Review the Contract in a Face-to-Face Meeting. Bring all stakeholders, including the contractor and your agency’s designated compliance administrator, together to ensure all parties have a clear understanding of the contract. At this time, it’s important to: Clarify the language in the contract and coach all parties through their questions and common mistakes. Ensure they… Read more
A PowerPoint presentation from that reviews the four keys to effective grant management — assessing capacity, procurement, monitoring and financial controls and procedures. Keys to Effective Grant Management
This guide provides Floridians with actions to take before and after a disaster to make sure homeowners insurance coverage is adequate and that financial interests are up-to-date and protected. Natural Disasters: Your Guide to Insurance and Financial Preparation in the Event of a Disaster
Ready New York: Reduce Your Risk outlines steps New York City property owners can take to prepare through — cost-effective and sustained actions taken to reduce the long-term risk to human life or property from hazards. The guide covers preparation for all types of perils that can impact New York City and identifies additional resources.… Read more
This quick reference guide, developed by FEMA, helps individuals and families prepare for an earthquake and prevent earthquake-related damage to their homes. The brochure features instructions on conducting earthquake drills and “hazard hunts,” in addition to a checklist of disaster supplies, tips on what to do during and after an earthquake and additional resources. Earthquake… Read more
At the scene of an incident, the news media’s most basic needs are access to information and images. Use these tips from FEMA to help anticipate what the media will want and to setup a media staging area that enhances communications to help guide information flow between the public information officer (PIO) and the media. … Read more
This course covers basic information about the role of a State or local Public Information Officer. The goal of this awareness course is to provide an orientation to the public information function and the role of the Public Information Officer (PIO) in the public safety/emergency management environment. Use this link to take the interactive web-based… Read more
Communicating with the public is one of the most important aspects of disaster response and recovery planning, yet in the wake of disaster public communications often get overlooked for the sake of getting other essential tasks completed. Make sure you have enough Public Information Officers (PIO) trained and on hand to keep residents and… Read more
Local elected and appointed officials play a key role in keeping citizens informed and building confidence in the community’s ability to recover and build back stronger. Work with incident command’s chief Public Information Officer (PIO) and use these tips to maximize the effectiveness of your messages to impacted residents. Communicate the efforts that are being… Read more
One of the public information officer’s (PIO) essential functions is to handle media requests and communications, preventing them from distracting the incident commander. Use these tips to prepare for and respond effectively to the media. Have media contact lists. Develop a media contact list with after-business hours contact information, email addresses and websites. Have multiple,… Read more
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