Free Webinar: Managing Concurrent Critical Events (Featuring Judd Freed, Incoming IAEM President)
Dealing with a single critical event is tough enough. How about handling multiple events at once? Judd Freed, MA, CEM, our guest speaker for the upcoming BOLDplanning Thought Leader webinar, understands this challenge all too well. As Director of [...]
Prince George’s County, MD Hosts Principles of Continuity Planning Seminars for Department Planners
Even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, state, local, and tribal governments nationwide are continuing to push forward with their preparedness planning initiatives. Take Maryland’s Prince George’s County and its Office of Emergency Management (OEM), for example. On August 31st and [...]
New Online Preparedness Training for Community-Based Organizations Now Available from FEMA
BOLDplanning learned this week that FEMA has officially launched a new preparedness training course for Community-Based Organizations (CBOs). The self-guided online course, entitled “Organizations Preparing for Emergency Needs,” or OPEN, is “designed to empower CBOs to prepare for incidents [...]
National Preparedness Month: Reminder to “Build a Kit”
September, as our nation’s emergency management community knows, is National Preparedness Month. Week One of the annual Ready.gov campaign, September 1 through 5, centered around the message, “Make a Plan.” (This is obviously a topic that is very near [...]
Cyber Attacks Continue During COVID-19 Pandemic
We’ve all heard the old saying, “kick them while they’re down.” And, unfortunately, that’s exactly what cybercriminals are doing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. All across America (and the world), public and private sector organizations are witnessing [...]
COVID-19 Operational Guidance for Hurricane Season: It May Be Time for a Second Read
Maybe it’s time for a second read of FEMA’s COVID-19 Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season. The guidance, according to FEMA, provides actions emergency managers and public officials can take to prepare for response and recovery operations during [...]