CHW EM - Module 1 - Intro and HVA Video
Summary
TLDRThis presentation, led by Jennifer Harris, a doctorate student in public health, covers emergency preparedness and management for community health workers. It focuses on identifying local hazards, understanding social vulnerabilities, and exploring the four phases of emergency response: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The training also highlights the importance of crisis communication, the incident management system, and the all-hazards approach to disaster preparedness. Key modules include hazard vulnerability analysis, emergency management phases, and organizational structures, with a focus on preparedness strategies for community health workers to better assist their clients.
Takeaways
- 📍 Emergency preparedness involves understanding local hazards and social vulnerabilities before planning activities.
- 🌍 It's essential to identify hazards specific to geographic locations to accurately assess risks and prepare effectively.
- 👥 Social vulnerabilities within populations impact how different groups experience and respond to emergencies.
- 🔄 The four phases of emergency management include mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, each with distinct activities.
- 🔧 An all-hazards approach to preparedness ensures that community health workers (CHWs) can handle diverse emergencies.
- 📊 Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) is a systematic method to identify potential risks that may impact communities.
- 🏢 The Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) combines local HVAs at state and federal levels to identify nationwide priorities.
- 🚨 Different hazards are categorized as natural, technical/accidental, and adversarial/human-caused, requiring varying preparedness plans.
- 🛠 Tools like the Kaiser Permanente HVA allow communities to quantify risks and prioritize preparedness based on probability and impact.
- 🗺️ Emergency management structures differ at county, regional, and state levels, requiring tailored response and communication strategies.
Q & A
What is the main objective of the training on emergency preparedness and management?
-The main objective of the training is to educate community health workers on emergency preparedness and management, focusing on six specific objectives including hazard identification, understanding social vulnerabilities, and the phases of emergency response.
What are the six objectives of the emergency preparedness training?
-The six objectives are: 1) Identifying hazards specific to geographic locations, 2) Describing social vulnerabilities in populations, 3) Explaining the differences between mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery phases, 4) Outlining disaster preparedness steps with an all-hazards approach, 5) Understanding the incident management system in the U.S., and 6) Understanding the importance of crisis and emergency risk communication.
What is a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) and why is it important?
-An HVA is a systematic approach to identifying hazards or risks that are most likely to impact a community. It's important because it helps prioritize the risks that require attention and preparedness in specific geographical areas.
What are the three categories of hazards mentioned in the training?
-The three categories of hazards are: 1) Natural hazards (e.g., droughts, earthquakes, severe storms), 2) Technical or accidental hazards (e.g., biological, chemical spills, transportation incidents), and 3) Adversarial or human-caused hazards (e.g., armed assaults, cyber-attacks).
What is the difference between HVA and THIRA?
-HVA focuses on hazards and risks at the local or organizational level, while THIRA (Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment) is a state-level process that aggregates HVAs to assess risks at a broader, national level.
How do different regions in Illinois assess hazards, and what variations exist?
-Each of Illinois' seven Emergency Medical Service regions conducts an HVA. Different regions may prioritize hazards differently based on local risks. For example, some regions may rank active shooters as a higher priority, while others may focus on natural disasters like tornadoes or floods.
How does the Kaiser Permanente HVA tool work?
-The Kaiser Permanente HVA tool assesses hazards by evaluating their probability, past alerts or activations, severity (human, property, business impact), and preparedness levels (internal and external response). It generates a relative threat score to help prioritize risks.
What are some key considerations for community health workers (CHWs) regarding emergency preparedness?
-CHWs should consider what hazards can affect their community, the potential impacts on human life and property, and what resources and capabilities are needed to respond effectively, such as pre-planning, supplies, and mutual aid agreements.
How does the state of Illinois use HVA data for emergency preparedness?
-The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) collects HVAs from different regions and uses them to create a THIRA, assessing statewide risks and preparedness levels. The state uses this information to guide mitigation and preparedness efforts across counties.
Why is it important for CHWs to understand the social vulnerabilities of their communities?
-Understanding social vulnerabilities is crucial because they can affect how different populations respond to hazards and emergencies. By recognizing these factors, CHWs can tailor preparedness and response efforts to meet the specific needs of vulnerable populations.
Outlines
📊 Introduction to Emergency Preparedness Training
Jennifer Harris, a doctorate student in public health, introduces a presentation on emergency preparedness and management targeted at community health workers. The training has six objectives: identifying local hazards, understanding social vulnerabilities, explaining disaster phases (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery), detailing the all-hazards approach, understanding the incident management system, and the importance of crisis communication. The curriculum consists of five modules, covering topics like hazard vulnerability analysis, social vulnerability indices, emergency management phases, organizational structure, and crisis risk communication.
