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Community Resilience Focus Group

Jasmine May2025-03-06T01:19:48+00:00

Community Resilience Focus Group March 14, 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm “A resilient nation is created and sustained through thriving communities with secure and adaptable social, economic, environmental, housing, infrastructure, and institutional systems. Addressing resilience from only one perspective or through only one resilience lens will not be successful.” Nation Resilience Guidance COE HSEM Community RESILIENCE WORK group agenda As 2024, our “Year of Resilience”, came to a close, our Center’s staff, Volunteers, and Advisory Board Members at our February 12, Board meeting, re-confirmed their commitment to building resilient communities to secure our future. Demand for talent [...]

Community Resilience Focus GroupJasmine May2025-03-06T01:19:48+00:00

Light a Candle or …

LCrerar_CoE2025-06-24T17:17:09+00:00

Light a Candle or ... By Jim Mullen "Much of the strength and efficiency of any government in procuring and securing happiness to the people depends ... on the general opinion of the goodness of government, as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors." (Benjamin Franklin) Franklin was on to something. And natural disasters are unique tests of natural resilience. Elected leaders are often judged harshly on the quality of their response to a crisis; a widely perceived failure to provide swift assistance to help communities heal undermines faith in our political system's stability. And yet, [...]

Light a Candle or …LCrerar_CoE2025-06-24T17:17:09+00:00

Mutual Aid in Times of Disaster: Navigating EMAC in Emergency Management

LCrerar_CoE2025-06-24T17:18:21+00:00

Mutual Aid in Times of Disaster: Navigating EMAC in Emergency Management By Jim Mullen Credit Note: the bulk of the information below is taken from the National Emergency Management Association. Note: The outpouring of mutual aid support to California’s wildfires, as well as North Carolina and Georgia and other disaster impacted states, is not an uncoordinated, spontaneous reaction. What the nation sees in major disasters is the activation of a “well- established capability of state-to-state mutual aid exists in the form the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC). Ratified by the US Congress in 1996 (Public Law 104-321) 50 states, [...]

Mutual Aid in Times of Disaster: Navigating EMAC in Emergency ManagementLCrerar_CoE2025-06-24T17:18:21+00:00

Women in Leadership Symposium 2025

Jasmine May2025-05-12T22:25:09+00:00

2025 Women in Leadership Symposium May 16, 2025 Free Virtual Event This event is virtual May 16, 2025 Time: 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM Price: FREE This year’s symposium will center around the importance of fostering robust and dynamic relationships and partnerships with women in fields such as security, safety, emergency/risk management, and disaster preparedness. The symposium will delve into topics including diverse leadership in decision-making, relationship cultivation, engagement, inclusion, and diversity. Participants will have the opportunity to connect, explore, and engage, with a focus on empowering women to assume leadership positions, advance their [...]

Women in Leadership Symposium 2025Jasmine May2025-05-12T22:25:09+00:00

Women in Leadership 2025

Jasmine May2024-07-30T19:18:21+00:00

We are thrilled to announce the Women in Leadership Symposium 2025, hosted by the Center of Excellence - Homeland Security Emergency Management, will be held at Lower Columbia College in Longview, WA.

Women in Leadership 2025Jasmine May2024-07-30T19:18:21+00:00

Women in Leadership 2025 Location Announcement

Jasmine May2024-06-21T18:44:12+00:00

We are thrilled to announce the Women in Leadership Symposium 2025, hosted by the Center of Excellence - Homeland Security Emergency Management, will be held at Lower Columbia College in Longview, WA.

Women in Leadership 2025 Location AnnouncementJasmine May2024-06-21T18:44:12+00:00

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