Plan Now for Just-in-Time (JIT) Post-Disaster Recovery Training

Pre-disaster recovery planning is very important post-disaster. Understanding roles and responsibilities and what needs to be done post-disaster ahead of time reduces the time for recovery, allows for better coordination amongst all recovery partners and stakeholders, minimizes/eliminates duplication of efforts; and maximizes the effective and efficient use of resources. The session provides a brief overview of FEMA’s Just-in-Time (JIT) post-disaster recovery training, created to assist impacted communities navigate the disaster recovery process, and how FEMA works with its partners to deliver this training. Representatives from the Missouri and Mississippi Municipal Leagues will discuss their experience delivering the JIT training, and thoughts on the actions that communities would do differently now and what planners/cities should be doing to prepare for disaster recovery planning and management. With this presentation, planners and attendees can conduct a gap analysis of the staff, skills, in-place plans, and other items needed for successful disaster recovery against what exists within their communities. We hope with this session, planners and attendees will go back and work with their emergency management counterparts to undertake pre-disaster recovery planning, which will help their communities recovery faster.