FEMA Public Assistance (PA) Program Technical Assistance and Program Delivery

FEMA Public Assistance (PA) Program Technical Assistance and Program Delivery

Preliminary Damage Assessments - Following a disaster, FEMA and State officials must evaluate impacted public facilities for damages that are eligible for Public Assistance Program grant assistance. This process is called a Preliminary Damage Assessment.

AHC provides staff and consultants who have extensive experience working with Federal, State and local governments in this initial assessment phase, required prior to the issuance of a Presidential Major Disaster declaration, including engineers and planners led by former FEMA and State Public Assistance Officers.

Emergency Operation Center (EOC) Vulnerability and Capability Assessment

Emergency Operation Center Services - Vulnerability and Capability Assessment

All Hands Emergency Management Consulting provides Emergency Operation Center (EOC) Vulnerability and Capability Assessment services. We will review your existing EOC and help you improve it both physically and operationally including development of your EOC organization, writing your Operations Manual, and developing Staff Action Guides for each EOC Position. We will also help you with training, software selection and EOC design services.

EOC Vulnerability and Capability Assessment Description

We will provide an analysis of the current facility using a comprehensive “best practices” evaluation tool that has been distilled from federal guidelines, FEMA’s capability assessment for readiness (CAR), relevant portions of the NFPA 1600 (emergency management standard), state-of-the-art technologies, and case studies. Existing equipment, space, layout, displays, staffing, procedures will be reviewed. We will provide a gap analysis and make recommendations for improvements.

Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Review

Emergency Operation Center Services - Review

All Hands Emergency Management Consulting provides Emergency Operation Center (EOC) Review and EOC Vulnerability and Capability Assessment services. We will review your existing EOC and help you improve it both physically and operationally including development of your EOC organization, writing your Operations Manual, and developing Staff Action Guides for each EOC Position. We will also help you with training, software selection and EOC design services.

EOC Review Description

Emergency Management Program Review

Emergency Management Program Review

Using a program evaluation tool that All Hands developed for North Carolina, Florida and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, All Hands will work with the Emergency Management Coordinator to develop a program profile to identify the current status of the program. The report will identify program areas needing immediate (first year) development, updating, or improvement, and those elements to be accomplished during the second year, and so on. Staff and budget requirements are indicated.

Development of Community Emergency Management Core Programs

Development of Community Emergency Management Core Programs

The All Hands project approach for the development or enhancement of a community emergency management program (CEMP) is a comprehensive effort, which includes eleven discrete items. These services may be provided sequentially, concurrently or separately based on client requirements. Training related to the development or enhancement of an emergency management program can also be provided. In addition, we can conduct workshops or other training for local governments related to the development or enhancement of emergency management programs and strategic plans.

Develop EOC Organization, EOC Manual, and Staff Action Guides for each EOC Position

Develop EOC Organization, EOC Manual, and Staff Action Guides for each EOC Position

Using the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) organization / structure as per the CEMP Basic Plan :

Establish EOC operating procedures.
Develop staff action guides (SOPs) for each EOC staff position.

Design Response Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Design Response Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Develop outlines for a department / agency response procedures. Encourage departments, agencies, organizations, to write Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Develop a complete listing of all departments, agencies, organizations who have identified responsibilities in the basic plan and emergency support functions (annexes).
Include a sub listing of the responsibilities for each department, agency or organization.
Develop a format for SOPs.
Provide each department, agency, organization with their lists of responsibilities.
Ask each department, agency, organization to develop a SOP/checklist for each responsibility. (e.g. a list of action steps to be performed to ensure that the responsibility, if called upon, is carried out.)
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Development of a Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP)

Development of a Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) or Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)

NOTE: Our deliverables are compliant with the federal CPG 101 guidance.

A jurisdiction's Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) establishes a framework for an effective comprehensive emergency management program. A CEMP describes the basic strategies, assumptions, policies, operational goals and objectives, and mechanisms through which a jurisdiction will mobilize resources and conduct activities to guide and support emergency management efforts through prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. To facilitate effective response and recovery operations, the CEMP adopts a functional approach that groups the types of emergency assistance to be provided into Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) and groups recovery tasks into Recovery Functions (RFs).

AHC staff, working for and in close coordination with the jurisdiction's emergency management staff, will provide administrative, research, planning, publishing services and best practices required to develop a complete CEMP.