Behavioral Health Disaster Response: Effective Communication in Emergency Settings

Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: Canceled

Workshop

Session Number: 39

This presentation will provide an explanation of why behavioral health concerns are a major component of emergency events and how behavioral health interventions can both prevent and mitigate certain consequences of disasters and other emergencies. Long-term behavioral health effects of disasters will be explained and discussed in the context of both prevention and intervention. Additionally, this presentation will focus on understanding how to increase the effectiveness of interactions with people who are anxious or overwhelmed by a perceived or real public health threat. The manifestations of fear, anxiety, anger and panic will be portrayed and appropriate responses will be outlined. Staff issues, such as the stress of responding to the public and the importance of coping with one's own fears about a potentially dangerous situation, will be explored.

**This Workshop Has Been Canceled**

Continuity of Operations: Preparing Yourself to Help Others

Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: Bel Aire North

Workshop

Session Number: 68

Continuity of Operations (COOP) ensures that senior-level personnel and departments are capable of continued performance under a broad range of circumstances. This workshop will enable senior staff to anticipate events, take response actions, adapt to sudden changes in operational environments, and improve performance through the identification of critical functions and processes. The workshop curriculum will include planning for preparedness, activation, and reconstitution. A case study will be presented. Attendees will share expertise and begin initial development of COOP plans. Upon completion, participants will be provided a compact disc with COOP planning templates, forms, and reference material for use within their jurisdictions.

A Community-Driven Process for Response to Patient Surge during a Public Health Emergency

Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: Coronado A & B

Workshop

Session Number: 79

This workshop will feature presentations from representatives of the CDC and of several communities that have used the example of pandemic influenza to reevaluate their current emergency plans for delivering health care during a large-scale public health emergency. The presenters will describe engaging health care partners and other providers within their communities and the challenges they have faced in developing this coordination framework. The facilitators and presenters also will lead participants through several activities designed to assist them in their own planning, including identifying partner agencies and individuals within their communities, demonstrating potential coordination issues, examining various models of coordination, and identifying strategies.

Finding the Pathway to All-Hazards Laboratory Response

Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: Bel Aire South

Workshop

Session Number: 146

As the CDC has shifted to an all-hazards approach to laboratory emergency response, state public health laboratories must coordinate resources within their own states or territories. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Microbial Diseases Laboratory (MDL) has taken the lead in developing the California Statewide Laboratory Emergency Response Plan. This workshop will lead participants through the process stakeholders followed and provide training in the tools devised. Participants will discuss the design and testing of a National Incident Management System-compliant mechanism to coordinate laboratory resources and a template for plan development. A compact disk with tools, worksheets, checklists, training outlines, and reference materials will be provided. Participants will draft and exercise response plans during the workshop.

**This Workshop Has Been Canceled**

 

 

Preparing Mass Fatality Management Plans for Pandemic Influenza

Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: Fairbanks A

Workshop

Session Number: 201

Workshop presenters will describe a unique mass fatality management plan for activation during a large-scale pandemic. This interactive workshop is intended for experienced public health planners and emergency managers from both large and small jurisdictions. Participants are strongly encouraged to come prepared with knowledge about their jurisdictions’ legal authorities for response to mass fatalities and their mortuary services capacity. Participants will consider legal authorities and their implications for planning; engagement with community partners; centralized morgue operations; staffing, logistics, and social distancing measures for family assistance centers; the role of volunteers; mortuary products for stockpiling; and an overview of the free NACCHO Pandemic Influenza Tabletop Exercise Template tool.

Planning and Concepts of Operations: Alternate Care Sites during Public Health Emergencies

Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: Fairbanks B

Workshop

Session Number: 240

In this evidence-based and interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to the collaborative planning and interagency cooperation necessary for planning and operating an alternate care site (ACS) for primary triage and basic patient care during a public health emergency. Lessons learned and best practices developed by the New York State ACS planning program will be presented, along with a planning toolkit and critical action guide to allow participants to plan and operate alternate care sites in their home areas. Topics will include, among others, engaging community partners, site selection, staffing, designing medical protocols and clinical pathways, site security, communication with the public, and exercising the ACS plan.

Incident Command System Practicum:How To Make ICS Work For You

Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: Fairbanks C

Workshop

Session Number: 275

This workshop will include a review of Incident Command System (ICS) principles and planning, with emphasis on applicability to public health. Examples of the use of ICS during public health events will be given, taken from North   Carolina, a local-control state. Small groups will develop an incident action plan for a disease outbreak and prepare and conduct a planning meeting and operational period briefing. Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop. They will be given paper workshop materials and a CD-ROM of public domain ICS resources and tools.

Implementation of the Florida Public Health and Medical Preparedness Strategic Plan

Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: Fairbanks D

Workshop

Session Number: 285

This session will describe the Six Sigma methodology used by the Florida Office of Public Health Preparedness to develop and maintain national health and medical-related target capabilities. This approach includes a team-based environment, including a strategic plan oversight team comprised of health and medical leaders; a lead team to ensure accountability with federal and state strategies, monitor progress, operationalize priorities, and celebrate successes; and capability teams comprised of subject matter experts. The approach also includes the critical task analysis process and a project management system to develop and manage preparedness projects and to track and measure progress in achieving target capabilities.