🔵🔵Registration is now open for the Resilient Nation Partnership Network (RNPN) 2024 Partnership Forum, which is co-hosted with the Sundance Institute. This year’s forum theme is “Stories of Resilience: Voices that Inspire.” It will feature panel discussions with filmmakers and community leaders on resilience challenges and focus on ways to use storytelling to advance action toward natural hazard resilience. Sessions will take place online each Thursday in April from 1:00-3:00 p.m. EDT. Each session will feature diverse speakers discussing and inspiring community-led resilience. The RNPN represents a diverse network of voices united in their commitment to helping communities act and become more resilient toward natural disasters and climate-related events. Visit the FEMA website to register.
🔵🔵 The in-person course, “MGT 381: Business Continuity Planning,” will be presented on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at the Allegheny County Emergency Services, 150 Hookstown Grade Road – Training Room, Coraopolis, PA 15108. This is a DHS/FEMA-certified, tuition-free, planning and management-level course. The course will identify commonalities between emergency management and business continuity planning (BCP). It outlines BCP within the framework of emergency management and the core capabilities of the National Preparedness Goal. Learn more and how to register here.
🔵🔵 The American Logistics Aid Network’s (ALAN) next call is entitled, Procurement 101, and will be held on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 3 PM ET. Dr. Donna Palumbo-Miele, Founder and CEO of Concordia Supply Chain Group, will provide a presentation on the ‘need to know’ information for procuring goods and services—whether through purchasing or a donation—as a non-profit. Register here.
🔵🔵 On Friday, April 26, 2024, at 1 PM ET, the PA Department of Human Services will host Mike Whitehead from the American Red Cross for a webinar to discuss the use of mass care taskforces to drive mass care planning assumptions. Mike will give an overview of a brand new tool recently released via the National Mass Care Strategy: Use of Mass Care Task Forcesand address questions. The target audience for this webinar are those who are looking to gain a better understanding of how to utilize mass care task forces to support their response. This webinar will be recorded. To attend live and/or receive a link to the recording, register to attend.
🔵🔵 PEMA will host AWR-228 – Community Resilience – on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, from 8 AM- 4 PM ET at PEMA, Training Room 112, 1310 Elmerton Avenue, Harrisburg, PA 17110. This is an opportunity to learn about meaningful actions that one can take to enhance resilience to natural hazards. Learn about resources and tools that can be used in planning and programs. Learn more. Register.
🔵🔵 The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security (OHS), invite you to attend the 2024 Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council Conference (ATAC) on Thursday, May 2, 2024, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.at the Robert Morris University, located at 6001 University Boulevard, Moon Township, PA, 15108. Presentations will include:
- Case Study: The Pittsburgh Synagogue tragedy (Tree of Life Synagogue): Prosecution, Trial, and Crime Victims’ Rights
- Case study: USA v. Hardy Carroll Lloyd
- Domestic and International Terrorism briefing
🔵🔵PAVOAD member Keystone Crisis Intervention Team’s Group Crisis Intervention addresses the gap that exists in-between traditional trauma services offered. They are offering Group Crisis Intervention Training in May 2024. This is a 12-hour training on May 2, 9, 16, and 23 from 10 AM to 1 PM ET. Learn the Group Crisis Intervention Model to respond to community trauma. Become equipped with the skills to empower victims of trauma on their path forward. Please remember that GCI is not therapy and is a one-time intervention. Registration is not yet open. To learn more contact Donna Walsh at [email protected].
🔵🔵The National Center for Disaster Preparedness will present MGT-487 – Mass Care: Shelter and Relocation Coordination, at the Cumberland County Department of Public Safety, 1 Public Drive, Carlisle, PA 17103, on Thursday, May 16, 2024, 9 AM to 5 PM ET. This instructor-led, management-level training will provide an overview of the disaster sheltering, evacuation, and relocation processes. This course looks at the roles and responsibilities of preparedness and response partners in carrying out sheltering, evacuation, and relocation operations. Learn more.
🔵🔵The National Center for Disaster Preparedness has a whole catalogue of free on-demand web-based trainings. Visit the training portal at https://training.ncdpcourses.org/.
🔵🔵K0202 Debris Management Planning for State, Tribal, Territorial, and Local Officials. This course will better prepare participants to fully plan for, respond to, and recover from major debris-generating events. Read more in Training Opportunity. April 29‒May 2, 2024, June 10‒13, 2024, July 8‒11, 2024, September 16‒19, 2024 This virtual course is delivered over 4 days. 11 a.m.‒5 p.m. ET daily.
🔵🔵KO289 State Volunteer and Donations Management. The course is designed to strengthen states’ abilities to successfully prepare for and handle volunteer and donations management issues that may arise after a disaster event, including managing the offers of things, people, and money and matching them according to donor intent and area of greatest need. The course content and activities may also serve as a template for procedures, thereby enhancing uniformity among states in addressing areas of unsolicited donated items, unaffiliated volunteers, and undesignated cash. This training also provides information regarding FEMA’s volunteer and donations management responsibilities, which are designed to help build relationships between government and nongovernment organizations. Read more in Training Opportunity 1803-Revised. July 22-26, 2024. This virtual course is delivered over 5 days (5 hours a day) 11 AM to 4 PM ET.
🔵🔵The Lehigh Emergency Services Training Academy (LESTA) was established to coordinate the delivery of training. Through partnerships with several public safety training organizations, LESTA seeks to provide high-quality programs. Out of county students: It is LESTA’s policy not to turn away out of county students. However, in-county (LEHIGH) students are given first priority. Learn more.