Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry

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Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry

• Belinda Hare
• State Disaster Volunteer Coordinator
• Community Preparedness Section
• Texas Department of State Health Services

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Birth of ESAR-VHP

• ESAR-VHP Emergency Systems
• for Advance Registration
• of Volunteer Health Professionals
• Tragic events of 9/ll
• Public Health Security and Bioterrorism
  Preparedness and Response Act of 2002

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Growth of ESAR-VHP

• HRSAs National Bioterrorism Hospital
  Preparedness Program (NBHPP)
• Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
  (ASPR)
• Starting in 2009, must be in place or
• no cooperative agreement funding

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Purpose/Functions

• Federal perspective single, nationwide
  interoperable network of state-owned,
• state-operated systems
• Primary functions
• Advance registration
• Licensure verification
• Credentialing

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Additional Functions

• Call down capabilities
• Search queries
• Volunteer management
• Volunteer tracking
• Reporting, administrative tools

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Texas Customizations

• Useful tool for locals
• Integration with existing systems
• Must include the lay individual
• Simple, secure, 24/7/365 availability
• Help build local ranks of volunteers

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Registry Data Elements

• Contact information
• Military service, languages spoken
• Geographical deployment preferences
• Willingness to be federalized
• Affiliations with other volunteer groups
• Link to local volunteer groups

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Search capabilities

• Profession and specialty
• Credentialing level
• Languages spoken
• DSHS Health Service Region
• City and/or County
• Zip code

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Benefits of registry

• Resource/asset assessment
• Effective utilization of assets
• Automated call downs/confirmations
• Rapid response to emergencies
• Volunteer tracking
• Administrative tools
• Minimize spontaneous volunteers

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Benefits to volunteer

• Liability
• Training
• Relationship building
• Safety
• Effective use of volunteer skills
• Helping your neighbors

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Phase One

• Purchase technology to support registry
• Ensure sustainability
• Engineer linkages with key boards/regulatory
  entities
• Engineer credentialing linkages
• Identify/train state-level administrators

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Phase One (cont)

• Physicians, physician assistants
• RNs, LVNs, nurse practitioners
• Pharmacists, pharmacy techs interns
• EMTs/paramedics
• Social workers, marriage family therapists,
  licensed professional counselors

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Phase One (cont)

• Start state-level recruitment
• Place Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry logo on
  Web sites
• Populate via linkages/recruitment with state
  partners (TMA, TOMA, TNA, TPA)
• Exercise/improve

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Phase Two

• Integrate additional disciplines
• Dentists
• Respiratory therapists techs
• Surgical technologists
• Medical clinical laboratory techs
• Veterinarians
• Others

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Phase Two (cont)

• Operationalize on local/regional levels
• Identify local/regional administrators
• Train administrators on system
• Integrate linkages with local/regional volunteer
  systems
• Assist with local/regional recruitment

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Phase Two (cont)

• Integrate Protect Texas SNS volunteers
• Integrate public health staff into system
• Explore linkages with faith-based and other
  community volunteer groups
• Identify/incorporate minimal training
  standards/competency into system

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Access to Registry

• Local EOC, hospitals, public health access to
  city/county volunteers
• Health Service Regions/SNS Planners access to
  volunteers in geographic area
• DSHS Multi-agency Coordination Center access to
  volunteers statewide

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Registry logo/icon
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Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry
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Physicians
Local EOC
Nurses
Local Hospital
Texas Disaster Volunteer Registry
Pharmacists
Local Public Health
Licensure Verification Recruitment
EMT Paramedics
Health Service Region
Credentialing
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Mental Health Workers
State MACC
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For more information

• Belinda Hare
• State Disaster Volunteer Coordinator
• Texas Department of State Health Services
• Belinda.Hare_at_dshs.state.tx.us
• Phone [phone]