The Community Lifeline Status System (CLSS) is in development! CLSS is a no-cost technical solution designed to help emergency management agencies simplify impact assessments to operationalize FEMA's community lifelines.

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Community Lifeline Status System Webinar: Assessing Hurricanes with Data

The year 2024 brings many challenges and opportunities. Given the record 2024 NOAA hurricane season, data-informed decision-making is important now more than ever. Whether hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, or other hazards, is your agency equipped to assess community lifeline impacts?

Next Tuesday, June 25, the CLSS project team will host the Community Lifeline Status System Webinar: Assessing Hurricanes with Data. This virtual event will demonstrate how CLSS can support hurricane prone areas. The webinar will highlight how EM organizations can utilize datasets to create customizable and hazard-specific indicators and templates for hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding and other hazards. Additionally, the CLSS Development Team will showcase the tool’s major technical updates.

Register HERE or by clicking the QR code below.

This summer, the CLSS team is headed to the National Homeland Security Conference in Miami Beach, Florida.

We look forward to sharing our presentation, Operationalizing Community Lifelines Through Data: A Miami-Dade Use Case of CLSS and providing more information on technical updates and deployment at our booth.

• Presentation | Wednesday, July 24; 10:45-11:45am, during Session 5 for Community Preparedness and Resilience Track

• Booth Location | 627

Data Library

• The Data Registration Form is now live. Register datasets into CLSS and tag them with keywords and lifelines

• New metadata and status updates for data registered into the library

• Visualize your data! Feature Layers and Services registered within CLSS can now be visualized on the Data Library Map Explorer. 

Template & Assessments

• Link data to Templates and Assessments

• Use the edit indicators functionality to link datasets to specific indicators within templates

• View the metadata of linked datasets within Assessments

• Linking datasets to indicators is filtered based on the lifeline association of the dataset.

Click HERE for Quarter 2 Technical Updates

Workshops

Fully immerse and engage with the CLSS during a personalized, guided walk-through of the tool. In addition to a briefing on the project’s background, we will work with you to validate how the CLSS uses data to operationalize lifelines. Our new bookings page allows you to set up a workshop with your agency’s schedule in mind. 

Exercises

Implementing CLSS in exercises is one of the most effective ways to evaluate the tool. If you would like our help to equip your agency to include the CLSS in an exercise, please contact us at: [email protected].

Our next newsletter will include details and information on deployment.

We will share updated, reimagined user guide videos on the following topics: CLSS Overview, Data Library, Templates, Assessments, and Analysis & Reporting.

Thank you for subscribing to the CLSS Connect! We look forward to providing quarterly updates and opportunities to engage and hope that you’ll join us for a webinar or exercise.

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