Category | Title | Description |
Public Health | National Blueprint for Biodefense | Recommendations by the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, resulting from an exhaustive review of the gaps in federal policies and procedures that creates vulnerability to a biological incident. |
Operations | FEMA Incident Complexity Guide: Planning, Preparedness and Training | The guide promotes a common language and shared understanding of incident complexity across the whole community to determine the complexity or difficulty of managing a disaster, incident, event or exercise. |
Special Populations | FEMA Disaster Preparedness Guide for Older Adults | Worksheets and checklists to help create a disaster response plan for older adults. |
Communications | Safecom Fact Sheet | Disaster preparation documents from Safecom |
Communications | 2022 Safecom Annual Summary | Disaster preparation documents from Safecom |
Communications | National Incident Management System | Disaster preparation documents from Safecom |
Communications | Safecom Strategic Plan 2022 | Disaster preparation documents from Safecom |
Communications | Preparing For Technological Transformation In Emergency Communications Centers (ECCs) | Disaster preparation documents from Safecom |
Communications | Land Mobile Radio (LMR) For Information Technology (IT) Professionals | Disaster preparation documents from Safecom |
Website | Mass Attacks Defense Toolkit | Funded by the National Department of Justice, this toolkit was created by RAND Corporation researchers to help reduce the likelihood of mass shootings and other public attacks, and reduce the casualties of completed attacks. |
Mass Casualty Incident | National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan for Countering Biological Threats | Outlines a whole-of-government effort across 20 federal agencies to detect, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from biological incidents, in partnership with international, state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners. |
Special Population | Guide to Expanding Mitigation: Making the Connection to Older Adults | Joint FEMA and AARP guide that highlights how natural hazards uniquely affect older adults and provides recommendations for how emergency managers, planners, local officials and community members can include older adults in community efforts to lower their risks. |
Mass Casualty Incident | FEMA Releases Updated Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation | Describes the considerations, planning factors, and available resources to craft a successful nuclear detonation response plan; Focuses on the first 24 to 72 hours after a detonation, when early actions can save many lives. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Rand Mass Attack Defense ToolKit | RAND Corporation researchers created this toolkit to help reduce the likelihood of mass shootings and other public attacks, and reduce the casualties of completed attacks. Whatever your role or level of experience, this toolkit can make you a better defender against mass attacks. |
Public Health | NAEMT National Survey on EMS Preparedness for Disaster and Mass Casualty Incident Response | Provides insight into the level of training of EMS practitioners to provide medical response in disasters and mass casualty incidents. |
Public Health | National Incident Management System Incident Complexity Guide | Supports the National Incident Management System (NIMS) doctrine by establishing guidance to support the incident management and emergency management community. |
Website | FBI’s Death Notification Protocol: We Regret to Inform You | Training website for law enforcement agencies and other first responders responsible for notifying the family members of those who have died suddenly as a result of a crime, an accident, a suicide, or other type of incident |
Mass Casualty Incident | National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center | Charged with developing a national victim-centric framework that addresses best practices for preparing for and responding to incidents of mass violence and domestic terrorism. |
Mass Casualty Incident | OVC Training and Technical Assistance Center | OVC TTAC offers FREE Customized Technical Assistance to meet your organization's needs. Contact OVC TTAC at TTAC@ovcttac.org or 1–866–682–8822. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Vicarious Trauma Toolkit | This OVC toolkit contains nearly 500 resources to help organizations strengthen their ability to address work-related exposure to trauma. |
Mass Casualty Incident | OVC Helping Victims of Mass Violence and Terrorism Toolkit | Provides resources to help organization's develop a victim assistance plan to respond to victims of mass violence and terrorism in a timely, effective, and compassionate manner. |
Public Health | ASPR TRACIE Mass Casualty Triage Paradigms and Pitfalls White Paper | Focus is to alert EMS medical directors and EMS systems planners and hospital emergency planners to key differences between “conventional” MCIs and mass violence events. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Communications Toolkit for Stakeholders - FGA Resources | Resources to help emergency responders prepare for and respond to a fourth generation nerve agent incident (Novichoks or A-series nerve agents). |
Public Health | Checklist for first responders to ensure language access and effective communications during emergencies | HHS checklist to help first responders provide services to individuals with limited English proficiency and individuals with disabilities during emergency response and recovery efforts. |
Natural Disaster | ASPR Hospital Preparedness Program | HPP prepares our nation’s healthcare system to save lives during emergencies and disasters |
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