upcoming webinars
What Do I Do With This? The EMAP Assessment Report
This webinar on “What Do I Do With This? The EMAP Assessment Report” discusses the opportunities that your Program can take advantage of and the various uses of the Assessment Report that is provided to your Program at the conclusion of the Program’s Accreditation Assessment. For the Assessors, this provides information on the importance of the assessors’ written findings.
Date and Time: Friday, April 19, 2024 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2023040259247175260
Accredited Program Spotlight
This webinar spotlights Programs who recently achieved accreditation. This discussion will answer a few questions: What they did to prepare for the accreditation? What benefits they identified going through accreditation? What challenges they faced during the accreditation?
Date and Time: Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/555174643980126039
EMAP’s Best Practice Library
This webinar will discuss EMAP’s Best Practice Library. As Programs move through the accreditation process, EMAP identifies Programs with industry best practices in the various areas of emergency management. The Program provides permission for EMAP to pass the knowledge along to the industry.
Date and Time: Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/555174643980126039
Good vs. Bad (Not So Great) Findings – What’s the Difference?
EMAP depends on Assessors reviewing and articulating what they are reviewing against the EMAP Standard and applying that information into a written finding that is delivered in the Assessment Report. This webinar will discuss the good, the bad, and the not-so-great elements of a finding and how Assessors can improve their written findings.
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/555174643980126039
How Do I Know It’s Right? Writing Proofs of Compliance
Programs provide a Proof of Compliance to describe to an assessment team how they feel they are compliant with a specific Standard. This webinar provides examples and best practices on how they can point the Assessor to the Program’s documentation to prove their compliance to the Standard.
Date and Time: Thursday, August 8, 2024 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/555174643980126039
EMAP PREVIOUS Webinars
Standard Review Webinar for Chapter 3: Emergency Management Program; Emergency Management Standard
This webinar reviews the intent and application of Chapter 3: Emergency Management Program and discusses visible leadership, coordination, use of Advisory Committee(s), administration and finance, Laws, and authorities.
Standard Review Webinar for 4.1 to 4.3; Emergency Management Standard
This webinar reviews the standard application and intent of chapters 4.1, Hazard Identification, Risk, and Vulnerability Assessment, 4.2 Hazard Mitigation, and 4.3 Prevention.
Standard Review Webinar for 4.4 and 4.5; Emergency Management Standard
This webinar covers the application and intent of standards 4.4 and 4.5: Continuity and Operational Planning.
Standard Review Webinar for 4.6: Incident Management; Emergency Management Standard
This webinar goes through the application and intent of Standard 4.6 Incident Management.
Standard Review Webinar for 4.7: Resource Management, Mutual Aid & Logistics; Emergency Management Standard
The webinar details the intent and application of Standard 4.7 Resource Management, Mutual Aid and Logistics.
Standard Review Webinar for 4.9: Facilities; Emergency Management Standard
This webinar reviews the intent and application of the activation, operation and de-activation of both the primary and alternate facilities used by the Program.
Standard Review Webinar for 4.8 and 4.12; Emergency Management Standard
This webinar reviews the application and intent of 4.8 Communications and Warning & 4.12 Emergency Public Education & Information.
COVID-19 Best Practices & Lessons Learned Webinar Series
Continuity Plans Webinar
The Continuity Plans Webinar explores how Gwinnett County (GA), Hamilton County (OH), and Washoe County (NV) implemented their pre-existing departmental continuity plans to continue their essential program functions during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar features Mr. Greg Swanson, Director of the Gwinnett County Office of Emergency Management, Mr. Nick Crossley, Director of Hamilton County Emergency Management, and Ms. Kelly Echeverria, Emergency Manager for Washoe County Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
Using the Emergency Management Standard as the North Star
The Using the Emergency Management Standard as the North Star webinar features the District of Columbia’s Emergency Management personnel and their COVID experiences with using the essential program functions within the EM Standard by EMAP as a guide for managing COVID operations along with the other disasters that hit the jurisdictions.
Documenting & Replicating Processes & Procedures
This webinar explores how Seattle and Hamilton County, OH were able to replicate established processes and procedures during COVID activation, response and recovery while undertaking EMAP accreditation and consecutive accreditation efforts.
Engaging & Coordinating with Key Decision Makers During COVID-19 Operations
This webinar features Washoe County and how the Program was able to engage and coordinate with key decision makers during their COVID-19 operations and recovery efforts.
EMAP Best practices webinars
COOP Best Practices Webinar
This webinar features the University of South Florida and North Dakota and their COOP best practices identified through the EMAP assessment process.
COG Best Practices Webinar
This webinar discusses the Continuity of Government and the relationship to the hazards a Program is faced with along with the elements of the Emergency Management Standard.