Other Links

Federal Disaster Declarations
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) page listing Federal Disaster Declarations; can be organized by State, Federal region, or type of disaster.
FEMA Institute Classes
The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) offers self-paced courses designed for people who have emergency management responsibilities and the general public. All are offered free-of-charge to those who qualify for enrollment.
International Association of Emergency Managers
Listing of upcoming meetings and conferences.
National Emergency Management Association (NEMA)
Conference listing for NEMA, the professional association of and for state emergency management directors.

News and Events

New Items

>>HHS Provides more than $1 Billion to Improve All Hazards Public Health , June 3, 2008, DHHS Press Release

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced that the department has made available nearly $1.1 billion to continue assisting public health departments, hospitals and other health care organizations to strengthen their ability to respond to public health and medical emergencies as a result of a terrorism attack or naturally occurring event. Read more. . .

>>KU Center Develops Online Disaster Training to Assist People with Disabilities March 9, 2008; infoZine.

Researchers at the Life Span Institute at the University of Kansas have taken this lesson from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina to create a two-hour online training course on how to assist people with disabilities during a community emergency.

RSS Feeds

A number of Federal agencies are providing news and information via newsfeeds that describe their latest news and updates. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." It is a standard format used to share content on the Internet. A complete listing of U.S. Government newsfeeds can be found at >>USA.gov.

You can use RSS to review updates from your favorite Web sites without having to visit each site. Using an RSS reader, you subscribe to the feed from a Web site, then scan headlines to find articles of interest. If you find an article you like, click the headline to read the complete article. You always have the latest headlines because your RSS reader periodically retrieves the RSS feeds.

To subscribe to a feed, you will need a Feed Reader. These are free from many sources, including major search engines and Internet services and media companies. A listing of many of them can be found at >>The DMOZ Open Directory Project. Instructions on subscribing to an RSS feed can be found at the >>USA.gov site.

Here are some locations of some Federal RSS link sites relevant to emergency management, individuals with disabilities, and the elderly.

>>Federal Emergency Management Agency

>>Department of Homeland Security

>>Department of Health and Human Services

>>Department of Education

In addition to the Federal government, many news and private organizations provide newsfeeds from their sites. These are often indicated with the symbol.