Being prepared can reduce fear, anxiety and losses. People also can reduce the impact of disasters (flood proofing, moving a home out of harm’s way, and securing items that could shake loose in and earthquake) and sometimes avoid the danger completely. Being prepared will strengthen your family and community, and in doing so support your city’s resilience, and strengthen the city continuity of government. www.ParkmanEP.org / Facebook: Parkman Emergency Preparedness About the SpeakerJerry Parkman is a former Marine with current FEMA/NIMS training from the Emergency Management institute and had clearance to collaborate with Homeland Security in securing infrastructure. Was once the Security Services at a major hospital in the Portland/Vancouver area and working for 19 years, has worked closely with the federal government and community leaders in emergency management planning and training to mitigate, respond to and cope with effects of disasters on the local population.Emergency Management Institute FEMA Training / NIMS Training: IS 100.B Introduction to Incident Command System IS 100.B Introduction to the Incident Command System for Healthcare Hospitals, ICS 200.B for Single Resources and Initial Action Incident, IS 700.B National Response Framework, an Introduction, IS 800.B National Response Framwork, an Introduction, IS 300 Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incident, ICS 400 Advance ICS Command and General Staff Complex Incidents.

•Provides direct leadership by: communicating and supporting organizational philosophy, mission and values and providing information to staff; establishing and facilitating team building within and between departments, using appropriate communication channels; facilitating staff participation in department meetings and activities, to ensure ongoing communication. •Provides human resource management by: providing performance supervision of staff to include coaching, counseling and disciplinary action when indicated; developing work schedules; providing direction to the contract security officers under the direction of the manager; coordinating and assisting in provision of department orientation, staff development and competency achievement. •Provides oversight of assigned operations by: helping facilitate the development and implementation of the emergency preparedness and safety program; assisting in department operational planning and implementation; providing information for all capital and operational budget requests to support the safety, security and emergency management programs; preparing crime and/or incident reports to include monthly security incident reports and periodic management reports to various hospital committees, administration, hospital board and outside regulatory agencies as required; controlling access to specific areas by locking and unlocking facilities on a regular basis. •Provides financial/resource management by: monitoring staffing, scheduling, productivity parameters and expense activities to achieve budgetary compliance.