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FEMA’s Higher Education Program Bits and Pieces

National Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, MD

4 September 2015

Higher Education Program News:

v EM Hi Ed Webinar Series:

The Higher Education Program is continuing with the webinar series started in 2013. The webinars will be used to increase the flow of information and knowledge to the emergency management higher education community. Knowing what is important and essential to your programs is important. To that end, we request that you provide us topics that are of particular interest and necessary to your academic programs or your institution. Ideas for webinar topics may be sent to Lillian Virgil at .

v 18th Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium is scheduled for June 6-9, 2016 at the National Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, MD. Mark your calendars now. Information for the 2016 symposium will be posted to the Hi Ed website in the coming months.

v New EM Program Added to the HI Ed College List

Adams State University – Associate of Arts in Emergency Management

With the Adams State University online Associate of Arts in Emergency Management degree students will be able, when applicable, to use prior learning assessment of emergency management related trainings to fulfill electives. The Associate of Arts Emergency Management degree can lead into a Bachelor degree. In addition, with the completion of EMM 106 – Emergency Planning and Exercise Design, you will earn two FEMA certificates.

Total Credit Requirements

General Education: (37 credits)

EmergencyManagementEmphasis (15 credits):

EMM102:Principles of Emergency Management (3 credits)
EMM104:Incident Command and Operations (3 credits)
EMM106:Emergency Planning and Exercise Design (3 credits)
EMM210:Field Study in Emergency Management (3 credits)

Plus one course from the following:

CRJ 102:Introduction to Criminal Justice Administration (3 credits)
CRJ 201:Corrections Administration(3 credits)
CRJ 203:Law Enforcement Operations(3 credits)
CRJ 205:Ethics in Criminal Justice(3 credits)
Or three (3) credit hours of transfer credit related to Criminal Justice Administration or Emergency Management

General Electives (8 credits)

General electives may be approved transfer credits or courses taken from ASU. General electives are credits that are required, but not used elsewhere in the degree program.

Writing Proficiency

You must submit a 3-5 page graded paper from an Adams State professor to the advising department in Extended Studies to receive approval by mid semester of the semester prior to graduation.

Total credits required for graduation: 60 credits

Adams State University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, a commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

For more information:

Contact: Adams State University

Office of Extended Studies

208 Edgemont Blvd Suite 3000

Alamosa, CO 81101

Ph: 719-587-7671 • 1-800-548-6679

Email:

Additional Information: http://www.adams.edu/extended_studies/undergrad/associate-of-arts-emergency-mgt-emphasis.php

Update: 8/31/15

Emergency Management and Homeland Security Higher Education:

v “Introduction to International Disaster Management, Third Edition by Damon P. Coppola

Introduction to International Disaster Management continues to serve as the leading comprehensive overview of global emergency management and humanitarian response, providing both practitioners and students with a working knowledge of the disaster management profession. The text maintains a global perspective and provides a broad assessment on the various sources of risk and vulnerability and the systems that exist to manage hazard risk inclusive of the different stakeholders involved. The latest update examines the impact of many recent large-scale and catastrophic disaster events on countries and communities, as well as their influence on disaster risk reduction efforts worldwide. It also expands coverage of several issues in which the author is professionally involved including disaster risk reduction in small-island developing states (SIDS), the achievements of the United Nations Hyogo Framework for Action (2005–2015), and the release of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. This useful, relevant text includes many changes that have occurred since the last edition for a better understanding of the rapidly advancing field of international disaster management."

For more information: http://amzn.to/1ht7BUC

Emergency Management/Homeland Security News:

v 2015 National Preparedness Month (NPM)

2015 NPM Theme: Don't Wait. Communicate. Make Your Emergency Plan Today.

Each year, September is recognized as National Preparedness Month, which serves as a call to action to prepare, now and throughout the year, for the types of emergencies that could affect us where we live, work, and visit.

