Preparedness and Mitigation

Resource: Mitigation Tools list (ATTACHED)

Your success with the City of Palms landed you a new consultant job. The organization that suffered the hazard you chose in Week Two hired you to further explore its disaster. This week, the organization asked you to review its preparedness and mitigation strategies.

Review Figure 4.1, Preparedness Cycle, in Introduction to Emergency Management (6th ed.). (ATTACHED)

Write a 1 1/2- to- 2-page paper containing at least 750 words in which you conduct an analysis of the way the organization handled the hazard you chose in Week Two based on the elements outlined in the Preparedness Cycle figure.

Research mitigation tools applicable to a potential response plan.

Include the following sections in your analysis:

• Where does the organization fall on the Preparedness Cycle? Why?
• What are the organization's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis results?
• What mitigation tools are applicable to a potential response plan for the organization?

Format your sources according to APA guidelines; provide at least two references.