FEMA Coffee Break Webinar: Before, During, and After Disasters: Tools for Building Community Resilience
Take a coffee break with us! FEMA prioritizes aiding states, counties, tribes, municipalities and special districts in their recovery and mitigation efforts. In light of recent events, this webinar will provide insight into how to utilize FEMA’s assistance to mitigate disaster risk.
Date: December 11, 2024
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Event Details
FEMA places a lot of importance on aiding states, counties, tribes, municipalities and special districts in their recovery and mitigation efforts. To achieve this goal, FEMA developed various programs, resources and tools to help in the many planning efforts across the nation. In light of recent events, this webinar will present some helpful tools in understanding your risks and how to utilize FEMA’s assistance.
Join us to hear from Delaware Resilience Hub, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, and Brooke Hancock Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission (WV) to learn more about their experiences.
FEMA Region 3 hosts a webinar series for anyone who wants to reduce risk in their community. These hour-long “Coffee Breaks” are held every other month. They share mitigation best practices and highlight the work happening at the federal, regional, state and community levels to reduce risk in Region 3.
Coffee Break webinars are open to anyone in the hazard mitigation, resiliency or risk reduction planning fields. This work can be in the public or private sectors. Community planners, emergency and floodplain managers, GIS technicians, government officials, and contractors can attend.
Please note:
- These meetings are recorded. By attending these meetings, you are giving consent to being recorded. If you do not consent to being recorded, please leave the meeting and contact the host separately.
- Webinar log in/call in information will be sent out several days prior to the date of the Coffee Break.
- Attendees may be eligible to receive continuing education credits.
- To sign up for future Coffee Break Webinar notifications and the Region 3 Resilience Report Newsletter, you can subscribe HERE.
Event Contact
If you need help with closed captioning or would like more information, please contact Mari Radford, FEMA Region 3 Community Planning Lead, at Mari.Radford@fema.dhs.gov