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Samples: Intergovernmental Agreement, Intergovernmental Agreement, Intergovernmental Agreement (Iga)

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Strengthen Community Resilience. Community resilience is the ability of a community, through public health agencies, to develop, maintain, and utilize collaborative relationships among government, private, and community organizations to develop and utilize shared plans for responding to and recovering from disasters and public health emergencies. Associated Capabilities • Capability 1: Community Preparedness • Capability 2: Community Recovery priorities, identify program gaps, and, ultimately prioritize preparedness investments. Domain Activity: Ensure HPP Coordination (Health Care System) The purpose of this collaboration is to ensure a shared approach to delivering public health services alongside health care services to mitigate the public health consequences of emergencies. PHEP resources cannot be used to supplant HPP programmatic activities. However, there are areas where coordinated planning and collaboration between the programs are beneficial, including exercising and training. Jurisdictions must participate in one statewide or conduct one regional ~~full-~~ full-scale exercise (FSE) within the five-year project period. Exercises must include participation from AzCHER and include, at a minimum, hospitals, emergency management agencies, and emergency medical services (EMS). Local Jurisdictions must participate in one ADHS- sponsored statewide ~~full-~~full- scale exercise, OR Participate/conduct a regional full-scale exercise, OR ADHS may consider a real- world response as an acceptable substitute All ~~PHEP Sub-Recipients~~ Counties Tribes By BP5 (2023- 2024) Community resilience is the ability of a community, through public health agencies, to develop, maintain, and utilize collaborative relationships among government, private, and community organizations to develop and utilize shared plans for responding to and recovering from disasters and public health emergencies. Associated Capabilities • Capability 1: Community Preparedness • Capability 2: Community Recovery Domain Activity: Plan for the Whole Community Working in collaboration with HPP, continue to build and sustain local health department and community partnerships to ensure that activities have the widest possible reach with the strongest possible ties to the community. Local jurisdictions should focus on two activities simultaneously: • Coordination with local stakeholders to review collaboration efforts with local agencies they represent; and • Engage with key community partners who have established relationships with diverse at-risk populations, to include mental/behavioral health and pediatric populations. • Develop or expand child-focused planning and partnerships. • Consider family reunification plans for schools and child care centers. Plan for individuals with disabilities and others with access and functional needs. Use a flexible approach to define populations at risk to jurisdictional threats and hazards. Address a broad set of common access and functional needs using the Communication, Maintaining Health, Independence, Services and Support, and Transportation (CMIST) framework. AARs and plans should provide evidence of a whole community approach when planning, training and exercising. All ~~PHEP Sub-Recipients~~ Counties Tribes June 30, ~~2022~~ 2021 Community resilience is the ability of a community, through public health agencies, to develop, maintain, and utilize collaborative relationships among government, private, and community organizations to develop and utilize shared plans for responding to and recovering from disasters and public health emergencies. Associated Capabilities • Capability 1: Community Preparedness • Capability 2: Community Recovery Plan for individuals with disabilities and others with access and functional needs. Use a flexible approach to define populations at risk to jurisdictional threats and hazards. Address a broad set of common access and functional needs using the Communication, Maintaining Health, Independence, Services and Support, and Transportation (CMIST) framework. Identify individuals with access and functional needs that may be at risk of being disproportionately impacted by incidents with public health consequences. Examples of populations with access and functional needs include, but are not limited to, children, pregnant women, postpartum and lactating women, racial and ethnic minorities, older adults, persons with disability, persons with chronic disease, persons with limited English proficiency, persons with limited transportation, persons experiencing homelessness, and disenfranchised populations. Domain Activity: Focus on Tribal Planning and Engagement Deliverable Due Date Support the engagement between county and tribal public health departments in a meaningful and mutually beneficial way to ensure that all community members fully and equally served, while also recognizing the inherent responsibility of those nations to support their members in a culturally appropriate manner. Documentation of collaborative efforts to ensure appropriate efforts are made to develop public health preparedness and response capability. May be included in regular workplan reports. All ~~PHEP Sub-Recipients~~ Counties Tribes June 30, ~~2022~~ 2021 Incident management is the ability to activate, coordinate, and manage public health emergency operations throughout all phases of an incident through use of a flexible and scalable incident command structure that is consistent with the NIMS and coordinated with the jurisdictional incident, unified, or area command