The 2024 Engaging Faith-Based and Community Organizations: Planning Considerations for Emergency Managers guide provides a methodology and practical steps for emergency managers to engage and build partnerships with organizations that have deep roots in their communities. Emergency managers can view this guide as a starting point for expanding existing engagement practices or as a tool for further integrating these organizations into emergency management activities.
When to Use the Guide:
- Community Mapping: To plan, assess and identify the capacity and resources of potential partnership organizations.
- Partnership Building: After mapping, the guide supports efforts to establish and build strong partnerships built on trust and effective communication channels. The guide offers considerations for approaching organizations in a culturally sensitive manner.
Building Private-Public Partnerships
This guide provides recommendations and resources for a jurisdiction to establish and maintain private-public partnerships to help coordinate mitigation, response and recovery planning, and supports preparedness. The guide helps to:
- Promote the why, what and how to build relationships.
- Communicate and share information among private sector, nongovernmental and state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) public sector emergency management partners.
- Engage partnerships in resilience-building and response-oriented actions based on community lifelines, supply chains and related economic activity.
- Build resilience by integrating the private sector, research, key non-governmental organizations and stakeholders into mitigation planning and actions.
- Involve local businesses in emergency operations planning and response.
- Integrate disaster recovery planning with economic planning and development