Emergency management in technology: Academic programs promoting community resilience, disaster readiness, and recovery

Abstract

The vision of the Center for Community Resilience (CCR) to equip Mississippi's underserved communities with up-to-date skills for better preparedness of natural disasters to minimize loss of life and property; thus, building resilient communities. The CCR's mission is to provide contemporary emergency management and preparedness education and training related to natural disasters (i.e. weather and atmospheric events) for Mississippi's underserved communities; to mitigate loss through effective preparedness and response planning; and to building a pipeline from middle school to higher education that develops future Emergency/Disaster Management professionals, Atmospheric Scientists/Meteorologists, Psychologists, and Journalists who effectively disseminate public information. In addition to natural disasters, the CCR will provide public safety response training instead of man-made disasters that may occur during or after a natural disaster/major weather event, specifically for responders serving underserved communities in this engagement in practice paper.