FEMA/American Red Cross National Mass Care Strategy Meeting

December 3, 2010

Attendees: Mark Askey, Ben Curran, Donna Brooks, Julie Blanciak, Al Vliet, Gregg O’Ryon, Larry Decker, Anne Palmer, April Wood, Trevor Riggen, Dennis Dura, Juliet Choi

Recap from FEMA MOA Implementation Meeting –

Notes from NVOAD meeting to be sent to group electronically; request to post in a neutral location; suggestion of posting to NVOAD website for access by all

Determine Scope of National MC Strategy – Strategy vs. Framework

Ø  Inefficiencies need to be ironed out; over the years there has been unsuccessful movement towards a single system

Ø  Create forum for ongoing communication/collaboration for organizations that work in mass care

Ø  Determine what we want to get to/what mass care is/start where we want to end and work backwards/what the public should expect as far as mass care standards

Ø  Create an understanding of the capacity/capabilities beyond the local level/national resources

Ø  Mass care systems that are in place aren’t articulated anywhere

Ø  Develop cross cutting, common fundamental principles & standard shared language

Ø  Shared implementation of mass care

Ø  Provide basis for states and locals to apply for funding

Ø  How do we set a joint target? Shared vision of mass care…common understanding

Ø  Target Audience – local and state emergency management & service providers

Ø  Compile comparable work to share with group:

o  Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Strategy 2010 and 2020

o  National Disaster Housing Task Force Strategy

o  National Feeding Template model (available on NVOAD website)

o  Sphere Project

Ø  Plan an exercise to determine what value is added during an actual operation – basis for national capacity building – a way to work together to refine our mission

Ø  Provide structure for lesson’s learned

Capturing protocol, procedures and processes previously used or attempted

Timeframe for implementation – delivery date of one year

Need internal and external communication strategy/updates–

·  Internal ARC and FEMA audience

·  NVOAD member organizations

·  “Other” NGO’s, FBO’s and CBO’s

·  NEMA (IAEM), NAC

·  BENZ, Business Roundtable, key private sector partners, chamber of commerce, FEMA Private Sector Office

·  Key committee staff

·  Advocacy groups

·  MOA working groups

Structure of Steering Committee* -

Designated members (establish if alternates are allowed)

Ideally no more than 10 members – 1 representative from each organization

  1. FEMA (to represent all federal agencies
  2. American Red Cross
  3. NVOAD
  4. Southern Baptists
  5. State EMA
  6. Local./County EMA
  7. Salvation Army
  8. Private Sector
  9. Faith Based Office
  10. Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
  11. “Crisis Commons”/Technology
  12. Academic Community
  13. Regional

*Ensure diversity in composition of committee

Strategy Objectives

Ø  Known methodology for local/county EMA

Ø  Framework for standards of care, common language, common technology, and resource typing

Ø  Integration of others

Ø  Catastrophic planning

Next Steps:

Ø  Hold Charter Meeting to hash out responsibilities – 3 tier lead (ARC, FEMA and NVOAD)

o  What do we want to accomplish

o  Articulates how this works today/what we know/identify gaps in current practices

Ø  4 working groups w/cross cutting areas/themes:

Feeding

Sheltering

Bulk distribution

Family reunification

Ø  Next meeting – Thursday,12/16/2010 9:00am to 12:30pm

o  9-11:00 Include NVOAD for MC Strategy

o  11-12:30 Implementation of MOA