Long Term Recovery

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Long Term Recovery

• Presented by Lesli Remaly, Church World Service
  and Ken Skalitzky, FEMA

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Phases of a Disaster
Preparedness
Mitigation
Incident
DISASTER CYCLE
Recovery
Response
FEMA Course IS288 Role of Voluntary Agencies in
Emergency Management
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Definition - Unmet need

• Basic life-sustaining need for which there is not
  an immediately accessible resource.
• A disaster caused unmet need is something the
  survivors cannot provide for themselves, (not to
  be confused with pre-existing conditions and
  ongoing social issues).
• May be loss of life, injury, income, housing,
  vehicle or household goods and may be caused by
  stress.
• Should be identified by the survivor, verified by
  casework and agreed on by the recovery group.

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Falling through the Cracks

• Being a survivor of a Non-Declared Disaster
• Failing to call the Teleregistration number
• Having inappropriate Insurance
• Failing to understand your rights
• Failing to fill out and return SBA packet
• Failing to understand the reconsideration and
  appeal process
• Being ineligible for assistance
• Having needs in excess of assistance
• Needing help with labor

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Vulnerable Populations

• Older persons, and children
• Those with physical and mental disabilities
• Cultural and ethnic minorities
• Persons with language or literacy barriers
• Those who are economically vulnerable because of
  employment, legal/citizenship status, and
  education

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Case Management

• Screening clients
• Home Visit Interviewing
• Verifying information
• Identifying Survivor participation
• Presenting the unmet needs
• Providing assistance
• Following-up and closing the case

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Current IHP Implementation
Client calls Teleregistration Number
Inspector visits disaster site and makes a
determination
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• Determined to be safe
• 0 IHP Housing
• up to 200,000 SBA Loan
• If qualified

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• Determined unsafe/destroyed
• uninsured or underinsured,
• up to 200,000 SBA Loan If qualified
• SBA Denial If Owner meets criteria, might
  qualify for maximum of 10,000 under home
  replacement program.

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• Determined to be unsafe,
• but economically feasible to repair,
• Maximum allowed 5,100 (even if the value of
  needed repairs is above that amount)
• up to 200,000 SBA Loan If qualified

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Organizing Recovery

• Long Term Recovery Organizations (LTRO)
• An organization, operating independently or under
  the auspices of another agency
• works to address the needs of the community and
  individuals following a disaster.
• May be community based, faith-based or a
  collaboration.

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Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD)

• Cooperation, Coordination, Communication,
  Collaboration
• Recognizes the agencies provides the direct
  disaster services.
• Plans, and coordinates primary resources of its
  members during disasters.
• Trains members for effective activity in all
  phases of disaster response and recovery.
• Supports and promotes the establishment of a long
  term recovery process
• Convenes members to share information concerning
  the disaster and their plans for response.
• Partners with government emergency management
  agencies to facilitate communication and
  coordination.

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Partners During Long Term Recovery

• State Emergency Management and its Voluntary
  Agency Liaison
• Federal Emergency Management Agency and its
  Voluntary Agency Liaison (VAL)
• American Red Cross and its Liaison to Voluntary
  Agency (LVA) the Additional Assistance
  Program
• Church World Service Emergency Response
  Program and its Disaster Response and Recovery
  Liaison (DRRL)
• Other Governmental and Non-governmental Agencies
• VOADS
• Local Communities

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Long Term Recovery
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• What are the indicators that a LTRO/LTRC/Interfait
  hs should be formed?

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Organizing

• Claim Responsibility
• Develop a purpose or mission statement
• Do a needs assessment
• Secure Confidentiality Agreement from Members
• Develop and support a case work plan
• Criteria for assistance
• Case by case

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Organizing continued.

• Designate leadership
• Chair
• Secretary
• Board
• Develop an operational process
• Case presentation
• Record keeping minutes of meetings, etc
• Grievance Process
• Evaluation
• Close or transition to preparedness and mitigation

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Why Bother???

• Why have another committee or organization?
• Why not just do business as usual and broker
  through normal channels?
• Why not just let existing agencies handle it?

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Advantages For Survivors

• Access to the agencies simultaneously
• Benefit of collective creative problem solving
  skills of many experienced case managers
• Benefit of quick decision making and commitments
  from agencies providing services and resources

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Advantages for Agencies

• Expands opportunity of each agency to assist
  survivors
• Makes possible the best and most extensive use of
  resources
• Avoids duplication of benefits
• Opens cases of each agency to full range of
  resources
• Provides a system for future interaction
• Allows the agencies to return to normal operations

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Goal

• Recovery!

helping to identify unmet needs developing a
recovery plan verifying the needs resourcing and
coordinating assets Heal lives communities
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