Preparedness & Response Council Resources

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Federal Agency Resources

• 20 Years of the National Incident Management System (Federal Emergency Management Agency – 2024) 
  Provides an overview of how NIMS came to be and highlights how FEMA and NIMS users adopted, trained on, implemented, and improved NIMS.
• 2024 Emergency Response Guidebook (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – 2024) 
  A guidebook intended for use by first responders during the initial phase of a transportation incident involving hazardous materials/dangerous goods.
• Creating Mission Ready Packages and Pre-Scripted Resource Requests to Support EMAC Deployments (EMAC Webinar – July 2024)
  Webinar goals: Increased understanding of EMAC and its systems; How the disciplines can be better prepared to respond under EMAC; Value and benefits of Mission Ready Packages and Pre-Scripted Resource Requests.
• Enhancing Bystander Reporting to Prevent Terrorism (Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team – 2024)
  This toolkit assists first responders egaging with bystanders to overcome barriers in recognizing and reporting behaviors and indicators to authorize enhance terrorism prevention.
  
• FICEMS Strategic Plan (Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services – 2021)
  This strategic plan was developed by FICEMS to guide its efforts to support and advance emergency medical services (EMS) and 911 services in the Nation over the next five years (2021–2025).
• Mass Casualty Trauma Triage – Paradigms and Pitfalls (ASPR TRACIE – July 2019)
  The focus of this paper is to educate emergency planners on the key distinctions of no-notice, dynamic incident scenes with exceedingly large numbers of patients. 
  
• Ready or Not: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism (Trust for America's Health – 2024)
  This report tracks national public health emergency preparedness and is vital for policymakers, offering actionable data and recommendations to enhance emergency preparedness in their jurisdictions. The report’s key indicators provide state officials with benchmarks to assess progress, identify gaps in all-hazards preparedness, and compare their state’s performance with others, serving as a vital tool for targeted policy and fiscal decision-making.
• Violent Extremist Mobilization Indicators (The National Counterterrorism Center, FBI, DHS – 2021)
  A booklet of 42 indicators—or observable behaviors—that suggest an ideologically motivated US-based violent extremist may be mobilizing to violence; intended to show how these indicators can be used to help detect violent extremist threats against the US defense sector.