BUILDING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STAFF: A REFLECTION
LCrerar_CoE2025-04-04T00:06:22+00:00BUILDING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STAFF: A REFLECTION By Jim Mullen By 2001, numerous national experts had cited Seattle’s emergency management team as one of the more creative and successful units in the country. A national conference invited me to present my concept of the ideal level of expertise, training and education for a municipal emergency management team. The question: How had Seattle’s staff been constructed? What combination of skills, education and experience were desirable? Diverging from other panelists’ focus on “professionalizing” of emergency management through degrees and certification programs, and an “accidental” emergency manager myself, it was an interesting opportunity [...]