8am to 12pm

The Federal Executive Association of Western Massachusetts (FEAWM) and the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) Region I are pleased to invite you to the Western Mass Continuity Workshop.

The Workshop will be conducted on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 from 8:00am to 12:00pm.  Registration will begin at 7:30am.  The workshop will be held at Holyoke Community College, Kittredge Center, 303 Homestead Avenue, Holyoke, MA 01040.  The event is free to all federal agencies and state and local partners. Participants can choose to attend a Continuity 101 Workshop or a Reconstitution Workshop.  (Please see attached workshop descriptions.)  Light breakfast refreshments will be provided.

If your agency has a Continuity of Operations (COOP) plan, please bring a copy of it to the workshop.  It will help you in referencing information during the activities.  If your agency does not yet have a COOP plan, don’t worry.  The COOP 101 workshop will get you on track to developing one.

Open this document for registration and further information.

Recent newsletter from Northeast Homeland Security Council.

10am to 2pm

The Greenfield Public Safety Day will be held on Saturday, October 13th, 2012 from 10am till 2pm at the Greenfield Fire Station. The event is sponsored by the City of Greenfield. The emphasis of this day is health and safety as partners in the delivery of public safety in Greenfield. The Health Department will conduct a flu clinic during the event and the firehouse will be open for tours, apparatus demos, etc. For more information, please contact Chief Michael Winn at Greenfield Fire Dept., 413-774-4737 x2 or mike78@townofgreenfield.org.

3:30pm to 5:30pm

The Franklin County Regional Emergency Planning Committee (REPC) quarterly meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 from 3:30pm – 5:30pm at the  Franklin County Jail. The meeting agenda will be posted closer to the meeting date at www.frcog.org. For more information, please contact Tracy Rogers at 413-774-3167 x118 or regionalprep@frcog.org.

The Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council is sponsoring a training “Social Media for Emergency Management.” This course will provide participants with practical, hands on experience to incorporate Social Media tools into Emergency Management. The full day course will take place on Friday, September 21, at the Hotel Northampton, Northampton MA. Shorter versions for those who can’t make the full day, will be offered on the evening of Thursday, September 20^th & the morning of September 22^nd.

A course blog has been established at: WesternMassSMEM.wordpress.com. Individuals planning to attend the course should go to the blog for course registration and to also participate in the training modules that are pre-requisites for the training.

For further information contact Mary Praus, Homeland Security Project Planner at mpraus@frcog.org

Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council member, Melissa Nazzaro honored with the Jeff Grossman 9-1-1 Award. Nazzaro serves as the public safety communications representative on WRHSAC. Read the full story on masslive.com.

Today, the Western Region Homeland Security Advisory Council (WRHSAC) launched its new websites WRHSAC.org and WesternMassReady.org.