Integrating New England

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Integrating New Englands Private Sector as Full
Partners in EM/HLS Emergency Preparedness
Partners FEMA R1-MEMA-MMA
W. Russell Webster Federal Preparedness
Coordinator 617-872-9453 CDR Steve Kelleher
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Overview

• Introduction
• The new FEMA
• Cat Herder, FEMAs Federal Preparedness
  Coordinator
• Challenges
• Integrating PS in all phases
• The FEMA-MEMA-MMA success story
• A road ahead

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FEMAs Mission

• FEMAs mission is to support our citizens and
  first responders to ensure that as a nation we
  work together to build, sustain, and improve our
  capability to prepare for, protect against,
  respond to, recover from, and mitigate all
  hazards.

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Challenge

• 61 expected to depend greatly on fire, police
  and emergency personnel for help in the first 72
  hours of a disaster.
• Individuals who reported being prepared, lacked
  critical plans, supplies, and information about
  their community.
• At least half of Americans are not familiar with
  their community preparedness plans and resources.
• Too few people have practiced evacuations or
  sheltering-in-place, when we know practicing
  response protocols is critical for effective
  execution.
• Perceptions of the utility of preparedness and
  confidence in ability to respond varied
  significantly by type of hazard.
• Individuals connections to their community are
  prominent in their motivation to prepare, in who
  they expect to rely on after a disaster, and in
  volunteering.

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Within Five Years

• Change New Englands Preparedness Culture
  markedly
• Enhance individual preparedness through
  integrated training educational programs
• Connect the age groups through EM/HLS educational
  programs. Make STEP accessible for every 4th/5th
  grader
• Integrate the private sector in all phases of
  emergency management
• Early focus on small and medium size businesses
  HiEd

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FEMA R1s Private Sector Program
Connections

• FEMA R1 Private Sector Program is a
  triad
• NEDRIX
• InfraGard
• HiEd
• Each brings new possibilities and
  challenges for FEMA, RIEMA/MEMA, PS
• Greater visibility of EM/HLS Programs and
  capabilities
• Relationship resources
• Internships

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New Englands Private Sector State and Federal
Government

• The private sectors relationship with the states
  and FEMA in different phases of emergency
  management
• FEMAs Private Sector Program in Preparedness
• Making Contributions in all phases
• The FEMA-MEMA-MMA Connection
• A look ahead

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Voluntary/Faith Based Agencies

• First to Arrive.
• Last to Leave
• Community-based
• Community sensitive
• Mobilize quickly providing immediate response
• Often on the scene prior to declaration.

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National Voluntary Organizations Active in
Disaster- N VOAD

• The national forum where organizations share
  knowledge and resources throughout the disaster
  cyclepreparation, response and recoveryto help
  disaster survivors and their communities.

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Donations Management
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The Challenges Traditional Humanitarian Aid
Processing
Donors- Corp Individuals
End Relief Agencies
People in Need
States and Nonprofits
Inefficiencies
Manual Reporting Data re-entry Duplication of
effort data errors
Multiple phone calls faxing
Downtime Wait-time
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Partnering Process

• Each state completes MOU/contract
• Liaison
• Federal, State and Aidmatrix
• Maine Rhode Island have signed MOUs
• MA and NH are working toward that goal
• Results Prepared before disaster hits

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FEMA R1 HiEd/Within Five Years

• Change New Englands Preparedness Culture
  markedly
• Enhance individual preparedness through
  integrated training educational programs
• Connect the age groups through EM/HLS educational
  programs.
• Make STEP accessible for every 4th/5th grader
• Integrate HiEd w SMEs and EM hierarchy

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Review

• FEMA outreach to HIEDs in R1

EM Academic Programs
Connecting to other HIEDs Private sector
internships
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• Commander Steve Kelleher
• skelleher_at_maritime.edu
• 508-830-6485

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FEMA-MMA Partnership

• Internships
• Access to preparedness professionals.
• Students in our graduate program.
• Adjunct Faculty teaching in our graduate program.
  
• Grant writing assistance.
• Utilizing our cadets for exercises and general
  public education (STEP).

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HISTORY

• Although our undergraduate and graduate programs
  are new, we as an institution have been in the
  business of Emergency Management, Emergency
  Preparedness, Emergency Response, Emergency
  Recovery for over 100 Years.
• Providing educated mariners for an industry that
  dates back to antiquity and capitalizing on a
  culture of preparedness that is inherent to the
  maritime industry. Lives, property and millions
  of dollars of customer cargo at stake!
• We are in the business of education.
• Each year, as a college we do something that is
  very dangerous!
• We go to sea with 500 cadets and travel to far
  off ports.
• The moment we sail out of Buzzards Bay we are on
  our own!

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At Sea Hazards!

• Fire
• Rough Seas (Hurricanes)
• Engine Room
• Damage Control/Flooding
• Disease
• Man overboard
• Abandon ship
• Stowaways
• Oil Spills
• Pirates/Terrorism/Kidnapping
• Port Call with Cadets

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MMA Cadets going on Liberty!
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MMA Training Ship
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MMA EM Program

• We are not training our cadets to be first
  responders!
• All hazard approach.
• Industry specific training, not just the maritime
  industry with a focus on business continuity.
• Understanding the threats are not just terrorism
  and hurricanes but also strikes, product
  tampering/recall, work place violence, power
  outage, supply chain disruption and corporate
  espionage/theft.
• Critical business functions, business impact
  analysis, Hot sites, cold sites, RTOs etc.
• The consequences of not being prepared, lost
  customers, angry shareholder, unions, legal
  action.
• The importance of executive buy-in.
• Partnerships/Internships.

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Way Ahead

• Further codification of HiEd Center of Excellence
  and next steps w ongoing dialogue w MMA
• FEMA Region 1 FPC Designated Lead for PS Prep
  socialization
• FEMA sponsored Training Exercise Program Workshop
  2 December
• (Tentative) December 9 PS Prep Public Session
• Ongoing Commitment/collaboration (conferences,
  NERPC, STEP, CIKR)
• More than a partnership