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Identifying Mass Care Identifying Mass Care Requirements: Studies, Standards and Typing
Why Standards?
• Shared frame of reference
• What is and isn’t acceptable
• Reliability
• Address a range of issues
• Best way to do certain tasks
• Evaluation
Mass Care Tools
Mass Care Standards in Action
Mass Care standards provide benchmarks for disaster response organizations and common goals for service delivery
• Mega Sheltering Plan
• 4496 Standards• 4496 Standards
• National Mass Care Standards and Indicators
• National Mass Care Standards
Mega Sheltering Plan• Methodology to update procedures and practices and to
continually improve the service and operation of a mega-shelter
• Tools to initiate the planning process while acknowledging the criteria necessary for successful operations
• Identifies resource in all phases of mega-sheltering–planning, preparedness, readiness, response, and recovery withsections that provide action steps for each of these phases
• Several of the appendices include additional useful planning and operational tools
Shelter Selection Process
Symbol of Safety…Saving lives…Leader in the Community
•Key Elements:
• Surge
• Wind
• Water• Water
• Hazardous Materials
•Surveys
•Engineering
Shelter Selection Process
Least Risk Decision Making Process
Determine Alternate Assess Risk
DetermineShort Falls
Alternate Considerations
National Mass Care Standards and Indicators
Developed to provide benchmarks for Mass Care Service Delivery:
• Sheltering• Sheltering• Feeding• Distribution of relief
supplies
National Mass Care StrategyThe National Mass Care Strategy will provide a unified approach to the delivery of mass care services to all communities, including underserved populations, by establishing common goals, fostering inclusive collaborative planning, and identifying resource needs to build a national mass care capacity, focusing on:
• Individual or congregate temporary shelters (including
household pets)household pets)
• Fixed or mobile feeding operations
• Distribution of relief supplies
• Family re-unification
• Health and/or mental health services
• Information on recovery assistance
National Mass Care Strategy
National
Build Scalability into
Service Delivery
Create the Opportunity for Improved Coordination
& Participation
Strengthen & Unify Mass Care Legal &
Policy Foundations National
Mass Care
Strategy
Participation
Engage the Whole
Community
Standardize Mass Care Practices
Foundations
National Mass Care Strategy – Strategic Goals
Building ScalabilityBuilding ScalabilityBuilding ScalabilityBuilding Scalability
• Gap analysis and resource allocation
• Tiered relationships – resource typing
• Scenario planning
Improve Coordination and ParticipationImprove Coordination and ParticipationImprove Coordination and ParticipationImprove Coordination and Participation• Create national platform community of practice with common
templates, definitions• EOC Coordination and partners utilizing/adapting EOC
systems
• Asset management coordination
National Mass Care Strategy – Strategic Goals
Engaging the Whole CommunityEngaging the Whole CommunityEngaging the Whole CommunityEngaging the Whole Community• Identify and remove barriers that limit volunteer, community
agency and private sector involvement• Create a virtual portal to support the creation of mass care
initiatives
Standard Mass Care PracticesStandard Mass Care PracticesStandard Mass Care PracticesStandard Mass Care Practices• Recommend and adopt mass care standards of practice• Implement a standardize3d mass care incident management
training program• Promote the use of existing mass care tools
National Mass Care Strategy – Strategic Goals
Strengthen and Unify Mass Care Legal and Policy FoundationStrengthen and Unify Mass Care Legal and Policy FoundationStrengthen and Unify Mass Care Legal and Policy FoundationStrengthen and Unify Mass Care Legal and Policy FoundationSeek remedies to improve delivery of Mass Care services
• Modify the Stafford and Emergency Assistance Acts
• Modify or implement federal non-Stafford legislation that
directly affects the provision of mass care
services to meet Whole Community Needs
• Modify existing doctrine, policies and regulations to increase
national mass care capacity
• Standardize legislation across state lines to enhance the
sharing of mass care resources
National Mass Care Strategy in Action
Hurricane Sandy – Multi-Agency Feeding Task Force
Occupy Sandy
Hurricane Gispert – State of Florida
Access and Functional Needs Committee – Aurora, CO
