Senior Officials Workshop for All-Hazards Preparedness

This workshop provides a forum for local or regional executives to share strategies and coordinate plans for emergency preparedness and response. The training is an efficient process for discussing executive-level issues with leaders from the agencies involved in all levels of the emergency management structure, helping to create a common perspective and an understanding of the challenges they will face in times of crisis. A practical exercise will be conducted as part of the workshop to generate discussion of policy and emergency operations center activities related to an all-hazard, catastrophic incident.

The program is designed for elected and appointed senior officials from a local jurisdiction, both public and private, who are likely to be involved in a disaster response (directors of local response agencies, department chiefs, public works, public health/health care, emergency management, etc.