08:04:40 PM Avagene Moore:Good evening all! Welcome to the EIIP Round Table! 08:05:15 PM Avagene Moore:I am the EIIP Coordinator and am attending the Community and Family Preparedness Conference at EMI this week. 08:05:42 PM Avagene Moore:We have two conferences participants online tonight and we will discuss the conference. 08:05:53 PM wsallade:Regarding this Conference at EMI, I'm a bit disappointed at the heavy emphasis on California and the lack of attention to the Deep South. No reps from La., Miss., Ala., or Ga. I'm also dismayed that no local EM Directors are here from New England , New Jersey or New York. 08:06:06 PM Randy Jackson:Hi, I am Randy Jackson, Chief Meteorologist at WFMY-TV in Greensboro, NC. I am thrilled to become a part of your group. Avagene did a great job at EMI talking things up. 08:06:51 PM Avagene Moore:Great. Angela where are you and your affiliation? Also, Amy and Isabel? 08:06:59 PM Angela Bowen:Hello, I'm Angela Bowen, San Jose Prepared! CERT Coordinator for the City of San Jose, CA. I'm glad to know about this site and look forward to participating more. 08:07:20 PM Amy Sebring:EIIP Tech Coordinator, aka Asst. Coordinator for Corpus Christi, Tx. 08:07:36 PM Isabel McCurdy:I'm from British Columbia, Canada. I am currently the EIIP librarian. I am a registered nurse,doing a multi- disciplinary masters degree in policy and practice, focusing on emergency management. 08:07:42 PM Avagene Moore:Randy and Wayne, why are you attending the conference this week? 08:08:10 PM Avagene Moore:Have you gained what you came for? 08:08:47 PM Angela Bowen:Are they there? 08:08:53 PM Randy Jackson:I wanted to see how and if the media, especially those of us in TV weather can become a more positive force in the disaster education community. 08:09:00 PM wsallade:As a local EM Dir. who works closely with TV Meteorologists, I'm thrilled that Randy was here this week. There is no stronger alliance than that which we have with our media partners in Florida. 08:09:33 PM Avagene Moore:Wayne, I agree. I am glad Randy came this week too. 08:10:06 PM Randy Jackson:I am glad to hear of your media success in Florida wsallade, so many of the folks I talke to look at us as the bad guys. 08:11:07 PM Amy Sebring:I appreciate what our local media does for hurricane awareness, and tell them so. 08:11:07 PM wsallade:As to the Conf., I feel to much attention may have been directed at Project Impact Communities. We need to hear about their success, but others across this nation are doing great things too that aren't being showcased. 08:11:35 PM Angela Bowen:? 08:12:23 PM Randy Jackson:My mission, is to take back some of the information I have learned and try to educate my fellow bretheran as to the importance of working with EM and Red Cross people, as well as the community as a whole. 08:12:42 PM Avagene Moore:Go ahead, Angela. Don't have to ask since we are such a small group tonight. 08:12:48 PM Angela Bowen:Randy or wsallade: Please inform me if you know of anyone attending from the state of Kentucky. That's my home and I'm very interested in knowing more about what they're doing. 08:13:19 PM Randy Jackson:Hang on and I will check the roster. 08:13:30 PM Avagene Moore:I have the roster here in front of me. I will see if there is a Kentuckian here. 08:13:38 PM wsallade:We have two reps here from the Bluegrass State. One a Louisville Police officer and the other with the Red Cross. 08:14:19 PM Angela Bowen:Randy, can you be more specific about just what you are learning to take back? 08:14:29 PM wsallade:We have reps from 31 states and 57 cities. There are 78 here in total. 08:15:02 PM Angela Bowen:Thanks. I'll be in Louisville in August, maybe someone could give me contact information. 08:16:02 PM Avagene Moore:Randy, tell us a little about the training class you and I discussed yesterday. I found that very interesting. 