Term Papers: Identify a gap in your community and/or jurisdiction’s preparedness planning. Use local, county or state planning documents. Or, interview an authoritative source who is familiar with local threats, vulnerabilities and planning gaps.

Term Papers: Identify a gap in your community and/or jurisdiction’s preparedness planning. Use local, county or state planning documents. Or, interview an authoritative source who is familiar with local threats, vulnerabilities and planning gaps.

Familiarize yourself with the homeland security cycle in Oliver (2015), also referred to as the emergency management preparedness cycle with many differing adaptations.

Identify a gap in your community and/or jurisdiction’s preparedness planning. Use local, county or state planning documents. Or, interview an authoritative source who is familiar with local threats, vulnerabilities and planning gaps.

Research the threat (natural, criminal or terrorist) and identify how other communities have addressed that threat with either preparedness or mitigation actions. Narrow your analysis to either phase of the cycle and demonstrate an application to your community. In other words, what did others do that you would incorporate into your selected jurisdiction’s planning?

Take a whole community approach to build community resilience toward this particular threat. Include appropriate stakeholders that should be included in your preparedness recommendations to achieve community resilience.