2006 Hurricane Season

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2006 Hurricane Season
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• Red Cross Response In Georgia
• 43,000 families provided with emergency financial
  assistance
• 3,123 people housed in 22 shelters
• 12,192 mental health contacts
• 4,270 health services contacts
• 15,741 staff and volunteers
• 57 million donated by Georgians

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Increased Staffing for Georgia

• 3 Katrina Community Recovery Staff in GA
• State Emergency Management Relations
• Disaster Planner
• New Volunteers

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Improved Partnerships

• Partnerships with businesses, government, faith
  based organizations, and other non-profit
  organizations.
• Template developed for partnering with Faith
  Based and other community organizations for
  sheltering.
• Outreach to minority communities and minority
  serving organizations.

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Increase Red Cross Capacity to Respond

• Hiring 6 full time National Disaster Relief
  Operation Directors
• Pre-positioning food and supplies to feed and
  shelter 500,000 people for six days. (6 million
  meals)
• Increase IT capacity to handle 2 million cases
  on-line
• Call Centers being expanded to handle 100,000
  cases per day

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Increase Red Cross Capacity to Respond

• Pre-stocking 1 million Client Assistance Cards
• Pre-positioning satellite communications
  equipment in 21 cities (including Atlanta)
• Tripling warehouse space including Atlanta
• Building state of the art supply chain management
  system
• Implementing uniform financial controls

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Establish a Culture of Accountability,
Constituent Focus and Flexibility

• Whistleblower system
• Hiring new General Auditor
• Continuing to monitor chapter performance
  standards
• Implementing background checks on all disaster
  workers
• Implementing new chapter structure

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Local Initiatives

• Internal communications systems
• Disaster Worker Orientation
• Partner Relations
• Leadership Development

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Other Local Initiatives

• Purchase of three new shelter trailers and trucks
  through GEMA grant
• New Hummer H3 through GM Foundation grant
• Purchase of additional cots and blankets
• Expanded Community Disaster Education with
  addition of CDE Specialist
• Expanded drills and exercises with addition of
  Readiness Coordinator

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• United Way Role
• Convener for community-wide effort.
• Fundraising for supplemental efforts.

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Partnerships are Critical
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• 2006 Hurricane Season Predictions
• 17 named storms
• 9 hurricanes
• 5 intense hurricanes
• 81 chance of US landfall
• 64 chance of East Coast landfall
• 47 chance of Gulf Coast landfall
• Dr. William M. Gray Colorado State University