08:17:07 PM Avagene Moore:Angela, Sabrina Bowling is the ARC rep from Louisville. distky@crossnet.org 08:17:11 PM Randy Jackson:Sure, In TV, management is too worried about ratings and who is going to get credit for doing what first. We have to get the point across that in disasters and disaster planning we have to take the gloves off and work together. Competition is great but it has it's place. One of our communites was just hit by an F-3 tornado. All the hype, promotion, and who did what first did not matter. What did matter as how we responded to the residents who needed help, and the avenues we had for doing it. 08:17:38 PM wsallade:I will report back to my state association (FEPA), the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the Florida Governor's Hurricane Conf. I will share many of the concepts and successes learned from networking with others. I think you may also see a significant increase in your online partners. 08:17:50 PM Amy Sebring:Wayne, I take it Project Impact rec'd alot of attention; can you give us an idea of some of the other things on the program? 08:18:06 PM Avagene Moore:That's great, Wayne. Randy, I like your attitude. 08:18:39 PM Amy Sebring:(Hi, Lori, welcome.) 08:18:45 PM Randy Jackson:Starting in September I will be teaching a class at a local community college on weather hazards and family preparedness. I think Cathy Henry is going to do a guest lecture for me. 08:19:18 PM Angela Bowen:Sounds interesting, and very worthwhile. More details please. 08:19:32 PM wsallade:We covered topics such as dealing with Senior populations, Explorer Troops in EM and coming up with ways to track your success in Community Disaster Education. 08:19:49 PM Avagene Moore:Randy, I want to follow up with you on this. Maybe we can get you to something for us along that line or lessons learned, whatever you think would be the best approach 08:19:50 PM Angela Bowen:Tell me more about tracking successes. 08:21:22 PM Avagene Moore:(Lori, hello, jump in wherever you like; Randy Jackson, Wayne Sallade, and I are online from the CFP Conference at EMI.) 08:21:31 PM wsallade:We need to find ways to analyze what we are doing in CDE. Does it hit the intended target audience? Do they follow through on promises they made when you spoke to their group? Will they live when the Tornado or Hurricane hits? 08:21:45 PM Randy Jackson:I would be happy to do that Avagene. I hope that as we teach this class, we can add things to it that make it really work. That is one of the reasons I am so happy to have Cathy to bounce things off of. The other contacts I made here, yourself included can also have a voice. 08:22:05 PM Avagene Moore:Good deal, Randy. 08:22:26 PM Angela Bowen:Can anyone send, fax, email a sample of a survey used to track the effectiveness of public education? Mostly for my CERT teams. 08:23:42 PM Avagene Moore:Did we receive a survey, guys? I haven't had time to really look at anything I picked up. 08:23:59 PM Amy Sebring:Our LEPC pays money for an annual survey to measure the penetration of their shelter-in-place message... 08:24:15 PM Randy Jackson:Yes, it was that computer type sheet. I think it was red 08:24:23 PM Amy Sebring:but I am wondering if there is any way to measure whether getting the message will translate into action when the time come.s 08:24:51 PM Avagene Moore:Angela, I just found a UDC Household Dis Prep Survey -- is that what you are looking for? 08:24:58 PM Angela Bowen:Yes 08:25:15 PM Angela Bowen:Please email or fax to 408-277-3345 08:25:31 PM Amy Sebring:Would like to get some of this material in our library for download, hint hint Isabel our librarian. 08:25:38 PM Avagene Moore:I will when I get home, Angela. Will fax. 08:25:50 PM wsallade:I took the Pilot CDE Organizer's Course over the weekend. It needs much refining, but they did include some ideas on surveying among the toolkit items. I'll be on the road another week, but will try to get something to you. 08:26:21 PM Isabel McCurdy:Sounds like a good idea, Amy. 08:26:25 PM Amy Sebring:Any big hit ideas at the conference? 08:26:43 PM Angela Bowen:Thanks. I just feel that all the work we're doing here are going in one ear and out the other. Know what I mean. I don't even know if they're taking the before hand preparedness measures, let alone taking action when something happens. 