Before, During & After

Dec 04 2024 142 ep. 28 mins 211
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A FEMA podcast highlighting innovation in the field of emergency management and sharing stories of communities and individuals recovering after disasters.

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Episode 142: One Health - Balancing Human, Animal, and Environmental Health After Disaster

Dec 04 2024 42 mins  
On this episode, we're veering a little bit away from the traditional emergency management topics to highlight and integrate a new approach to some potentially very difficult response situations. Today, we're diving into the One Health approach, a holistic strategy that aims to sustainably balance human, animal, and environmental health. One Health recognizes that the wel

Episode 141: Preserving Natural and Cultural Heritage to Meet Community Resilience Goals

Sep 19 2024 40 mins  
FEMA's Environmental and Historic Preservation Program, EHP, is crucial to ensuring that our recovery and grant efforts respect and also protect environmental and historic sites, even in the wake of disasters. So, in this episode, we get down to the basics and explore the responsibilities of the EHP program - how it operates during and after disasters and why preserving our na

Episode 140: A Fireside Chat about Cybersecurity and Emergency Management

Sep 05 2024 62 mins  
On today's episode, we have a really exciting conversation that we'd like to highlight for you. FEMA was thrilled to recently host a joint FEMA virtual town Hall with our colleagues at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency - CISA. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell joined CISA director Jen Easterly for a special fireside chat where they discuss the crossove

Episode 139: Building Resilience - The Power of Disaster Philanthropy

Aug 22 2024 28 mins  
In the aftermath of disasters, when FEMA's assistance begins to phase out, the critical role of philanthropic organizations becomes increasingly apparent. In this episode, we explore how disaster philanthropy functions from the initial response phase to long-term recovery and resilience building. We'll delve into real examples of how philanthropic support has made a diffe

Episode 138: Tapping Into FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program to Build Communities

Aug 16 2024 39 mins  
We're diving into a monumental topic for August, which is National Resilience Month, and it is all things Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant programs, or HMA grants. These programs play a critical role in helping communities across the nation reduce the impacts of disaster. So, we're gonna be exploring how the grants work, the types of assistance available, the benefits t

Episode 137: Weatherproofing Finances

Aug 08 2024 51 mins  
If financial resiliency is an individual or family's ability to handle financial shocks and adjust to financial changes, there is no greater shock than a disaster. They cause both short and long-term financial challenges for survivors. While at times complex, financial resiliency is also full of opportunity to improve our ability to adjust and overcome those challenges that di

Episode 136: Experts Discuss Crisis & Risk Communications to Meet the Needs of Communities

Jul 25 2024 125 mins  
When a crisis occurs, communities need actionable messaging, reflective of their unique circumstance in order to respond. Creating effective communications begins before a crisis by engaging communities to understand their needs and appropriately communicating their risks. Risks across the communications field, increasingly complex challenges are emerging. In emergency management,

Episode 135: Expert Panelists Address Extreme Heat Impacts, Communications Tactics, and Mitigation Measures

Jul 11 2024 93 mins  
Millions of Americans are being impacted by extreme heat waves, which are growing in intensity, frequency, and duration due to climate change. And so, in response to the calendar year 2023 annual planning guidance, where FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell directed a review of all current FEMA authorities, capabilities and gaps to develop a unified agency approach to build resilienc

Episode 134: Emergency Communications Month - Partnering with CISA to Highlight Key Communication Resources

Apr 25 2024 27 mins  
April is Emergency Communications Month, and our friends at CISA are honoring the nation's emergency responders and communicators, emphasizing the importance of emergency communications and the need to work together in building resilient, critical infrastructure. In keeping with the month's theme of resilient together, on today's episode, we are talking about the CIS

Episode 133: A Nod to the Volunteers Who Help in Times of Need

Apr 18 2024 42 mins  
Voluntary agencies are typically some of the first organizations to respond and are often the last to leave a community, sometimes years after a disaster. The work of federal, state, and local governments is only part of the response and recovery puzzle. In fact, people showing up in times of need as volunteers are a critical piece to serving the needs of disaster survivors. In cel