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Black September
This link contains records provided through the FBI Vault on the Jordanian terrorist group known as Black September.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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National Security Letters (NSL)
This link contains previously classified National Security Letters (NSL). Currently it contains only Part 1 of 1 which are NSL from 2007.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Safety and Security for US Students Traveling Abroad
From the Document: "Living and studying in another country will be an enriching and rewarding experience, especially if you are prepared and take certain precautions. This brochure will introduce you to threats you may face and provide tips on avoiding unsafe situations. Following these precautions will reduce your risk of encountering problems."
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States. Department of Justice
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Healthcare Coalition Pediatric Surge Annex Template
From the Document: "This pediatric-focused operational annex is meant to be an annex to a coalition's HCC [Healthcare Coalition] Response Plan. It is intended to be a high-level response plan, identifying the experts and specialized resources that exist within the HCC, the mechanisms/ processes that will be used to determine which patients go to which facilities, and an understanding of how many children each facility will need to plan to receive. Each facility is encouraged to develop more detailed plans that support their individual operations, but that level of detail is not necessary in this annex. This template provides general headers and descriptions for a sample HCC Pediatric Surge Annex Template. The resources used to develop this template include sample HCC plans and the Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities."
United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
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Lessons Learned from the Pulse Nightclub Shooting: An Interview with Staff from Orlando Regional Medical Center
From the Document: "On June 12, 2016, a gunman opened fire in Orlando's Pulse nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding at least 66. Dr. John Hick (ASPR [Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response] TRACIE's [Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange] Senior Editor) interviewed the responding trauma surgeons, emergency physicians, and the director of emergency preparedness in charge of Orlando Regional Medical Center's response to this horrific incident to learn more about their experiences and lessons learned. The staff noted several challenges, including issues related to the infrequent use of the mass casualty notification system by emergency medical services (EMS) agencies, staff silencing their cell phones while off-duty, staff experiencing difficulties with getting to work (due to closed roads), the confusion associated with the rumor of an active shooter at the hospital, and the family reunification process. Despite these challenges, the staff felt that the response worked well overall--due, in part, to conducting exercises and planning ahead, they never ran out of supplies and were able to identify all patients within 24 hours."
United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
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When Hospitals Become Islands: One Facility's Evacuation Story
From the Document: "Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey struck Houston and surrounding areas more than once, dumping close to 60 inches of rain over a wide swath of the area in just a few days. Hospitals became islands, roads were impassable, and military and public safety helicopters were brought in to evacuate people from their rooftops. Todd Senters [...] shares how staff in his facility worked tirelessly to care for existing patients (and those who were dropped off by helicopter) just prior to having to evacuate due to a breach in the City of Beaumont's water pumps."
United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
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Evacuating, Treating, and Tracking People on Dialysis: Lessons Learned from the 2017 Hurricane Season
From the Document: "The 2017 hurricane season devastated many areas of the nation, several repeatedly. After Hurricane Irma struck the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), many patients were evacuated to Puerto Rico (PR) to ensure continuity of care. Once Hurricane Maria ravaged PR, however, many USVI residents were evacuated a second time, including renal dialysis patients. ASPR [Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response] TRACIE's [Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange] Senior Editor John Hick (MD) interviewed Andy Stevermer, Incident Response Coordination Team (IRCT) Program Manager for ASPR's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Division of Operations (who served as the Operations Section Chief during the response), Commander Selena Ready, a Risk Management Analyst at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) (who served as the IRCT Patient Movement Operations Branch Chief during the response), and Victor Harper (MS, Director of Logistics, ASPR OEM) to learn about this evacuation from a federal patient movement perspective."
United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
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Healing After a Traumatic Incident: A Responder's Perspective
From the Document: "In November 2013, Ross Chávez was serving as the EMS [emergency medical services] Duty Chief for Hennepin EMS when he responded to the scene of a crash involving five children and a female driver who had lost control of her car and landed in a retention pond. All five children were in cardiac arrest when retrieved from the sunken car, although three survived. Ross shared his experience with identifying the need for and receiving mental health assistance after the incident with Dr. John Hick."
United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
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Engagement of ACOs in Medical Surge Activities
From the Document: "Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are groups of healthcare providers and care settings that come together to deliver high-quality care to an assigned patient population. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) supports the development of ACOs through the Medicare Shared Savings Program and Innovation Center Models (e.g., the Next Generation ACO Model). Medicaid and commercial insurers have also established various ACO models for their beneficiary populations. ACOs provide incentives for groups of healthcare entities to coordinate care for their assigned patients with the goal of efficiently providing high quality care as measured by reduced inefficiencies and overall healthcare delivery costs. As a relatively new healthcare delivery and payment model, little is known about the role of Medicare ACOs and their participants in the medical surge response to emergencies and disasters."
