CME:1.5 CNE:1.5 CHES:1.5 MCHES:1.5 PsyCE:1.5 NBCC:1.5 NASW:1.5 CPEU:1.5 AHIMA:1.5 ACPE:1.5 (UAN-0025-9999-19-080-L04-P) CHWP:1
Leadership, Campus Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Management, Toolbox
After this session, attendees should be able to:
- Describe what plans and beliefs were in place at UNCW as preparations were being made.
- Differentiate between what we anticipated (the plan) and what actually happened.
- Describe the short- and long-term effects on the students, faculty, and staff - some expected and some unexpected.
- Identify the areas of their own emergency preparedness plans that may need to be updated.
Program Abstract:
UNCW is a coastal school which is well versed on hurricane preparedness. We regularly do table top, functional, and full-scale exercises to ensure we are ready. In 2017, we led the FEMA Hurricane Zephyr exercise that simulated a Category 5 Hurricane. Hurricane Florence, a category 1 hurricane when it hit, caused over $140 million of damage and resulted in students being out of class almost 4 weeks. This presentation will focus on the lessons the counseling center and the health center learned, what we would do differently in the future, and what the short and long term effects on the students, faculty, and staff have been.