1. State Shelter Taskforce
Tools, Tips and What’s Next

2. State Shelter Taskforce Purpose
To develop guidelines that provide a framework for the counties, state and sheltering partners in opening and operating disaster shelters in a consistent manner across the state. The guidelines will describe resource management, reporting, reimbursement and requesting mutual aid, state or EMAC staff.

3. Taskforce Objectives Statewide Guide for Sheltering
Applicable Statutes and Regulations
Shelter staffing requirements
Pets
Functional Needs and IDD
Training Requirements, Facility Requirements, Forms, Reporting

4. Who Should Be Involved Who Should Be Involved In Your Shelter Planning
Emergency Management
Social Services
Public Health and EMS
Mental Health
Animal Services
LEO/Security
Amateur Radio
National Guard

5. Other Considerations Needs to tie back to the CRES
Taskforce has three local EMs representing each branch
NCEM - Steve Powers, Todd Brown, Abby Cameron, Wendy Pulley, Robin Dail and Keith Acree
State and local shelter partners: Public Health, Social Services, NC Ag, Mental Health, NCNG, Red Cross

6. Shelter Resources in WebEOC*
Concept of Operations
Authorities
Purpose
Shelter Typing
Staffing Matrix
Training Requirements
Reporting
Sheltering 101
Who makes the decision
Legal Considerations
Site Selection
Access & Functional Needs
Reimbursement
Resources

7. Shelter Resources in WebEOC*
Feeding 101
MOU template between County DSS and DHHS
sent to all County DSS Directors Re: shelter training
Red Cross shelter training contacts by county
NC Shelter Interpreters SOG
Instructions on taking Red Cross shelter training
* North Carolina Shelter Taskforce in File Library

8. What’s Next?
NCEM Human Services Manager will reconvene State Shelter Taskforce in January 2019

9. Florence & Michael Lessons Observed
Communications (Hardware and Relational)
Structural evaluation
Triggers for shelter opening
Expansion and Overflow
Shelter Management (who will manage shelter?)
Shelter Staffing (shelter workers, nurses, security)
Shelter Feeding Plan (who and where)
Logistics (Water, Cots, Narcan, Fuel)
Long Term Sheltering

10. Florence & Michael Lessons Observed
Post-Storm Home Evaluations
Other
Medical Support Shelters
Evacuating Assisted Living/Memory Care/Group Home
Sex Offenders
Exotic Pets
Pre-Disaster Homeless
Transportation
CRES (review, rewrite, expand)

11. Questions?

12. Norman Bryson, Onslow County Norman. Bryson@OnslowCountyNC
Norman Bryson, Onslow County (910) Brent Fisher, Nash County (252) Karyn Yaussy, Catawba County (828)