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Author: Matthew Jude Egan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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FEMA currently divides post-disaster operations into two phases: Response and Recovery. The nonprofit sector, primarily through the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (National VOAD) member organizations, provides services and distributes goods in ways that straddle both Response and Recovery. In terms of provision of goods and services to individuals, these two phases invoke ESF-6 and ESF-14. FEMA has traditionally had a difficult time categorizing National VOAD members' activities, partially because of the difficulty in categorizing whether their work fits into Response or Recovery. As FEMA is currently drafting the National Recovery Framework, this paper suggests that this is a particularly strong opportunity for FEMA to better capture the way in which National VOAD members participate in post-disaster operations. The paper describes National VOAD member operations, the “relief and disaster assistance” missions (hereinafter referred to interchangeably as “Relief” or “Relief and Disaster Assistance”), as a current of activities that run through the preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery stages of the disaster cycle. This paper argues that by developing a better understanding of the types of services National VOAD members provide and the motivations for providing them, FEMA and state and local governments will be better able to utilize the nonprofit sector in post-disaster operations.
Author: Matthew Jude Egan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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FEMA currently divides post-disaster operations into two phases: Response and Recovery. The nonprofit sector, primarily through the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (National VOAD) member organizations, provides services and distributes goods in ways that straddle both Response and Recovery. In terms of provision of goods and services to individuals, these two phases invoke ESF-6 and ESF-14. FEMA has traditionally had a difficult time categorizing National VOAD members' activities, partially because of the difficulty in categorizing whether their work fits into Response or Recovery. As FEMA is currently drafting the National Recovery Framework, this paper suggests that this is a particularly strong opportunity for FEMA to better capture the way in which National VOAD members participate in post-disaster operations. The paper describes National VOAD member operations, the “relief and disaster assistance” missions (hereinafter referred to interchangeably as “Relief” or “Relief and Disaster Assistance”), as a current of activities that run through the preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery stages of the disaster cycle. This paper argues that by developing a better understanding of the types of services National VOAD members provide and the motivations for providing them, FEMA and state and local governments will be better able to utilize the nonprofit sector in post-disaster operations.
Author: Fema Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781981828173 Category : Languages : en Pages : 60
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Course Overview This independent study course provides a basic understanding of the history, roles and services of disaster relief voluntary agencies in providing disaster assistance. It is appropriate for both the general public and those involved in emergency management operations. Course Objectives: The overall goal of this Independent Study course is to increase awareness of the roles and responsibilities of voluntary agencies in emergency management. Voluntary agencies have helped meet the needs of individuals and communities affected by disasters since the 1800's. Today, they serve a critical role in the emergency management field from helping communities prepare for and mitigate the effects of disasters to providing immediate response and long-term recovery services. Without the support, dedication, and expertise of voluntary agencies, the government would be unable to address all the needs of disaster-affected communities. At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to: Describe the unique strengths that voluntary agencies bring to the emergency management community; Identify important historical milestones in the development of voluntary agencies in the U.S.; Describe briefly the history of each National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) member agency; Identify the roles and services that voluntary agencies provide throughout each phase of the emergency management cycle (i.e., mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery); Explain the importance of collaboration and coordination among voluntary agencies and between voluntary agencies and their emergency management partners; and Describe the entities (e.g., National Voluntary Organization Active in Disaster, the Donations Coordination Team) that foster government/voluntary agency coordination throughout the emergency management cycle.
Author: Brenda D. Phillips Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN: 0128138475 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 209
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Volunteer work can make a difference to those harmed by natural, technological, and human-induced disasters if it is done well. Disaster Volunteers provides readers with information on why people volunteer, the benefits gained by volunteers and recipients, and how to leverage such good will. Learning from a variety of past disasters, readers will gain realistic insights into the challenges of disaster contexts. Equipped with evidence-based best practices, Dr. Phillips organizes and illustrates necessary steps to recruit, train, manage, reward, and retain volunteers throughout the life cycle of disasters. This important resource walks both organizations and individuals through the entire process of volunteer engagement from recruiting and training to managing as well as rewarding and retaining volunteers and provides an engaging and informative set of useful and evidence-based chapters. Disaster Volunteers fills an existing gap in books on volunteer disaster management by incorporating research, generating sound recommendations, grounding ideas in a disaster context, and offering an inviting set of examples from which readers can learn. - Includes sample materials for use by emergency managers, emergency managers, civic and faith-basedorganizations - Provides case studies offering first-hand experiences that help bring the content to life - Includes stepwise advice to recruit, train, and retain a diverse set of disaster volunteers
Author: Mason Mathews Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOADs) depend on interorganizational networks to rapidly deliver services to communities during times of crisis. These networks allow VOAD members to share resources before, during, and after disasters. Empirical research repeatedly indicates that routine interactions and exchanges between organizations predict coordination and collaboration during disasters. Rarely, however, do organizations systematically assess routine pre-disaster exchanges and use the data to improve their disaster response networks. This study seeks to fill this gap by presenting a cyclical five-step network intervention framework in which organizations use assessments of multilevel routine exchanges to improve disaster response networks. During a pilot project with Nebraska VOAD members, we created a network survey designed to collect multilevel resource exchange data. Here we use these survey results to illustrate how organizations can use our network intervention process of identifying, intervening, and improving to enhance disaster response capacity. State-level VOADs can use this approach to understand: 1) how their exchange networks function, 2) which organizations are exchange 'pillars' across multiple networks, and 3) which organizations could be better integrated into exchange networks. By evaluating resource exchange networks before and between disaster events, VOADs can adapt their networks to better assist communities during disasters.