This year’s National Preparedness Month theme is “Don’t Wait. Communicate. Make Your Emergency Plan Today.” Don’t wait! Make a plan with your family and friends for how you will stay safe and communicate during an emergency or disaster that can affect your community. Download the Family Communication Plan for Parents and Kids and fill out the sections before printing or emailing it to your family and friends.

The themes for four of the five weeks in September raise awareness about disasters including floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and power outages. The themes call attention to emergencies and disasters that could happen across the country this time of year. The fifth week leads up to National PrepareAthon! Day on September 30, when the nation will come together to take action and practice their preparedness in advance of an emergency.

Download the digital toolkit and become involved with promoting National Preparedness Month by visiting www.ready.gov/september.

v Congressional Research Service

· Department of Homeland Security Appropriations: FY2016, August 7, 2015

· Comparing DHS Appropriations by Component, FY2016: Fact Sheet, August 6, 2015

· Trends in the Timing and Size of DHS Appropriations: In Brief, August 6, 2015

· Stafford Act Declarations 1953-2014: Trends, Analyses, and Implications for Congress, July 14, 2015

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/index.html

v Disaster Information Outreach by Librarians,

Ethical Issues in Environmental Health Research Related to Public Health Emergencies: Reflections on the GuLF STUDY

Resnik DB, Miller AK, Kwok RK, Engel LS, Sandler DP. 2015. Ethical issues in environmental health research related to public health emergencies: reflections on the GuLF STUDY. Environ Health Perspect 123:A227–A231; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1509889 (free full text)

Webinar: September 10, 2015 at 1:30 pm ET - Two presentations from 2014 Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Projects

WHEN: Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 1:30 PM ET

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE: The Disaster Information Specialist monthly webinar is free and open to everyone – please spread the word and invite others in your organizations, send to your email lists, and post to your social media accounts.

TOPICS: “Preparing your Information Go-Bag” and “Developing a Disaster information Training Program for Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals in Rural Idaho”

Lori Harding, Coordinator, Library Services, at Elkhart General Hospital will present about the library’s current Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Project, “Preparing your Go-Bag for Disaster-related Information Needs”. The Library, in partnership with the Hospital’s Emergency Preparedness and Education and Program Committees and the Elkhart Fire Department, has been developing training sessions to identify authoritative sources for information in a disaster or public health emergency using National Library of Medicine resources. Ruiling Guo, Associate Professor of Health Care Administration Program and former medical librarian at the Idaho State University Health Sciences Library, and her team partnered with the Southeastern Idaho Public Health Department to provide a disaster information training program for healthcare emergency preparedness professionals to support their disaster preparedness and response efforts in Southeastern Idaho rural communities.

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v FIRE, EMS & SAFETY LAW NEWSLETTER

[NEWSLETTER IS NOT PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE].

Larry Bennett, Esq. is the author of this newsletter; Program Chair, UC Fire Science & Emergency Management.

File – Chapter 3, Homeland Security

DC: NSA COLLECTION OF BULK TELEPHONE DATA – INJUNCTION SET ASIDE – USA FREEDOM ACT PASSED

On Aug. 28, 2015, in Barack Hussein Obama, et al. v. Larry Elliott Klayment, et al, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, held (3 to 0) that NSA’s collection of bulk telephone data was authorized under USA Patriot Act. “The preliminary injunction entered by the district court is hereby vacated….” On July 2, 2015, Congress also passed USA Freedom Act, where telephone data will now be kept by private telephone carriers, and Gov’t will need Court order to access.

http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/ED64DC482F286F1785257EAF004F71E8/$file/14-5004-1570210.pdf

Facts:

“In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress enacted the USA PATRIOT Act. Pub. L. No. 107- 56, 115 Stat. 272 (2001). Section 215 of that Act Empowered the FBI to request, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (‘FISC’) to enter, orders ‘requiring the production of any tangible things (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items) for an investigation . . . to protect against international terrorism.’ Id. at § 215, 115 Stat. at 291, codified as amended at 50 U.S.C. § 1861(a)(1). Since May 2006, the government has relied on this provision to operate a program that has come to be called ‘bulk data collection,’ namely, the collection, in bulk, of call records produced by telephone companies containing

‘telephony metadata’ — the telephone numbers dialed (incoming and outgoing),

times, and durations of calls.

