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Regional Disaster Response Coordination to Support Health Outcomes: Community Planning and Engagement - Workshop in Brief
Regional Disaster Response Coordination to Support Health Outcomes: Community Planning and Engagement - Workshop in Brief
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These conversations represent the viewpoints of the speakers and should not be seen as the recommendations or conclusions of the workshop, but they provide a valuable snapshot of the current state of community planning and engagement for regional preparedness initiatives and potential paths forward. The National Health Security Preparedness Index defines community planning and engagement as "coordination across the whole of community -- organizations, partners, and stakeholders -- to plan and prepare for health incidents, and to respond to and recover from such incidents with the goal of ensuring community resiliency, well-being, and community health."1 To focus in on fundamental pieces of community planning, discussions were held on cross-sector collaboration, at-risk populations, management of volunteers during emergencies, and social capital and cohesion.
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Cross-Sector Collaboration "If you start looking at the ‘why' every time you go into a collaboration, you'll actually have better conversations with people because it matters if you're collaborating for the same reasons and for the same outcomes." -- Ana-Marie Jones Despite great effort, traditional disaster response agencies are often unable to address all of the emergency preparedness, planning, and response needs of increasingly diverse communities. The concept of "collaboration" remains largely misunderstood by key stakeholders, stated Ana-Marie Jones, Executive Director of Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters.
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Implement strategies for communicating with geographically isolated populations To achieve its strategic objectives, Ehnert explained that Arizona found it essential to forge community partnerships, especially between emergency management and disability groups, observing the mantra "nothing about us, without us." During these conversations, individual participants highlighted important discussion topics for improving regional disaster preparedness and planning for at-risk populations: • Communities that can define and understand the needs of their Arizona's new goal is to en sure equality by integrating at-risk populations are better prepared, Ehnert noted. Connecting the planning for people with emergency planners with "whole of community" organizations and access and functional needs individuals that serve or represent at-risk populations can create (physical, sensory, cognitive, comprehensive regional planning inclusive of at-risk populations.
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Management of Volunteers During Emergencies "Being able to have volunteers within your pool that come from all these cross-sector areas, to bridge some of those gaps, helps with coexistence, the communication, and ultimately the collaboration in a regional response." -- Captain Robert Tosatto There are common misperceptions about volunteers from the viewpoint of emergency managers, noted Captain Robert Tosatto, Director of the Division of Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps. Although they may be perceived as unskilled, undisciplined, and unprofessional, the truth is that volunteers can often bring subject matter expertise that is not otherwise accessible.
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Having a system in place for volunteer management is critical, said Tosatto. To improve volunteer coordination in disaster preparedness and response, several participants explored promising practices for the management of volunteers during emergencies across a region.
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, Aldrich found that three types of social connections were associated with recovery and resilience (see Figure 5) : Bonding social capital: cohesion within social networks, such as ethnicities and religions; Bridging social capital: linkages across different social networks through institutions, schools, and sports clubs, among other venues; and Linking social capital: connections between citizens and government and/or elected officials who hold positions of authority and power.
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Combining social cohesion with robust volunteer management, inclusive planning for at-risk populations, and holistic community collaboration can contribute to more coordinated and streamlined public health responses in large-scale disasters. Regardless of how many communities may be affected, prior engagement across jurisdictions in a variety of disciplines is important to ensure community resilience, wellbeing, and population health of a region.
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W Chen Federal Emergency Management Agency; Department of Homeland Office of the Assistant Secretary Matthew Minson Security, Office of Health Affairs; Department of Transportation's of Defense for Health Affairs, Texas A&M University, College Station Department of Defense, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Department of Washington, DC Erin Mullen Veterans Affairs; Emergency Nurses Association; Food and Drug Pharmaceutical Research and Susan Cooper Manufacturers of America, Administration; Infectious Diseases Society of America; Martin, Regional Medical Center, Memphis, TN Washington, DC Blanck & Associates; Mayo Clinic; Merck Research Laboratories; National Association of Chain Drug Stores; National Association of Brooke Courtney John Osborn Office of Counterterrorism and Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN County and City Health Officials; National Association of Emergency Emerging Threats, U.S.
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