Community Lifelines Status System Newsletter

February 2024

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.

Upcoming Events

CLSS Exercises Webinar

Do you need to standardize your crisis management strategies?

In search of a better way to connect with your counties?

Are you interested in a solution that was created for the emergency management community, by the emergency management community?

G&H is hosting a webinar featuring stories from emergency management professionals who incorporated CLSS into exercises. This virtual event is an opportunity to learn more about CLSS while witnessing it in practice.

Register HERE or by clicking on the flyer above.

Conferences

Hal Grieb, Director of Delivery/ PMO, delivers an address entitled “Operationalizing Community Lifelines” at the Colorado Emergency Management Association in Loveland, Colorado.

This year, the CLSS is going on the road! We look forward to engaging with the emergency management community at the following conferences:

Featured Update

You spoke, we listened!

For your convenience, Lifeline Status Reports are now available as PDF documents. Reports will now include: 

  • Status of all eight lifelines at the time of the report 

  • Date/ time when the report was created 

  • Details on the incident in question

  • Add summary content before printing

Click HERE for January’s Technical Updates

Get Involved!

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. 

Scan to schedule a workshop today!

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].

Looking Ahead

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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