First Responder Resources

Updated on May 2, 2008

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RECENT FIRST RESPONDER RESOURCES POSTINGS

GENERAL INFORMATION

• FIRE GRANT SUPPORT

  http://www.firegrantsupport.com/
  A FEMA program.  Grants are awarded to fire departments to enhance their ability to protect the public and fire service personnel from fire and related hazards. Three types of grants are available: Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG), Fire Prevention and Safety (FP&S), and Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER). This Website provides a description of the three types of grants available and offers resources to help fire departments prepare and submit grant requests.

• Round 36 of the FY07 AFG Awards - NEW
  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced is now in the thirty-sixth round of Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Assistance to Firefighters Grants, awarding 182 grants totaling over $15 million to fire departments throughout the United States.  Additionally, program guidance for the FY08 awards is now available.
• ADDITIONAL FIRE GRANT LINKS:

  http://www.firegrants.info/
  Provides information, tips, and updates to help make you more successful at obtaining funds for your fire department through the Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program. Fiscal Year 2008 AFG Guidance anticipated in Spring, 2008.

SPECIFIC GRANT GUIDANCE

• NEW - Overview of all FEMA Grant Programs: http://www.fema.gov/government/grant/
• ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT (AFG):

  UPDATE: Application Guide Now Available
  The primary goal of the Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) is to meet the firefighting and emergency response needs of fire departments and nonaffiliated emergency medical services organizations.

  See the FY08 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and Application Guide for grant composition guidance.

• HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM (HSGP) 2008:
• UPDATES: Fiscal Year 2008 Grand Guidance Application Kit now available. LETPP is now under the directorship of SHSP and UASI.

  HSGP is a wide-reaching program that funds planning, organization, equipment, training, and exercise activities in support of the National Preparedness Guidelines and related plans and programs, such as the National Incident Management System (NIMS), National Response Framework (NRF), and the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP). This year, 25 percent of the overall funding must address preparedness planning and mitigating the threat of improvised explosive devices. Tier I and II urban areas will be eligible to use up to 25 percent of UASI funds to support counterterrorism personnel costs and states may use up to 15 percent of SHSP funds for counterterrorism personnel costs.  This responds to the needs of cities, giving them additional flexibility in how they choose to use the funding, provided it meets DHS criteria. HSGP includes:

  Due May 1, 2008, 11:59 PM

  DHS has released the FY 2008 HSGP grant guidance and application kit that will total roughly $1.7 billion in funding for state and local counterterrorism efforts. A core mission of DHS is to enhance the ability of State, local and tribal governments to prepare, prevent, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks and other disasters. The FY2008 HSGP is comprised of five separate grant programs:

  • State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)
  • Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI)

    NOTE – The Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program (LETPP) is now under SHSP and UASI - the department is directing that at least 25 percent of funds allocated from both SHSP and UASI build state and local law enforcement terrorism prevention capabilities.

  • Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS)
  • Citizens Corps Program (CCP)
  Together, these grants fund a range of preparedness activities, including planning, organizations, equipment purchase, training, exercises, and management and administration costs.

• INFRASTUCTURE PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM (IPP) 2008: UPDATE

  IPP supports specific activities to protect critical infrastructure, such as ports, mass transit, highways, rail and transportation. IPP grants fund a range of preparedness activities, including strengthening infrastructure against explosive attacks, preparedness planning, equipment purchase, training, exercises, and security management and administration costs.  IPP is comprised of five separate grant programs:

  • Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP) - protect critical transit infrastructure from terrorism
    FY08 Transit Security Grant Program – Guidance & Application Kit
  • Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) - to enhance access control and credentialing, protect against IED and other non-conventional attacks, and conduct disaster-response training
    FY08 Port Security Grant Program – Guidance & Application Kit
  • Buffer Zone Protection Program (BZPP) - to safeguard critical infrastructure sites from terrorist site surveillance or attacks with a focus on public-private partnership and fusion center coordination
    FY08 Buffer Zone Protection Program – Guidance & Application Kit