United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
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Active Shooter: What You Can Do to Mitigate Harm
This document outlines how to quickly respond to an active shooter situation, and appropriate responses from workplace leadership and personnel.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
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Making a Difference with Teen CERT: Disaster Response Training for Everyone
From the document: "Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is a national program of volunteers trained in disaster preparedness and emergency response. Volunteers come from all ages and all walks of life, including teenagers like you! Teen CERT training teaches you about the potential disasters that could affect your area and how to safely and responsibly respond to them. Through Teen CERT you can serve your community and help take care of your school and home."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; Community Emergency Response Team (U.S.)
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ROUTES Dashboard [website]
From the Webpage: "The ROUTES [Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species] Dashboard is an interactive website providing graphics on wildlife trafficking through airports between 2009 and 2018. The Dashboard's graphics are derived from open source wildlife seizure data collected by C4ADS [Center For Advanced Defense] under the ROUTES Partnership. The Dashboard also contains a Route Risk Tool, which allows users to input specific flight routes and receive an estimated risk assessment based on the number of previous trafficking attempts along that route, and a Country Profile Map, which provides a summary of wildlife trafficking information for individual countries."
United States. Agency for International Development. Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance; Center for Advanced Defense Studies
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Community Emergency Response Team Program Manager Course - PowerPoint Slides
From the Webpage: "These PowerPoint slides are intended for use in CERT [Community Emergency Response Team] Program Manager Courses, and follow the same class outline as the Program Manager Course Instructor Guide and Participant Manual. The topics covered include developing and promoting a CERT program, sustaining a CERT program, training and exercises, and working with volunteers. The slides are available in both PDF and PowerPoint formats. The PowerPoint slides can be changed to better fit local training needs."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; Community Emergency Response Team (U.S.)
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Community Emergency Response Team Basic Training PowerPoints
From the Webpage: "The CERT [Community Emergency Response Team] Basic Training PowerPoints are intended for use in CERT classes. These PowerPoints cover Basic Training, and also include presentations on 13 types of natural and manmade disasters. CERT instructors can change PowerPoint slides to better focus on their local training needs." This resource is also available in Spanish [https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/27960]
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; Community Emergency Response Team (U.S.)
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Partnering to Protect Tomorrow's Technology Today
This document from the FBI's Counterintelligence Domain Program outlines four steps to safeguard key technologies and sensitive information in the U.S. "domain" from foreign governments, organizations, or businesses.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Study of the Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters in the United States Between 2000 and 2013: Quick Reference Guide
From the Reminders: "[1] There is no one 'profile' of an active shooter. [2] There is no single warning sign, checklist, or algorithm for assessing behaviors that identifies a prospective active shooter. [3] While impossible to predict violent behavior, it is possible to prevent some attacks via effective threat assessment and management strategies."
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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UNIPATH: Resiliency: Normalization and Stabilization
From the Document: "Unipath is a professional military magazine published quarterly by the Commander of the United States Central Command as an international forum for military personnel in the Middle East and Central Asia region. The opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily represent the policies or points of view of this command or any other agency of the U.S. government. Select articles are written by Unipath's staff, with credit for other content noted as needed. The Secretary of Defense has determined that publication of this magazine is necessary for conducting public business as required of the Department of Defense by law." This edition features the following articles: "Bright Star 2018"; "How to Defeat Daesh"; "A Flexible Force"; "Teamwork with a Multinational Twist"; "Inspirational Leadership"; "Jordanians in Afghanistan"; "Securing Sinai"; "Heroics in Flight"; "Qatar Addresses Foreign Fighters"; "Curing the Cubs of the Caliphate"; "Exposing the Extremists"; "NATO Aids Afghanistan"; "Oman Police: Best in Middle East"; "Senior Leader Profile"; and "Around the Region".
United States. Central Command
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Disaster Preparedness [presentation]
This presentation is the slide deck that accompanies the "Disaster Planning and Preparedness" webinar published by the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center. From the Presentation: "FVPSA [Family Violence Prevention and Services Act] funding for tribes and tribal organizations, administered through the Administration on Children, Youth and Families' (ACYF) Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), is designed to assist tribes in their efforts to support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of programs and projects to: 1) prevent incidents of family violence, domestic violence, and dating
violence; 2) provide immediate shelter, supportive services, and access to community-based programs for victims of family violence, domestic violence, or dating violence, and their dependents; and 3) provide specialized services for children exposed to family violence, domestic violence, or dating violence, underserved populations, and victims who are members of underserved populations (45 CFR §1370.10(a))."