08:26:52 PM Avagene Moore:Like Wayne said, there was a lot of Proj Impact. Good presentations. 08:27:20 PM Amy Sebring:I think Project Impact can bring attention to this area, because it is something "new"... 08:27:22 PM Avagene Moore:I was impressed by Seattle's coalitions and plans. 08:27:29 PM Amy Sebring:even though the message is pretty old! 08:27:48 PM Amy Sebring:Avagene, can you tell us about the awards? 08:28:36 PM Avagene Moore:A little bit although I didn't write down the recipients. One was the Boston FD and the Bay Area ARC. 08:28:41 PM wsallade:I was very impressed by Seattle's ability to get neighborhoods to get so involved. With my very elderly population, we have such turnover and transition that we would be unable to develop any kind of stability. 08:28:59 PM Angela Bowen:What were some of Seattles ideas? 08:29:31 PM Randy Jackson:I thought Seattle did a great job. I would have never guess that Seattle would have such a focus. 08:29:37 PM Avagene Moore:I don't recall the other. Sorry. Kay Goss, Preparedness Directorate and Dr John Clizbe, Disaster Services, ARC did the honors. 08:29:49 PM Avagene Moore:Recipients were on the phone, not present/ 08:30:05 PM wsallade:The winners in Calif. were a coalition of folks from Altadena, who have done much in public education to reduce losses from wildfire. This was a five-year effort following the fires of 1993. 08:30:21 PM Avagene Moore:Thanks for your good notes, Wayne. 08:30:31 PM Amy Sebring:This was the "Disaster Saves" award, showing effectiveness of efforts I understand. 08:30:49 PM wsallade:No notes Avagene, just a pretty good memory for facts. 08:31:00 PM Angela Bowen:What do you remember about Seattle? 08:31:13 PM Avagene Moore:An award was given to Rocky Lopes, ARC, for all his good work too. Surprised him and it was emotional. 08:31:19 PM Avagene Moore:Back to Seattle... 08:31:21 PM Amy Sebring:Neat. 08:31:56 PM Avagene Moore:LuAn Johnson's community program impressed me. What about you, Wayne and Randy? 08:32:42 PM wsallade:The efforts of LuAnn Johnson to rally all ages to do walkabouts and meet for training is incredible. I'm lucky to get people out to our Hurricane Expo or my annual Hurricane Caravan. They seem to have something real stron going in the Northwest. 08:32:52 PM Randy Jackson:I was very impressed. Just a little concerned about it not getting to maybe all the areas it should. But understand the situation. 08:33:12 PM Amy Sebring:I also heard there was something about public schools? 08:33:24 PM Avagene Moore:Program was called SDART. They have established almost 200 community programs where they prepare the entire community for disasster. 08:34:05 PM Avagene Moore:Yes, they are making schools safer. Primarily removing tanks on the roofs, etc. 08:34:22 PM Avagene Moore:Jump in here, Wayne and Randy. 08:34:33 PM Angela Bowen:Here's the deal. I've just been told I MIGHT get up to $100,000 for promoting San Jose's CERT program. They want 400 neighborhoods organized in the next three years. I'm at a loss for how to reach people beyound the traditional means. Specific ideas? 08:34:58 PM wsallade:She said they had hit 159 neighborhoods and had reached 6,000 people for training and regular sessions of training. They even have Kid's Parties so the little ones will get to know their neighbors and not be scared should someone they don't know come to their house after an earthquake. 08:35:03 PM Randy Jackson:Sorry I am half listening to the weather channel about all the severe weather in IN and OH 08:35:10 PM Amy Sebring:Write to LuAn apparently Angela!! 08:35:23 PM Angela Bowen:Contact info please. 08:35:28 PM Avagene Moore:Well, Angela, LuAn is going to do a Virtual Forum for us. 08:35:36 PM wsallade:Thanks Randy, I'll switch it on. I'm heading west tomorrow. 08:36:06 PM Amy Sebring:Was there anyone there from National Weather Service? 08:36:21 PM Avagene Moore:LuAn Johnson, Program Mgr, Community Preparedness, spandisaster@earthlink.net 08:36:37 PM Avagene Moore:Don't think so, Amy. Randy? 