Best Practice Planning Around Special Populations, Continuity of Operations Planning, and Animal Response our Specialties

 

Our Services

The experts at the Steinhauer Group guide and strengthen your emergency preparedness efforts with the modern best practices in the following areas. If there’s something with which you need help, but which you don’t see listed below, drop us a line and let us know what it is — if we can’t help, we may be able to find someone who can.

Emergency Planning for Municipalities and Continuity of Operations for Non-Profits and Community Organizations

We offer expertise in creating plans for local jurisdictions -- cities, towns, villages and neighborhoods – businesses, schools and non-profit organizations. These plans are designed to help you fulfill your role in an emergency. We offer specialized assistance in:

• helping you develop and conduct your local emergency operations center, from activation to deactivation;
• designing plans to educate, prepare and accommodate the people in your community with disabilities and special needs;
• facilitating and overseeing the operation of a voluntary registry for people with disabilities and special populations;
• guiding response and recovery plans for neighborhood groups and associations, including light search and rescue, first aid and shelter operations;
• nurturing the role of local human services organizations and county human service departments in the planning, response and recovery of an incident, emergency or disaster;
• developing municipal website content and maintenance as it relates to emergency preparedness;
• conducting tabletop exercises, including exercise design, facilitation, and After Action Reports (AARs); and
• appearing before city councils and other authorizing bodies to talk about the importance of a shared vision for emergency management, planning, response and recovery.

Building Social Capitol, Community Outreach and Public Health

The effectiveness of emergency planning often depends on the community's ability to build social capital within neighborhoods. We offer expertise in facilitating community preparedness capacity building via social marketing, message construction and delivery, and neighborhood organizing, building towards a social capital investment in readiness. We can assist your efforts to promote community health through our public health nurse consultants, and to enhance relationships among community based services (i.e., community service organizations, social clubs, faith based organizations, home health and home care entities and others ), as they plan their responses to emergencies.

Education and Training

We offer presentations, workshops and seminars on:

• emergency management practices, especially as they relate to special populations and animal response planning ;
• modern evacuation, reception center and shelter planning for public safety officials (police, fire, EMS); and
• how your Public Information Officer can enhance their effectiveness during an incident, emergency or disaster.