This is a good document and I want to commend FEMA, the American Red Cross and the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) for leading the effort to develop this strategy. Implementation of the strategy will begin upon publication of the document, and will take years to accomplish. I won't summarize the document here but encourage everyone involved in the mass care community to read it and think about how they can contribute to the implementation of the strategy.
I have already been thinking about where I can contribute. The Strategy has five goals:
- Build Scalability into Service Delivery
- Create the Opportunity for Improved Coordination and Participation
- Engage the Whole Community
- Standardize Mass Care Practices
- Strengthen and Unify Mass Care Legal and Policy Foundations
For each Goal a number of Sub-Goals were developed. These Sub-Goals are assigned in the Strategy to one of three Implementation Teams: Planning, Operations and Legislative Action. Some of the Sub-Goals are in areas of interest to me and for which I have expertise. I will be looking to the National Mass Care Strategy website for information on when and how these Implementation Teams will be formed and for opportunities to comment on the various implementation documents as they are drafted.
In the meantime the best contribution that I can make to the Strategy is to spread the word.
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ReplyDeleteSpreading the word is also the best strategy that the hospice services can offer at the meantime. It’s already a big help that there are people and organizations which offers these kinds of projects; I just wish that the government should also play their part.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope this initiative gains support from the public. It has a solid long-term plan to better adapt to the needs of the time as far as emergency management is concerned, something very much needed these days when disasters are getting a lot worse.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm worried about is the political aspect of this plan. Sure it has support from both the medical-inclined sectors and from certain politicians, but many other powers-that-be may have a problem with some of its provisions and cause a major bureaucratic bog-down that would prevent it to take off.
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