From the Justice Dept, this website: Helping Victims of Mass Violence and Terrorism; Planning, Response, Recovery, and Resources.

While you’ll find all the resources you need to compassionately incorporate victim care into your mass shooting or terrorism plans, this toolkit will apply to any emergency. The kit, created by the U.S. Justice Department Office for Victims of Crime, is ready to go for emergency managers, law enforcement, and other responders who want to build partnerships, establish victim assistance protocols, and help their communities as they recover from tragic events.

Source: Univ. of CO, Hazards Center, Disaster Research News , Sept. 10

Here is an upbeat story about residents of Utah wanting, and are willing to pay for, more resilience. Envision Utah poll shows Utah residents want greater ‘resiliency’ to disasters.

A significant majority of Utah residents are willing to pay more for their homes and utilities if it means they have a greater ability to bounce back and resume their normal lives after a flood, fire or earthquake strikes.

Envision Utah has released the latest component of its “Your Utah, Your Future” survey — focusing on disaster resiliency — charting four likely scenarios on the level of preparedness and response that might exist in 2050.

Once again, the Diva takes the liberty of posting an article outside the usual realm for this blog.  See this article from the Guardian: This refugee crisis is too big for Europe to handle – its institutions are broken. The article is very compelling; here is one quote:

The immediate challenge for Europe is crisis management: the fiasco in Budapest is just the European leadership problem in microcosm. There is no coherence, no predictability and no urgency. As with Greece, and with the prolonged debt crisis of southern Europe, the institutions move sluggishly until leaders are forced into making flamboyant gestures, and no solution is ever reached. But, as they struggle to achieve coherence and to show compassion, the EU’s leaders are accumulating much bigger risks.

Obama, Visiting Arctic, Will Pledge Aid to Alaskans Hit by Climate Change.
This is the first time I have heard of this new agency:
Mr. Obama is scheduled to announce that the Denali Commission, the federal agency that coordinates government assistance to communities in Alaska, would oversee short- and long-term programs to safeguard and repair the coastal villages, including “voluntary relocation efforts, where appropriate.”

I just discovered this useful site, though I am not sure when it was created.  See: Beyond the Basics: Best Practices in Hazard Mitigation

When disaster strikes, it rarely impacts just one jurisdiction. Many catastrophic disaster plans include support from neighboring jurisdictions that likely will not be available in a regional disaster. Bringing multiple stakeholders together from sectors that do not routinely work with each other can augment a response to a disaster, but can also be extremely difficult because of the multi-disciplinary communication and coordination needed to ensure effective medical and public health …