Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
10 Hurricane Sandy Experience: Disaster Recovery Focused on Children and Families
10 Hurricane Sandy Experience: Disaster Recovery Focused on Children and Families
Pages 109-122
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 109... ...
A key aspect of the response to Hurricane Sandy was coalition building though the activation of existing resources and relationships. A barrier to response and recovery efforts for child care is that there are thousands of independent operators who are not part of org anized networks, and are not reachable through standard com munication mechanisms.
|
From page 110... ...
NATIONAL DISASTER RECOVERY FRAMEWORK: HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES RECOVERY SUPPORT FUNCTION Joyce Thomas, regional administrator for Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Region II,1 described the NDRF as the federal structure for how to best restore, redevelop, and revitalize the health, social, economic, natural, and environmental fabric of the community following a disaster.
|
From page 111... ...
The federal government role is to support locally led recovery efforts to restore and improve the health care and social services networks in the affected communities. Core mission areas include health care services impacts, social services impacts, referral to social services/ disaster case management, public health, behavioral health impacts, environmental health impacts, food safety and regulated medical products, animal health, school impacts, and long-term health issues specific to responders.
|
From page 112... ...
In addition, ACF provides financial recovery assistance through Social Services Block Grants, Head Start funding, and Family Violence Prevention Grants. Thomas noted that ACF provided $474 million in funding for Hurricane Sandy recovery, $2 million of which will go toward family violence prevention.
|
From page 113... ...
Many are also connected to the other ineligible for Small Business Administration two. Second is the pro- disaster loans because their profit margins are found vulnerabilities of too small to make them credit-worthy." child care providers and -- Jonathan White the formidable financial barriers to child care recovery.
|
From page 114... ...
A key feature of the task force is that it makes available to community-level leaders a ready channel to get technical assistance and subject-matter expertise from national organizations and federal agencies. The task force facilitates the integration of early childhood programs and the behavioral health mission.
|
From page 115... ...
STATE PERSPECTIVE: NEW JERSEY CHILD TASK FORCE Allison Blake, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF) , discussed preparedness and response before, during, and after Hurricane Sandy.
|
From page 116... ...
In some counties, the head of Social Services reports to the Department of Human Services, while in others it operates independently. This inconsistency across counties became one of the most complicated parts of the disaster response to Hurricane Sandy, Blake noted.
|
From page 117... ...
DCF also reached out to the FEMA-operated disaster recovery centers to provide information about available local social services and community support. The State-Led Child Task Force was also created, focused on identifying a short-term recovery plan for children and families, and long-term recovery needs around trauma, resilience, and other issues.
|
From page 118... ...
Engage pediatric primary health care practices in a partnership to assess, identify, and intervene in a coordinated manner to mitigate the potential negative impacts of this disaster. Preventing violence and exploitation exacerbated by the storm's impact Broaden existing domestic violence prevention programming.
|
From page 119... ...
NEW YORK STATE CHILD CARE RESPONSE The New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) is the child welfare agency, the juvenile justice agency, and regulates all modalities of child care (with the exception of child care centers in New York City)
|
From page 120... ...
. Tools and Best Practices The day after Hurricane Sandy, OCFS developed and implemented an assessment tool for the licensing staff to use when determining the level of impact on child care programs (via phone if possible, or on foot through onsite inspections)
|
From page 121... ...
OCFS made resources for providers and families available on its website in both English and Spanish, issued waivers to programs to allow them to temporarily relocate, and OCFS staff provided onsite case management at the seven FEMA disaster recovery centers on Long Island. In addition, Governor Cuomo issued an executive order that allowed for temporary suspension of certain statutory provisions related to programs under the jurisdiction of OCFS (for example, child care subsidy eligibility predetermination could be processed in the absence of a family's supporting documents, which were likely destroyed in the storm)
|
From page 122... ...
122 CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES to pack in a "to go" bag or emergency kit.5 It can take a while for actual on-the-ground practice to catch up with best practice, Molnar concluded, and in New York "we've had no choice but to catch up as best we can." As national guidelines and support at the federal level are beginning to include the "recovery" phase more and more in documents and agendas, these children and family agencies affected by Hurricane Sandy are important examples of the work and outreach that need to be done after the incident occurs. This also presents an opportunity to engage child care providers and agencies across the country to share lessons and work collectively through ACF on improving plans and preparedness for future incidents.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.