scholarly journals A whole community approach to emergency management: Strategies and best practices of seven community programs

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn K. Sobelson, PhD ◽  
Corinne J. Wigington, MPH ◽  
Victoria Harp, BA
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Community Programs ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Routine Monitoring

Objective: In 2011, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) published the Whole Community Approach to Emergency Management: Principles, Themes, and Pathways for Action, outlining the need for increased individual preparedness and more widespread community engagement to enhance the overall resiliency and security of communities. However, there is limited evidence of how to build a whole community approach to emergency management that provides real-world, practical examples and applications. This article reports on the strategies and best practices gleaned from seven community programs fostering a whole community approach to emergency management.Design: The project team engaged in informal conversations with community stakeholders to learn about their programs during routine monitoring activities, site visits, and during an in-person, facilitated workshop. A total of 88 community members associated with the programs examples contributed. Qualitative analysis was conducted.Results: The findings highlighted best practices gleaned from the seven programs that other communities can leverage to build and maintain their own whole community programs. The findings from the programs also support and validate the three principles and six strategic themes outlined by FEMA. Conclusions: The findings, like the whole community document, highlight the importance of understanding the community, building relationships, empowering action, and fostering social capital to build a whole community approach.

The Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshop Series (JCTAWS): Integrating disciplines for enhanced capabilities during a complex coordinated attack

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey L. Shapiro, BSHS, EMT-P ◽  
John H. Armstrong, MD ◽  
Kathryn Roberts, BA ◽  
James Gordon, SGT (Ret.) ◽  
E. Reed Smith, MD, FACEP ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
High Threat

Evolving threats, such as Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks (CCTAs) and other High-Threat Active Violence Incidents, require a comprehensive “Whole of Community” approach to enhance readiness within the emergency management mission. Engaging all community stakeholders, inclusive of the private sector, public safety organizations, and the health and healthcare communities, is essential for risk reduction by preventing and limiting consequences from such critical incidents. The Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshop Series (JCTAWS) is a unique interdisciplinary table-top exercise sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and National Counterterrorism Center, and is designed to test plans and capabilities surrounding a CCTA. JCTAWS focuses on response integration between and across disciplines and jurisdictions. The workshop stimulates participant identification of best practices and gaps so that plans can be refined and resources realigned to improve response coordination for CCTAs.

Dismantling Cultural Walls

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-228
Author(s):  
Christie Billups
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Desire To Change

Stories are powerful means of building relationships among people. When human beings feel connected, community is formed. The author, an Assistant Professor of Theology, examines the potential for dismantling cultural walls through her theology course, Faith Behind Bars, via letter-writing as sources of transformative narratives, circles as means of critical reflection, and community-building as a key predecessor to activism. Stories, rituals within peace circles, and the strength of kinship bind learners in the class to one another and community members in shared comprehension of injustices and the desire to change systems. It is a spirit of compassion and investment in relationships that spurs people to act as peacebuilders, both independently and collectively. Experiences, connection, and knowledge all contribute to a responsive and practical theology that is relevant and contributes to building peace and nurturing justice.

scholarly journals Utilizing Social Media for Information Dispersal during Local Disasters: The Communication Hub Framework for Local Emergency Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10784
Author(s):  
Dionne Mitcham ◽  
Morgan Taylor ◽  
Curtis Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Crisis Communications ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Information Dispersal

In today’s society, the use of social media has increased the public’s desire to receive information quickly and to be able to interact with communicators. During a disaster, the trend to turn to social media for information has risen in popularity. Society’s reliance on social media and quick access to information has led the field of emergency management and the role of a Public Information Officer to adapt to include social media as a crisis communication channel for information dispersal. Existing frameworks for the use of social media as a channel for crisis communications provide guidance for emergency management agencies across all levels of government but fail to account for the varying access to communication resources at the local level. Due to the differing access to communication resources and unique relationships with stakeholders at the local level, there is a need for guidance on how local emergency management agencies can use social media to disperse essential information. The proposed Communication Hub Framework utilizes local emergency management professionals’ relationships with key community stakeholders to aid in the distribution of essential information to community members via social media during a disaster.

scholarly journals Enhancing translational researchers’ ability to collaborate with community stakeholders: Lessons from the Community Engagement Studio

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne A. Joosten ◽  
Tiffany L. Israel ◽  
Amy Head ◽  
Yolanda Vaughn ◽  
Victoria Villalta Gil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Community Members ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Recruitment Challenges ◽  
Clinical And Translational Research

