Connecting the dots, . . . State of Ohio regional Animal Response TEAMS

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Connecting the dots, . . .State of Ohio
regional Animal Response TEAMS
Leah C. Dorman, DVM Director of Food
Programs Center for Food Animal Issues Ohio
Farm Bureau
Animal Health Emergency TAC
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What is OVER?

• Ohio Veterinary Emergency Responders
• An all hazards approach to animal emergency
  response
• Voluntary group OVER 950 signed up!!!
• Veterinarians
• Veterinary students
• Animal health technicians
• Extension agents
• Producers
• Laypeople
• Six states plus Ohio

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OVERs Mission

• To develop a group of TRAINED individuals
  prepared to respond to ANIMAL HEALTH EMERGENCIES
  in the State of Ohio.

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How to sign up

• Fill out application
• Dont forget to give drivers license number
  sign application
• ICS 100 course required for orientation
• Online at fema.gov OR www.agriculture.utk.edu/ve
  tmed/transition/
• I-700 recommended (NIMS training)
• See above websites
• Attend an OVER orientation get badge
• Always welcome to attend any/all OVER trainings,
  regardless of whether an orientation has been
  attended

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ORC 121.404 Signed on January 11, 2006

• Charges the Ohio Community Service
  Council with duties related to volunteers,
  including establishing a statewide system for
  volunteers and assisting political subdivisions
  with implementing that system.
• Permits the Ohio Community Service
  Council to accept and administer grants from any
  source to carry out its functions.
• Defines "registered volunteer" and
  creates an exemption from liability for
  registered volunteers in specified situations.
• Establishes which information related to
  volunteers is a public record and which
  information is a security record not subject to
  public disclosure.
• Requires the Director of Health to
  establish a system of volunteers as advisable and
  reasonably necessary to respond in an emergency
  involving the public's health.

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ORC 121.404

• B) A registered volunteer is not liable in
  damages to any person or government entity in
  tort or other civil action, including an action
  upon a medical, dental, chiropractic, optometric,
  or other health-related claim or veterinary
  claim, for injury, death, or loss to person or
  property that may arise from an act or omission
  of that volunteer. This division applies to a
  registered volunteer while providing services
  within the scope of the volunteer's
  responsibilities during an emergency declared by
  the state or political subdivision or in
  disaster-related exercises, testing, or other
  training activities, if the volunteer's act or
  omission does not constitute willful or wanton
  misconduct.
• NOTE Healthcare professional must have
  completed a training where credentialing was
  completed review drivers license and
  professional license wallet card and must be
  registered on the database.

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rOLE of OVER

• Credentialing body for animal response
• Backfill for State of Ohio Regional Animal
  Response Teams

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What is Credentialing?

• Definition anything that provides the basis for
  confidence, belief, credit evidence of
  authority, status, rights or entitlement to
  privileges or the like, usually in written form
  (Random House College Dictionary)

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Role of Credentialing

• Allows proper identification of first responder
  personnel and task assignment based on
  qualifications and experience
• Ensures that personnel responding have been
  properly trained and are qualified to operate in
  those positions
• Provides uniform certification programs allowing
  first responders to provide mutual aid nationwide

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Role of Credentialing

• Can be used as a method to screen individuals
  entering the scene for proper qualifications and
  training

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Credentialing

• Best done BEFORE the incident
• A way of resource typing
• -Who are you? ID badge
• -What training have you had? database
• Quality assurance

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Animal Health emergency Techinical Advisory
Committee

• MISSION
• The mission of the AHE TAC is to coordinate an
  all hazards approach to emergency management
  activities for incidents that could result in a
  disruption affecting animals, (including but not
  limited to livestock, domestic, captive,
  companion and wild animals) and/or endanger the
  food supply, livestock industry, public health,
  or domestic and international trade.

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OVER Advisory Committee Animal Health Emergency
Technical Advisory

• Ohio Department of Agriculture, Division of
  Animal Industry lead
• United States Department of Agriculture, Animal
  Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary
  Services
• The Ohio State University, College of Veterinary
  Medicine
• The Ohio State University, Extension
• United States Department of Agriculture, Animal
  Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife
  Services
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of
  Wildlife
• Ohio Department of Health
• Ohio Veterinary Medical Association
• Ohio Veterinary Medical Licensing Board
• Ohio Emergency Management Agency
• Ohio Livestock Coalition - industry
• Ohio Department of Homeland Security
• County Emergency Management Agencies
  Holmes,Wayne,Henry
• Regional Animal Response Teams (CART, DART, etc.)

