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Sheltering Equipment End User Video

The Council has created a video to help first responders and municipal officials understand the borrowing procedure for the Emergency Sheltering Equipment Trailers that are located throughout Western Mass. You can find the video on the Resources page.

 

Teleconference

11 am

As part of the WRHSAC Social Media Project, a free teleconference training will be offered on Virtual Operations Support Team. Consultants Jeff Phillips and Kim Stephens will be available to address any questions you might have about either the technology or the processes that you have put in place around social media.

More “info” calls will occur during the month of December including:

  • What is a Virtual Operations Support Team? (Dec 13 at 1100 EST and December 14 at 1:00 EST)
  • Twitter Round-About–Including the why’s and what’s of Twitter as well as a simultaneous Twitter “chat” to get users used to the technology (Dec 17th at 1100EST and December 18th at 1:00 EST)
  • What tools are available to monitor Social Media? (December 20 1100 EST)

The dial in for each of the trainings is (409) 777-9000 using the pin 4021675#

For more information, please contact Susan L. Brown, Homeland Security Program Manager, Franklin Regional Council of Governments and Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council at 413.774.3167 x138 or sbrown@frcog.org.

Teleconference

11 am

As part of the WRHSAC Social Media Project, a free teleconference training will be offered on Virtual Operations Support Team. Consultants Jeff Phillips and Kim Stephens will be available to address any questions you might have about either the technology or the processes that you have put in place around social media.

More “info” calls will occur during the month of December including:

  • What is a Virtual Operations Support Team? (Dec 13 at 1100 EST and December 14 at 1:00 EST)
  • Twitter Round-About–Including the why’s and what’s of Twitter as well as a simultaneous Twitter “chat” to get users used to the technology (Dec 17th at 1100EST and December 18th at 1:00 EST)
  • What tools are available to monitor Social Media? (December 20 1100 EST)

The dial in for each of the trainings is (409) 777-9000 using the pin 4021675#

For more information, please contact Susan L. Brown, Homeland Security Program Manager, Franklin Regional Council of Governments and Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council at 413.774.3167 x138 or sbrown@frcog.org.

Teleconference

1 pm

As part of the WRHSAC Social Media Project, a free teleconference training will be offered on Virtual Operations Support Team. Consultants Jeff Phillips and Kim Stephens will be available to address any questions you might have about either the technology or the processes that you have put in place around social media.

More “info” calls will occur during the month of December including:

  • What is a Virtual Operations Support Team? (Dec 13 at 1100 EST and December 14 at 1:00 EST)
  • Twitter Round-About–Including the why’s and what’s of Twitter as well as a simultaneous Twitter “chat” to get users used to the technology (Dec 17th at 1100EST and December 18th at 1:00 EST)
  • What tools are available to monitor Social Media? (December 20 1100 EST)

The dial in for each of the trainings is (409) 777-9000 using the pin 4021675#

For more information, please contact Susan L. Brown, Homeland Security Program Manager, Franklin Regional Council of Governments and Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council at 413.774.3167 x138 or sbrown@frcog.org.

Teleconference

11 am

As part of the WRHSAC Social Media Project, a free teleconference training will be offered on Virtual Operations Support Team. Consultants Jeff Phillips and Kim Stephens will be available to address any questions you might have about either the technology or the processes that you have put in place around social media.

More “info” calls will occur during the month of December including:

  • What is a Virtual Operations Support Team? (Dec 13 at 1100 EST and December 14 at 1:00 EST)
  • Twitter Round-About–Including the why’s and what’s of Twitter as well as a simultaneous Twitter “chat” to get users used to the technology (Dec 17th at 1100EST and December 18th at 1:00 EST)
  • What tools are available to monitor Social Media? (December 20 1100 EST)

The dial in for each of the trainings is (409) 777-9000 using the pin 4021675#

For more information, please contact Susan L. Brown, Homeland Security Program Manager, Franklin Regional Council of Governments and Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council at 413.774.3167 x138 or sbrown@frcog.org.

Teleconference

1 pm

As part of the WRHSAC Social Media Project, a free teleconference training will be offered on Virtual Operations Support Team. Consultants Jeff Phillips and Kim Stephens will be available to address any questions you might have about either the technology or the processes that you have put in place around social media.

More “info” calls will occur during the month of December including:

  • What is a Virtual Operations Support Team? (Dec 13 at 1100 EST and December 14 at 1:00 EST)
  • Twitter Round-About–Including the why’s and what’s of Twitter as well as a simultaneous Twitter “chat” to get users used to the technology (Dec 17th at 1100EST and December 18th at 1:00 EST)
  • What tools are available to monitor Social Media? (December 20 1100 EST)

The dial in for each of the trainings is (409) 777-9000 using the pin 4021675#

For more information, please contact Susan L. Brown, Homeland Security Program Manager, Franklin Regional Council of Governments and Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council at 413.774.3167 x138 or sbrown@frcog.org.

Locations vary and include Northampton

The Center for Multicultural Mental Health (CMMH) at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and the Emergency Preparedness Bureau at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) is offering  free trainings on disaster behavioral health for public health, healthcare, public safety, and other disaster response personnel throughout the Commonwealth. Topics offered throughout the first half of 2013 include Psychological Resilience Basic, Psychological Resilience Train-The-Trainer, and Psychological Resilience Refresher/Advanced.

Complete information is included in this Training Brochure and registration is available here.

Please contact Dr. Lynn Moore with any additional questions: (617) 414 4795 or lynn.moore@bmc.org.

BearCat Armored Vehicle

The Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council provided funds for the BearCat Armored response vehicle. The Bearcat is housed in Pittsfield and operated by the Berkshire Special Response Team. The Bearcat was recently presented to western Massachusetts law enforcement agencies at a trade show in Holyoke. See the MassLive.com article of that event here.

 

WMEMS, 168 Industrial Drive, Northampton, MA

9:30 am

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WMEMS, 168 Industrial Drive, Northampton, MA

10:00 am

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