structure. Associated Capability • Capability 3: Emergency Operations Coordination Domain Activity: Activate and Coordinate Public Health Emergency Operations Deliverable Applies To Due Date Updated all-hazards preparedness and response plans should include but not limited to: • Procedures to conduct preliminary assessments to determine the need for activation of public health emergency operations; • Process for establishing a scalable public health incident management structure that is consistent with NIMS and jurisdictional standards; • Procedures for activating, operating, managing, and staffing the public health emergency operations center (HEOC) or implementing public health functions within another emergency operations center; • Designation of primary and alternate HEOC locations, including virtual communication structures; • Procedures for demobilizing public health emergency operations; and • A description of how the jurisdiction will use Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) or other mutual aid agreements for public health and medical mutual aid to support coordinated activities and to share resources and other potential support required when responding to emergencies. At minimum, this plan should include the following: o Procedures for evaluating, responding to, and seeking reimbursement for resources deployed under EMAC; Development, update/review of the Emergency Response Plan All Counties Tribes June 30, 2021, uploaded to the ADHS AZ-PIRE website Incident management is the ability to activate, coordinate, and manage public health emergency operations throughout all phases of an incident through use of a flexible and scalable incident command structure that is consistent with the NIMS and coordinated with the jurisdictional incident, unified, or area command structure. Associated Capability • Capability 3: Emergency Operations Coordination o Procedures on how information will be shared for a resource request and deployment; o Redundant points of contact for all public health and medical Mission Ready Packages (MRPs) as applicable; and o Description of reimbursement processes following a deployment for both the deployed personnel and the key internal staff. Maintain a current COOP plan that includes the following elements. • Definitions, identification, and prioritization of essential services needed to sustain public health agency mission and operations; • Procedures to sustain essential services regardless of the nature of the incident (all-hazards planning); • Positions, skills, and personnel needed to continue essential services and functions (human capital management); • Identification of public health agency and personnel roles and responsibilities in support of ESF #8; • Scalable workforce in response to needs of the incident; • Limited access to facilities due to issues such as structural safety or security concerns; • Broad-based implementation of social distancing policies; Development or update/review of the Continuity of Operations Plan All Counties Tribes June 30, 2021, uploaded to the ADHS AZ-PIRE website Incident management is the ability to activate, coordinate, and manage public health emergency operations throughout all phases of an incident through use of a flexible and scalable incident command structure that is consistent with the NIMS and coordinated with the jurisdictional incident, unified, or area command structure. Associated Capability • Capability 3: Emergency Operations Coordination • Identification of agency vital records (such as legal documents, payroll, personnel assignments) that must be preserved to support essential functions or for other reasons; • Alternate and virtual work sites; • Devolution of uninterruptible services for scaled down operations; • Reconstitution of uninterruptible services; and • Cost of additional services to augment recovery. Maintain personnel lists. Identify personnel to fulfill required incident command and public health incident management roles. Test staff assembly processes for notifying personnel to report physically or virtually to the public health emergency operations center or jurisdictional emergency operations center during a drill or real-time incidents at least once during the budget period. Maintain listing of personnel using the ADHS Critical Contact Sheet Conduct drill or use real- world incident to test staff assembly processes. All Counties Tribes All Counties Tribes Twice annually Once during BP2 Information management is the ability to develop and maintain systems and procedures that facilitate the communication of timely, accurate, and accessible information, alerts, and warnings using a whole community approach. It also includes the ability to exchange health information and situational awareness with federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments and partners. Associated Capabilities • Capability 4: Emergency Public Information and Warning • Capability 6: Information Sharing Domain Activity: Coordinate Information Sharing Deliverable Applies To Due Date Have or have access to communication systems that maintain or improve reliable, resilient, interoperable, and redundant information and communication systems and platforms, including those for bed availability, EMS data, and patient tracking, and provide access to AzCHER members and other partners and stakeholders. Such systems, whether they are internally managed or externally hosted on shared platforms, must be capable of supporting syndromic surveillance, integrated surveillance, active and/or passive mortality surveillance, public health registries, situational awareness dashboards, and other public health and preparedness activities. Have plans in place that identify redundant communication platforms (primary