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Household and Community Readiness

Mission Statement

Promote awareness and facilitate readiness for potential black sky event threats and fundamental personal and household readiness measures that support post-event local government and business recovery and continuity. Educate and guide household and community readiness for potential black-sky events to facilitate continuity of society.


Goals:   

  • Recommend affordable and easy to obtain solution sets to be used as a foundation for personal readiness. Build household and then organizational readiness up from that. 
  • Facilitate availability of readiness information categories to include materials, equipment, supplies, know-how and mindset. 
  • Promote skills and activities to build personal confidence in the use of materials and related solutions skills if access to equipment, stockpiles, or supply chains disrupted or lost.

Meet the Task Force Leader

Mike Poynter

In Michael Poynter has managed operations and led Emergency Personnel in environments of all types throughout his 40 years of public service. His experience spans all branches of Emergency Services, including Law Enforcement, Emergency Medical Services, and the Fire Service. During his tenure, he has responded to hundreds of significant incidents in all sectors and trained emergency responders worldwide in their related fields. Mike served as a Tactical Paramedic with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Weapons and Tactics Team and a Flight Paramedic at a Level 1 Trauma Center for twenty years and was involved in many duties, including those in special operations, training, and aviation overseeing Emergency Services Responders. Mike served ten years as the State Director for Emergency Medical Services for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Advisory Board Member for Emergency Medical Services World Magazine, Advisory Board Member for the Bluegrass State Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence, Board of Directors for the National Association of State Emergency Medical Services Officials, and Commissioner for the American College of Paramedic Executives. Mike also served a 4-year term on the Board of Directors for the FBI’s InfraGard National Members Alliance. He has been published in numerous peer and trade journals and has spoken at numerous regional, national, and international conferences. Mike currently works as a Senior Consultant with Fitch and Associates. Mike was just inducted into the Cave City, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife and 2 children.   

Your Individual Preparedness Matters

This Short Video describes some initial steps to ensuring your individual readiness and describes the building blocks of a successful plan. 

Prepping isn't just for Preppers - A recent article from Popular Mechanics

Some Useful Checklists/Planning Guides

Get Home Bag (pdf)

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Family Checklist (pdf)

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Family Disaster Plan (pdf)

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Food and Water (pdf)

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Cold Weather Critical Sectors Impacts (pdf)

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FEMA winter-storm_information-sheet (jpg)

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Life is Always Better if you can Communicate

Planning how you will communicate during a disaster is key. Once the disaster hits, it is too late. The plan laid out below is an Emergency Family / Business plan that walks you through the steps of establishing a Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and Emergency Communications method. Our recommendation is that you take the time to read and implement the plan.

PACE Planning v.1.7 (pdf)

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