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Animal Health emergency TAC

• The TAC Goals are
• Conduct needs assessment
• Prioritize needs
• Develop response and operational procedures
• Conduct equipment inventory of the planning
  region and state as a whole
• Develop training standards
• Identify logistical needs and support
• Assist each region in meeting this equipment,
  training and operational needs and standards.

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Regional Animal response teams

• Mission
• Coordinate and respond to an all hazards incident
• Utilization
• Animal Disease Incident
• Natural Disaster
• Man-Made Event
• Incidents of any size and type, involving animals
• Operational guidance document
• A work in progress

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How would TEAMs be activated?

• Local incident
• County Emergency Management Agency
• Other local officials sheriff, fire, police,
  etc.
• Regional or State incident
• Ohio Dept. of Agriculture
• Ohio Emergency Management Agency
• Backfill for Ohio Regional Animal Response Teams
• Medical Reserve Corps activation of individual
  members
• Team activation through ODA or OEMA
• IT DEPENDS ON THE SITUATION

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Team requirementsSafety

• MOST important HUMAN safety
• Teams will take initial direction from IC
• Must have clearance
• To enter property (legal)
• That environment is safe
• No operation of watercraft
• Proper equipment species appropriate
• PPE

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Team requirementsliability

• Must be registered with OVER
• Attend OVER or OMRC/OCCC training
• ORC 121.404

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Team Requirementstraining Exercises

• Exercises coordinated with OEMA
• Additional training coordinated with OVER
• For credentialing purposes
• Required training for all ORART members
• IS 700 National Incident Management System
• IS 800 National Response Framework
• ICS 100 Intro to Incident Command System
• ICS 200 ICS for Single Resources Initial
  Action Incidents
• Online water safety course
• Only required for search rescue

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Training Exercises

• Team leader
• ICS 300 Intermediate ICS for Expanding
  Incidents
• ICS 400 Advanced ICS Command General Staff
  for Complex Incidents

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Team RequirementsActivation notification

• Team leader notifies the OEMA duty officer
• Nature of emergency
• Location of emergency
• Point of contact and contact number(s)
• Additional resource requirement needs
• Initial needs assessment for the Team
• OEMA duty officer will contact OVER coordinator
• Allows them to be prepared for potential backfill
  of Team

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Team RequirementsTeam roster

• Contains
• Names of Team members
• Team activation point(s) of contact contact
• Must be kept current
• Provided to OVER coordinator, OEMA field
  operations annually

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Team requirementsfunding

• Options must be researched by AHE-TAC in an
  annual meeting
• When funding is identified
• Authorized equipment list (OEMA)
• Administration of funding through County EMA

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Team requirementsreimbursement

• Requests will be submitted through the serviced
  county
• ALWAYS keep track of ALL expenses
• Mileage
• Time
• Hotel
• Food
• Etc.
• OEMA will provide a course on reimbursement
  documentation

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OVMA Disaster preparedness committee

• MISSION
• To disseminate animal emergency preparedness
  information in Ohio to protect animal human
  health safety and to facilitate a local animal
  emergency response plan.

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OVMA Disaster preparedness committee

• GOALS
• Get at least one veterinarian in each county to
  be part of county planning for animals in
  disaster.
• Make template for animal emergency response plan
  or keep a library of plans.
• Facilitate or conduct training

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National Animal Health Emergency Response Corp
(NAHERC)

• National counterpart to OVER
• Voluntary
• Periodic training
• When activated/deployed will be paid as temporary
  USDA employees
• Can say NO to deployment for both NAHERC and
  OVER and still be members

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• Farm Bureau structure
• 87 county FB
• 35 county offices
• Organization directors (35)
• Regional Supervisors (4)
• 235,000 members

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On-going Issues

• Coordination of federal, state, local volunteer
  initiatives
• Training
• Funding
• Credentialing ID
• Emergency Management Assistance Compact EMAC
  issues
• Sustainment

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Confused?
Next steps

• Pair OVER members with Regional ARTs
• Regional OVER training?