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Industry Associations Bulletin Board
November 2008
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International Rescue and Emergency Care Association (IRECA)
IRECA is the oldest international organization of its kind; representing men and women in the United States and Canada. IRECA was founded in 1948 at its first annual convention in Atlantic City, NJ. IRECA is entirely financed by membership dues, grants, endowments, and revenues generated by association-sponsored events. Its mission is to provide its members and the EMS/Rescue community with high quality educational programming and competitions, networking with EMS and Rescue professionals, and representation on regulatory and standards committees to ensure EMS and Rescuer safety and accountability. www.ireca.org
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National Association of Emergency Dispatch
The National Association of Emergency Dispatch is a non-profit standard-setting organization promoting safe and effective emergency dispatch services worldwide. Comprised of three allied Academies for medical, fire and police dispatching, it supports first-responder related research, unified protocol application, legislation for emergency call center regulation, and strengths the emergency dispatch community through education, certification, and accreditation. www.emergencydispatch.org
Disaster Research Center
The Disaster Research Center, the first social science research center in the world devoted to the study of disasters, was established at Ohio State University in 1963 and moved to the University of Delaware in 1985. The Center conducts field and survey research on group, organizational and community preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters and other community-wide crises. Its researchers have carried out systematic studies on a broad range of disaster types, including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous chemical incidents, and plane crashes. It has also done research on civil disturbances and riots, including the 1992 Los Angeles unrest. Past DRC studies have focused on such topics as emergency medical and mental health service delivery in disasters, community responses to acute chemical hazards, and mass evacuation and sheltering. www.udel.edu/DRC/
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The CERT Coordination Center
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), arguably the most widely known group within the CERT Program. The CERT Program is part of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a federally funded research and development center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Following the Morris worm incident, which brought 10 percent of internet systems to a halt in November 1988, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) charged the SEI with setting up a center to coordinate communication among experts during security emergencies and to help prevent future incidents. One of its primary objectives is to analyze the state of Internet security and convey that information to the Internet community. www.cert.org
Contingency Planners of Ohio (CPO)
CPO is an association of continuity, disaster recovery, information security, and business professionals and planners dedicated to educational and shared experiences in contingency planning. Please visit their web site for information about them, a calendar of events, details on their upcoming conference, and more. www.cpohio.org/about.asp
16th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WCDEM)
May 12-15, 2009 – Victoria, BC Canada – Hosted by the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) this conference will bring the World’s disaster and emergency experts to Victoria to review, assess, and make recommendations for the advancement of best practices based on available and new evidence regarding preparedness and management of the events that inflict damage on the inhabitants and environment of our planet. www.wcdem2009.org
Iowa Contingency Planners
The Iowa Contingency Planners is a professional group of Contingency Planners and Emergency Management Officials from all sectors of society - business, industry, government, and volunteer agencies. Their mission is to provide contingency planning and disaster recovery educational and networking opportunities for their members and to provide these opportunities in a professional setting at little cost to the participants. www.iowacontingencyplanners.org
National Association for Search and Rescue, Inc.
The National Association for Search and Rescue, Inc., (NASAR) is a not-for-profit membership association dedicated to advancing professional, literary, and scientific knowledge in fields related to search and rescue. NASAR is comprised of thousands of paid and non-paid professionals interested in all aspects of search and rescue - the humanitarian cause of saving lives - throughout the United States and around the world. "...that others may live." Response to persons in distress has long been an honorable, charitable tradition. The professionals in search and rescue have carried on this tradition of helping others by dedicating time, information, skills, equipment and funding to the relief of suffering. They are actively working toward the development of improved coordination and communications among federal, state, local, and volunteer groups. Their primary goal is to aid in the implementation of a total integrated emergency response, rescue and recovery system. www.nasar.org/nasar/
North East Disaster Recovery Information X-Change
NEDRIX is a non-profit organization, formed in 1991, that provides continuity and crisis management professionals’ access to industry best practices and an opportunity to meet and share ideas and experiences with peers through conferences, symposiums, and Public/Private Sector services. NEDRIX is a valuable resource for continuity planning and crisis management professionals. NEDRIX Board members, as well as Committee Members are all volunteers. They are professionals in the various fields of Continuity/Disaster Planning and Emergency Management. Working together, the NEDRIX Board and Committee Members develop the quality conferences that members enjoy year after year. www.nedrix.com
The Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering
The Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE) is a non-profit organization, established in 1988 for the purposes of representing the interests and capabilities of engineering faculty members and programs in developing research projects that mobilize these capabilities in the effort to:
- Identify new ways research can solve earthquake problems
- Collect and synthesize information and make it easily accessible
- Establish national and international hazard research relationships
- Perform earthquake engineering and related research
- Manage research consortia and cooperative programs
- Educate experts, practitioners, students, and the public
www.curee.org
AFCOM
AFCOM is the only association dedicated to providing education and resources for data center managers. Since 1980, AFCOM has helped thousands of data center managers work more efficiently. Celebrating more than 28 years in the data center industry, its mission is to enable data center management professionals to share industry best practices by providing a forum for dissemination of critical information; provide education on key data center management issues; provide the industry’s most comprehensive insight and analysis in key areas affecting all data-intensive organizations; and to be the most comprehensive and effective resource available to the overall data center community. www.afcom.com
Amateur Radio Disaster Services
Amateur Radio Disaster Services is an official Emergency Station. Since the beginning of radio, Amateur radio operators, "HAM's," have been involved in sending life saving information in and out of disaster areas. During and after Earthquakes, Floods, Hurricanes and Tornadoes, HAM's have been there to assist local, state and federal agencies and relief organizations such as the American Red Cross and Salvation Army. The ARDS website has an open forum for Amateurs and others to publish articles that inform the general public and other amateurs of the changing world of the Amateur Radio Service. www.ares.org
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