Connecting Communities Public Transportation Emergency Preparedness Workshop

October 28-29, 2008
Philadelphia/Montgomery County, PA Region
Montgomery County Fire Academy
1175 Conshohocken Road
Conshohocken, PA

Connecting Communities Public Transportation Emergency Preparedness Workshop is designed to coordinate the assets and specialized resources of transit and transportation systems with their local, county, and state response and emergency management agencies. Interoperability and maximum resource utilization in the event of a natural disaster, terrorist incident, or other emergency is of the utmost importance for a community or region’s effective response.

The Connecting Communities Workshop for those in the Philadelphia/Montgomery County PA area will be held at the Montgomery County Fire Academy located at 1175 Conshohocken Road Conshohocken PA The workshop is free to all invitees, with morning coffee and lunch included. Registration begins at 8:00am. The program will commence promptly at 8:30am and conclude at 4:30pm each day.

The goal of the Connecting Communities Workshop is to bring together participants from a variety of agencies, departments, and organizations to foster dialogue, progress planning efforts, review past experiences, analyze best practices, and identify assets and resources to improve overall interoperability and response during an incident. Based on the framework of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the four phases of the Emergency Management Process, the Connecting Communities Workshops combine instructor-lead presentations with interactive exercises and small-group activities to help participants assess the strengths and weaknesses in their existing plans and identify steps to improve the community’s or region’s preparedness.

If you would like to attend this workshop, please complete and submit this application form.

For more information about this program, please contact: Christopher Kozub 732-261-4170 or ckozub@rci.rutgers.edu Fran Conti 732-932-1700 or fconti@rci.rutgers.edu

This workshop is designed to improve public agency interoperability during incidents by fostering dialogue and planning efforts between transit systems, emergency service agencies and other emergency management partners, in a structurally formatted forum. Invited participants include representatives from local transit agencies, police departments, emergency management offices and others.