Entries Tagged as 'Federal Emergency Management Administration'
September 16th, 2010 · No Comments
FEMA and the Ad Council today are releasing a new series of bilingual PSAs aimed at encouraging Americans to prepare for emergencies. The Spanish PSA’s direct viewers to Listo.Gov, the Spanish version of Ready.gov and the English to Ready.
One of the FEMA/Ad Council Listo.Gov Spanish PSAs.
One of the FEMA/Ad Council Ready.Gov English PSAs.
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Tags: Federal Emergency Management Administration · Government Education Programs · Media
September 15th, 2010 · No Comments
A report released at today’s National Summit on Youth Preparedness says “schools are an ideal place for children to learn disaster preparedness.” The study, Bringing Youth Preparedness Education to the Forefront: A Literature Review and Recommendations, looks at best practices, scholarship and offers recommendations. It is worth reading for this interested in the subject.
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Tags: Education · Federal Emergency Management Administration · Preparedness Events · Preparedness Reports
September 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments
As the U.S. marks the ninth anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to post some ideas that I think would help raise citizen preparedness and engagement. The recommendations come from discussions that I have had with people involved in all aspects of the issue, my own experiences as a parent and CERT member in New York [...]
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September 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Yesterday, I spoke to FEMA Deputy Administrator Tim Manning who is coordinating the National Dialogue on Preparedness and the Local, State, Tribal, and Federal Preparedness Task Force for the agency.
Manning wanted to remind preparedness stakeholders, including the public, that there are two days left to contribute a new idea — or offer a comment and vote [...]
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Tags: Federal Emergency Management Administration · Preparedness Ideas · Preparedness Reports
September 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment
If National Preparedness Month has inspired you to want to volunteer in your community to assist in emergency preparedness and response, I wanted to post an article by Darryl Madden, Director of the Ready Program, “Be Part of the Preparedness Team.” In the piece, he offers some suggestions from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s grassroots readiness initiative, [...]
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Tags: Federal Emergency Management Administration · Volunteer Opportunities
This morning, I had the opportunity to speak to FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino who was in Brooklyn to help the New York’s Office of Emergency Management kickoff National Preparedness Month.
In a video interview (below), Serino said that with Hurricane Earl heading up the Eastern Seaboard “today is the day for people to be prepared,” [...]
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Tags: Federal Emergency Management Administration · Hurricane Preparedness
September 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment
With today marking the first day of National Preparedness Month (NPM), I wanted to mention that Ready Campaign Deputy Director Rebecca Marquis told me this morning that this year’s NPM has set the record for number of coalition members.
As of last Friday, there were 3684 members breaking the biggest previous figure of 3200 two years ago. [...]
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Tags: Federal Emergency Management Administration
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate interviewed earlier today on “Good Morning America” (below) warned residents of the eastern seaboard to “make sure you have a plan today, You may not have time later on this week if the storm moves in your direction.”
He told Robin Roberts that people who live in evacuation zones need to plan [...]
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Tags: Federal Emergency Management Administration · Hurricane Preparedness · Media
August 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment
With National Preparedness Month beginning tomorrow, I am posting a short video I shot a couple weeks ago at FEMA headquarters with Ready Campaign Director Darryl Madden in which he urges Americans to prepare and discuss the with their “family & loved ones about they’ll do in the face of an emergency”. The threat of [...]
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Tags: "What Should We Tell The Public?" · Federal Emergency Management Administration
As government emergency management offices and non-profit disaster relief groups increasingly utilize Twitter and Facebook as part of their operations, I thought I would check with some leading practioners in the field to see how the two social media platforms are being employed in their work with the public.
It turns out that in most cases [...]
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Tags: Federal Emergency Management Administration · Preparedness 2.0 · Preparedness Ideas