The FBI has periodically applied for, and the FISC has entered, orders instructing one or more telecommunications service providers to produce, on a daily basis over a period of

ninety days, electronic copies of such data.

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Under the program, the collected metadata are consolidated into a government database, where (except in exigent circumstances) the NSA may access it only after demonstrating to the FISC a ‘reasonable articulable suspicion’ that a particular phone number is associated with a foreign terrorist organization. Gov’t ’s Br. at 11-12. Even then, the NSA may retrieve call detail records only for phone numbers in contact with the original number — within two steps, or ‘hops’of it. Id. at 11. If telephone number A was used to call telephone number B, which in turn was used to call telephone number C, and if the FISC affirms the government’s ‘reasonable articulable suspicion’ that A is associated with a foreign terrorist organization, the FISC may authorize the government to retrieve from the database the metadata associated with A, B, and C.

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[On June 2, 2015] Congress enacted the USA Freedom Act, which revived the language added by Section 215 with some substantial changes. See Pub. L. No. 114-23, Tit. I, 129 Stat. 268, 269-77 (2015), codified at 50 U.S.C. § 1861 . The Act’s changes do not take effect until 180 days after the date of enactment (June 2, 2015). Id. § 109(a) , 129 Stat. at 276. And the legislation provides for continuation of pre-existing authority until the effective date of the new legislation….”

v IAEM Dispatch, September 3, 2015

IAEM-ASIA NEWS

Expert: View disaster management as a core development issue
The Hindu
Disaster risk management should be viewed as a core development issue. This would require strengthening institutional systems as well as empowering communities to become more resilient. Development of disaster response system at taluk and block levels would help in effective risk mitigation, according to Kamal Kishore, Member, Ministry of Home Affairs.

With 15 million Pakistanis on Facebook and Twitter, we should use social media during emergencies and disasters
The Nation
From Karachi to Kuala Lumpur, there have been numerous cases where the use of social media by members of the public, nonprofit and government agencies has allowed responders to get a better understanding of the situation on the ground prior to deployment, allowing triaging of response to avoid duplication of efforts and ultimately save lives.

IAEM-CANADA NEWS

Vancouver after the big one: 7.3-magnitude earthquake would kill nearly 10,000 and injure 128,000, experts say
National Post
It's a typically rainy day in January at 2 p.m. Streets are packed, with businesses in full swing after workers have returned from the holidays. Then the earthquake hits. Most people hear it before they feel it — a low, rumbling sound like a freight train. Closest to the epicenter, there is a violent shaking that lasts 10 to 20 seconds, knocking people off their feet.

IAEM-USA NEWS

FEMA and Airbnb partnering to promote disaster preparedness
IAEM
In efforts to strengthen their Disaster Response Program and the safety of their hosts and guests, Airbnb began collaborating with FEMA and the Ready campaign to better educate hosts on how to prepare for and respond to disasters. As a first step, more than 100,000 Airbnb hosts in hurricane-prone regions across the United States received hurricane preparedness information, including links to FEMA's Ready.gov website and simple steps to prepare themselves in the event a hurricane approaches their area. The company will also work with FEMA's private sector liaisons to receive real-time information during disasters, allowing them to more effectively deploy the Disaster Response Program in the areas where Airbnb hosts can be of the most help to survivors and responders. The Disaster Response Program makes it easier for Airbnb hosts to offer their space at no charge, supporting neighbors and relief workers following emergencies or disasters in their community. The program has been activated in such locations as Texas, Oklahoma, New York, and Nepal.