ENGAGING AND BUILDING ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PARTNERSHIPS:

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ENGAGING AND BUILDING ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
PARTNERSHIPS

• Developing and Sustaining a Local/Regional COAD

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A Bit of Background

• At the state level
• Government, Faith-based Community Partnership
  (The Partnership)
• Missouri Voluntary Organizations Active in
  Disaster (MoVOAD)
• Missouri Interfaith Disaster Response
  Organization (MIDRO)

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The Partnership

• Exists due to an Executive Order of Governors
• Includes Federal State agencies, private
  sector, not-for-profit and faith-based agencies
• Meets through all phases of disaster
• Is mainly strategic, administrative, logistical
  and policy-shaping in its work

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MoVOAD

• Exists based on guidance from the National VOAD
• Is more operational in its work than the
  Partnership
• Operations are actually carried out by member
  organizations, not by VOAD itself
• Has a seat on the Partnership
• Is the one organization that all NFPs can join
• Provides the credentials for work with state
  consortium access to disaster area

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MIDRO

• Members are faith-based organizations
• Dates back to the 1993 floods
• Serves as a funder of last resort for households
  affected by disaster
• Also may assist with donated goods and volunteer
  labor
• Streamlines process of getting , goods, labor
  into the community by meeting as a collaborative
  group
• Has a seat on the Partnership and MoVOAD

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Partnership Members

• Missouri National Guard
• American Red Cross
• AmeriCorps St. Louis
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• Church World Service
• Citizens at large
• Convoy of Hope
• Department of Public Safety
• Department of Conservation
• Department of Economic Development
• Department of Economic Development- Community
  Development
• Department of Health and Senior Services

• Department of Health and Senior Services
• Department of Health Senior Services Center for
  Emergency Response Terrorism
• Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions
  and Professional Registration
• Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
• Department of Mental Health
• Department of Social Services
• Farm Service Administration
• FEMA Region VII
• Humane Society of Missouri
• Missouri Association for Community Action

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Partnership Members

• Missouri Association for Social Welfare
• Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief
• Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief
• Missouri Catholic Conference
• Missouri Community Service Commission
• Missouri Emergency Preparedness Association
• Missouri Housing Development Commission
  (Government Affairs)
• MIDRO
• MoVOAD

• Missouri Planning Council for DD
• Missouri United Methodist Disaster Response Team
• MO AFL-CIO
• MO NOVA
• Salvation Army
• SAVE Coalition
• SEMA
• Social Security Administration
• United Way 2-1-1
• United Ways of Greater Kansas City/2-1-1
• University of Missouri Extension
• USDA- Rural Development

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MoVOAD Members

• Adventist Community Services
• American Radio Relay League
• American Red Cross
• AmeriCorps St Louis
• Catholic Charities
• Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
• Church of the Brethren
• Church World Service
• Critical Incident Stress Management
• Episcopal Church
• Humane Society of the U.S.
• MIDRO

• Inter Lutheran Disaster Response
• Mennonite Disaster Service
• Missouri Funeral Directors Association
• United Methodist Disaster Response Team
• Presbyterian Church USA
• Presbyterian Church America
• R.E.A.C.T. International, Inc
• Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
  Saints
• The Salvation Army
• Missouri Search and Rescue K-9

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MoVOAD Members

• Society of St Vincent De Paul
• Missouri Southern Baptist Convention
• Lees Summit Underwater Recovery Unit

• Recent Members, Candidates and Affiliates
• AFL-CIO
• American Humane Society
• Emergency Animal Rescue Service
• FEMA
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Legal Services
• The Phoenix Society
• Peace United Church of Christ
• Second Harvest Food Bank Network
• Missouri Department of Mental Health

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MIDRO Members

• Adventist Disaster Response
• American Baptist Association
• Catholic Charities of Kansas City and St Joseph
• Catholic Charities St Louis Diocese
• Catholic Diocese of Springfield/Cape Girardeau
• The Church of the Brethren
• The Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints
• Church World Service
• Convoy of Hope
• Covenant Point Camp Retreat Center

