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Tornado Shelter Needs Assessment
"The problem is that Santa Barbara Estates, a mobile housing community, does not have a tornado shelter for its residents. The purpose of this project was to conduct a tornado shelter needs assessment for Santa Barbara Estates. Descriptive research was used to discuss the research questions (1) how are other communities using tornado shelters? (2) what is the likelihood of a tornadic event in Olathe? (3) what is the risk-benefit of tornado shelters? The procedures included extensive literature review; personal interviews and correspondence; and, a survey (Appendix A) completed by emergency and non-emergency service professionals. The results illustrated the need for personal preparedness and tornado shelter for residents of Santa Barbara Estates. The recommendations were for the creation of a formal severe weather plan at Santa Babara Estates; the crafting of a new resident guide to include personal preparedness information for Santa Barbara Estates residents; the encouraged use of NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] weather radio by residents of Santa Barbara Estates; the presentation of a disaster preparedness course to Santa Barbara Estates staff and residents; and the construction of appropriate shelter on the property of Santa Barbara Estates. Future readers should conduct a shelter needs assessment for communities and target populations, such as mobile home residents, that are at greater risk for injury or death related to tornado events."
National Fire Academy
Hall, William (Mike)
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Application Community: The Destination for Public Safety Apps [website]
From the website description: "The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) has launched Application Community, or 'AppComm,' a new website dedicated to public safety and emergency response apps for use by the general public, app developers, and first responders."
Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International
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Defense Intelligence
This webpage provides information on U.S. defense intelligence. From the webpage: "Defense intelligence is critical to the Defense Department's role in national security. Such information helps frame national security policies, and enables warfighters to plan and conduct successful military and security operations that protect America."
United States. Department of Defense
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Way Ahead: Overview of Army Strategic Planning Guide
"The 'Way Ahead' is an overview of The Army Strategic Planning Guidance (ASPG), which as the Army's institutional strategy represents the Army senior leadership's vision of how the Army will fulfill its mission to provide necessary forces and capabilities to the Combatant Commanders in support of the National Security and Defense Strategies. An analysis of the strategic environment, national guidance, and operational requirements, makes clear the Army must be prepared for operations of a type, tempo, pace, and duration different from those we have structured our forces and systems to achieve. Some assumptions made and processes developed for a Cold War Army or an Army with a 'window of opportunity' to transform itself, while valid at the time, are no longer relevant to the current security environment. […] We must immediately begin the process of re-examining and challenging our most basic institutional assumptions, organizational structures, paradigms, policies, and procedures to better serve our Nation. The end result of this examination will be a more relevant and ready force--a campaign-quality Army with a Joint and Expeditionary Mindset. Our Army will retain the best of its current capabilities and attributes while developing others that increase relevance and readiness to respond in the current and projected strategic and operational environments. The remainder of this document explores what we must become in order to provide more relevant and ready forces and capabilities to the Joint Team."
United States. Department of the Army
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NCTC Guidelines: Understanding Acquisition, Retention and Dissemination of USP Information and Other Issues in EO 12333 [presentation]
"At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to: [1] Describe NCTC's [National Counterterrorism Center] mission [2] Identify NCTC's authorities and its legal and policy framework [3] Define NCTC collection authority under E.O. [Executive Order] 12333 [4] Define 'terrorism information' under IRTPA [Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act ] [5] Describe NCTC's ability to access, acquire, retain, and disseminate information under HR 7-1 and the new AG-DNI Guidelines [6] Identify the different tracks for access to information under the AG-DNI Guidelines".
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
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PA101: Privacy Act - Safeguarding Personal Information
"To conduct its business, the Federal Gcr1emment including the Intelligence Community (IC), collects, maintains and discloses information about American citizens and permanent resident aliens. In 1974, the Privacy Act was established to protect these individuals' rights with regard to how the government uses the information it collects about them. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: [1] Describe how the Privacy Act of 1974 protects individuals' rights regarding information collected, maintained and disclosed about them by the Federal Government [2] Define Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and how it is protected".
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
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Data Access and Use: National Counterterrorism Center
"The Data Access and Use Course will equip National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) staff with a foundational understanding of the authorities and role of the Center in the integration of data for the purpose of identifying terrorism information and the rules and regulations governing the access, retention, use and dissemination of that data."
United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence; National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
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Bio-Response Operational Testing and Evaluation [video]
This video from Environmental Protection Agency contains information regarding Bio-response Operational Testing and Evaluation. From the accompanying technical brief: "The Bio-response Operational Testing and Evaluation (BOTE) Project is a multi-agency effort designed to operationally test and evaluate biological incident (anthrax release) response from health/law enforcement response through environmental remediation."
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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NCTC Civil Liberties and Privacy Office: Protection of Privacy and Civil Liberties [presentation]
This presentation from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) covers the following topics: "Why a CLPO [Civil Liberties and Privacy Office]?"; "US Person Protection"; "Civil liberties and privacy considerations in data access"; "First Amendment Issues"; "Compliance"; and "CLPO Take-Away".
National Counterterrorism Center (U.S.)