08:36:55 PM Randy Jackson:I was a little suprised that no NWS people were present 08:36:59 PM Amy Sebring:(She must be good. Earthlink instead of AOL! yea) 08:37:00 PM wsallade:No reps from NWS. We need to get the Warning and Coord. Mets. involved. They could add much regarding the new weather radio. 08:37:05 PM Avagene Moore:LuAn's phone is 206 2337122 08:37:13 PM Amy Sebring:I see a natural marriage there. 08:37:22 PM Angela Bowen:Thanks 08:37:32 PM Avagene Moore:Good evening, Rick. 08:37:49 PM Angela Bowen:Rick, are you from CA? Your name is familiar. 08:37:59 PM Rick Tobin:Hello. Very tought time getting in. Sorry I'm late. 08:37:59 PM Amy Sebring:Ralph Swisher in particular has mentioned how much he likes working with the NWS folks... 08:38:00 PM Randy Jackson:One of my tornado chase buddies is the WCM in Tulsa, OK. He is really into CDE and would be great to get in the forum somenight 08:38:11 PM Rick Tobin:Yes, I'm in the Sacramento area. 08:38:12 PM Amy Sebring:but from the wistful tone in his voice when he said it... 08:38:27 PM Amy Sebring:not sure what is going on there. 08:38:30 PM Amy Sebring:Hello Rick! 08:38:34 PM Avagene Moore:Give us the contact info for your buddy, Randy. 08:38:39 PM Isabel McCurdy:Hi Rick. 08:38:52 PM Amy Sebring:Any attendees from the medical community?? 08:38:52 PM Avagene Moore:We haven't had a session on chasing tornadoes. 08:39:32 PM Randy Jackson:His name is Steve Piltz..NWS Tulsa OK 918- 832-4133 08:39:44 PM Avagene Moore:I don't recall any, Amy. Wayne or Randy? thanks, Randy. 08:40:17 PM wsallade:No medical folks according to my roster. 08:40:23 PM Randy Jackson:I just got back from the Torando Chase about two weeks ago. We saw two, luckily they were small and did not major damage. 08:40:35 PM Amy Sebring:You did mention the elderly on the program? What was that about? 08:41:32 PM Amy Sebring:(We have guests from EMI and the Community & Family Preparedness program tonight Rick) 08:41:39 PM Avagene Moore:Reaching Seniors was the topic by Albemarle VA. Good program with handouts. 08:41:44 PM Amy Sebring:conference that is 08:41:55 PM wsallade:It was a program in Charlottesville, Va. on warning and notification of the elderly and preparedness for winter storms and hurricane effects. I was again dismayed with their lack of contact with their local EM program. 08:42:10 PM Amy Sebring:Who was the presenter? 08:42:31 PM Avagene Moore:Program was called Senior Weatherbusters, by Lee Catlin. 08:42:53 PM Amy Sebring:Thanks. Yes, we find an amazing lack of coordination at times Wayne. 08:43:12 PM Avagene Moore:Involves merchants and the community, having weather kits prepared, etc. 08:43:14 PM Randy Jackson:I think it is a great focus. I our community we have assisted living facilites that seem to be sprouting up on every corner. Dealing with seniors is going to be a big deal in the future if it is not already 08:43:42 PM Amy Sebring:We have done 2 sessions on just that issue Randy. 08:43:44 PM Avagene Moore:Most definitely. We heard about the "graying" of America today. 08:43:52 PM wsallade:The presenter represented the Resource center and included a fellow from the Police Dept. who said you shouldn't do this or that or you might get sued. If I worried everyday about getting sued, I wouldn't get anything done on the home front. 08:44:04 PM Amy Sebring:Demographics are quite interesting. 08:44:24 PM Amy Sebring:We have to tell them, if you DON'T do this you might get sued! 08:44:35 PM Randy Jackson:a lot of seniors are TV viewers. That is one of the groups that we need to focus on, and in most cases have their attention already. 08:44:46 PM wsallade:Good point Amy! 08:44:48 PM Amy Sebring:(I have exact same experience with PD Wayne) 08:45:15 PM Amy Sebring:They seem to be as a group, very receptive to the message. 08:45:35 PM Amy Sebring:AND a potential source of volunteers during non-disaster times. 08:45:38 PM Avagene Moore:We will continue to pursue elderly issues. We are working on getting the AARP involved a little more with the EIIP. 08:46:04 PM Randy Jackson:Great, I can join AAPR soon. 08:46:11 PM Amy Sebring:Not just with the EIIP, but with disaster preparedness generally. 