Location: EOC 640 South Franklin, Greenfield
Date: 7:00 PM September 7 (Thursday)
Agenda: Short COAD Meeting & Election of Board
Intro to Long Term Recovery
Work session: LTR functions
The purpose of a Long-Term Recovery Group is to have a designated, centralized, coordinating group of partnering organizations whose common goal is to assist the impacted individuals and families in the community with their Long-Term Recovery
The benefits of an LTRG include:
● Ensuring that the local community is leading the way towards establishing a new normal and becoming a more resilient community.
● Establishing clear guidelines from which participating organizations agree to approach their recovery operations.
● Maximizing the physical, financial, and people resources throughout a recovery.
Differences between Rescue, Relief, and RecoveryPeople commonly confuse the work of first responders with others who respond to provide relief activities that meet immediate needs (such as providing food, water, and shelter). In fact, first responders are professionally trained personnel (such as fire, police, emergency management, and EMTs) focused on rescue and stabilization of the impacted area. Once the first responders have cleared the area for entrance, relief activities can begin. Relief activities may still be ongoing in some places as recovery efforts get underway in other areas of the community. While relief activities meet needs for temporary stability (such as through food kitchens, temporary housing, or applying blue tarps), responders who engage in recovery provide services that move affected households to a permanent resolution.
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EMA/COAD Team
Dwayne Caldwell
Jim Peters
(317) 372-2304