Emergency Management Briefing Presentation

  Content

1. Communication with the public is a key element of disaster response. In this assignment, imagine you are a new member of a public safety team in the municipal government and you’ve been tasked with preparing a briefing presentation to introduce emergency management to the community.
   Create a 5-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation introducing community members to emergency management. Include information and examples that address the following questions:
   • How is emergency management defined?
   • What are the major theories of emergency management?
   • What is the history of emergency management?
   • Why is emergency management important for the community?
   • Include speaker notes, a cover slide, an introduction slide that highlights the presentation’s major points, a conclusion slide that recaps the main points, and a reference slide.
     Cite at least 2 sources within the presentation and format your citations according to APA guidelines.

Resources:

Emergency Management History & Theories

• BBC Worldwide Learning (2008). Hurricane Katrina evacuation plans [Video segment] in Hurricanes from Hell: The World’s Worst Disasters, (03:31).
• FEMA (2020). PrepTalks: Dr. Daniel Aldrich “Social capital in disaster mitigation and recovery” [Full video], (27:42).
• First Run Features (2009). Response to Katrina [Video segment] in America Betrayed, (04:44).
• The Heritage Foundation (2015). Preparing for disaster: U.S. disaster response policy and areas for reform [Full video], (01:02:42).

Videos

Watch Segments 16 – 22 of When the Levees Broke – Part 1:

• HBO (2006). When the levees broke: Part 1 [Full video], (01:06:09).