Creating Resource Disaster Response Teams with the Whole Community
Tim Mann and OEM Panelists Hannah Hoffman, Evan Shockley and Sadie Martinez
Session Overview:
CMIST (Communication, Maintaining Health, Independence, Support Services and Safety, and Transportation resources) Response Teams are comprised of local community members trained to help strengthen a community’s disaster resilience and whole community inclusion by addressing and identifying CMIST resource needs before, during, and after a disaster. This develops community-based “people resources” by creating teams specific to each locality. In this training, participants gain familiarity with the CMIST Response Team menu of options, areas of concentration, and how these teams benefit the community. This training is for emergency management stakeholders (e.g., emergency managers, partners, community members) who are interested in understanding and meeting the specific resource needs of their community throughout the disaster cycle and are interested in becoming CMIST Response Team members.
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About Your Presenters:
Tim Mann
Tim Mann is one the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management’s Whole Community Inclusion Planning Specialists with the Access and Functional Needs Program in the Office of Emergency Management. His role focuses on supporting Colorado’s Whole Community Inclusion through the adoption and integration of the Access and Functional Needs (AFN) Resource Framework tied to the CMIST Resource Memory Tool in emergency management across the state at local and regional levels. He supports regional and local jurisdictions in the development of inclusive, whole community emergency operations plans, supports emergency preparedness workshops, and serves as the regional and local connect for Access and Functional Needs planning resources.
OEM Panelists: Sadie Martinez, Hannah Hoffman, and Evan Shockley
- Sadie Martinez is the Colorado State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management's Access and Functional Needs Coordinator. She supports state agencies and local jurisdictions in the development of inclusive, whole community emergency-operations plans that adequately account for people with Access and Functional Needs. She provides emergency-preparedness workshops and serves as the Access and Functional Needs subject matter expert during state-level planning initiatives. Sadie uses the CMIST resource framework, which provides a whole-community inclusion approach to identify the actual resource needs of the community in Communication, Maintaining Health/Medical, Independence, Support Services and Safety, and Transportation resources, rather than a specific “special need” or vulnerability. This helps responders and agencies better understand what capabilities to acquire before, during, and after a disaster by approaching Access and Functional Needs from a resource perspective. This helps create a shared language that reaches across language, disability, under-resourced, under-served barriers, and emergency management.
- Hannah Hoffmann, M.S., Regional Whole Community Inclusion Planning Specialist, Colorado Office of Emergency Management. In her current role, Hannah supports statewide training and outreach to promote equitable and inclusive emergency management practices. Hannah has extensive career experience in fostering diverse stakeholder engagement and collaboration, and has led training, consulting, and technical assistance programs for organizations around the world. Hannah holds a Masters in Organizational Psychology with a focus on humanitarian work psychology.
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Evan Shockley is a 29 year old multicultural male who is a native of Colorado and has lived with epilepsy since he was 15 years old. He has worked for two Colorado Centers for Independent Living as a Loan Closet Technician, Youth Program Coordinator and Independent Living Coordinator. Evan was just recently elected as the Co-Chair of the Colorado Statewide Independent Living Council and will assume the role of the chair position in August of 2023. In concurrence with his council membership, Evan holds high involvement in planning his state’s Youth Leadership Forum as a staff member as he was also a delegate of the inaugural forum for Colorado in 2018. Evan exemplifies charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity from being a 4 year member, and an officer at his local Elk’s Lodge 804, in Fort Collins, CO.