As noted in this Homeland Security News Wire article, recent disasters are posing new challenges to emergency management planners. US Cities Preparing for Disaster.The most original part of this article is a discussion of the Chief Resilience Officer for a city. It provides some of the background for the concept, which was developed in Israel.
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Long-Term Recovery from Disasters
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Here’s a new idea from an APUS graduate for resilience education in high schools. Dr. Cheryl Lynne Galler is the creator and CEO.
RESILIENCE FOR DISASTER, LLC
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This project produces a multi-faceted contingency plan for all families that will have to face a major disaster situation in the near future. It allows high school students to work with their parents to pre-plan a workable solution for survival which will include their beliefs, their cultural needs and their personal choices. This process will allow for a decrease in panic and fear during the first steps toward recovery after a major loss of property and life style.
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From the originator: My purpose is to not allow other American families to fall apart as my children and I did. The information in these classes are firsthand accounts of difficulties faced by families from 9/11, Hurricanes Katrina, Irene, Sandy, Midwest tornadoes and what I now know for sure. There is also information from research I have done to find best practices used from around the world. The corporation web site will be up and running the first of August. In anticipation of pulling all things together at that time, I can be reached for information and or a Skype discussion by sending an e-mail to clynne.galler@gmail.com .
We hope you will believe in this program as much as we do.