Item 18 - Adopt Resolution for FY 2021 Emergency Management Performance Grant

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Preparedness Grants Manual | February 2021 46 States and Urban Areas are encouraged to review the referenced active shooter guidance, evaluate their preparedness needs, and consider applying for funding to address any needs identified in this area (please see the most current NOFO for allowable costs). To address training needs associated with active shooter incidents, FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute provides a free, web-based training course entitled IS-907: Active Shooter: What You Can Do, available at the following website: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=is-907. Soft Targets and Crowded Places There are continued and growing threats facing Soft Targets and Crowded Places (ST-CP) throughout the nation. ST-CPs are those locations or environments that are easily accessible to large numbers of people on a predictable or semi-predictable basis that have limited security or protective measures in place. These locations are vulnerable to attack using simple tactics and readily accessible weapons such as small arms, edged weapons, vehicles, improvised explosive devices, and unmanned aircraft systems. ST-CPs can include places such as town centers, shopping malls, open-air venues, outside hard targets/venues perimeters, and other places of meeting and gathering. DHS is committed to reducing the risk of attacks against ST-CPs and the impact of attacks if they do occur. However, the protection and security of ST- CPs is a shared responsibility among whole community partners including the public, ST-CP owners and operators, security industry partners, the Federal Government, and SLTT government partners. States, territories, urban areas, and public and private sector partners are encouraged to identify security gaps and build capabilities that address security needs of ST-CPs, understanding the unique challenges related to protecting locations that are open to the public. States, territories, urban areas, and public and private sector partners are also encouraged to use resources to instill a culture of awareness, vigilance, and preparedness. For more information and additional resources, please see the DHS’s Hometown Security Program. Community Lifelines FEMA created Community Lifelines to reframe incident information, understand and communicate incident impacts using plain language, and promote unity of effort across the whole community to prioritize efforts to stabilize the lifelines during incident response. While lifelines were developed to support response planning and operations, the concept can be applied across the entire preparedness cycle. Efforts to protect lifelines, prevent and mitigate potential impacts to them, and build back stronger and smarter during recovery will drive overall resilience of the nation. Applying the lifelines construct allows decision-makers to: • Prioritize, sequence, and focus response efforts towards maintaining or restoring the most critical services and infrastructure; • Utilize a common lexicon to facilitate unity of purpose among all stakeholders; • Promote a response that facilitates unity of purpose and better communication among the whole community (federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, and private sector and non- governmental entities); and • Clarify which components of the disaster are complex (multifaceted) or complicated (difficult), requiring cross-sector coordination. Lifelines are used to: • Enhance the ability to gain, maintain, and communicate situational awareness for the whole community in responding to disasters;