Tools and Templates

• Community Lifeline Toolkit
  FEMA created Community Lifelines to reframe incident information, understand and communicate incident impacts using plain language, and promote unity of effort across the whole community to prioritize efforts to stabilize the lifelines during incident response.
  
• Supply ChainResilience Guide
  The most effective way to deliver the needed supplies to a disaster-impacted area is by re-establishing pre-disaster supply chains. Building resilience within, and providing for the rapid restoration of, supply chain systems is key to responding to any catastrophic incident.

Staff Training Collapse

• Overview on FEMA's Logistics Management Directorate
  The Logistics Management Directorate is FEMA’s major program office responsible for policy, guidance, standards, execution and governance of logistics support, services and operations. LMD’s mission is to provide an efficient, transparent and flexible logistics capability for the procurement and delivery of goods and services necessary for an effective and timely response to disasters.
  
• L-8540 - Basic Interagency Logistics Seminar at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI)
  The goal of the seminar is to familiarize students with the logistics planning considerations for all hazards response activities for Federal, State, Local, Territorial, Tribal, Non-Governmental Organizations, and other partners which provide Logistics support in accordance with the ‘Whole Community’ concept set forth in Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 8, dated March 2011.
  
• IS-26: Guide to Points of Distribution through EMI
  This guide was developed to support the Points of Distribution (POD) overview video and provide an in-depth look into the planning, operations, and demobilization stages of a POD mission. The lessons detail the staffing and procedures any state will need to plan for, execute, and shut down POD operations.