🌪️ Types of Hazards and Vulnerabilities
This section categorizes hazards into natural, technical/accidental, and adversarial/human-caused. Examples for each category are provided, such as earthquakes and tornadoes for natural hazards, chemical spills and nuclear incidents for technical, and active shooter situations and cyber-attacks for adversarial. The discussion focuses on assessing specific threats to the community and determining their impact. A map of Illinois is introduced, showing the seven emergency medical service regions, where each region is responsible for a hazard vulnerability assessment, usually led by hospitals. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) uses these regional assessments to create a comprehensive state risk analysis.
🔍 Assessing Risks: Tools and Prioritization
Jennifer introduces the Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) tool developed by Kaiser Permanente, widely used in hospitals, public health, businesses, and schools. The tool helps assess probability, severity, and preparedness for specific threats such as active shooters. The severity of potential hazards is analyzed based on human, property, and business impact. Preparedness is also evaluated for internal and external responses. Illinois regions' HVA scores are compared, showing differing priorities across regions, which is acceptable given the different local conditions. Overall, the importance of accurately assessing and prioritizing risks is emphasized.
🗺️ Regional Risk Differences in Illinois
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency compiles natural hazard mitigation plans, ranking risks for counties based on factors like population. Differences between state and county risk assessments are presented, demonstrating variation in perceived risks (e.g., severe storms, floods) and the necessity for county-level hazard plans. The state map shows the status of mitigation plans, highlighting the difference between areas with updated plans, outdated plans, or none at all. The importance of having accurate and up-to-date mitigation plans in place is discussed, especially regarding regional and county-level preparedness.
👥 Key Considerations for Community Health Workers
Jennifer explains the significance of hazard vulnerability assessments for community health workers (CHWs). The key questions include identifying hazards, assessing their potential impact, and understanding community preparedness capabilities. Human safety is the top priority in emergencies, followed by property and economic impacts. CHWs need to consider the resources and mutual aid agreements necessary to support communities, including collaboration with nearby states if applicable. Understanding community risks and preparedness, as well as the individualized vulnerabilities of clients, are crucial to effectively aiding those in need.
📊 Summary of Hazard Vulnerability Assessments
The summary reiterates that an HVA is a systematic review of vulnerabilities and risks in a geographic area, combined with a review of mitigation efforts and past activation history. It highlights the importance of identifying areas for improvement in preparedness and training based on these assessments. The primary focus should always be on preserving human life and understanding how communities can better prepare for potential threats. Jennifer thanks the audience for their attention and indicates that the next module will cover social vulnerabilities.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Emergency Preparedness
💡Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA)
💡THIRA (Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment)
💡Social Vulnerability
💡Disaster Mitigation
💡Incident Management System
💡All-Hazards Approach
💡Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC)
💡Natural Hazards
💡Mutual Aid Agreements
Highlights
Jennifer Harris introduces herself as a doctorate student in public health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
The presentation focuses on emergency preparedness and management, targeting community health workers.
Six specific objectives for the training are outlined, including identifying hazards and social vulnerabilities.
The importance of understanding the differences between disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery is emphasized.
Disaster preparedness steps according to an all-hazards approach are discussed.
The incident management system and its structure throughout the United States are explained.
The significance of crisis and emergency risk communication is highlighted.
The training is divided into five modules, starting with Hazard Vulnerability Analysis.
Social Vulnerability Indices for Illinois and its counties are covered in Module Two.
Module Three covers the four phases of Emergency Management: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.
Module Four discusses the organizational structure for Emergency Management in Illinois.
Module Five focuses on crisis and risk communication, also known as CIRC.
Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) is defined and its significance in community risk assessment is explained.
THIRA is introduced as a state-level roll-up of HVAs, focusing on the biggest threats and hazards.
Natural, technical, and adversarial hazards are categorized and examples are provided.
The Illinois Emergency Medical Service regions and their responsibility for HVAs are detailed.
A hazard vulnerability assessment tool developed by Kaiser Permanente is presented.
The process of ranking the probability, alerts/activations, severity, and preparedness for hazards is described.
The importance of regional differences in hazard prioritization within Illinois is discussed.
The Illinois natural Hazard mitigation plan and how counties rank in preparedness is reviewed.
The differences between state and county risk assessments are highlighted.