Author: Cynthia M. Fagnoni Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1437901727 Category : Disaster relief Languages : en Pages : 57
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Using lessons from the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes, FEMA released the Nat. Response Framework (NRF) in Jan. 2008. This report examines: (1) why the primary role for mass care in the NRF shifted from the Red Cross to FEMA, and potential issues with implementation; (2) whether Nat. Voluntary Org. Active in Disasters (NVOAD) -- an umbrella org. of 49 voluntary agencies -- is equipped to fulfill its NRF role; (3) the extent to which FEMA has addressed issues with mass care for the disabled since the hurricanes; (4) the extent to which major voluntary agencies have prepared to better serve the disabled since the hurricanes; and (5) the extent to which FEMA has addressed issues voluntary agencies faced in receiving Public Assistance reimbursement. Ill.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 171
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This study sought to explore the factors that influence the creation and maintenance of Local Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (LVOADs). Semi-structured interviews were conducted and data was analyzed following the principles of Grounded Theory as outlined by Charmaz (2006). Seventeen individuals were selected based on their involvement in five LVOADs within FEMA's Region VIII. It was found that creation factors held a high degree of consistency LVOAD-to-LVOAD, but the maintenance factors suffered from a limited number of available LVOADs that progressed to the maintenance stage. Findings suggest communities require multiple hazard events, strong leadership, and a formal organizational structure to develop LVOADs and they are difficult to maintain. Throughout creation, LVOADs face a number of barriers including burnout, turnover, and turf issues. During maintenance, LVOADs attempted to counteract barriers by offering value with membership. This study concludes with implications for emergency management practice and the academic discipline.
Author: Michael C. Stajura Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 485
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Background: Community organizations active in disasters play a vital role in community disaster response and recovery, but academic understanding of this organizational population is limited by untested and imprecise typological differentiations. An organizational taxonomy would better quantify and define this population and subgroups within it. This would allow for contextualizing research and findings against a validated framework that relates organizational groups and subgroups within the broader population. Taxonomies also serve a role similar to theory by enabling the development of new research questions and hypotheses. Objectives: This dissertation proposes a taxonomy to classify the organizations of interest, and the taxonomy uses typological benchmarks that ensure coherent classificatory groups to provide meaning-in-context and salience to the needs of its users. The taxonomy evaluated the utility of structural/operational, functional, and financial traits for classifying the organizations. The taxonomy can guide research and policy development, and it can also provide utility to the community organizations themselves and their collaborative networks. Methods: A novel study population of 660 organizations was created from a stratified non-probability quota sample of 28 Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD) networks. The 660 organizations cover the full range of organizational subtypes/subgroups of interest, and the results are not meant to be generalizable to the VOADs themselves without additional and planned validation. Two sets of hierarchical clustering results were produced and compared using both polythetic and parsimonious trait selection. Iterative and heuristic modeling procedures assessed and compared the results of several important permutations and methodological choices. Findings: The best set of results classified the population based on a parsimonious set of structural/operational traits: charitable/religious and faith-based/not faith-based. The results from both approaches were robust and congruent with the typological understanding of these organizations, but up to one-fourth of the organizations in the study population exhibited noteworthy deviation from common typological distinctions. The results were expanded into a taxonomy with three branches and three tiers to create a combined total of 26 clusters and subclusters. The best set of results also used a modified unit of analysis that classified 47 coherent organizational subgroups, akin to "species", rather than 660 individual organizations.
Author: Matthew Jude Egan
Author: Matthew Jude Egan
Author: Fema
Author: Brenda D. Phillips
Author: Mason Mathews
Author: Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency
Author: National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (Organization)
Author: Cynthia M. Fagnoni
Author: National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters
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Author: Michael C. Stajura