The MEMA Advancement Program is composed of four major areas of emphasis:

• Emergency Services Infrastructure: Upgrades in emergency services communications and situational awareness infrastructure, data collection, management and dissemination to support policy making, resource allocation and incident support. These systems will also provide key inputs to public information and advisory notices during incidents to include response and recovery.
• Emergency Services Staffing: Create a MEMA Reserve (on-call paid) and MEMA Volunteer (on-call unpaid) program to provide MEMA with staffing during activations.
• Shelters, Resilience Centers and Assembly Areas: Building upon previous efforts, suitability analyses will be updated and needs analyses generated for sheltering utilizing both County and Department of Education facilities under various scenarios. Additionally, sites for resilience centers and assembly areas will be identified with associated support requirements under various contingencies.
• Community Engagement: In addition to ongoing community education and preparedness activities, implementing a comprehensive social media strategy utilizing social media monitoring for situational awareness, can provide emergency alert and other relevant information to affected communities during response and recovery and a renewed emphasis on recruitment and training of Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES).

A stable civil service cadre is a critical requirement in executing the proposed program.

The MEMA Advancement Program is composed of four major areas of emphasis:

• Emergency Services Infrastructure: Upgrades in emergency services communications and situational awareness infrastructure, data collection, management and dissemination to support policy making, resource allocation and incident support. These systems will also provide key inputs to public information and advisory notices during incidents to include response and recovery.
• Emergency Services Staffing: Create a MEMA Reserve (on-call paid) and MEMA Volunteer (on-call unpaid) program to provide MEMA with staffing during activations.
• Shelters, Resilience Centers and Assembly Areas: Building upon previous efforts, suitability analyses will be updated and needs analyses generated for sheltering utilizing both County and Department of Education facilities under various scenarios. Additionally, sites for resilience centers and assembly areas will be identified with associated support requirements under various contingencies.
• Community Engagement: In addition to ongoing community education and preparedness activities, implementing a comprehensive social media strategy utilizing social media monitoring for situational awareness, can provide emergency alert and other relevant information to affected communities during response and recovery and a renewed emphasis on recruitment and training of Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES).

A stable civil service cadre is a critical requirement in executing the proposed program.