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5/16/2012 9:41 PM 

The Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference is an annual meeting held in Tacoma that is an excellent way to network with others in the disaster preparedness field – and get an excellent overview of the state of the art. Though a good deal, it doesn’t always fit folks schedules and may be too big a time and financial commitment for others. Fortunately, they make many of the presentations available after the conference. Here they are:

Visit www.cm.wsu.edu/ehome/piepc/68406 for live links to the following presentations:

• Keynote: Dr. Grady Bray
• Changes in the National Incident Management System and how it will affect Federal, State and Local operations.
• Lessons from Earthquakes of 2008 – 2011
• Overcoming barriers: The role of gender in disasters
• Planning for Medical Surge: A Step-by-Step Approach for Tangible Public Health Preparedness
• Bruce Binder, Obrien
• Managing COOP in Disaster ; The COOP Coordination Group
• Mitigating, Preventing, Responding, and Recovering from Active Shooters Incidents
• Dealing with Difficult People - during disasters
• Kick Starting a Business Continuity Program
• Get out of Town: Evacuation and Sheltering in a Catastrophic Incident
• How Do Assumptions Affect Your Flood Losses and Economy?
• The Importance of Cultural Competency in Emergency Management
• Leveraging Money for Recovery - the role of the Emergency Manager in a complex economic world
• State and Local Governments' Legal Authorities During Emergencies and "Home Rule" Misconceptions\
• Mass Fatality Planning for Cities and Counties: Working Together to Prepare for the Worst
• Partners in Weather Preparedness - Basic
• Panel Discussion: The American Red Cross Responding to Disasters
• Mississippi Flooding: ESF6 Lessons Learned
• Effective Evacuation Coordination in Disasters
• Observations from the 2011 Christchurch NZ and 2011 Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquakes Implications for the Pacific Northwest
• Safety Preplanning and Strategy for Large Incident Responses
• Emergency Radio Communications Made Simple
• Partners in Weather Preparedness; Advanced
• Developing a Regional Pediatric Disaster Response Plan
• What your mama didn't tell you about flood recovery?
• Disaster Preparedness on a Limited Budget
• Crisis and Sleep Deprivation - The Road to Weirdness
• A Case Study of legal issues involving emergency management and emergency services
• Protecting Organizations from Cyber Attack
• Panel - Migrant Ships: A Multi-Jurisdiction Approach to Planning and Response
• Family Assistance Center Planning for Mass Fatality Incidents
• Magnitude 9 Paradigm Shift
• Practical Disaster Sheltering: Strategies and Tactics for Success
• Cascadia, View from a Volcano
• Long Term Disaster Recovery
• Washington State Department of Health Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor
• Radiological Emergency Preparedness "A Study of Federal, State and Local Preparedness for events at Nuclear Power Plants"
• Emergency Alert System changes in Washington State
• Rapid Responder: New Incident Command Tools
• Social Media and Disaster Management Right Tool...Right Time...Right Place
• Whole Community; as a Framework to Identify and Address Gaps in Vulnerable Populations Planning
• Teachers: Forgotten Resource in School Disaster Preparedness
• Disaster Pet Sheltering planning and Lessons Learned
• Patient Movement: A Different Kind of Evacuation

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