Community engagement is considered essential to effectively translate research into practice and is increasingly recognized as a key to successful clinical trial recruitment. Challenges to engaging community stakeholders in research persist and new methods are needed to facilitate meaningful stakeholder involvement. The Community Engagement Studio (CE Studio), a consultative model, has been used at every stage of the research process. Best practices drawn from the model could inform other methods of engagement. Using a mixed-methods approach that included evaluation surveys, impact surveys and interviews, we assessed the CE Studio program. We analyzed data from 75 CE Studios; 65 researchers and 591 community members completed surveys and 10 researchers completed interviews. Surveys indicate that 100% of researchers would request a CE Studio in the future, and 99.3% of community members would participate in a CE Studio again. We identified 6 practices to enhance community engagement in clinical and translational research: early input, researcher coaching, researcher humility, balancing power, neutral facilitator, and preparation of community stakeholders. These best practices may enhance the quality of existing community engagement approaches and improve the effectiveness of translational researchers’ efforts to engage community stakeholders in their work.

scholarly journals Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in a Random Sample of Community Family Practices in Ontario, Canada

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Agarwal ◽  
Janusz Kaczorowski ◽  
Steve Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Diabetes Care ◽  
Diabetes Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Chart Audit ◽  
Pressure Reading ◽  
International Data ◽  
One Year ◽  
Control And Management

Objective. Diabetes care is an important part of family practice. Previous work indicates that diabetes management is variable. This study aimed to examine diabetes care according to best practices in one part of Ontario. Design and Participants. A retrospective chart audit of 96 charts from 18 physicians was conducted to examine charts regarding diabetes care during a one-year period. Setting. Grimsby, Ontario. Main Outcome Measures. Glycemic screening, control and management strategies, documentation and counselling for lifestyle habits, prevalence of comorbidities, screening for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and use of appropriate recommended preventive medications in the charts were examined. Results. Mean A1c was within target (less than or equal to 7.00) in 76% of patients (ICC = −0.02), at least 4 readings per annum were taken in 75% of patients (ICC = 0.006). Nearly 2/3 of patients had been counselled about diet, more than 1/2 on exercise, and nearly all (90%) were on medication. Nearly all patients had a documented blood pressure reading and lipid profile. Over half (60%) had a record of their weight and/or BMI. Conclusion. Although room for improvement exists, diabetes targets were mainly reached according to recognized best practices, in keeping with international data on attainment of diabetes targets.

scholarly journals “Why Don’t You Go Into Suburbs? Why Are You Targeting Us?”: Trust and Mistrust in HIV Vaccine Trials in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyabonga Thabethe ◽  
Catherine Slack ◽  
Graham Lindegger ◽  
Abigail Wilkinson ◽  
Douglas Wassenaar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vaccine Trial ◽  
Hiv Vaccine ◽  
Community Advisory Board ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Hiv Vaccine Trials ◽  
Vaccine Trials ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Site Staff

Trust is a key element of high-quality stakeholder relations, which are themselves essential for the success of HIV vaccine trials. Where trust is absent, community stakeholders might not volunteer to become involved in key trial activities, and potential participants might not volunteer for enrollment. We explored site staff and Community Advisory Board (CAB) members’ experiences of trust/mistrust among community members and potential participants. We analyzed 10 focus group discussions with site staff and CAB members at two active South African HIV vaccine trial sites. We report on key characteristics perceived to contribute to the trustworthiness of communicators, as well as factors associated with mistrust. Attributes associated with trustworthy communicators included shared racial identity, competence, and independence (not being “captured”). Key foci for mistrust included explanations about site selection, stored samples, vaccination, and Vaccine Induced Sero-Positivity (VISP). Our findings suggest that community members’ trust is not necessarily global, in which trials are trusted or not; rather, it appears fairly nuanced and is impacted by various perceived attributes of communicators and the information they provide. We make recommendations for clinical trial site stakeholders invested in building trust and for future research into trust at these sites.

scholarly journals Implicit Culture Framework for Behavior Transfer

2011 ◽  
pp. 213-241
Author(s):  
Aliaksandr Birukou ◽  
Enrico Blanzieri ◽  
Paolo Giorgini
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Web Service Discovery ◽  
Domain Independent

People belong to different communities: business communities, Web 2.0 communities, just to name a few. In this chapter the authors show that experience acquired by people in communities constitute community culture. The authors introduce the problem of culture transfer between or within communities and propose a domain-independent approach for transferring community culture. First, the authors formalize the notion of culture, which includes behavior, knowledge, artifacts, best practices, etc. Second, using this formalism, the authors propose the Implicit Culture Framework, which is an agent-based framework for transferring behavior between community members or between communities. Finally, the authors present and evaluate a system for web service discovery developed using the Implicit Culture Framework.

scholarly journals Building our social landscape in cyberspace

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Houston
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
School Librarian ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
School Librarianship ◽  
Social Landscapes

Developing a community of learners and leaders in school librarianship is fundamental to effective practice in professional preparation programs. As more and more school librarian preparation programs go online, staying focused on community building and collaboration becomes the key challenge to the best practices ideal. The Internet provides excellent tools and resources for developing online professional communities, as well as opportunities for academic programs to create social landscapes that students will engage in after they finish their academic program.

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