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Engaging Faith-Based and Community Organizations: Planning Considerations for Emergency Managers

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