August is now National Emergency Management Awareness Month
The Emergency Management Network is proud to support this public campaign, originated by the IAEM-USA
Full transparency up front, and are both volunteer elected national board members of the IAEM-USA.
Starting in 2025, Emergency Management professionals will conduct a coordinated, industry-wide awareness and advocacy campaign in August each year to promote the capabilities of emergency management and the role of emergency managers in the United States (other countries can certainly participate, too!).
and the Emergency Management Network will amplify this campaign and help promote it.Emergency management professionals are encouraged to reach out and meet with:
Elected local, state, tribal, territorial, and federal leaders.
Private sector and nonprofit leaders – healthcare, university, utility, and all other organizations.
Organizational or community decision-makers who may influence Emergency Management.
Awareness month activities should center around educating and advocating for the profession, with emergency managers playing an active role. IAEM-USA will provide FREE instructional tools and "how-to" guides for members and others to use when scheduling and conducting awareness month activities, which will be added to their website’s page. Click Here For More Information
We encourage other EM blogs, consulting firms, vendors supporting our profession, etc., to join us and the IAEM-USA in promoting National Emergency Management Awareness Month in August each year, starting in 2025. You can do your own thing too, drive your own bus on your own route, etc. The more the merrier - and the greater the exposure for the public and politicians to see what Emergency Management - and professional Emergency Managers - are all about in the United States.
, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,And a reminder that the IAEM-USA is offering a free one-year membership to all federal employees separately in 2025 (RIFs, fork-in-the-road, whatever) - including those NCCC members such as AmeriCorps and FEMA Corps folks - to help them with access to IAEM resources, subject-matter-experts, networking, job postings, etc. Anyone qualified who is interested in learning more can e-mail them at IAEMhelp@iaem.com with any questions.
Emergency Managers can also make requests of their municipal, county/parish, and state/territory/tribal governments for a Proclamation announcing Emergency Management Awareness Month. Here’s a sample set of points:
And here is a website we found which has the online forms/process steps for requesting such proclamations:
https://byf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/State-Proclamation-Guidelines_2022.pdf
