1.Provide appreciative inquiry responses to one other student in your own words (approx. 200 words each).

Note in response to

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post you must add to the conversation in your own words rather than bring in new information

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For our final week’s discussion topic, we look at our community’s Emergency Management Plan and website to determine if it appears that the community was engaged in the Whole Community Planning process and provide reasons why or why not.

After reviewing the Miami-Dade County Emergency Management (MDCEM) website, you easily find links to acquiring more information about general and specific topics that residents frequently need to locate however, the website doesn’t necessarily provide information and links to community planning and the inclusion of resident interaction. Reading the first paragraph under Comprehensive Emergency Management is where you will find mention of how the Miami Dade County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (MDCCEMP) outlines the roles and responsibilities of the local government, state and federal agencies and volunteer organizations, and the coordination of the activities of these groups.

The MDCEM website provides a link to the MDCCEMP for review and download.  Reading through the MDCCEMP, it describes how the uses the concepts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 fundamental and the Whole Community approach strategy as the framework to ensure county and municipality preparedness. (miamidade.gov/CEMP).

In the third paragraph of the MDCCEMP it makes specific mention collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders throughout the county and ensuring that residents, vulnerable populations, organizational and community leaders, faith-based and non-profit organizations, the private sector, are regularly engaged, and are leveraged in various committee meetings throughout the year. (miamidade.gov/CEMP, Pg. 12). Also included in the MDCCEMP is a listing of Advisory Committees who are comprised of multi-agency and multi-discipline county agencies, public and private organizations, and MDCEM staff who regularly meet formally and engage in strategic initiatives that steer emergency management activities. (miamidade.gov/CEMP). The Advisory Committees include the Local Mitigation Strategy Workgroup, Miami-Dade Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (MDVOAD), Public-Private Sector Partnerships, and Whole Community Engagement Group which all have direct involvement from a Whole Community perspective.

In conclusion, I wholly believe that MDCEM actively engages in a Whole Community approach from the information and documentation it has publicized on its website and in their CEMP.

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