Building Tribal Readiness and Resilience
Empowering Tribal Nations
to Build
Readiness and Resilience
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AWR-316 Emergency Management Best Practices for Tribal Nations
Description:
This course provides an overview of emergency management programs and best practices that can be used by Tribal Nations to build a successful emergency management program. Participants gain knowledge into available resources including grants, essential elements of an emergency management program, and best practices employed among Tribal Nations.
Target Audience:
Tribal responders, emergency managers, government department heads, leaders.
Objectives:
- Identify guidance documents and references that can be used to establish an emergency management program.
- Comprehend emergency management best practices and resources.
Course Length and Delivery Method:
- 1.5-hours; in-person
PER-311 Creating Economic Resilience for Tribal Nations
Description:
This course will equip economic development, business, and government stakeholders with resources to assist the business community in addressing the disaster risks to their operations and enhance resilience.
Target Audience:
Economic development organizations, business leaders, industry associations, Tribal government leaders.
Objectives:
- Apply the disaster risk reduction tool to increase resilience for a local business
- Formulate industry and community mitigation measures to reduce risk and enhance resilience
Course Length and Delivery Method:
- 1.5-hours; in-person
AWR-321 Strengthening Community Resilience within Tribal Nations
Description:
This course provides participants with a forum to discuss and determine culturally relevant and self-determined methods for improving resilience. Participants will gain knowledge into available resources, tools, frameworks, and resilience indicators such as FEMA’s Resilience Analysis Planning Tool, Climate Risk and Resilience portal, and resilience frameworks.
Target Audience:
Tribal responders, emergency managers, government department heads, leaders, public health, community-based organizations, business leaders.
Objectives:
- Discuss changes that are impacting Tribal Nations.
- Determine framework, methods, and resources for enhancing community resilience.
- Determine long-term vulnerability reduction actions that could strengthen community resilience.
Course Length and Delivery Method:
- 6-hours; in-person
MGT-327 Ensuring Effective Public Information and Warning for Tribal Nations
Description:
This course teaches Tribal Nations, Emergency Managers, Community Resilience Planners and alerting personnel, effective communication of climate and weather-related risks tailored to address community needs, distinguish underserved populations and people with access and functional needs within their communities, and collaborate with trusted organizations.
Target Audience:
Tribal responders, emergency managers, government department heads, leaders, public health, community-based organizations, business leaders, public information officers.
Objectives:
- Recognize underserved communities within the whole community and use strategies to tailor risk communications.
- Describe the importance of understanding the changing risk profiles among underserved populations and disadvantaged communities.
- Evaluate risk communication strategies for mitigation, response, and recovery activities to ensure more equitable outcomes among the whole community
- Prepare effective risk communication messages to reach the whole community
Course Length and Delivery Method:
- 6-hours; in-person
Developed under DHS/FEMA Grant No. EMW-2023-CA-05334 for NTED. www.firstrepondertraining.gov
More about ASG’s and GTRI’s Partnership
Georgia Tech and ASG have a long history of providing quality courses to communities across the United States.
In 2016, FEMA awarded Georgia Tech, in partnership with ASG, a 3-year grant to develop and deliver five new hazardous materials training courses aimed at strengthening community response and management of hazardous materials disasters. It was a successful partnership, and the delivery of the objectives outlined in the grant was completed in 2019.
In 2020, FEMA awarded a 3-year grant to develop and deliver training, tools and resources aimed at building economic recovery capabilities among American businesses through enhancing whole community and regional resilience. The training also provided Economic Develop Organizations (EDO) with the tools and resources required to support businesses during the recovery process of major disasters.
In 2022, FEMA awarded a 3-year grant to develop and deliver training, tools and resources for operationalizing climate resilience with a focus on extreme weather events which are becoming more frequent, severe, and prolonged. Communities and ecosystems are being reshaped, challenging local leaders to take proactive measures. Adapting to this evolving reality is essential for a sustainable and secure future.
In 2023, Georgia Tech and ASG teamed with NABEDC and Southwestern Indian Polytechnique Institute under another FEMA grant to develop and deliver training, tools and resources that focused on Enhancing Tribal Nation Readiness and Resilience to strengthen Tribal Nation capabilities and capacities.
Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI²) Global is the business outreach arm of Georgia Tech, serving as the primary vehicle to achieve the goal of expanded local, regional, and global outreach in support of businesses. EI² has a rich history of supporting EDOs which has led to hundreds of community projects in economic development training, strategic planning, workforce development, manufacturing community development, infrastructure programs, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem building, and fiscal and economic impact analyses. EI² brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and research to this project ensuring a thorough and effective training program.
ASG has over 20 years of corporate experience developing innovative training, exercises and management programs that build sustainable disaster preparedness and environmental, health and safety capabilities among both the private and public sectors. ASG’s subject matter experts have served over 3,000 communities worldwide (pop. 75 Mil), reaching 17 countries and 49 states. ASG’s comprehensive approach to building resilience and response capabilities contributes greatly to the successful development and rapid delivery of new courses to meet emerging, national needs.