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Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) - Prisoners
"This dynamic analysis tool allows you to examine National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) on inmates under the jurisdiction of both federal and state correctional authorities. You can instantly generate tables of numbers and rates of national and jurisdictional statistics, from 1978 to the most recent year that NPS data are available. The web tool includes state-level prisoner data from the 50 state departments of corrections, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), and the District of Columbia (until 2001, when sentenced felons from the District became the responsibility of the BOP). The pre-set Quick Tables show you trends in prisoner statistics and provide links to key tables in the most recent BJS publication on the U.S. prisoner population. If you would like more detail, use the Custom Tables to analyze yearend populations, admissions, or releases. You can create custom tables of yearend populations by the number of inmates in custody or under legal jurisdiction, those held in the custody of private facilities and local jails, the imprisonment rate of prisoners sentenced to more than 1 year, and noncitizens and juveniles in prison. You can customize tables of prison admissions or releases by many variables. All custom tables can be analyzed further by the prisoner's sex. You can find more detail under Definitions. The FAQs [frequently asked questions] provide answers to the most commonly asked questions. This User's Guide provides everything you need to get started."
United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics
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Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH) [website]
This is the website for the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services. The website provides various links to resources on child, family, and community wellness, early intervention services, health care quality and compliance, health statistics, and public health and clinical services.
Nevada. Health Division
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: FastStats A to Z [website]
"The FastStats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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National Institute of Standards and Technology: Cybersecurity Framework
This webpage from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) provides the organization's Cybersecurity Framework. From the webpage: "Recognizing the national and economic security of the United States depends on the reliable function of critical infrastructure, the President issued Executive Order (EO) 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, in February 2013. The Order directed NIST to work with stakeholders to develop a voluntary framework - based on existing standards, guidelines, and practices - for reducing cyber risks to critical infrastructure. The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 reinforced NIST's EO 13636 role. Created through collaboration between industry and government, the voluntary Framework consists of standards, guidelines, and practices to promote the protection of critical infrastructure. The prioritized, flexible, repeatable, and cost-effective approach of the Framework helps owners and operators of critical infrastructure to manage cybersecurity-related risk."
National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
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Energy Disruptions [map]
This real-time map from the U.S. Energy Information Administration "tracks and reports on selected significant storms that impact or could potentially impact energy infrastructure."
United States. Energy Information Administration
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Superstorm Research Lab (SRL) [website]
"The Superstorm Research Lab (SRL) is a mutual aid research collective working to understand the changes in how New York City policy actors, NGO [Non-Governmental Organization] leaders, activists, volunteers, and residents are thinking about social, economic and environmental issues following Hurricane Sandy. We produce traditional academic articles, but we are also pushing the boundaries of what it means to do scholarly work founded on the desire to create change."
Superstorm Research Lab
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Preventing Youth Violence: Program Activities Guide
"Violent injury and death disproportionately affect adolescents and young adults in the United States. Although homicide rates have dropped in recent years, rates remain unacceptably high. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) indicate that homicide is the second leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year-olds overall. In this age group, homicide is the number one cause of death among African Americans, the second leading cause of death among Hispanics, and the third leading cause of death among American Indians. In 2002, 5,219 youth ages 15 to 24 were murdered--an average of 14 per day. Violence does not have to be fatal to greatly affect individuals and communities. Estimates from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System suggest that more than 589,000 youth ages 15 to 24 were treated for nonfatal, assault-related injuries in U.S. hospital emergency departments in 2002. That is 111 nonfatal injuries for every violence-related death."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); United States. Department of Health and Human Services
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Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office [website]
"The Geospatial Enterprise Office (GEO) coordinates with government agencies to develop and manage geographic information. It communicates about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) issues with users. It guides development of Oregon's GIS data standards. Working together, state, federal, and local governments are improving the geographic information they share. GEO is also the State's point of contact for other organizations about geographic information and GIS. GEO also hosts the Oregon Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, an electronic library of geographic information."
Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office
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City of Los Angeles, California [website]
This is the website for the city of Los Angeles, California. The website provides information about the city, the city's government, and offers various links for residents, businesses, and visitors.
Los Angeles (Calif.)
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2011 Language Mapper
This interactive language map from the U.S. Census Bureau displays where, and to what degree, languages are spoken in a given area. "This is a web-based map application built to display language data from the American Community Survey. The maps contain dots that represent a specified number of people. The legend displays density value based on the level of zoom and scale. Dots are placed randomly inside of the tract they represent. Because tracts are small, you will see many dots clustered together in urban areas. The map is designed to show where there are concentrations of speakers in an area."
U.S. Census Bureau
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Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board [website]
"The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) is an independent organization within the executive branch chartered with the responsibility of providing recommendations and advice to the President and the Secretary of Energy regarding public health and safety issues at Department of Energy (Department) defense nuclear facilities. In operation since in October 1989, the Board reviews and evaluates the content and implementation of health and safety standards, as well as other requirements, relating to the design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of the Department's defense nuclear facilities."
United States. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
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Disaster, Disease and Distress: Resources to Promote Psychological Health and Resilience in Military and Civilian Communities
From the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) website: "This new book features 10 years of Center fact sheets on military and disaster health and mental health topics for health care providers, government and military leadership, service members, families and communities around the effects of traumatic exposure."