08:46:13 PM Randy Jackson:AARP 08:46:20 PM wsallade:Anyone who has ever spent any time in class with Dr. John Pine of LSU, would feel much better about case law as it relates to the Emergency Manager. He is an excellent presenter and would also be great for this forum if we could get him! 08:46:24 PM Amy Sebring:Yes, I am going to be one of those demographics before long! 08:46:38 PM Avagene Moore:Wayne and Randy, I missed the session on the update of the National Disaster Coalition. Was that a good session? Can you tell us something about it? 08:46:42 PM Amy Sebring:We know John. Would be a good discussion. 08:46:58 PM Avagene Moore:Wayne, John has presented for us. 08:47:29 PM Amy Sebring:Legal issues in EM would get a great turnout! 08:47:44 PM wsallade:There wasn't a whole lot of time spent on the Disaster Education Coalition. Just some backslapping and attaboys (gals) for getting together. 08:47:49 PM Avagene Moore:(I was trying to get all the computers up and running when the Dis Coalition speaker was on.) 08:48:01 PM Angela Bowen:Did anyone discuss reaching a multi-ethnic community? We get stumped by that one regularly because we cant afford to hire translators for all 50+ languages in San Jose. We have a big hole by only doing our CERT program in English. Many flyers are available in a variety of languages, but getting them to the right populations is quite a chore. Ideas? 08:48:29 PM Randy Jackson:I do not remember a great deal about it either. 08:49:16 PM Avagene Moore:I didn't hear a lot Angela. However, our friend, Burt Wallrich displayed brochures done in about 6 languages last night at the disaster Fair. 08:49:28 PM Avagene Moore:Burt is with Info Line in LA. 08:49:29 PM wsallade:How about Adult Education Centers where they deal with many ethnic groups and cultures looking into English as a second language or trying for citizenship? 08:49:41 PM Amy Sebring:I am sorry, can you fill in some background re DEC? 08:50:07 PM Amy Sebring:or NDC? 08:50:14 PM Randy Jackson:I have to run folks, thanks for everything, and thanks for being so kind. I will see those of you here tomorrow, and I will see the rest of you in the forum. I will be on as often as I can. Thanks again. 08:50:26 PM Amy Sebring:Thanks so much Randy!! 08:50:28 PM Avagene Moore:Thanks, Randy. 08:50:33 PM Avagene Moore:See you tomorrow. 08:50:44 PM Rick Tobin:I spent the afternoon in a quarterly Regional Disaster Medical Health Coordinators meeting for California. They are very interested in the EIIP forum and what IAEM is doing. They are also seeking a technical "consulting" contactact to assist them in some technical upgrades for medical coordination. 08:50:51 PM Randy Jackson:Good night everyone 08:50:52 PM Avagene Moore:Amy, I didn't get the NDC handout materials. 08:51:14 PM Avagene Moore:I think we should look into the NDC. 08:51:24 PM Amy Sebring:Great Rick. That is promising. 08:51:43 PM Amy Sebring:I don't think you were on yet when I asked if anyone from medical community was at conference. 08:51:46 PM Amy Sebring:Answer was no. 08:51:51 PM Avagene Moore:Yes, we will have to get them interested in emergency med/health care discussions 08:52:35 PM Amy Sebring:Well, I am still waiting for Act Now update from conference... 08:52:44 PM Amy Sebring:hopefully there will be some more details soon. 08:52:56 PM Avagene Moore:Wayne, I was impressed with the Contingency Planner & Recovery Mgmt Group out of Washington Mutual Bank in Seattle. 08:53:35 PM Avagene Moore:The guy is Doug Chandler, VP, of the bank. Seems to be a dynamic and energetic community-minded player. 08:54:13 PM Amy Sebring:Any talk about plans or ideas for future? If Seattle is any indication, it seems that Project Impact is working in terms of generating interest from non-traditional areas. 08:54:23 PM Avagene Moore:Their model for Public/Private Partnership is a good one. 08:54:43 PM Isabel McCurdy:Model? 08:55:17 PM Avagene Moore:By model, the types and number so diverse companies and groups involved in teh CPARM. 08:55:24 PM Amy Sebring:Rick, I know which area has rec'd designation in California, but my mind is blank... 