PWCARES Training

Introductions

Agenda

• Introductions
• Past Events
• Upcoming Events
• EOC Changes
• Workshop

past Events

• MCM
• Willing Warrors
• Mini-tri

Upcoming Events

• SET
• MCM
• County

MCM Events

• Marathon
• Turkey Trot

County Events

• Dark Sky Table Top
• Life Fire Exercise at Quantico (May 2023)

Simulated Emergency Test

• Oct 1&2
• Snowstorm casues power outages
• Want to use ARES Books

EOC Update and Changes

• Captured a need to formalize the ____ process developed during the event.
• Some responses noted confusion related to roles and responsibilities
• Finance/Administration and Logistics section processes/procedures were not sufficient

EOC UPDATE AND CHANGES

• Not all departments actively participate in emergency management training and exercise opportunities
• Just-in-time training for EOC staff did not adequately overcome the lack of previous emergency management training and experience during the pandemic response

What does this Mean?

• During an emergency, our agencies and partners:
• Fundamentally know their roles and responsibilities;
• Have people, supplies, equipment or information to support an incident;
• Need information and may require operational support;
• Look to EM to provide the process.

What does this mean?

• County government processes, by nature, are decentralized; that doesn’t always translate well to a centralized emergency response.
• We spend a lot of time training people where they fit in ICS or EOC structures: This takes away from time that could be spent developing plain language job aids and training

NEW FRAMEWORK

• Simplified framework that integrates stakeholders and their processes using common terminology and plain language from daily business processesin response to an emergency event.
• Recognizes that organization structure in an EOC must be flexible enough to support decentralized County processes that don’t naturally fit in an ICS or ESF construct

Updated Activation Matrix

• Monitoring
• Enhanced Monitoring
• Partial Activation
• Full Activation

How does this Affect PWCARES?

• The mission is unchanged
• The agencies we support are the same.
• More plain English, less jargon
• People over process

Training Update

• Big 4 - 700/800/100/200
• IS-29 - PIO Awareness
• IS-703 - NIMS Resource Mgmt
• IS-2200 - Basic EOC Ops
• Other classroom courses as needed

Questions?

Workshop