The implications of HVA for Community Health Workers (CHWs) are discussed, focusing on threats and hazards affecting communities.
The impact of threats and hazards on community, property, and economy is considered.
The necessity of community capabilities and preparedness based on hazard impacts is examined.
The summary emphasizes the systematic review of vulnerabilities, hazards, risks, mitigation, and preparedness.
Transcripts
hello my name is Jennifer Harris and I
am currently a doctorate and public
health student at the University of
Nebraska Medical Center and today's
presentation is going to be on emergency
preparedness and management
this training is intended for community
health workers and there are six
specific objectives to this training
that we're going to go through number
one is to identify hazards specific to
your geographic location number two is
to describe the social vulnerabilities
of the populations in your geographical
area and why these two things are
important to understand before getting
into emergency preparedness activities
number three will be to explain the
differences between disaster mitigation
preparedness response and Recovery these
are the four phases of Emergency
Response
excuse me emergency preparedness and
management and we will go through each
one of those
objective number four is to explain
disaster preparedness steps according to
an all hazards approach and what chws
can do to assist their clients with
these steps
number five is to understand the
incident management system and the
structure that goes along with it
throughout the United States and
objective number six is to understand
the importance of Crisis and emergency
risk communication
there are five modules to this training
and curriculum we were going to go
through each one separately the first
one is on Hazard vulnerability analysis
from around the state of Illinois and
what that means for our different
regions module number two we'll go over
social vulnerability indices for the
state of Illinois and the counties
within Illinois we will also touch on
the world Institute of disabilities
emergency planning toolkit
the third module is Emergency Management
phases the mitigation preparedness
response and Recovery
the fourth module we're going to go over
the organizational structure for
Emergency Management in Illinois and
module number five will cover that
crisis and risk communication or
otherwise referred to as Circ
so for module one we're going to Dive
Right In with Hazard vulnerability
analysis or referred to as HBA and
threat and Hazard identification and
risk assessment also referred to as
thyra
so this is really just taking a look at
our geographical areas that we reside or
our communities are in and taking a look
at what could be happening in the
environment that can pose a risk you can
see here we've got pictures of fire
tornado there's many that we're going to
get into discussing
the definitions of an hva or Hazard
vulnerability analysis can vary and
there's many of them out there so I have
just put two on the screen here one is
from U.S health and human services just
from this year 2023 and they Define it
as a systematic approach to identifying
hazards or risks that are most likely to
have an impact on the community
California Hospital Association has a
really good definition as well now even
though it's specific to hospital
environments where they're looking at a
hazard vulnerability analysis is a
process for identifying the hospital's
highest vulnerabilities to Nature and
man-made hazards and the direct and
indirect effect these hazards can have
on the hospital or the community
there is another item that we just
talked about called thyra thyra is at a
state level so they roll it up from the
hvas that maybe a hospital or a
community or an organization did the
state will collect and then at the
Nationwide Federal level they also
collect all of these Hazard
vulnerability assessments or analyzes
and they will put together what they
call a thyra so it's taking all that
information together and at a national
level taking a look at the risks that
have been identified and what is most
pertinent or what is the biggest
catastrophic threat and hazards that
need to be addressed in order for them
to be appropriately managed
so with all of that being said what
types of Hazards are we talking about
when we are looking at Hazard
vulnerability assessments they can be
broken down into three categories so you
see on here we have natural Technical
and accidental and adversarial or human
caused in the natural category we're
pretty familiar with a lot of these here
in the state of Illinois we've had
everything from droughts we do have
potential for earthquake being close to
the the fault line down near Southern
Illinois
we've experienced extreme heat floods
severe thunderstorms winter storms
erosion we've had all of these at one
time or another so we will go through
and talk a little bit more in a couple
of slides here about the state of
Illinois with those but those are some
examples of natural hazards some
examples of technical or accidental
hazards you can see list at the middle
column these can be anything from
biological food contamination chemical
spills Dam or Levy failures nuclear
power plants and you know that's a big
one for the state of Illinois given how
many nuclear power plants we do have
transportation incident so again this
column here gives some examples of
Technical and accidental and then in the
far right hand column we have
adversarial and human caused these are
anything from armed assaults active
shooter situations that the nation has
experienced recently cyber attacks the
plague
um smallpox the list goes on
um there's a lot of examples we could
give for each one of these categories
um you know in terms of natural I we
talked again in Illinois we have
everything depending on the season from
winter storms to tornadoes to droughts
so we go through those depending on what
part of Illinois we live in because we
do geographically span a wide range of
area we could experience all of those in
one region others are more likely to
experience it than others
