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Episode 41: Disaster Partner Spotlight: The NVOAD Jul 02, 2019

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On this episode, we’ll talk to the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) President Greg Forrester and FEMA’s Voluntary Agency Coordination Branch Chief Liz Gibson about how the NVOAD fosters a more effective delivery of services to communities affected by disaster and their coordination with FEMA to help people before, during and after disasters.

Episode 40: PrepTalks - Amanda Ripley "The Unthinkable: Lessons from Survivors" Jun 11, 2019

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Today we're sharing a previously released PrepTalk with Amanda Ripley, who's a journalist and senior fellow at the Emerson Collective. She combines the inspiring stories of disaster survivors with research into how the brain works when confronted with unusual events to provide advice on how emergency managers can help indivduals become more decisive in an emergency.

Episode 39: Designing An Exercise For The Most Catastrophic Events May 30, 2019

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In this episode, we discuss the process of designing massive national level exercise with FEMA's National Exercise Division. Jeff Blizzard and Ted Robinson from the National Exercise Division at FEMA Headquarters join us to discuss what goes into a large scale national exercise and how FEMA participates.

Episode 38: Advancing Wildfire Resilience With The Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network May 21, 2019

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Since 2013, the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network has connected and supported people and communities who are striving to live more safely with wildfire. The Network has served as a catalyst for spreading best practices and innovations in fire adaptation concepts nationwide. At their annual workshop in Ashland, Oregon we interviewed Michelle Medley-Daniel with the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, Ali Lerch and Chris Chambers with Ashland Fire & Rescue, and Hilary Lundgren with the Washington Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network to learn about the successes, tools, and growth of the network from eight to twenty-four communities.

Episode 37: FEMA And The Law Enforcement Community May 14, 2019

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On this episode we caught up with Roberto Hylton, the Director of the Office of Law Enforcement Engagement and Integration for FEMA, and talked with him about his team's mission to integrate emergency management and the law enforcement community and how those efforts will help strengthen our nation, reduce risks, and improve our country's capabilities to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate potential disasters.

Episode 36: Resiliency: A Conversation With Dr. Dan Kaniewski May 06, 2019

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On this episode, Dr. Dan Kaniewski, FEMA's Deputy Administrator of Resilience, joins us to talk about how FEMA's new strategic and structural focus on Resiliency will make America safer, stronger and better prepared for future disasters.

Episode 35: More Efficient Disaster Response Through Pre-Disaster Contracts Apr 24, 2019

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On this episode, we talked to Dennis Jones, emergency management director for Chatham County, Georgia. He shares his experience leading his county through Hurricane Matthew and the lessons learned that led to more efficient contracting in the aftermath of disasters and emergencies.

Episode 34: Making “Cents” Out Of Disaster Financial Preparedness Apr 09, 2019

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In this episode we talk with Rebecca Wiggins, Executive Director of the Association for Financial Counceling & Planning Education (AFCPE), to better understand FEMA's partnership with her organization and how it will benefit the nation when it comes to being financially ready for the unexpected.

Episode 33: Teaching Students How To Prepare For Emergencies And Disasters - STEP Mar 25, 2019

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FEMA created the Student Tools for Emergency Preparedness or STEP program, a curriculum for fourth and fifth grade students, to teach students how to prepare for emergencies and disasters and train them to become leaders in family preparedness. On this episode, we dive a bit deeper into how the program works and discuss how these efforts are helping move the needle of overall disaster preparedness in one FEMA region.

Episode 32: State, Local, Tribal And Territorial Toolkit Lifelines Mar 13, 2019

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A community lifeline enables the continuous operation of business and government functions and is critical to human health and safety or economic security. The lifelines concept reframes incident information to provide decision makers with impact statements and root causes and is intended to maximize the effectiveness of federally supported, state managed and locally executed response. FEMA recently released the community lifelines implementation toolkit, which provides our partners with the information and resources to understand lifelines, coordinate with entities using lifelines, and serve as basic guidance for how to implement the lifelines construct during incident response. On this episode, we talked to Jeremy Greenburg from FEMA's Response Directorate about the lifelines concept and how the toolkit will be used to support all units of government in disaster responses.

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