Senior Leader Resources
These resources may be beneficial in providing newly elected officials with the tools and support to gain a base level understanding of their roles in emergency management. Each jurisdiction will have ordinances and policies that may more specifically outline these roles.
On February 11, 2021 DEM presented an I Wonder Webinar on the Role of Senior Leaders and the resources available to them. I Wonder what resources are available to Senior Leaders Webinar (32:26)
| FEMA Produced Fact Sheets on the Declaration Process | |
| Disaster Declaration Process for State Officials | Fact Sheet – Declaration Process and Individual Assistance Update |
| Wildfire Declaration Fact Sheet – Region 8 | Documents Last Updated September 1, 2021 |
- Be Ready Utah Public Officials Guide to Disasters (some information in this document is out of date and will be updated to reflect new changes) https://www.utah.gov/beready/community/documents/BRUPublicOfficialsGuideToDisasters.pdf
- NEMA Elected Officials Guide 2016 https://ema.ohio.gov/ScrollingImages/DailyPosting/2016/ElectedOfficialsGuide2016.pdf
- An EM Reference Guide for Elected Officials TEMPLATE https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qBfPlUnvElCaxTkfQ9WwsVX_06TUpZWmtjE0z9b6Y-Q/edit?usp=sharing
- Senior Leader Toolkit (https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/nims/components/senior-leader-toolkit)
- Checklist https://emilms.fema.gov/courseassets/0908/IS908_EmergencyManagement_Sr_Officials_Checklist.pdf
- Training Video (2:39) https://emilms.fema.gov/is_0908/groups/79.html
- Training
- IS-908 (https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=is-908)
- ICS 402 – delivered by a certified ICS instructor
- Additional FEMA IS Courses https://training.fema.gov/is/crslist.aspx
- DEM Training Calendar dem.utah.gov/training