Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program Building Regional Resiliency Conference

1. Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program Building Regional Resiliency Conference September 18-20, 2012 Bill Carwile, Associate Administrator for Response and Recovery

2. Whole Community • To meet existing challenges in the emergency management environment, government is moving towards a philosophy that builds upon the strengths of public partners and local communities: an effort FEMA refers to as Whole Community • The focus of Whole Community is to foster development of a community-oriented model for emergency management that increases the resilience of communities • Resilience refers to the ability to adapt to changing conditions and to withstand and rapidly recover from disruption due to emergencies Whole Community Principles Engage all aspects of the community to define and address essential life-saving and sustaining needs Understand and meet the actual needs of the whole community Strengthen community assets, institutions and social processes that work well in communities on a daily basis

3. Whole Community • The FY2011 – FY2014 FEMA Strategic Plan describes four Initiatives for how FEMA will advance community engagement in emergency management, further advance the nation’s capacity to withstand and recover from catastrophic disasters, foster a common understanding of risk, and increase FEMA’s flexibility and agility as a learning organization. FEMA’s adoption of a Whole Community philosophy underlies each of the four Initiatives as well as the spirit behind Pub 1. • Foster a Whole Community approach to emergency management nationally • Build the nation‘s capacity to stabilize and recover from a catastrophic event • Build unity of effort and common strategic understanding among the emergency management team • Enhance FEMA’s ability to learn and innovate as an organization

4. Meta-Scenario • In order to anticipate catastrophic requirements and to avoid narrow focus on a limited number of specific scenarios, the Whole Community approach is built upon a foundation of a meta-scenario consisting of the maximum of maximum challenges across a range of scenarios: • No-notice event • Impact area • ~7 million population • 25,000 square miles • Several states and FEMA regions • 190,000 fatalities in initial hours • 265,000 citizens require emergency medical attention • Severe damage to critical infrastructure and key resources • Severe damage to essential transportation infrastructure • Ingress/egress options limited

5. Core Capabilities • We are building the key capabilities we would need to confront any challenge. Capabilities, defined by specific and measurable objectives, are the cornerstone of preparedness and resilience. • A focus on capabilities enables more integrated, flexible, and agile “all hazards” efforts tailored to the unique circumstances of any given threat, hazard, or actual event. • FEMA’s Whole Community catastrophic planning initiative, demonstrates this approach. Known as the Maximum of Maximums, the focus is on planning for a catastrophe around core capabilities where extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, and disruption overwhelm our traditional, well established, response and recovery plans and procedures. This effort is a concrete step in making the Whole Community principle real in operations.

6. Core Capabilities, cont’d • Core capabilities are essential for the execution of each of the five mission areas: 1.) Prevention 2.) Protection 3.) Mitigation 4.) Response and 5.) Recovery • To assess both our capacity and our gaps, each core capability includes targets for which measures will be developed. • The core capabilities and capability targets are not exclusive to any single level of government or organization, but rather requires the combined efforts of the whole community • Core capabilities and targets, like the risks we face, are not static; they will be vetted and refined, taking into consideration the risk and resource requirements, during the planning process established through the Presidential Policy Directive ( PPD-8).

7. Core Capabilities by Mission Area Three Core Capabilities Span all Five Mission Areas: Planning Public Information & Warning Operational Coordination

8. What’s Different about Catastrophic Events? • Number of casualties • Medical resources • Mortuary Capacity • Never Enough Commodities • Requires creative solutions • Focus is on “THE LAST MILE” • Need to prioritize • Absolute requirement for Disciplined Crisis Planning • Incident Action Planning Process • Political and Media Engagement • Engaging and communicating with elected officials • Working with the media and its various outlets