Training on Emergency Preparedness and Vital Records
CoSA is working with the National Archives and Records Administration and FEMA's Plans Division to develop training on emergency preparedness and vital records for delivery to state agencies and local governments.
The following are provided for reference during the development stage of this process.
State ARM Contacts in Each FEMA Region
http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/StateARMcontacts-2007-01-FEMA.doc
National Archives and Records Administration
Resources available from state archives and records management (ARM) programs
New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management and the
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives Northeast Region and the New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management collaborated on a series of four emergency preparedness workshops for local government agencies in 2006. They produced the following curricular materials adapted from NARA's workshop to fit state-specific needs:
- PowerPoints provided in two LARGE Zip files:
- NJ-PowerPoints1.zip (12.7 MB)
- Overview
- Quiet Disaster
- Risk Assessment
- Disaster Planning
- PARIS Grants
- NJ-PowerPoints2.zip (7.6 MB)
- Vital Records
- Salvage
- Workshop Manual (Word document, 688 KB)
- Exercises and Quizzes
- Exercises, which include the following exercises in a single Word file (188 KB):
- Caveat 4 Disasters
- Caveat Introductions
- Caveat Plan
- Caveat Roles
- Caveat Improvements
- Quiet Disaster Activity
- Risk Identification
- Disaster Puzzle
- Wrap Up
- Disaster Quiz (Word document, 32 KB)
- Disaster Quiz answers (Word document, 34 KB)
- Jeopardy Game
- Toolkits, which include the following in a single Zip file (397 KB):
- Toolkit 1: Overview
- Toolkit 2: Quiet Disasters
- Toolkit 3: Risk Management
- Toolkit 4: Disaster Planning
- Toolkit 5: Vital Records
- Toolkit 6: Salvage
- Toolkit 7: Resources
- Disaster Recovery Questionnaire, part 1
- Disaster Recovery Questionnaire, part 2
- FEMA COOP Self-assessment Tool-Annex G
- Records DIRECT Grant Application Guidelines
- Resources, which include the following in a single Zip file (3.9 MB):
- Bibliography of Resources
- FPC 65
- NJAC 15:3
Oregon State Archives
The Oregon State Archives provides a variety of web-based training programs on records management for state and local governments
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/recmgmt/train/index.html
- See especially their program on Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
"The Call" (http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/training/thecalllarge.ram | requires RealPlayer)
"This training video helps you to evaluate your agency’s preparedness for a variety of disasters and gives you pointers on ways to minimize your risk."
Georgia Archives
A PowerPoint executive briefing for government officials.
http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/Records%20and%20Disasters_Executive%20Briefing.ppt PowerPoint (17.4 MB)
A PowerPoint Expanded version of the executive briefing for government officials based on "10 Strategies for Protecting Essential Government Records".
http://cosaemergencyprep.pbwiki.com/f/Records%20and%20Disasters_Executive%20Briefing_DWC%284%29.ppt PowerPoint (24 MB)
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