Active Shooter Preparedness

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in partnership with the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, invites you to a webinar for the faith-based community as part of the “Protecting Places of Worship National Weeks of Action.

This two-hour webinar provides information and best practices that can enhance emergency action planning capabilities applicable broadly across sectors and provides considerations to mitigate the impacts of an active shooter incident, while encouraging recovery preparedness in a manner that sustains an open and welcoming environment for the community to peaceably worship in a manner that sustains an open and welcoming environment for the community to peaceably worship.

Please join the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, September 27, 2024, for a webinar for leaders, staff, and volunteers of migrant-serving non-profit organizations. DHS personnel from our Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will share ways to enhance the safety, security, and resilience of your communities – especially against threats and acts of targeted violence.  Building on the April presentations, this webinar will focus on security planning, to include gang violence awareness, for your organizations.

FEMA Higher Education Program: 2024 Monthly Community Webinars

When: Third Friday of each month, 2:00–3:00 p.m. EST
Where: Via Zoom
Description: The 10 States Project analyzes crucial divides in services and historical divestments in African American communities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia that can be replicated in other areas of the country. African American communities in these states are more likely to be impacted by the effects of climate change, and experience drastic differences in access to information and essential public services. The 10 States Project created a set of interactive tools that explore the intersection of the digital divide, environmental justice, climate change, and emergency management. – Monica Sanders, Georgetown University, The Undivide Project

More Information: FEMA Higher Education Program | Community Webinars

FEMA Higher Education Program: 2024 Monthly Community Webinars

When: Third Friday of each month, 2:00–3:00 p.m. EST
Where: Via Zoom
Description: The recovery from the 2022 regional flooding in Montana’s Yellowstone Country began immediately after the acute response concluded. It is recognized that communities which experience successful disaster recovery are more resilient when confronting future disasters (Demiroz & Hu, 2014) – yet there is no consensus of what constitutes efficient and effective whole-community recovery among scholars or practitioners (Rubin, 2009). Furthermore, prior research on disaster recovery processes suggest recovery is not experienced uniformly across all groups within a community (Tierney & Oliver-Smith, 2012). Ultimately, much of community recovery activity emphasizes the navigation of federal aid processes and programs. Paradoxically, rural communities like those in Montana’s Yellowstone Country tend to be more susceptible to natural disasters like floods, droughts, and wildfires (Manuele & Haggerty, 2022), yet have smaller governmental structures, less diversified economies, and fewer financial reserves to handle disaster recovery and resiliency than their larger, urban counterparts (Waugh, 2013; Kapucu et al., 2013).  Using a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach, this study explores the differential experiences of disaster recovery across Montana’s Yellowstone region. By understanding gaps in post-disaster recovery, this project offers solutions to advance wholistic, equitable, and resilient preparedness and resiliency efforts in the future.

More Information: FEMA Higher Education Program | Community Webinars

Organizing Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks  in North America and Worldwide

From record heat waves, storms, wildfires, droughts, floods, and other disasters, to increasing disruptions to the ecological, social, and economic systems people rely on for food, water, shelter, jobs, incomes, health, and other basic needs, the global climate-ecosystem-biodiversity (C-E-B) crisis is rapidly escalating. The crisis is an unprecedented public health emergency that will produce radically more and different types of mental health and psychosocial problems than society has ever experienced.  

Individualized mental health services cannot address the pervasive traumas speeding our way.  Instead, a public health approach must be used in neighborhoods and communities to strengthen everyone’s capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for relentless adversities, as residents engage in activities that help reduce the C-E-B crisis to manageable levels and enhance local conditions. 

To accomplish this, as a partner in the U.N. High level Climate Champion Race to Resilience Campaign, the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) and its core partners the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) and Trauma Informed Oregon (TIO) will work with co-sponsors worldwide to help organize, strengthen, and “Commission” Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRNCs) worldwide.  

A TRCN is a wide and diverse coalition of local grassroots, neighborhood, education, youth, faith/ spirituality, mental and physical health, social work, disaster management, climate/environmental, social and environmental justice, and other civic, non-profit, private, and public sector leaders. From the bottom-up, the TRCN develops and implements locally-appropriate strategies that help all adults, adolescents, and young children remain socially, psychologically, emotionally, and behaviorally healthy and resilient during continual adversities, as they also engage in activities that help reduce the C-E-B crisis to manageable levels and enhance local conditions. 

The TRCN Commissioning initiative will help community leaders in North America and worldwide learn how to organize a TRCN, facilitate and strengthen its operations, and develop and continually improve strategies that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience. 

• Click here to register for the October 1 webinar
• If you want to attend a 2-part Community of Practice held on Tuesday October 22 and Tuesday October 29 from 12 noon to 1 pm Eastern Time to learn more about TRCN Commissioning Program sign up here.
• If you want to apply to participate in the TRCN Commissioning Program please go here

FEMA released the National Resilience Guidance (NRG) and a webinar series that will provide an overview of the NRG and the supplemental resilience resources available. Register for the webinars on:

This webinar from our Family Caregiver Webinar Series is presented by Lauren Kraemer, MPH, Associate Professor of Practice in the College of Health with the Oregon State University Extension Service in Hood River and Wasco Counties, in collaboration with Oregon Care Partners.

Older adults face unique challenges preparing for and in the aftermath of natural disasters. This population can be among the hardest hit by fires, floods, winter storms, heat events, and extended power outages. Learn the many reasons older adults are at a particular disadvantage during disasters and how to help them and their families think through and prepare for a variety of scenarios.

In collaboration with the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Washington Emergency Management Division, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 10, The Veterans Integrated Services Networks (VISNs) Caregiver support program is hosting a webinar on Disaster Preparedness for Caregivers of Veterans.

This webinar will empower caregivers of Veterans, while equipping them with the necessary tools and knowledge to navigate the challenges of caregiving during times of disaster. With a focus on increasing caregiver confidence and preparedness, this webinar will serve as a guide for navigating the most common preparedness needs and serve as a platform to field questions, related to preparedness, for the caregivers who play an essential role in the well-being of our nation’s heroes.

Register Here