LLIS Lesson Learned: Mass Care Response: Developing Regional Family Reunification Plans before Large Special Events   [open pdf - 1MB]

"The National Capital Region's (NCR) experiences during the 2009 Presidential Inauguration revealed that the many response and emergency management agencies involved in the, event were not operating under a common regional family reunification plan. This lack of a regional plan resulted in disjointed family reunification efforts and a lack of situational, awareness of family reunification activities across the NCR. Responders recommended the development of both an NCR-wide regional family reunification plan and a searchable family reunification database."