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Cooperative
Extension launched a homeland security response program in May
under
the direction of team leader James R. Freed, WSU Cooperative Extension,
Thurston County. Freed will contact county, state and federal
agencies,
private foundations, nonprofit organizations, first responder organizations
and volunteer organizations to determine what is being done
and
how to best work with them without duplication.
The
second step will be to inventory resources available within
WSU
Extension and the University system as well as the total land-grant
University system nationwide.
The goal of the program is to give extension professionals and volunteers
easy access to resources that will enable them to respond to natural
and manmade disasters in a correct and efficient manner. The aim
is to have updated emergency response materials available for use
by January 2004. These will include: disaster preparation and response
handbooks, fact sheets, a WSU Web site, training videos and a Power
Point presentation.
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The program will focus on efforts that individuals, families and
communities can undertake to better prepare themselves to deal
with all forms of disasters. The range of activities will be as
varied as the programs WSU Extension presents. It will enable
individual extension agents, specialists, researchers and resident
faculty to have any programs they have developed included in the
resource materials and Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN)
Web sites.
Extension's 4-H Youth Program is considering the development of
4-H event security materials. Extension crop science faculty are
working on biosecurity. The animal science department is organizing
production security programs. Extension food science faculty are
presenting programs on food safety from production to home use
and extension horticulture faculty are involved in developing
safe and secure home food production programs.
James R. Freed,
Thurston County Extension
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wishing to have materials included in the WSU homeland
security
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