United States. Administration for Children and Families
Everson, Suzanne
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Local Capacity Building Support Catalog: Training, Toolkits, Technical Assistance for Local Governments
From the Document: "The Local Capacity Building Support Catalog contains resources useful to local governments recovering from severe disasters. It is a compilation of ongoing trainings, toolkits, and technical assistance offered by over 40 federal and state departments, professional and trade associations, and national non-profit organizations. Most offerings are free or low cost. The Catalogs purpose is to help local governments address knowledge and capacity gaps in disciplines necessary for long-term recovery. Local Governments should see the Catalog as a buffet of offerings that can be used to address their self-identified needs."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Responding to Potentially Violent Situations
From the Document: "Head Start and child care programs need to know how to prepare for and respond to a variety of emergency situations, including potentially violent ones. Programs should develop and implement a written plan that describes the practices and procedures to use if faced with a threat of violence. The Emergency Preparedness Manual for Early Childhood Programs has tools and guidance to help programs create or revise plans for responding to these types of emergencies."
National Center on Early Childhood Health and Wellness
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Restoring a Sense of Well-Being in Children After a Disaster
From the Document: "Children are often exposed both directly and indirectly to the effects of disasters. While some will live in close proximity to an area or community directly impacted by disaster, many others will learn about it through the media or from their parents or friends. It is important for parents, caregivers, and professionals to answer children's questions and reassure them about their safety."
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
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Community Emergency Response Team Train-the-Trainer PowerPoint Slides
These PowerPoint slides support the 'Community Emergency Response Team [CERT] Train-the-Trainer Instructor Guide'. From the Webpage: "The PowerPoint slides can be used by instructors of CERT Train-the-Trainer classes. Each slide contains the key points of each Train-the-Trainer unit, as well as images. These slides are available in both PDF and PowerPoint format. Users may edit the PowerPoint files to best suit their local CERT classes' training needs."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; Community Emergency Response Team (U.S.)
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Canada-U.S. Enhanced Resiliency Experiment Series (CAUSE V) After Action Report
From the Executive Summary: "The Beyond the Border (BTB) Action Plan, released in 2011, outlined joint priorities and specific initiatives for cross-border collaboration between Canada and the United States (U.S.). This partnership is focused on enhancing the coordination of multi-agency emergency management (EM) responses during binational disasters. In order to enhance cross-border Emergency Manager (EM) capabilities, interoperability and situational awareness (SA), Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Centre for Security Science (CSS), Public Safety (PS) Canada and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) have collaborated to design the Canada-U.S. Enhanced (CAUSE) Resiliency experiment series. This series used a scenario-based approach to simulate the use of interoperable and emerging technologies during cross-border emergencies. In November 2017, the fifth experiment in the series, CAUSE V, took place in British Columbia (BC), Canada and the state of Washington (WA), U.S. This experiment provided an opportunity to test and explore a suite of emerging technologies and applications to support an interoperable cross-border response to simulated flooding and lahar flows. The objectives of this experiment were to test emerging technologies and the use of digital volunteers in supporting interoperable communications and information sharing between cross-border EM organizations."
United States. Department of Homeland Security; Canada
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Police Foundation [website]
"Every citizen has a stake in the success of American policing. The police are the crucial link in the nation's system of crime control and the local agency of government on duty 24 hours a day to protect lives, homes, and property. Everywhere in the nation, police can be the catalyst for community crime prevention efforts. The purpose of the Police Foundation is to help the police be more effective in doing their job, whether it be deterring robberies, intervening in potentially injurious family disputes, or working to improve relationships between the police and the communities they serve. To accomplish our mission, we work closely with police officers and police agencies across the country, and it is in their hard work and contributions that our accomplishments are rooted."
Police Foundation (U.S.)
