Training & Events
Disaster Resilience Framework: Using It in GAO Engagements (GAO Notices) The Climate Change and Emergency Management Communities of Practice invite you to a seminar on the Disaster Resilience Framework. The seminar will provide an overview of the framework as well as the tools for using it in GAO’s engagements. The framework is organized around three approaches or principles that managers and others who oversee disaster response efforts may find useful in strengthening national disaster resilience.
This has been approved for 2 CPEs for those analysts/auditors whose audit/engagement work will be enhanced by their participation.
- Wednesday, October 7, 1:00 – 3:00 pm (ET)
- Location: Adobe Acrobat (link is coming soon) | Audiobridge: 866-575-6535; Participant Passcode: 542528.
Webinar: Becoming wildfire ready with Firewise USA®: Tips, Tools and Techniques(NFPA)More and more people are living where wildfires are a real risk, but that risk doesn’t have to go unchecked. There are proactive steps that individuals and neighbors can take to help protect their homes and communities and improve their safety when faced with a wildfire. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) will walk step by step through the process of organizing a Firewise USA site, using our online portal and web resources to help you learn about wildfire and take action to make homes more ignition-resistant.
- Wednesday, Oct 7, 2020 04:00 PM ET
Examining Housing and Shelter Systems in Disasters During COVID-19 (Center for Homeland Defense and Security – CHDS) Sheltering during disasters took a turn this year as jurisdictions need to manage a pandemic on top of whatever may be going on. This requires a reexamination of current disaster housing plans and capacities. This webinar series, held in partnership with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, CHDS Alumni Association, International Association of Emergency Managers and National Emergency Management Association
- Friday, October 9, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET
COVID-19 Road to Recovery (R2R) Autumn 2020 (Disaster Recovery Journal) The 2-day global event will focus on how to resume operations and successfully navigate the new landscape for a safe return to work in the new normal of the pandemic. Additional topics will include leadership lessons and the global challenges we’re facing in the 21st century.
- Wednesday, October 14th 2020 | 11 AM to 3:30 PM ET
- Thursday, October 15TH 2020 | 9 AM to 1 PM ET
Webinar (Part 1:) Climate Displacement & Anti-Displacement Strategies (Nat. Adaptation Forum) Climate Displacement Forum is a 5-part webinar series that will take an interconnected look at climate displacement pressures along with approaches to prevent displacement or adapt by exploring migration, current managed retreat and relocation strategies, equity implications, and policy considerations. Register for the series and attend any or all of the sessions: In order to ensure open access to this information, the series is offered for free. However, we recommend a donation of $20 per webinar or $100 for the series so that the Forum team can offer future webinars and events for the adaptation field.
- Thursday, October 15 2 pm ET
Resources
DISASTER ASSISTANCE: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program (GAO-20-503), and two supplemental materials presenting our analysis of FEMA’s IHP applicant data for calendar years 2016 through 2018 and select disasters (GAO-20-674SP and GAO-20-675SP). From 2016 through 2018, 5.6 million people applied for disaster assistance from FEMA, and 4.4 million were referred to the IHP for assistance. We found that FEMA provided roughly $6 billion in IHP financial assistance and about 13,000 temporary housing units to almost 2 million disaster survivors. On average, FEMA awarded about $4,200 to homeowners and $1,700 to renters during 2016 through 2018. We found that the amount of assistance provided to applicants and other program outcomes—such as approval rates, most common reasons for denial, and time between key events in the process—varied across different survivor groups.
2020 National Household Survey (FEMA) Since 2007, FEMA has conducted the National Household Survey (NHS) to assess the development of a culture of personal disaster preparedness and resilience in the American public. Specifically, the NHS measures individual preparedness attitudes and behaviors and investigates what factors influence individuals to begin preparing for a future hazard. To learn more about research at FEMA, please visit: https://www.ready.gov/preparedness-research .
Articles
All-Hazards:
FEMA: Americans Are Becoming Better Prepared (HS Today)
Homes in Flood-Prone Areas Have Billions In Uninsured Damage Exposure (Core Logic)
How Google Forecasts Where and When Flooding May Happen (The Hindu)
Guiding Communities through Alerts and Warnings for COVID-19, Other Emergencies (DHS S&T)
Tackling Flood and Landslide Hazards (HS Newswire) and What You Need to Know About Landslides and Sinkholes (HS Today)
Resilience:
Rising Waters Threaten Great Lakes Communities (Pew / Rt. Fifty) and As Atmospheric Carbon Rises, So Do Rivers, Exacerbating Flooding (HS Newswire)
Group Kicks Off Program Bringing Clean Energy to Communities Affected By Natural Disasters (Business Insider)
MR-GO Closure Improving Environment, But More Wetlands, Swamp Restoration Needed: Report (NOLA.com)
How Natural Disasters Impact Impoverished Communities (Borgen Magazine)
Public Health / Biosurveillance:
The Biothreat After COVID-19: Engineered Pathogens, More Zoonotic Outbreaks (HS Today)
Building Pandemic Preparedness and Resilience to Confront Future Pandemics (HS Newswire)
NTI Releases Report with Recommendations on Responding To Biological Events (Homeland Prep News)
The U.S. Needs a National Covid-19 Testing Strategy, Not a State-by-state Patchwork (STAT News)
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic (The Atlantic)
Critical Infrastructure & Cyber:
Energy security The Promise of California Offshore Wind Energy (HS Newswire)
Curbing Earthquakes-Induced Economic Losses to Power Plants (HS Newswire)
Innovations & Interconnections:
Symptoms of a Broken System: the Gender Gaps in COVID-19 Decision-making (BMJ Global Health)
How Should the FDA Regulate Adaptive AI, Software That Designs Itself? (STAT News)
Tracking a Pandemic—Through Words (HS Newswire)
From Brassville to... (working title) 