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Ursano, Robert J., 1947-; McCarroll, James E.; Vineburgh, Nancy T.
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Family Reunification: Developing a Coordinated Regional Approach and Plan for Large-Scale Incidents and Special Events
"Emergency managers should develop a coordinated plan with a regional approach for family
reunification during large-scale incidents or special events that have a multi-jurisdictional
impact."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Mass Care Response in Meeting the Needs of Infants and Children: Task Force Planning
"Feedback from the 2013 National Mass Care Exercise revealed that the composition of the task forces did not adequately represent the planning needs of all affected individuals, including infants and children. Participants recommended both explicit assignments of planning responsibilities to the relevant task forces and that working groups within task forces should address the specific planning needs of smaller groups."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Emergency Planning: Providing Resources to Staging Areas and Receiving Points in Evacuation Zones
"Emergency managers should review plans for providing resources to staging areas and
receiving points in evacuation zones. These locations may need access to additional resources to support responders who are awaiting deployment to other areas."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Guide to Interacting with People Who Have Disabilities: A Resource Guide for DHS Personnel, Contractors, and Grantees from the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) has developed this Guide to assist DHS personnel, contractors, and grantees in their interactions with people who have disabilities. Under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, DHS has a legal obligation to ensure nondiscrimination in the employment of people with disabilities as well as by providing program access, physical access, effective communication, and reasonable accommodation to people with disabilities encountered and served by DHS programs and activities. Examples of these interactions include people with disabilities who are traveling through the airport, crossing into the U.S. at a point of entry, naturalizing to become a U.S. citizen, being held in detention awaiting a hearing or removal, and receiving assistance before, during, or after a disaster. Ensuring nondiscrimination often begins by practicing effective methods for interaction, such as treating individuals with respect and using appropriate language. This document offers a summary of disability myths and facts, guidance on appropriate language, and tips for successfully interacting with people who have disabilities. It is intended as a general overview of the topic and does not supplant any specific policies and procedures used by the DHS Components."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Disability Access in the Department of Homeland Security
This webpage from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides information on the Department's disability access policies. "DHS is committed to strengthening and supporting full inclusion and equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in its programs and activities, through enforcement and compliance with requirements of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, including Section 504 of the Act which states: 'No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States...shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance or under any program or activity conducted by any Executive agency...' 29 U.S.C. § 794."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Door-to-Door Outreach to Vulnerable Populations After Disasters: Building an Action Plan and Task Force
"An evaluation of the practices utilized in New York City during the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy revealed the importance of planning and organizing door-to-door outreach programs to provide services to vulnerable, homebound, and disabled residents. These programs help ensure continuity of medical care and identify at-risk residents during periods when disasters inhibit the function of normal services or present challenges to individuals with access and functional needs. Cities should develop specific plans to assign and train staff and volunteers to conduct the outreach, as well as linking canvassers with city services and emergency personnel in order to provide any needed assistance."
United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Resource Management for Providing Mass Care Services: An Innovative Tool for Estimating Shelter and Feeding Resources
"The Florida Estimated Mass Care Requirements Spreadsheet provides a standard and unified approach that state and county Mass Care officials, private sector partners, and nongovernmental organizations can use in planning to estimate feeding and sheltering resources. The 2013 National Mass Care Exercise (NMCE), held in conjunction with the 2013 Florida Statewide Hurricane Exercise, provided the state Mass Care participants from across the nation the opportunity to test the effectiveness of the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet proved to be a 'logical and methodical' planning asset for optimizing feeding and shelter resource utilization."
United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Radiation Injury Treatment Network [website]
"The Radiation Injury Treatment Network® (RITN) provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment for victims of radiation exposure or other marrow toxic injuries. Many of the casualties with radiation injury will be salvageable but require outpatient and/or inpatient care. Recognizing this, the US National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), US Navy and American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT) collaboratively developed RITN, which comprises of [sic] medical centers with expertise in the management of bone marrow failure, stem cell donor centers and umbilical cord blood banks across the US. The goals of RITN are: to develop treatment guidelines for managing hematologic toxicity among victims of radiation exposure, to educate health care professionals about pertinent aspects of radiation exposure management, to help coordinate the medical response to radiation events, and to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment for victims at participating centers."
Radiation Injury Treatment Network
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Advanced Platform for Development and Evaluation of Grid Interconnection Systems Using Harware-in-the-Loop, Part III: Grid Interconnection
"The world's energy paradigm continues to undergo a rapid shift towards an increased use of renewable energy sources. At the same time, an advanced electric power system (EPS) architecture, including increasing amounts of distributed resources, load control, bi-directional power flow, advanced metering, and improved communications is gaining attention and being implemented by many electric utilities. In support of this shifting energy paradigm and new EPS architecture, a swiftly-increasing number of renewable energy-based distributed resource installations are occurring. As these installations occur, it is essential to ensure that these systems, each of which interface to the EPS using a grid interconnection system (ICS), are properly interconnected with the EPS according to the relevant standards […]."
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Lundstrom, Blake; Shirazi, Mariko; Coddington, Michael