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Peer-Reviewed Research on Climate Change by USDA Authors January 2017--August 2019
This document is a compilation of "Peer-Reviewed Research on Climate Change" by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) authors written between January 2017 and August 2019. Each resource listed includes the citation, appropriate research tags, and the document abstract. According to the document, the following research tags are included: Forestry, Weather, Soil, Water, Crops, Livestock, Wildlife, Emissions, Energy, Grassland, Economics and Research.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Search and Rescue Operations in California During Flooding: January to March, 1995
This report is part of a series of reports on technical rescue incidents across the United States. Technical rescue has become increasingly recognized as an important element in integrated emergency response. Technical rescue generally includes the following rescue disciplines: confined space rescue, rope rescue, trench/collapse rescue, ice/water rescue, and agricultural and industrial rescue. The intent of these reports is to share information about recent technical rescue incidents with rescuers across the country. The investigation reports, such as this one, provide' detailed information about the magnitude and nature of the incidents themselves; how the response to the incidents was carried out and managed; the impact of these incidents on emergency responders and the emergency response systems in the community; and the lessons learned. The U.S. Fire Administration greatly appreciates the cooperation and information it has received from the fire service, county and state officials, and other emergency responders while preparing these reports.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Achieving Information Dominance: Seven Imperatives for Success, Topcial Area: C4ISR and Space
"The importance of C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) as a key enabler for warfighting success has long been recognized. What has been less clear is a means for U.S.-led joint and coalition forces to achieve C4ISR dominance. Understanding not just the operational needs and the technical requirements -- but also the functional capabilities required to achieve this goal -- can hasten the day when C4ISR dominance for United States military forces is more than a futuristic goal. We address a critical issue -- how does the technical community achieve this goal? The overarching thesis of this paper is that in order to achieve C4ISR dominance, the technical community should neither chase means to overcome extant enemy operational capabilities nor attempt to push systems to the operational forces based solely on available technology. Rather, it should build to a discrete set of functional capabilities to achieve this C4ISR dominance. This paper identifies seven functional imperatives to achieve this C4ISR dominance over an adversary. We conclude that what has remained timeless from the days of Sun Tzu to today's conflicts are the universal needs of warfighters to have the right information, at the right place, at the right time."
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego (U.S.)
Galdorisi, George, 1948-; Kaye, Tom
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Strengthening Employee Conduct: The Value of Ethics Training and a Written Code of Ethics for the Fire Service
"Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue (PBCFR) recognized that the diversity of its workforce could engender different feelings about ethical conduct. PBCFR also recognized that everyone must be held to the same ethical standards. Evaluative research was used to assess whether ethics training and a written code of ethics would strengthen ethical conduct of employees at PBCFR. The literature review examined what measures have been taken to strengthen ethical conduct of employees in the private sector, the public sector, and in the fire service. Ethics terminology and theory were defined to give the reader a framework to better understand the concepts discussed in the literature review. A survey was conducted to determine PBCFR employee understanding of ethics. The literature review identified a written code of ethics and ethics training as a significant means of stregthening employee ethical conduct in both private and public sector. The literature review revealed that the ethical conduct of employees at fire departments that have adopted ethics training and a code of ethics were also strengthened; however, the review also revealed the fire service has been slow to recognize the benefits of such training. This research suggested PBCFR could strengthen employee ethical conduct if a written code of ethics and ethics training were adopted."
National Fire Academy
Howes, Christopher T.
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FEMA Fact Sheet: Task Force for Emergency Readiness
This Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) fact sheet provides information on the Task Force for Emergency Readiness (TFER) pilot program. It also presents the organization, duration and evaluation of TFER. "The TFER initiative centers on the creation and employment of a dedicated planning team, which will be formed around a set of highly-skilled planners with strong backgrounds in state or regional catastrophic preparedness planning, National Guard civil-military support operations, and Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA). The goal of the pilot is to assess the viability of the initiative to strengthen integrated state and federal planning [...]"
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Building Trust Between the Police and the Citizens They Serve: An Internal Affairs Promising Practices Guide for Local Law Enforcement
"Building and maintaining community trust is the cornerstone of successful policing and law enforcement. The building and maintenance of trust takes a great deal of continuous effort. Unfortunately, the ethical work of thousands of local law enforcement officers is easily undone by the actions of one unethical officer. Often, the indictment of one seems like an indictment of all. Once misconduct occurs, the Internal Affairs function of the law enforcement agency becomes the primary method of reassuring the community that the police can and will aggressively address and resolve unethical behavior. In short, the integrity of the police will always dictate the level of community trust. […]This guide attempts to place Internal Affairs in its proper context--not as a stand-alone activity, but as one component of a systemic, agency-wide, professional standards effort. After discussion of some of the other components necessary in the community trust continuum-hiring, training, rewarding excellent performance--the guide focuses on building an effective Internal Affairs approach for any size or type of agency. The guidelines for the Internal Affairs function address every aspect, from complaint processing to decision-making, discipline, notification, and community transparency."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
