Emergency and disaster management
- A network of hope: A resource to help In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing the Oklahoma City National Memorial recently brought together community members across a broad spectrum to participate in a two day Collective Reflection, thus launching A Network of Hope � A Resource to Help as a catalog of best practices. Members of the business community, media, clergy, health and education shared their experiences and compiled a document to be used as a starting point for studying needs, reactions and best practices after a major traumatic incident. During the balance of 2006 and early 2007, the Memorial staff invested hundreds of hours in studying the rebuilding process after other incidents, both man-made and natural disasters. In addition, we hosted a second Collective Reflection. The study included New York City after the World Trade Center terrorist attack, Hurricanes Hugo in Charleston (SC) and Andrew in Homestead (FL) and Miami (FL), earthquakes in Northridge (CA) and Kobe (Japan), floods in Des Moines (IA), and, finally, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (LA). What has resulted is a collection of documents covering Municipality, Business, General Public, Non-Government Response Organizations, Faith Community, Media, and Memorializing, with some assistance for resources regarding Preparedness. During 2007, the materials were reviewed by cities and organizations in multiple states that had experienced disasters and the challenges of rebuilding and healing. This information has also been released as a pdf file - Oklahoma City - Seven Years Later - Lessons for other communities
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