08:55:24 PM wsallade:Yes, we have a similar group starting in Florida called BOARD (Business Organizations Active in Response to Disaster). We have AT&T, several large banks, U.S. Sugar and Home Depot, among others. 08:55:51 PM lori wieber:I work for electric utility...in your experiences, have utility companies played in much of a role in community disaster education efforts? (Aside from electrical hazard warnings) 08:56:01 PM Avagene Moore:There are several groups springing up, an idea whose time has come. 08:56:04 PM Angela Bowen:Oakland 08:56:24 PM Amy Sebring:I can see where they would relate to the name BOARD Wayne. Good choice! 08:56:38 PM Rick Tobin:Wayne: Just to let you know, we'll be watching carefully to see how your shelter program improvements fair in this coming hurricane season. Best of luck. 08:56:40 PM Avagene Moore:I don't know, Lori. I noticed a power company or two mentioned on lists of groups involved in PPPs. 08:57:02 PM Angela Bowen:All the new players are good, but I have concerns about overall coordination between private, govm't, npo, collaboratives, volunteer agencies, etc. 08:57:17 PM Amy Sebring:PPP=public/private partnerships 08:57:24 PM Angela Bowen:Thank you 08:57:26 PM wsallade:Florida Power & Light is a major player in our state, along with Florida Power, Tampa Electric and many electric co-ops. Also, Sprint, BellSouth, GTE and other phone companies are big players. 08:57:29 PM Avagene Moore:Future? Amy, I think the Proj Impact communities are just getting on their feet. Too soon to tell about them. 08:58:09 PM Avagene Moore:Future of the CFP and CDE? I would say both are alive and well and gung-ho for the future. 08:58:24 PM Angela Bowen:cfp? 08:58:43 PM Avagene Moore:Community & Family Preparedness, sorry. 08:58:58 PM Rick Tobin:I've got to leave. Please talk to your folks about the Leonide meteor storm in November...could affect satellites, again. 08:59:02 PM Angela Bowen:What is the difference? 08:59:09 PM wsallade:Acronym Police, Acronym Police! 08:59:14 PM Avagene Moore:CFP is name of conference. 08:59:16 PM Amy Sebring:Bye Rick. 08:59:30 PM Avagene Moore:Bye Rick. Thanks. 08:59:47 PM Amy Sebring:Actually CFP is the program...Community and Family Preparedness. 08:59:57 PM Amy Sebring:CDE? 08:59:58 PM Avagene Moore:Yes, right. thanks Amy 09:00:10 PM Avagene Moore:Community disaster education. 09:00:33 PM Avagene Moore:CFP is FEMA, CDE is ARC 09:00:41 PM Amy Sebring:It's about time to wrap up... 09:00:56 PM wsallade:Gotta go folks. Need to fold that laundry and start packing. Thanks for inviting me on. I'll see you tomorrow Avagene and we'll talk about the internet partnership. Thank you all. 09:01:05 PM Amy Sebring:I for one am SOOOooo pleased we were able to make the connection tonight! 09:01:06 PM Avagene Moore:Yes, it has been a long day. Thanks to everyone for being here. Wayne, thank you for making it. 09:01:12 PM Amy Sebring:Thank you very much Wayne. 09:01:19 PM Amy Sebring:Thanks to Randy and Avagene. 09:01:27 PM Avagene Moore:Yes, forget these LANs. 09:01:35 PM Isabel McCurdy: 09:01:35 PM Amy Sebring:Tell Ralph Swisher we said hello. How is he holding up? 09:01:47 PM Avagene Moore:Ralph is fine Such a gentleman. 09:02:12 PM Amy Sebring:He is the program Director, guys, and basically a one man show at FEMA. 09:02:35 PM Avagene Moore:Thanks Angela and Lori for joining us. Amy and Isabel. As always, I appreciate you being here. 09:02:37 PM Angela Bowen:Now I got it. I wish I could have joined you, I still have so many questions but have learned a lot and been given much to think about. Will check in next week to see what else is up. Take care and have a good night. Oh, I will be at EMI in August for a CERT-type conference. Maybe I can come around and say hello. Until next week, take care. Signing off...Angela 09:02:52 PM Isabel McCurdy:I enjoy being here. 09:02:54 PM Amy Sebring:Thanks Angela 09:02:56 PM lori wieber:Thank you for holding this forum, I will be attending again. Much to learn. God night all. 09:03:05 PM Amy Sebring:Bye Lori. Thanks.