Emergency management functions
1. Key emergency management functions
As a result of understanding the functional needs support services categories, planners can focus their efforts on the following key emergency management functions:
- Emergency Information and Warning
- List of communication channels categorized by sector
- List of communication channels categorized by sector
- Mass Care and Sheltering
- Shelter placement guidance based on a system of hospitals, medical shelters, and general shelters
- For additional resources on mass care and sheltering, visit the Shelter Operations and Functional Needs Support Services (FNSS) knowledge base topic
- Shelter placement guidance based on a system of hospitals, medical shelters, and general shelters
- Transportation and Evacuation
- Evacuation gap checklist encompassing elements from planning through demobilization
- Evacuation gap checklist encompassing elements from planning through demobilization
- Human Services and Disaster Case Management
- Disaster case management overview including information on human services providers and the case management process
- Disaster case management overview including information on human services providers and the case management process
- Community Preparedness and Participation
- Online module on preparing households for emergencies
2. Strategies to Enhance Emergency Preparedness Planning and Response
This multi-page resource focuses on strategies to enhance emergency preparedness planning and response for six groups of at-risk populations. For each category, the document outlines why the group is at greater risk, how planners can help the group, and what resources are available.
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