Disaster Madness: Staying Calm in Chaos

About the Conference

This conference was held on April 28-29, 2010.

The 2010 NW MN Partners in Preparedness conference focused on community based response to disaster situations.  Topics included Caring for the Caregiver, a Pandemic Response Hotwash, Interoperable Communications, and an update on disaster response in Haiti. 

Target Audience

Preparedness planners; public information officers; emergency management; emergency responders; hospitals; clinics; behavioral health; social services; public health; state, city, county and tribal officials; schools; nurses; faith-based preparedness planners; and volunteer organizations.

Archived Presentations

• Caring for the Caregiver
  Paul Nistler and Robin Hewitt, Upper Mississippi Mental Health
• Interoperable Communications
  Communications ARMER update NW EMS
  Wendy Chretien and Bill Bernjhelm, MN Department of Public Safety
  
• Pandemic Response Hotwash
  Pandemic Response Hotwash PDF #2
  Facilitated by Rob Carlson, Minnesota Dept. of Health
• Incident Command for Health Care 
  Incident Command PDF #2
  Michele Muckala and Cathy Blair, Clearwater County Memorial Hospital
  This breakout session is an introduction to incident command and provides a review of the fundamentals of ICS 100 and ICS 200.
• PIO Training
  Kevin Dean, City of Grand Forks PIO
• Minnesota Poison Control System Update 
  Kirk Hughes
• Working with Health Care Volunteers
  Rob Carlson
• Eat Your Dessert First: Five Questions That Can Change Your Life!
  Bob Veninga, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Sponsors

This event is sponsored by the Northwest Healthcare Systems Preparedness Committees, with funding provided by Health and Human Services. 
Co-sponsors include the Minnesota Department of Health, Greater Northwest EMS, and the University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness.