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  The emergency management functions at the level of your chosen organization.
  
  


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  The legal basis by which your organization performs its emergency management function.
  
  


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  Key characteristics of your organization’s emergency manager.
  
  


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  Integration of the four phases of emergency management.
  
  


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  The framework of the necessary resource requirements for your organization's Disaster Response Plan.
  
  

Your plan outline and narrative should be about 5-6 pages typed (about 1,250 to 1,500 words).

Reports should be written in APA Style and all sources used should be both cited in text and in end references.

Sources used should be authoritative and credible. Avoid blogs, opinion pieces, Wikipedia and similar non-authoritative sources.  Use academic literature if possible.

The following resources will be helpful in developing your Disaster Response Plan Outline:

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  Chapter 11 of Disaster Operations and Decision Making is a good resource for formatting your plan outline.
  
  

  
  

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  Prepare Disaster Plan Template and
  
  Guidelines
  
  
    - PDF Document (
  267 KB
  )
  
  

  
  

OR point your browser to:

https://www.in.gov/isdh/files/PREPARE_Disaster_Plan_Template_IN_8_08.pdf

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  Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning Guide for Local Governments (February 2017
  )
  
  
    - PDF Document (
  6.61 MB
  )
  
  

  
  

OR point your browser to:

https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/ XXXXXXXXXXe33c774e3170bebd5846ab8dc9b61504/PreDisasterRecoveryPlanningGuideforLocalGovernmentsFinal XXXXXXXXXXpdf

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  Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning for State Governments (November 2016
  )
  
  
    - PDF Document (
  2.0
  
  

  
  

OR point your browser to:

https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/ XXXXXXXXXXdb5c48b2774665e357100cc69a14da68/Pre-DisasterRecoveryPlanningGuideforStateGovernments-1.pdf

Create a

Disaster Response Plan Outline

based on an actual organization (public or private) in your local community/environment:

Ideally, if this plan can be implemented in your business, industry, university, military unit, or local community, this is desirable since it can be implemented.

This is not a complete plan, but rather an outline of a plan.

Your plan outline should include a narrative explaining your organization in the context of a disaster response plan and, at a minimum, address the following items:

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  The emergency management functions at the level of your chosen organization.
  


• 
  The legal basis by which your organization performs its emergency management function.
  


• 
  Key characteristics of your organization’s emergency manager.
  


• 
  Integration of the four phases of emergency management.
  


• 
  The framework of the necessary resource requirements for your organization's Disaster Response Plan.