Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice www.cip.msu.edu

1. Critical Incident Protocol (CIP) –Community Facilitation ProgramFacilitation of partnerships between public and private sectors for joint managing of critical incidents by establishing protocols Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice www.cip.msu.edu

2. Michigan State University through a U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant provides the CIP Program for free to cities, counties, and regions across the nation MSU will facilitate or enhance partnerships between the public sector (police, fire, EMS, health, emergency management, and other stakeholders) and the private sector (businesses and non-governmental organizations) for joint managing of critical incidents using an all-hazards approach Communities will work on emergency preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery through joint planning, exercising and training The facilitation process involves two to four workshops over a period of six to nine months with each workshop building upon the last one CIP-Community Facilitation Program

3. Goals of the CIP Program Create public and private sector understanding ofcommon goals to protect lives and property while sustaining continuity of community life Encourage public and private sector entities that engage in the assessment and planning process in isolation, to formcooperative partnerships Assist businesses and communities that lack emergency planning experience in the development ofjoint emergency planning Develop an understanding of mutual or respective goals and understand how public and private resourcescan compliment and support each other Serve as a resource for those engaged in the joint planningprocess

4. Create a stronger partnership between the public sector and the business community Identify new community resources that could mitigate critical incidents, especially for the business community, along with the public sector Develop ways of reducing the impact of critical incidents on the business community and the public sector’s public resources Use joint training, exercising and planningfor emergency preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery CIP Objectives

5. History of CIP-Community Facilitation Program • Research grant for public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness • Took best practices/lessons learned from research and developed the Critical Incident Protocol – A Public and Private Partnership publication, which is a how-to guide on forming partnerships for joint crisis management • 2001-2 Took concepts from publication and created the CIP Community Facilitation Program and facilitated it in four pilot communities • 2002-8 Facilitating partnerships in a minimum of 45 more communities and also includes other related program services

6. Community Facilitation of the CIP Program For businesses, agencies, and non-profit organizations in cities, counties, or regions in the United States MSU facilitates partnership building, joint emergency response, using the incident command system, risk assessment processes, and joint planning, which builds program sustainability in each community Guidance to each community Most communities form a group to continue the process and MSU provides guidance Tabletop exercise per community Focuses on integrating the private sector with public sector …………..continue…………… CIP Program Deliverables

7. Train-the-Trainer programs 4 programs facilitated by MSU across the nation CIP Update” Newsletter Available at www.cip.msu.edu containing best practices, lessons learned, and more CIP website available at www.cip.msu.edu Contains executive summary, goals, letter to prospective communities, CIP publication, risk assessment process, social capital overview, list of participating communities, newsletter, and more CIP Program Deliverables …………..continue……………

8. “CIP Information Exchange” website Large, diverse resource database available through internet website, which requires a generic user and password for members only that contains information on homeland security, business continuity, emergency management, and disaster recovery for public sector disciplines and private sector professionals Social Capital analysis per community Measures level of networking and critical incident preparedness between public and private sectors for each community After Action Report per community Contains the Social Capital analysis report, tabletop exercise hot wash, list of participants and more CIP Program Deliverables

9. From the public sector we invite the decision-makers from police, fire, EMS, health, emergency management, homeland security, water/wastewater, streets, public utilities, transit, information technology, economic development, parks, libraries, port authority, facility management, public relations, and other stakeholders From the private sector we invite the decision-makers from businesses and non-profit/non-government organizations with representation in security, safety, environmental, facility management, health, fleet management, operations, inventory, business continuity, risk management, human resources, media/marketing, and other stakeholders Disciplines and Professions

10. Each community regardless of size, complexity and diversity identifies the issues and tasks that are unique to the community Communities can form separate sub-committees to work on different tasks Typically they start identifying resources, along with sharing the challenges that organizations face in the community Initially, many communities start joint training and exercising between public agencies and businesses Communities have worked on creating business continuity programs, developing emergency preparedness programs, credentialing of the private sector, creating centralized database of resources, and more The most important task that communities are working on is creating a public-private coalition for a community’s safety, security and economic well-being Program Outputs

11. Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice 1407 S. Harrison Rd., 335 Nisbet East Lansing, MI 48823 Brit Weber, Program Director Work (517) 355-2227 Cell (517) 206-1640 Email weberbr@msu.edu Website www.cip.msu.edu