Welcome to the CoSA Emergency Preparedness Initiative (EPI) Wiki

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Emergency Preparedness Initiative home page on the Council of State Archivists website

EPI Products

• Order additional copies of Executive Summary

  EPI-ExecSumm--OrderForm.doc

• Order form for PReP envelopes

  http://www.statearchivists.org/prepare/framework/prep-orderform.pdf

• Templates for Pocket Response Plans

  http://www.statearchivists.org/prepare/framework/prep.htm#templates

Safeguarding a Nation's Identity (EPI report)

• Full report completed February 2007

  http://www.statearchivists.org/prepare/epireport_all.pdf

• Executive summary completed December 2006

  http://www.statearchivists.org/prepare/2006EPI_rpt_Summary.pdf

Distribution plans for the EPI report

• Memo re: distribution plans

  EPI-report-ARMs-03-2007.doc

• Memo from Karl Niederer re: distribution of the Executive Summary,

  including a sample cover letter for use in sending it to officials in your states

  EPI-ExecSumm-CvrLttr.doc

Supplemental tables

• Summary of Assessment scores from all states PDF (32pp)

  AssessmentAvgScores-updated-02-2007.doc

• Priorities for emergency preparedness identified by ARM programs (22 pp)

  Immediate / Mid-term / Long-term

  EPI-PrioritiesCategorized.pdf

Images of Status Gauges

• This zip file contains GIF images of Status Gauges for ratios from 0.120 to 0.830.

  EPIgauges.zip

You can download and unzip the file, then select the appropriate gauge for each of your state's scores.

Each GIF contains a number equivalent to the ratio it represents.

For instance, the image for the ratio 0.430 is named "EPI-gauges-43.gif"

Training on emergency preparedness and vital records

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CoSA Framework for Emergency Preparedness

http://www.statearchivists.org/prepare/framework/index.htm

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Background reading

Hurricane Conference documents

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