and secondary) and a cycle of maintenance and testing of these platforms every six months. Include in appropriate plans the identification of primary and redundant communication platforms. Testing of the platforms every six months. All Counties Tribes All Counties Tribes June 30, 2021 Twice annually Information management is the ability to develop and maintain systems and procedures that facilitate the communication of timely, accurate, and accessible information, alerts, and warnings using a whole community approach. It also includes the ability to exchange health information and situational awareness with federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments and partners. Associated Capabilities • Capability 4: Emergency Public Information and Warning • Capability 6: Information Sharing Domain Activity: Coordinate Emergency Information and Warning A communication plan should identify the public information officer (XXX) and supporting personnel responsible for implementing jurisdictional public information and communication strategies. Plans must outline requirements and duties; roles and responsibilities; and required qualifications or skills for PIO personnel. Use crisis and emergency risk emergency communication (CERC) principles to disseminate critical health and safety information to alert the media, public, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders to potential health risks and reduce the risk of exposure. Develop message templates based on planning or risk scenarios identified in risk assessments and incorporate these into the communication plans as applicable. Ensure that communication plans have processes for coordinating public messaging during infectious disease outbreaks and information sharing regarding monitoring and tracking of cases of persons under investigation to ensure maximum coordination and consistency of messaging. Development, update/review of ~~the~~ a Crisis Emergency ~~Response Plan~~ Risk Communication plan Ensure that PIO, or designees, receive appropriate ICS training. All ~~PHEP Sub-Recipients~~ Counties Tribes All Counties Tribes June 30, ~~2022~~2021, uploaded to ~~the Plans Library folders on~~ the ADHS AZ-PIRE ~~website~~website As personnel staffing changes occur Countermeasures and mitigation is the ability to distribute, dispense, and administer medical countermeasures (MCMs) to reduce morbidity and mortality and to implement appropriate non-pharmaceutical and responder safety and health measures during response to a public health incident. Associated Capabilities • Capability 8: Medical Countermeasure Dispensing and Administration • Capability 9: Medical Materiel Management and Distribution • Capability 11: Non-pharmaceutical Interventions • Capability 14: Responder Safety and Health Domain Activity: Develop and Test MCM Distribution, Dispensing, and Vaccine Administration Plans Deliverable Applies To Due Date Operationalize MCM distribution, dispensing, and vaccine administration plans through development, training, exercising, and evaluating these MCM plans. Managing access to and administration of countermeasures and ensuring the safety and health of clinical and other personnel are important priorities for preparedness and continuity of operations. Engage key partners, to include AzCHER, in the development, training, and exercising of plans for MCM distribution, dispensing, and vaccine administration. This includes open and closed points of dispensing (POD) plans and plans to leverage community vaccine providers in large pandemic influenza-like responses. Development, update/review of Medical Countermeasures plans All Counties Tribes June 30, 2021, uploaded to the ADHS AZ-PIRE website Countermeasures and mitigation is the ability to distribute, dispense, and administer medical countermeasures (MCMs) to reduce morbidity and mortality and to implement appropriate non-pharmaceutical and responder safety and health measures during response to a public health incident. Associated Capabilities • Capability 8: Medical Countermeasure Dispensing and Administration • Capability 9: Medical Materiel Management and Distribution • Capability 11: Non-pharmaceutical Interventions • Capability 14: Responder Safety and Health Domain Activity: Demonstrate Operational Readiness for Pandemic Influenza For pandemic influenza preparedness planning, all sub-recipients must collaborate with their respective immunizations programs to develop, maintain, and exercise pandemic influenza plans to prevent, control, and mitigate the impact of pandemic influenza on the public’s health and to help meet xxxxxxxx vaccination goals for the general population. Pandemic Influenza plan should provide evidence of collaboration with respective immunization programs. If a jurisdiction does not have an immunization program then provide evidence of collaboration with county/state level programs. All Counties Tribes June 30, 2021, uploaded to the ADHS AZ-PIRE website Domain Activity: Maintain Preparedness Plans Based on Risks Deliverable Applies To Due Date All local jurisdictions must have in place essential planning elements to respond to both an intentional release of anthrax and a pandemic influenza. Development, update/review of Medical Countermeasures plans All Counties Tribes June 30, 2021, uploaded to the ADHS AZ-PIRE website Countermeasures and mitigation is the ability to distribute, dispense, and administer medical countermeasures (MCMs) to reduce morbidity and mortality and to implement appropriate non-pharmaceutical and responder safety and health measures during response to a public health

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Samples: Intergovernmental Agreement (Iga)

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