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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
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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:
March 17-21, Washington, D.C. | NEMA Mid-Year Conference
March 25-28, Orlando, FL | National Hurricane Conference
April 15-17, Gainesville, FL | SEC Police Chiefs and Emergency Managers Conference
July 22-25, Miami Beach, FL | National Homeland Security Conference
Featured Update
You spoke, we listened!
Print & Download Reports
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
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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.