Preparedness Services

Plan for the Worst, Prepare with the Best

Our team at EM Partners has worked on some of the nation’s largest recovery and preparedness projects in more than 40 states, including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy. We bring national-level experience and knowledge to our clients on a local scale. Our recovery, preparedness, planning, and strategic emergency management program support begins with a customized approach to every client.

With over 40 years of experience across the entire spectrum of emergency management, EM Partners has a unique approach to becoming better prepared for disasters. By connecting you with key partners in the local community, we work with your organization every step of the preparedness journey. We help sift through information to match up your organization with the most useful information that yields tangible benefits of being prepared. Then, we turn information into action through innovative hands-on, interactive and engaging training, workshops, and exercises to build a culture of preparedness. Our experience involves hands-on exposure to disasters working alongside local, state, and federal partners, and volunteer management with organizations that help prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters.

EM Partners provides practical, customized options to best suit your emergency preparedness needs. EM Partners is your provider for performance measures, improvement strategies, and tools and training for emergency management preparedness. We help people, organizations, and communities with preparedness plans that aid them in and beyond the initial impacts. With our experience in the full spectrum of emergency management and customizing disaster response and recovery plans for public and private organizations, you’ll have a strong partner in us.

 

Complete Preparedness Program and Project Management

EM Partners empowers its clients and partners through knowledge and trust to build stronger emergency management programs. We believe each part of a program plays an important role in the client’s ability to serve their communities and our focus is to ensure all parts work seamlessly together. We have emergency management professionals that can assess, develop and guide you through building a comprehensive emergency management program to ensure you are ready for and realize the best possible outcome from disasters.

We assess, design, scope, and deliver a comprehensive preparedness program that meets your needs, and we stay with you every step of the way to implement a fully customized and compliant program.

Planning

Now more than ever it is vital to have a plan in place before an event occurs so it can be set in motion when it is needed. Whether you need an emergency operations plan, continuity of operations plan, or emergency preparedness training, EM Partners has the expertise to guide you to the best solutions for your organization and community.

We can help you assess what has worked in past events and revise plans so they’ll work in future events. We can help you assess and develop processes, policies, and procedures for the unexpected and determine how best to engage the whole community. Some examples of our planning experience include, but are not limited to:

  • Preparedness Program Development/Delivery/Improvement
  • Emergency Operations Planning
  • Recovery Planning
  • Continuity of Operations Planning
  • Private Sector Engagement Support
  • Companion Animal Planning
  • Disaster Planning – Individuals and Families/Small Business/Houses of Worship
  • Evacuation and Re-entry Planning
  • Gap Analysis and Plan Review
  • Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) Review
  • Hazard Mitigation Planning/THIRA
  • Emergency Management Strategic Planning
  • Debris Management Planning
  • Safety/Security/Risk/Preparedness Assessments

Training and Exercises

EM Partners offers a range of functional to full-scale Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) exercises including senior leadership workshops that organizations can leverage to ensure their teams are ready to activate when needed. We have extensive homeland security, emergency management, and public health exercise experience.

EM Partners works with you to determine and resource appropriate preparedness training for you, your organization, or community, and we will develop and implement customized training programs to meet all your specific emergency preparedness needs.

EM Partners can develop After Action Reports (AARs) that summarize key information related to the evaluation of HSEEP exercises within your organization. EM Partners can help determine the parameters of the AAR based on the exercise planning teams of elected and appointed officials as they develop the evaluation requirements in the design and development process. The focus of AAR output is the analysis of core capabilities, identification of the strengths and areas for improvement relevant to the participating organizations’ ability to meet exercise objectives and demonstrate core capabilities.