and then when you get into the
adversarial and human cause there's a
lot of examples that fit into this
category and unfortunately with the
climate it the way it has been in recent
years there's a lot of examples that can
come to mind but you start to paint the
picture of what are the hazards for the
community in which we work and our
patients and clients live and what do we
need to be most cognizant of
on this next slide this is a map of the
state of Illinois so Illinois is broken
into seven Emergency Medical Service
regions and each one is a different
color here and each region is
responsible for completing one Hazard
vulnerability assessment per Emergency
Medical Service region so typically it's
a hospital that leads those efforts for
that entire region not always but
typically and they work together so that
community that region they all come
together and work on you know it's it's
a round table like a tabletop situation
where everybody sits down and talks
through what they think what are the
biggest hazards or risks for their
region we have 102 counties in the state
of Illinois
with 97 local Health departments so that
means that there are some local Health
departments that cover multiple counties
because another County may not have
their own so that is worth the
difference of five comes from between
102 counties and 97 Health departments
then the Illinois Emergency Management
agency referred to as Aima collects all
of that information and they will put
together the state of Illinois thyra
that threat and risk assessment that
they're taking a look at from a whole
perspective for the state of Illinois
so what are they doing when they take a
look at assessing these and when they're
starting to look at what's more at risk
or less at risk this is an example of a
hazard vulnerability assessment tool
Kaiser Permanente was a hospital out in
California hospital system they
developed this tool and it has been
widely used by not only those in
hospital or Health Care environments but
Public Health departments businesses
schools it's a very good tool and I
wanted to walk you through so you could
take a look and see how this actually
works so I'm going to go with um the
very beginning here the First Alert type
is an active shooter and so what they
will first look at is this category
right here for probability what is the
likelihood that this will occur in our
community you can look at recent Trends
you can look at crime rates you can look
at a lot of different things which is
why you'll have a multi-disciplinary
group getting together to fill this out
you will have everybody from local
Health departments police fire Emergency
Medical Services teachers not for
profits churches all the community gets
together in the best interest of doing a
very good Hazard vulnerability
assessment and they will rank the
probability of an active shooter in
their Community as either low a 1 up to
a three is high
now the alerts and the activations is a
very interesting piece that has been
added on in recent years
and the alerts and activations is how
many times has your community been put
on alert or actually had to activate
their plan for responding to an active
shooter situation so essentially the
more alerts or activations you have had
you have had more time to practice not
that it's a good thing that you've had
to activate these but if you're doing
alerts or activations it means your
community has had to at least Implement
at some point and test out their plans
then the severity so down here we're
looking at magnitude and mitigation and
so what they're looking at is the human
impact property impact and business
impact what is the possibility of death
or injury from an active shooter
situation and they have to score it
again low moderate High property impact
from an active shooter the physical
losses and damages need to be ranked and
then as well business impact so will
Interruption of services happen is it
likely moderate or high
then you go to the preparedness section
this green these green columns and you
look at how well prepared are they or
the community what is the internal
response and external response and so
again pre-planning are there plans in
place have the appropriate community
members come together to drill or to
work through plans again you score this
and everything comes together over here
in a mathematical equation comes up and
calculates the risk this is the relative
threat based on all of this information
we just went through for an active
shooter in this community and it will
give a relative threat of anywhere from
zero to one hundred percent
so for each type of Hazard type that we
talked about in the previous slides they
will go through here and they will
assess each of those items for each one
and at the end of it you will be able to
prioritize what risks had the highest
percentages and those are the ones that
need the most attention or should be
evaluated at the most
so when I took a look at Illinois's hvas
because there's multiple ones this is a
great example that I wanted to share
with you of how things ranked so you can
see on the left hand side of the screen
this is one example of a region and they
ranked active shooter as a number one
tornado is number two but what you can
see on the right hand side of the screen
is another region within the state of
Illinois actually it brings flood as
their primary concern but tornado was
still number two so for these two
regions you can see that tornadoes
ranked as number two priorities in both
regions but you can see their number one
priorities are slightly different that
is not a good or a bad thing it's
actually probably a very accurate
picture of whatever region this is but
what I wanted to point out was for the
most part even though the rank ordering
may be slightly different in the top
eight to ten here you will start to see
the tornadoes list on both of them
severe thunderstorms winter storms you
can start to see extreme heat extreme
cold you can see on the right hand side
they actually had multiple items that
all tied for being number eight priority
they all had the exact same risk
prioritization percentage and so when
