, a
tabletop exercise. In the last workshop, we design a scenario
around a participating business. In the exercise, we have the
business management team, along with the public sector agencies which
typically respond, work in a large classroom setting. The
scenario begins with an incident which escalates through response
segments and concludes with a recovery. In the exercise, we
encourage both sides to collaborate, as if they were in a joint
Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
During
these exercises, we routinely hear the participants comment on what
they have learned, and what they were not aware of when working with
businesses, police, fire,
Recently,
in Helena, Montana we facilitated an exercise involving a train
accident, resulting in a LPG leak that also included massive traffic
congestion, high interest by the media, and evacuation. Our
thanks to the Lewis & Clark County CIP Partnership group for their
excellent participation during this exercise.
The
objectives in our tabletop exercises is to help identify roles, clarify
responsibilities, enhance skills, measure the capability of resources,
validate emergency response plans, improve communication and
coordination, and build teamwork.
Planning,
training, and exercising are activities that the majority of the CIP
communities collaborate on.
International
Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) – Public/Private Partnership
Resolution
Last
month at the 113th Annual Conference of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police, the IACP reaffirmed the value of
public-private partnerships by formally introducing a resolution to
support the policy recommendations from the 2004 Private
Security/Public Policing Summit. IACP has been an advocate of
police/security partnerships for years and formally supports the CIP
Program.
The
resolution included:
To
learn more about the 2004
Planning and Crisis Management Methods
When businesses and non-profit organizations partner with the public
sector for critical incident management, there are some steps that
should be included:
An
Excellent Resource for Partnerships
The
Critical Incident Protocol – A
Public and Private Partnership is a 42-page how-to-guide
discusses the mutual benefits of joint planning, the value of
leadership, why and how to conduct a risk assessment, critical incident
planning, exercising and training, mitigating the impact of a crisis,
how to collaborate with the media, emergency response, and the
importance of recovery and business resumption. It contains
additional resources as well, including personal statements from both
public and private sector leaders.
“Both
the public and private sectors commented that support for the
partnership process must start from the top. Too many managers
and community administrators are still in a state of denial or hoping
disasters won’t happen on their watch. (Jones, 2000, p.7)”
This
publication is relevant for today’s business, agency, or non-profit
leader. To view or download the publication, please visit our
website at www.cip.msu.edu and click on
“Booklet. PDF” in the menu.
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:
“NIMS
Guide for County Officials”
“NACo 2006 Survey of
Emergency Managers in USA Counties”
“USFA
Releases Fire Service Needs Assessment Findings”
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 Michigan State University.
Sources
The International
Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) (October 17, 2006). IACP
2006 Resolutions. IACP 113th Annual Conference,
Jones, R.W.
(2000). Critical Incident
Protocol—A Public and Private Partnership. Office for
Domestic Preparedness,
Brit Weber
School of Criminal Justice
Michigan State University
1407 S. Harrison Rd., 335 Nisbet
East Lansing, MI 48823
Work: (517) 355-2227
Cell: (517) 206-1640
Visit our website at www.cip.msu.edu