• Lutheran Disaster Response
• Missouri Baptist Convention
• Missouri Catholic Conference
• Missouri Joint Forces Command Chaplains
• Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy
• The Salvation Army
• Service International
• United Methodist Disaster Response Team

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Benefits of Membership

• Various players know one another before meeting
  in the disaster area
• All member agencies know what partners resources
  and niches exist
• No duplication of services
• No gaps in services
• Deployment of various services is timely and
  automatic due to preplanning, coordinating
• Causes synergy

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Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COADs)

• Also grew out of National VOAD guidance
• Role in the local community overlaps the roles of
  the Partnership and MoVOAD
• A number of standing committees

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COAD Members

• Local Red Cross Chapter
• Local Salvation Army Unit
• Local Public Health Agency
• Local Ministerial Alliance
• Representatives from local churches
• Chamber of Commerce
• Elected Officials
• County Commissioners
• Mayors
• Local Banks
• Local Merchants
• Local Humane Society, animal shelter or
  Veterinarian
• Local Service Sororities
• Local Rotary

• Local Service Organizations
• Lions
• Kiwanis
• Jaycees
• Elks
• Masons
• Shriners
• Local Merchants
• Lumber yard
• Home supply
• Restaurants
• Box stores
• County FSD staff
• Community Action Agency
• Senior Centers
• Center for Independent Living
• And more..

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Mass Care Committee

• Through collaboration, pre-plans for
• Sheltering/Special Needs Sheltering
• Feeding
• Bulk Distribution

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Special Needs Population Committee

• Through collaboration, pre-plans for
• Outreach to vulnerable populations
• Necessary accommodations for individual and
  family preparedness
• Preparedness of congregate care facilities
• Community/responder education

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Volunteer Management Committee

• Through collaboration pre-plans for
• Managing unaffiliated spontaneous volunteers who
  come in to the affected area during the response
  phase
• Coordinating affiliated volunteer teams who come
  in during the recovery phase

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Donations Management Committee

• Through collaboration, pre-plans for
• Requesting needed goods
• Rejecting unwanted goods
• Coordinating the receiving, warehousing and
  dissemination of donated goods

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Emotional/Spiritual Care Committee

• Through collaboration, pre-plans for
• Assessment of needs by qualified personnel
• Provision of services by qualified personnel

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Long Term Recovery Committee (LTRC)

• Through collaboration, pre-plans for
• Development and support of a case management
  system
• Identification of needed resources
• Funding
• Donated goods/materials
• Volunteer labor

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Communities with COADs

• Have a more efficient Response Phase
• Begin Recovery earlier
• Have a more complete Recovery
• Have significantly higher efficiency in use of
  resources

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Agencies that Participate in a COAD

• Experience less disruption to operations
• Have more efficient use of resources
• Experience less waste and duplication of
  resources
• Experience fewer myths about their role in
  response/recovery
• Have a voice in operations
• Have better opportunity to manage expectations
  placed on their agency
• Have better visibility on operations allowing
  ease in adjusting standard operations
• Have greater access to information which is
  useful in helping employees/families to prepare
  for disaster
• Are part of a network of agencies/organizations
  with a wide range of assets and resources which
  can prove invaluable in disaster times and peace
  times

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To Find a COAD Near You

• Contact your County Emergency Manager
• Contact SEMA
• Dante Gliniecki
• Office 573.526.9132
• Dante.Gliniecki_at_sema.dps.mo.gov

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To Start A COAD Near You

• Contact MoVOAD
• Melissa Friel, Chair
• 573.635.1132
• mnfarc_at_redcross-capitalarea.org
• Contact SEMA
• Dante Gliniecki
• Office 573.526.9132
• Dante.Gliniecki_at_sema.dps.mo.gov