you start to look at this you can get a
good idea of what are the top 10 hazards
for the state of Illinois these are all
of the items that the state then rolls
up and takes a look at and puts together
but I wanted you to see the difference
between the regions in the state and how
it can be a little bit variable which is
perfectly fine
and remember these regions have multiple
counties within them so even at the
county level and Regional level they may
differ slightly and that is perfectly
okay
this is another really good illustration
to continue along these lines this is an
example of the Illinois natural Hazard
mitigation plan from Aima the Illinois
Emergency Management agency they
actually took all this information on
natural hazards so you can see at the
top of the slide here severe storms
floods severe winter storms drought
extreme heat earthquake and tornado and
you can see for each County listed down
the far left to hand column the
population of that County and how they
were ranked in terms of being prepared
or having Hazard mitigation in place so
for severe storms Adams County was
ranked very high you can see for floods
medium but when you go across to Drought
or earthquake Adams County was actually
ranked low in terms of mitigation
efforts
this is just a quick I don't expect you
to be able to read this but going along
these lines Aima then takes that
information we just looked at and they
say how prepared are these counties with
mitigation plans in order to prepare for
those natural hazards green means that
they have plans in place
the orangish color means they have one
in place but it needs to be improved
upon or updated the white ones do not
have any plans and the light blue or
grayish ones were outdated as of this
map being made and need it to be updated
so you can see from the state level Aima
they get all of those scores together
and then they start looking at how well
prepared does everybody for those
certain types of Hazards
again this is a really good pictorial of
the difference between what the state
might categorize or risk assess
something versus the county and again
it's okay it just shows you the
difference that may be going on so I've
circled a couple here in red the very
top line you can see for Jefferson
County population just under 39
000. the state actually ranked them as
being at severe risk for severe storms
but the county said they were only at
high risk not severe
if you keep going across the state
indicated Jefferson County was at low
risk for floods but the county felt like
they were medium
so again as you take a look at this um
sometimes the risks are a little bit
different and there's probably good
justifications from both the state and
the county on why they would rank
something such as this but the most
important part is the mitigation or the
preparedness plans that then get put in
place
but this is all part of those Hazard
vulnerability assessments looking at
natural disasters man-made adversarial
and accidental so this is just giving
you a picture for the state of Illinois
on how the state rolls up all of the
county information
so what does all of this mean for chws I
know that was a lot of technical work to
explain and that you don't need to
remember all of it but these are the
most important questions
um from my perspective for community
health workers which is what threats and
Hazards can affect our community
think through those three topics natural
Technical and accidental and adversarial
and human caused what are the biggest
threats that we have or hazards that
could be going on in our communities
if they were to occur what impacts would
those threats and Hazards have on our
community the very first priority is
always on human life safety save lives
save limbs so what is their impact if
those threats were to happen on the
community property and economy always
comes secondary tertiary to that human
saved lives protect and preserve human
lives
but again what are they you know once
human lives the event is over what is
the damage to the community in terms of
housing structures utilities those are
all items that need to be taken into
consideration based on what the hazard
would be and then the third question
based on those impacts what capabilities
should our community have which means
how should we be prepared what resources
do we need are there extra supplies
particular supplies that we need to have
on hand do we need to have mutual Aid
agreements with sister counties or with
the state if you are a county that
borders on a state the state line is
there a state next to us so Indiana
Missouri that you may want to look to
for Mutual Aid agreements as well so
these are all the questions from a
community health worker perspective that
I think is important to think through
especially when we're working with our
patients and clients and we will get
into this a little bit in the next
module and social vulnerabilities
because that is very individualized and
can be different
um from household to household but you
have to understand
um the hva perspective and the actual
risks and hazards that are in our
communities and now we are going to move
on to talking about the individualized
and social vulnerabilities
and hopefully you will start to see how
all of this comes together
so in summary
hva or Hazard vulnerability analysis or
assessment is a systematic review of
vulnerabilities hazards and or risks to
a geographic region combined with what
level of mitigation or preparedness and
actual activation history has that
Community experienced are they familiar
with how to respond to some of these or
is it never happened before and they
hope it never happens but are they
prepared we also have to look at
assistant identifying areas for
improvement in preparedness and training
so what do we need more training and
preparedness on and then what resources
do we need based on all of that
information
so thank you for taking the time um to
listen to this module on Hazard
vulnerability as analysis and
assessments and module tool two will be
up next on social vulnerabilities thank
you
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