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Social Media and Emergency Managment Training (2012)

WRHSAC sponsored a social media and emergency management (SMEM) training that was completed in 2012 to assist emergency management directors and other first responders in developing skills and policies to successfully use social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, to communicate with the public. The training included 20 online modules that were designed to give first responders an in-depth understanding of using social media. Those modules are available for anyone interested in learning more about using social media in their first responder agency.

Reference: emergency management, Public Emergency Communciation Strategies, social media, training

Public Emergency Communication Strategy (2012)

This report provides a summary of current emergency communication practices, including communication with the public and between response agencies, identifies communication gaps, and provides recommended actions to address those gaps. Click here to download the PDF.

Emergency Communication Strategy Report Information Video

Reference: personal emergency preparedness, Public Emergency Communciation Strategies

Mass Care, Sheltering and Evacuation (2012)

The WRHSAC has coordinated several project related to preparedness planning for mass care, sheltering, and evacuation for the region. These efforts link into recently statewide efforts. Much of the work done by WRHSAC is being used as templates for the statewide projects. The WHRSAC projects include:

Regional Shelter Planning – Establishing regional disaster response shelters, developing plans, and identifying needed resources and equipment.
Evacuation – Developed evacuation maps for primary and secondary routes and alternate routes throughout the region.
Mass Receiving Planning – and developing plans to receive evacuees from other areas.
Disaster Animal Response Team (DART) Response Planning – Developing common operating picture response plans to local and regional incidents for DART teams.
Faith Community Partnership for Preparedness – Establishing partnerships between faith communities, first responders, and municipal official to enhance the capacity to care for citizens in disaster response.
Sheltering Equipment & Supplies – Establishing caches of sheltering response related equipment. Examples include: sheltering equipment trailers, DART equipment trailers, light towers and highway message boards. See the Resource Guide for a full list of equipment.
Public Emergency Communication Strategies – Researching the most effective ways to communicate with the public before, during and after emergency incidents/disasters.
Website Revision / Redesign – Enhanced the WRHSAC websites to provide emergency response tools and information to first responders and provide personal emergency preparedness information to the public. WRHSAC.org and WesternMassReady.org

Reference: Evacuation, Public Emergency Communciation Strategies, Shelter Planning, Sheltering Equipment

Emergency Preparedness Public Awareness / Outreach / Website (2011)

WRHSAC continues its efforts towards educating the public on steps to take towards personal emergency preparedness, by coordinating with municipalities and REPCs in public outreach, outreach education campaign including billboards, movie slides, public service announcements, etc., and Council sponsored websites: www.westernmassready.org and www.wrhsac.org.