You have just been hired as the emergency manager in your community. You are looking through documents and materials
left by your predecessor regarding disaster response and recovery, and you realize that there is no information regarding
how to help strengthen community and family resilience after the occurrence of a disaster event. You realize that having
support mechanisms in place that can help people cope with traumatic losses before a disaster event strikes is one of the
keys to improving and strengthening your communitys response and recovery efforts after a disaster occurs.
For this assignment, you will develop a handbook for your emergency management staff that discusses the steps that
should be taken after a large-scale disaster to strengthen community and family resilience in coping with the traumatic
losses that they are likely to have experienced.
Your handbook should consist of at least three pages and should include information on services that will be provided to
your communitys citizens after the disaster, groups that the staff can call in to aid in disaster relief, and other actions that
the staff can take to help individuals and groups cope and begin the response and recovery efforts.
Please remember to use your own words in this assignment; cutting and pasting from source material is not permitted.
