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DISCIPLINE CASE STUDY:
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Disciplinary Challenge
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With the increased frequency of disasters and emergencies, there is a growing demand by regulatory agencies and citizens for communities to invest in our readiness by establishing comprehensive emergency management programs (i.e. preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation) and involve the continuous development, update and improvement of customized emergency management plans, training, and exercises. However, despite the necessity, comprehensive preparedness programs are challenged by the dwindling availability and the natural attrition of resources that are needed to maintain, let alone elevate, our state of preparedness.
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Odysseus SolutionsOdysseus Offers a Programmatic Solution for Comprehensive Emergency Management programs.
Odysseus™ | kms
ODYSSEUS™ | CPM
ODYSSEUS™ | AAT
ODYSSEUS™ | cbt
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Featured Best Practices
Comprehensive Emergency Management Planning
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The Odysseus™ | KMS gives emergency planners an online tool dedicated to the development and maintenance of complex emergency management plans and comprehensive preparedness. Odysseus™|KMS offers planners with the unique feature of providing standardization and flexibility in a collaborative environment. This union greatly increases the preparedness capabilities by efficiently and effectively enabling emergency preparedness organizations to design, develop, maintain, and continually improve preparedness and operations.
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Customized Courses & Training Management
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The Odysseus™|CBT plug-in provides organizations with an integrated learning management system that allows administrators to more effectively deliver and measure preparedness understanding across the Odysseus™ enterprise. Odysseus™|CBT provides a platform to deliver and manage customized computer-based training, track course assessments, award certificates upon course completion, and in-depth reporting of learner progress and understanding.
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HSEEP Compliant Exercise Simulations
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Designed from the Odysseus™|CBT framework, the Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator incorporates cutting-edge media technology to deliver an interactive, best practice solution to accurately test and validate your community's operational and programmatic strategies, while effectively engaging participants in important HSEEP-compliant exercises.. Exercise designers can build an interactive community profile, visualize disaster impacts, and experience real-world crisis decision-making. The Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator provides an easy-to-use, turnkey solution to accurately test and validate your community's operational and programmatic strategies, while engaging stakeholders and impressing your community leadership.
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Community Vulnerability, Risk & Resiliency (CVR2) Model
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Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus™| Community, Vulnerability, Risk & Resiliency (CVR2) Model offers strategies and processes to build partner consensus, ensure uniformity, and provide results that are reliable, accurate, and operationally significant. The Odysseus™|CVR2 serves as a dynamic planning tool that utilizes a robust library of over 4,500 evidenced-based indicators and proven methods to accurately assess, analyze, and report community hazard risks and threats. The Odysseus™|CVR2 is a culmination of over 100 years of emergency and disaster management knowledge, and incorporates over a decade of research of hazard risk assessment methodologies by several of the nation’s premier disaster researchers.
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DHS Capability Assessments
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Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus platform offers a customized DHS Capability Assessments tool that is compliant with the United States National Preparedness Goal (Second Edition) and Community Preparedness Guidance (CPG) 201. Emergency managers can assess their community's capabilities and integrate the results into a comprehensive THIRA using the Odysseus™|CVR2 framework.
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Committee Management
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In today’s environment of fiscal efficiency, limited availability of resources, and the necessity to balance competing demands, it is imperative that the engagement of assigned work groups and key stakeholders is efficient and effective. The committee management tool within the Odysseus™|KMS will assist in documenting the planning process, provide a method of on-going committee collaboration, offer an archival repository of planning meeting minutes and information, and ensure the active participation of committee members and key stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the planning process.
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Community Participation and Awareness
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The Odysseus™ enterprise offers a variety of tools that can be used to efficiently engage the public and solicit their participation in the planning process. Customized Odysseus™|CBT interactive planning participation module allows committee members, stakeholders, and the public to learn about the mitigation process and provide real-time feedback and input in the plan development. Customized Odysseus™|AAT survey instruments allows your community to provide input in the planning process and inform your community’s emergency management strategies.
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Integrated Regulatory & Industry Compliance Tools
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The Odysseus™|CPM offers a library of emergency management compliance metric tools that allow users to validate their plans programs against federal, state, and industry emergency management requirements and regulations. The Odysseus™|CPM offers data-driven, assessment that allows preparedness professionals the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs and present their findings in established reports and analytics.
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