The article focuses on the partnership between U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and AmeriCorps of Corporation for National and Community Service which seeks to improve disaster response and increase career opportunities.RobertsMaryRoseEBSCO_bspFire Chief...
For example, reservists—often comprising the greatest proportion of FEMA staff in the field during a disaster—faced barriers to staff development and inconsistently received performance evaluations. GAO recommended that FEMA create a staff development program that addresses access to training, development...
Through these programs, and other initiatives, REI’s partnership with FEMA has strengthened the Agency’s ability to deliver disaster support for State and Local Governments, Tribal entities, and Territories. We have particularly focused on improving user experience for grant recipients as well as IT...
Former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Michael Brown said that Congress should give the disaster relief agency back its “independent agency status,” allowing it direct access to the president which would, in his view, improve
A Middle Class Response to Disaster A middle class response to disaster: FEMA's policies and problems. Journal of Social Service Research. 23(1): 71-87.Cherry, A. L., & Cherry, M. E. (1997). A middle class response to disaster: FEMA's policies and problems... AL Cherry,ME ...
guidance on administrative costs and jobs aids, as well as three iterations each of disaster-specific guidance for Puerto Rico’s 2017 hurricane recovery, and the Virgin Islands. Archived guidance for general Alternative Procedures is available at FEMA, “Archives: Public Assistance Alternative ...
government, clinton had promoted fema to cabinet status—meaning it reported directly to the oval office. by the time george w. bush took over the white house, fema had the highest public approval ratings it had ever had—and was publicly known primarily as a natural disaster response agency....
While Graves is not a professional emergency manager — unlike the typical profile of FEMA directors after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina — he’s developed a reputation as one of the Capitol’s most knowledgeable lawmakers about disaster response. Graves, who entered the House in 2015 a...
“States probably need to take on more of the share of the response,” he said, noting that he supports increasing the cost threshold that FEMA uses to determine if an event has caused enough damage to merit disaster aid. “Something needs to change, because it’s not sustainable the way...
FEMA officials impressed with Naperville disaster responseBill Bird