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Community resilience often focuses on growing the capacity to “bounce back” from disruptions. These can be natural disasters, human-caused events, and even war, Preparing for disruption is the only way to build resilience. As we strive to build robust community resilience programs. It is sometimes hard to figure out where to start. The program should engage and benefit the entire community. It is critical to consider all of the challenges that the community may face. It may be an economic disaster that the community is facing or a tsunami, however, together the community will survive.
Join Todd as he sits down with Andrea Davis as they discuss The Resiliency Initiative and her vision to bring programs to communities across the world.

Todd DeVoe
Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ToddTDeVoe
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddtdevoe/
Substack: https://emnetwork.substack.com/
Website: https://toddtdevoe.com/

Andrea Davis
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theresiliencyinitiative/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theresiliencyIn

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The main purpose of a code of ethics is to help professionals do what is morally right in any situation where the answer may not always be apparent. Codes of ethics provide a standard and benchmarks for how one behaves and supports the overall occupational identity of emergency managers. With a code of ethics, decision making for moral dilemmas is protected from the typical dangers that exist when the decisions are made ad-hoc.

Dr. Shirley Feldmann-Jensen has policy expertise at the intersection of disaster risk management and human outcomes. Scholarly activity focus is on foundations that can advance the professionalization of disaster risk management and on building community resilience to disruptive hazards. Her experience is both international and domestic, spanning a range of public health, disaster risk management, and instructional settings.

Dr. Sandy Maxwell Smith is Professor of Emergency Management and Head of the Department of Emergency Management, Professional Studies, and Student Affairs Administration at Arkansas Tech University (ATU). She received her doctorate in nursing from Loyola University Chicago. Sandy has been teaching college students since 1999 and began teaching emergency management courses in 2011. Her research interests include the study of disaster ethics, Emergency Management and Homeland Security core competencies, accreditation issues, disaster preparedness, and health care.

Code of Ethics:
https://training.fema.gov/hiedu/specialinterest/eemsig.aspx

Dr. Shirley Feldmann-Jensen:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-shirley-feldmann-jensen-09b43261/

Daniel Scott Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-scott-m-a-cem%C2%AE-empp-3-59a8a86a/
https://www.instagram.com/d_scott_overdeliver/
https://www.facebook.com/D.Scott.and.Associates/
https://twitter.com/Haven1981

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One thought has stayed with me throughout my career, only to become exacerbated during the pandemic. The dreaded: What am I doing with my life?

The Wall Street Journal* published an article about nonessential workers questioning the purpose of their jobs. The gist is that people are looking for meaning in their daily work now that everything that matters has a definitive purpose. Now let’s push back on this idea for a second, not look for meaning from your job, but how you are making a difference in your chosen profession.

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Todd DeVoe
Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ToddTDeVoe
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddtdevoe/
Substack: https://emnetwork.substack.com/
Website: https://toddtdevoe.com/

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Ms. McMahon served as a member of the City of Gloucester MA, Emergency Management team since 2005 where she recently retired as the Deputy Emergency Management Director. In her role as the EOC Manager, she had managed numerous EOC activations for both planned and unplanned events and has assisted with 10 Presidential declared disasters for Massachusetts. Most recently, she was the Planning Section Chief and Deputy Incident Commander for Gloucester’s COVID response.

Ms. McMahon is an Adjunct Instructor at the FEMA National Emergency Training Center and serves as Senior Lead Faculty in the Executive Academy and Advanced Academy. She also has instructed with the Basic Academy, Master Exercise Practitioner Program, and Integrated Emergency Management Courses. She has participated in numerous curriculum review and content development focus groups for the EMPP program.

Carol McMahon:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolmcmahon1/


Daniel Scott Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-scott-m-a-cem%C2%AE-empp-3-59a8a86a/
https://www.instagram.com/d_scott_overdeliver/
https://www.facebook.com/D.Scott.and.Associates/
https://twitter.com/Haven1981

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Our nation’s postsecondary institutions are entrusted to provide a safe and healthy learning environment for students, faculty, and staff who live, work, and study on campus. Faced with emergencies ranging from active shooter situations to fires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and pandemic influenza, this is no easy task. Join us as we explore the role of emergency management at New York University with NYU’s Ann-Marie McLaughlin, Director of Emergency Management.

Web - https://www.nyu.edu/
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/anne-marie-mclaughlin-cem-cbcp-cbci-mep-cpp-68a1976/

If you would like to learn more about the Natural Disaster & Emergency Management (NDEM) Expo please visit us on the web - https://www.ndemevent.com

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Thank You All For One Year 

It is incredible how time flies. When I sold my other venture in June of 2021, It was to expand the network and community we grew. The opportunity to do so would only happen after shedding the old and starting fresh. I was not 100% on how it would look. I was introduced to Substack because of a podcast and thought, why not give it a try? 

I created our first newsletter in December of 2021 and have yet to look back. 

So: happy anniversary, especially to those of you who have been here from the start.

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Managing mass casualty or disaster incidents is challenging for any person or organization. Therefore, this paper identifies and describes common challenges to managing such situations, using case and lessons learned reports. It focuses on the sudden onset, man-made, or technologically caused mass casualty or disaster situations. Today we are talking with Vincent Aarts who began his emergency response and management career in 2001 as a wildland firefighter. Vincent left local emergency management for his current position as lead planner and systems integrator with the Office of Resilience and Emergency Management (OREM) – part of the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS). The OREM serves as the Emergency Support Function 6 – Mass Care lead agency for the state of Oregon.

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Todd DeVoe
Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ToddTDeVoe
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddtdevoe/
Substack: https://emnetwork.substack.com/
Website: https://toddtdevoe.com/

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Dan and Todd are live on the floor of the IAEM Conference and EMEX 2022 in Savannah Georgia. See you all next year in Long Beach.

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Eric is a product of higher ed. He has been working in the industry for 10 years, four of which were focused on business continuity. He has worked at Fresno Pacific University where he practiced business continuity and Fresno City College where he teaches online business courses. Eric holds a masters degree in Business Leadership and is the proud father of four boys. Highly motivated, dependable business professional with a successful record of working exceptionally well in teams and independently. Strong work ethic and integrity. Exemplary customer service and sales skills. Ability to identify and effectively resolve problems. Driven to establish and achieve business objectives.

At Kuali, we consider these values in every decision we make, every employee we hire, and every interaction we have with you, our clients.

Eric Self & Kuali:
https://www.kuali.co/about
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-self-91777813/

Daniel Scott Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-scott-m-a-cem%C2%AE-empp-3-59a8a86a/
https://www.instagram.com/d_scott_overdeliver/
https://www.facebook.com/D.Scott.and.Associates/
https://twitter.com/Haven1981

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Know when to have a meeting 

One of the things that we are known for in Emergency Management is meetings. I believe meetings are overrated. I have to admit that I have been known to call and chair my fair share of meetings. So I am not throwing rocks in a glass house. 

Part of the reason I am posting this piece is to remind my team and me to keep all of us accountable to each other when it comes to our meetings. 

When we talk about meetings, I am not talking about the simple one-on-ones or briefings we often conduct. I am talking about meetings that involve several people.  These types of meetings tend to be unproductive and time suckers. In general, we call meetings for a variety of reasons. However, Decision-making is not one of them. And Getting feedback on a subject can be done in other, more efficient ways. 

So let's set some guidelines for meetings. The first guideline is when in doubt, do not call a meeting.  Question every meeting you have on your calendar, are you having the meeting just for the sake of it? If the answer to that question is yes, then cancel that meeting. 

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