DHS Announces Results of 2022 Invent2Prevent Final Competition
Domestic Preparedness
January 30, 2023
Students from universities and high schools across the country submitted projects to help prevent targeted violence and terrorism on campus and in their communitiesOn January 25, the Department of Homeland Security’s Center
New Secret Service Research Examines for the First Time Five Years of Mass Violence Data
Domestic Preparedness
January 25, 2023
The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center released Mass Attacks in Public Spaces: 2016 – 2020, a comprehensive report examining 173 incidents of targeted violence and highlighting the observable commonalities among the attackers.
Strong Foundations – What Every Disaster Plan Needs
Catherine L. Feinman
January 25, 2023
The initial goal of a disaster plan should be to avoid the disaster. The secondary goal should be to respond effectively when a disaster cannot be avoided. To be clear,
Crisis Standards of Care – A Mental Health Perspective
James Greenstone
January 25, 2023
Crisis standards of care and sufficiency of care are topics of great controversy and debate in professional circles. The reasons may be obvious to most. Traditionally, health care responders are trained and held to the standard of care of their profession when rendering aid. Nothing less is acceptable. The public understands this and demands this high level of care, even under disaster conditions. Medical and allied professionals experience stress when they cannot deliver high-level care and may subsequently fear liability exposure and litigation.
Applications for a Newly Developed Risk and Resilience Tool
Kyle Pfeiffer, Rao Kotamarthi and Christina Nuñez
January 25, 2023
A new, publicly available tool provides a window into how future climate realities could affect U.S. cities and towns. Learn how planners and decision-makers can get map-based analyses driven by peer-reviewed climate data using this free portal.
Virtual Reality Training Revolution Is Here
Peter Johnson
January 18, 2023
The click-through, good-enough training, ubiquitous in many organizations, is not good enough anymore. A Harvard Business Review article titled “Where Companies Go Wrong with Learning and Development” (L&D) discovered that only 12% of employees applied
The Pony Express Rides Again
Monty Dozier
January 18, 2023
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care providers and facilities, local jurisdictions, and state agencies struggled to acquire personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks, gloves, gowns,
DHS Has Made Progress in Fulfilling Geospatial Data Act Responsibilities, But Additional Work is Needed
Domestic Preparedness
January 13, 2023
The Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (GDA) requires each covered agency to fulfill 13 responsibilities to foster efficient management and use of geospatial data — information linked to specific geographic locations.
FEMA Seeks Public Feedback on Cost-Effective Hazard Mitigation Measures
Domestic Preparedness
January 13, 2023
FEMA is seeking public feedback from state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) stakeholders and the general public on how communities use Mitigation funding through the Public Assistance Program. FEMA provides
Benefits of Industrial Liaisons – A Harris County Example
Jamie Hannan
January 11, 2023
Planners in the Harris County, Texas, area are successful specifically because of the relationships
they have built over many years. For example, the county’s Industrial Liaisons Program provides many
positive takeaways and best practices practitioners can implement throughout the U.S. and abroad.
