Emergency Management

Unit 6 Assignment 2

You are the director of the Office of Emergency Management in Pleasantville City U.S. and the mayor has requested that you present the latest Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) at the next council meeting. City officials are concerned about being able to respond to a major earthquake because the neighboring city of Blissville was recently hit by an earthquake and they were not prepared.

This is a critical presentation because you have asked for a significant increase in your EOC budget. For your presentation, outline an EOP for an earthquake that includes the following information.

Executive Summary

Introduction and Overview of the Environment

Emergency Management Elements

Community Plan

Response Plan

Communications Plan

Support Documents

Emergency Call lists

Resource lists

In the presentation, analyze the potential magnitude that an earthquake can have on a city, and the resources required to meet the response demands, including federal, state, and local first responders, secondary responders, as well as three (3) or more community resources. Also identify vulnerable populations within your community such as, nursing homes, schools, etc.

Evaluate the potential response to the incident, assessing the effectiveness of federal, state, and local first responders, secondary responders, as well as three (3) or more community resources required to meet the response demands.

The presentation should be 15–20 slides (excluding title slide and references slide).

NOTE: This Assignment will require outside research. Use at least two credible sources beyond the text material and discuss how you evaluated the credibility of the resources used.

You may consult the Library, the internet, the textbook, other course material, and any other outside resources in supporting your task, using proper citations in APA style.

Directions for Submitting Your Assignment

Create your presentation in PowerPoint and save it with a name you will remember. Be sure to include your name, class, and section number. Submit your Assignment by selecting the Unit 6: Assignment 2 Dropbox by the end of Unit 6 .

Directions

· Your 15-20 slide requirement is excluding your title, introduction, and reference slides.

· Use one basic slide design and layout.

· Text large enough to be read by your audience (font size 20-34 point).

· Limit slides to between 6 and 8 lines of content.

· You may use pictures, charts and graphs to supplement your material as long as they do not take up the entire slide

· Use bullets for your main points.

· Use speaker notes to fully explain what is being discussed in the bullet points as though you are presenting to an audience, being sure to follow the Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.).

· Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained.

· Presentation should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.

· Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics

· Appropriate citation style should be followed 

You should also make sure to:

· Use examples to support your discussion

Cite all sources on a separate reference slide at the end of your PowerPoint and reference and cite within the body of the presentation using APA format and citation style. For more information on APA guidelines, visit Academic Tools.

Directions for Submitting Your Assignment

Compose your assignment and save it in the following format: Course#_LastnameFirstname Unit # Assignment (example: HM500_SmithJohn Unit 6 Assignment). Submit your assignment to the appropriate Dropbox by the end of the Unit.

Checklist for Unit 6 Assignment

Criteria: Ask yourself the following questions.	Not Yet	Yes
Content
Did you view the multimedia scenario?
Did you identify all of the components of a comprehensive disaster response plan?
Did you identify the resources required to meet the response demands, including federal, state and local first responders, and secondary responders?
Did you identity three or more community resources required to meet the response demands?
Did you identify vulnerable populations?
Did you analyze the potential magnitude that an earthquake can have on a city?
Did you assess the effectiveness of federal, state and local first responders, secondary responders required to meet the response demands?
Did you assess the effectiveness of three or more community resources required to meet the response demands?
Did you evaluate the potential response to the incident?
Did you create a comprehensive Emergency Response Plan that included the following components: Introduction and Overview of the Environment, Community Plan, Recovery, and Communications Plan
Did you apply the components to a comprehensive disaster response plan to First Responder requirements, all secondary resource requirements and facility requirements, and identification of vulnerable populations?
Research
Did you use at least two credible sources beyond the text material and validate those resources credibility?
Is your research current ?
Did you use appropriate reference material to support major statements?
Did you discuss how you evaluated the credibility of the resources used?
Quality
Is your content complete enough to explain your statements?
Is there a logical flow to your ideas?
Did you present the material in a clear and concise manner to provide easy readability?
Format
Did you prepare your presentation in PowerPoint®?
Did you label your file correctly?
Did you use APA format to cite your sources?
Did you check your document for grammar and spelling?
Did your presentation meet the 15–20 slides length requirements?