Alabama Emergency Management Agency
invites you to attend the
Preparedness for Alabama Resilience Summit
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
8:45 am – 2:00 pm
Sellers Auditorium at Bryant Conference Center
240 Paul W. Bryant Dr.
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
As a principal stakeholder in community preparedness in the State of Alabama, you are invited to attend the Preparedness for Alabama Resilience Summit. The purpose of this summit is to enhance disaster preparedness and stakeholder partnerships in Alabama. Objectives include increased awareness of disaster mitigation, response, and recovery management and the growth of the resilience stakeholder network collaboration with emergency management through partnerships between local, state, and federal partners, including both public and private sector partners. The outcome is inclusion and involvement in planning for preparedness, training and exercising, and contributing to disaster mitigation, response, and recovery. Your input in these discussions will strengthen the resilience stakeholder network that is vital to the safety of Alabama and our local communities. The goal is enhanced development and improvement of relationships for community resilience.
Stakeholder discussion will include:
- Event-based discussions that highlight the incident command/unified command processes in preparedness and response. Reviewing the best practices that have reduced disaster impacts within communities and enhanced recovery efforts that have stabilized these communities as quickly as possible.
- Your role in the resilience stakeholder network in collaboration with emergency management to improve preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts by including more awareness, capabilities, and capacities from the network.
- The use of incident command/unified command in this collaboration to integrate capacities and capabilities where and when needed to increase community resilience.
***Lunch will be provided, and parking is free at the Capstone Parking Deck. The facility entrance is on the Second Avenue side of the deck.
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