The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) National Exercise Division (NED) has developed ten new Exercise Starter Kits to support exercise practitioners and emergency managers at all levels of government, the private sector, and nonprofit organizations as they plan, conduct, and evaluate their exercises. The ten new kits cover the following topics:
- Reunification.
- Climate resilience.
- Climate adaptation.
- Complex incident coordination.
- Large-scale population movement and resettlement.
- Mitigating social isolation and loneliness.
- Community preparedness and response to the opioid crisis.
- Enhancing supply chain resilience.
- Recovery.
- Community profile.
The Reunification Exercise Starter Kit (ESK) contains a sample exercise facilitator and evaluator guide, sample conduct slides, a sample situation manual and a customizable placemat.
- Sample conduct slides for Reunification
- Sample Facilitator/Evaluator Guide for Reunification
- Sample Situation Manual for Reunification
- Customizable Placement for Reunification
Other Exercise Starter Kits are available in the Emergency Management Toolkit section of FEMA’s Preparedness Toolkit.
FEMA will host a webinar to discuss the new kits including Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 9 a.m. EST. Registration is not required to attend. Visit FEMA’s Adobe Connect Room for the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) to participate.
If you are unable to attend one of the webinars listed above, a recorded version of the webinar will be available on the Preparedness Toolkit HSEEP Webinars page.
If you have any questions, please email NEP@fema.dhs.gov.
