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Indian Health Service Emergency Management

Indian Health Service Emergency Management. CDR Darrell LaRoche, PE Director, Emergency Services 301-443-0046. Overview. IHS Emergency Services Staff Roles and Opportunities Emergency Management Mitigation Preparedness Response Recovery. IHS Emergency Services.

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Indian Health Service Emergency Management

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  1. Indian Health Service Emergency Management CDR Darrell LaRoche, PE Director, Emergency Services 301-443-0046

  2. Overview • IHS Emergency Services Staff • Roles and Opportunities • Emergency Management • Mitigation • Preparedness • Response • Recovery

  3. IHS Emergency Services • Staff function in the Office of the Director, Office of Clinical and Preventive Services • Responsibilities: • Trauma Services • Emergency Medical Services • Physical Security • Emergency Management

  4. Organization

  5. Emergency ManagementPoints of Contact • Each Area has a person designated as an Emergency Management Point of Contact (EMPOC) • Serves as a conduit for information and situational awareness

  6. IHS Program Staff • Each IHS program has an emergency management or continuity aspect to it • Work in the communities • Have built partnerships, relationships, and trust • Closest • Sometimes the “First on Scene”

  7. Tribal Assistance Coordination Group (TAC-G) • Federal agencies that provide assistance to tribes • Started by three primary: FEMA, Indian Affairs, IHS • Others: CDC, ACF, SAMHSA, BIE, EPA, DOI, DHS

  8. IHS Concept of Operations • IHS CONOPS • National Incident Management System (NIMS) compliant • Works under existing IHS Authorities • Works within the National Response Framework

  9. Mobilization Centers • Albuquerque, NM • Nashville, TN • Grissom ARB, Indiana

  10. Mobilization Centers • Response Cache • Radios • Medical Bags • DRASH Units • Generators • Response Trailers • Focal Point for Deploying Responders

  11. Training and Exercising • NIMS • Incident Command System • Technical/Specialty • Position Qualifications

  12. What are your roles and opportunities?

  13. Individual/Family Preparedness • Stay Healthy • Immunizations • Training • Family Emergency Plans • Ready Kit

  14. Helping your community • Community Emergency Response Teams • Medical Reserve Corps

  15. Emergency Management Cycle

  16. Mitigation • Lessen the effect or impact • Building Codes • Redundancy • Environmental regulations • Security

  17. Preparedness • Plan, Training, Partnerships • Emergency Operations Plans Annexes • Emergency Contact Lists • Staff Training • Partner Meetings • Exercises

  18. Response • Protecting life • Protecting property • Stabilizing the situation

  19. Responses • Within our own authority • Most emergencies on Tribal land are not Presidentially declared • Stafford Act

  20. Within our Own Authority • North American Indigenous Games • California Wildfires 2007 • H1N1

  21. Stafford Act • Tribe would request a declaration through the State Governor • The Governor would request the declaration on behalf of the tribe • Follow National Response Plan

  22. Emergency Support Functions (ESF) • ESF 3 – Engineering • ESF 6 – Mass Care • ESF 8 – Public Health and Medical • ESF 15 – External Affairs (Tribal Liaison)

  23. Recovery • Bringing things back to the pre-disaster state • National Disaster Recovery Framework

  24. Review • IHS Emergency Services • Roles and Opportunities in Emergency Management • Questions?

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