  • Trucking Security Program (TSP) - to identify and recruit highway professionals (carriers, drivers, first responders, highway workers) to actively participate in an anti- terrorism and security awareness program, as well as implement training programs
    FY08 Trucking Security Program – Guidance & Application Kit
  • Intercity Bus Security Grant Program (IBSGP) - to prioritize vulnerability assessments, security plans and preparedness exercises
    FY08 Intercity Bus Security Grant Program

• URBAN AREA’S SECURITY INITITIVE NONPROFIT SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM (UASI) 2008: UPDATED

  The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) is an important component of the Administration’s larger, coordinated effort to strengthen the Nation’s overall level of preparedness.  NSGP provides funding to strengthen the security of nonprofit organizations that are deemed at high risk of a potential terrorist attack and are located within one of the specific UASI-eligible urban areas.

  See the FY08 UASI Non-Profit Security Grant Program – Guidance & Application Kit for assistance.

• COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT DIRECT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (CEDAP) 2008: UPDATE - LINK : TO BE ANNOUNCED

  As of Dec. 20, 2007, DHS provides nearly $34 billion to first responders in smaller communities nationwide.

  The application period for CEDAP 2008 is tentatively scheduled to begin in mid-May.

  The FY 2008 CEDAP complements the FEMA National Preparedness Directorate’s other major grant programs to enhance regional response capabilities, mutual aid, and interoperable communications by providing technology and equipment, together with training and technical assistance required to operate that equipment, to public safety agencies in smaller jurisdictions and certain metropolitan areas.

• EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANTS 2008

  The principal priority for the FY 2008 EMPG funds is to sustain and enhance catastrophic planning capabilities, to include addressing the findings of the FEMA gap analysis program and similar capability assessment efforts, and assisting state and local jurisdictions to address national and regional catastrophic planning needs.  State and local jurisdictions should also continue to focus on addressing state-specific planning issues identified through the 2006 Nationwide Plan Review.  In FY 2008, specific planning focus areas of evacuation planning, logistics and resource management, continuity of operations (COOP) / continuity of government (COG) planning, and recovery planning have been identified as national planning focus areas.

  Assistance

  - FY08 Emergency Management Performance Grant – Guidance & Application Kit
  - FY2008 Emergency Management Performance Grant – Work Plans

INTERNATIONAL GRANT RESOURCES

CANADA

• JOINT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM (JEPP): http://publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/em/jepp/index-en.asp

  JEPP help ensure that all levels of government across Canada are equally prepared to respond to emergencies. PSEPC administers this program which provides funding and support to emergency preparedness and critical infrastructure protection projects and initiatives.

EUROPE

• TBA

ADDITIONAL FIRST RESPONDER RESOURCES

• RESPONDER KNOWLEDGE BASE:

  http://www.rkb.mipt.org
  Provides Emergency Responders, purchasers, and planners with a trusted, integrated, on-line source of information on products, standards, certifications, grants, and other equipment-related information."

• LESSONS LEARNED INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEMS:

  http://www.llis.gov
  National network of Lessons Learned and Best Practices for emergency response providers and homeland security officials.

• DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS JOURNAL:

  http://www.domesticpreparedness.com/

CHEMICAL & RADIOLOGICAL TRAINING RESOURCES

• CANBERRA Training Resources

  http://www.canberra.com/training/
  CANBERRA offers onsite equipment training for a variety of equipment.

• DOCIMO & ASSOCIATES, LLC

  http://www.radresponse.com
  Offers a series of three different programs to educate first responders on a systematic approach to incidents involving radioactive materials and to strengthen their radiological mitigation skills. 

CANBERRA DOMESTIC CUSTOMER SERVICE, TECHNICAL SUPPORT, and TRAINING

Phone: 800-255-6370
Email: customersupport@canberra.com
Services Website: www.canberra.com/services/
Training Website: www.canberra.com/training/
International Support: please visit our main services website for international services and support information.