GET PREPARED
WITH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS
Keep your community on the frontline of emergency preparedness with a variety of emergency management experts.
The Focus First: Emergency Preparedness Forum features a wide variety of emergency management professionals who want to help you prepare your community for future emergencies. Each presentation is geared toward teaching, sharing and preparing you and your community.
Join us and meet with First Nation emergency management and preparedness professionals like:
Bernie Derible, Deputy Minister of Emergency Management Ontario
Presentation - A Safe, Practiced and Prepared Ontario - One Window for Emergency Management
Emergency Management Ontario’s growth over the past year has been aimed to better support all Ontarians in being safe, practiced and prepared for emergencies. The Commissioner for Emergency Management Ontario, Bernie Derible, will lead a conversation discussing how to better collaborate with First Nations communities guided by the One Window vision for Emergency Management, with an opportunity for Forum attendees to share solutions to Emergency Management challenges they have experienced.
Wilbert Wesley, Mushkegowuk Council
Presentation - Hazard Identification & Risk Assessments: Present and Future
Hazard Identification Risk Assessment (HIRA) program overview: Looking at the methodology involved in the delivery of training, education & the development of a First Nation’s HIRA, but from a First Nations perspective concerning current infostructure challenges and funding needs involving Federal jurisdiction of First Nations in emergency management planning concerning the findings of a hazardous identification risk assessments reports.
Ashley Russell-Taylor, Six Nations Fire Deptartment &
Tim Stone of Moose Cree Fire Department
Presentation - First Nation Fire Departments Panel
Learn more about the realities of fire departments in First Nation communities with the First Nation Fire Department Panel. Ashley Russell-Taylor of Six Nations Fire Department and Tim Stone of Moose Cree Fire Department will discuss processes, prevention, and protection for establishing and operating fire departments in First Nations.
Keeping your communities safe
All Emergency Management Coordinators, Social Emergency Management Coordinators and
other First Nation emergency professionals who strive to be at the forefront of emergency
preparedness should register now! There’s no time to wait when keeping your community safe.
