Resilience

DHS/FEMA has a Resilience organization that aims to build a culture of preparedness through insurance, mitigation, preparedness, continuity, and grant programs.

The DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection’s Regional Resiliency Assessment Program identifies opportunities for regional homeland security officials and critical infrastructure partners to strengthen infrastructure resilience.

The DHS Office of Health Affairs is creating a Community Health Resilience Planning Template to enable state, local and private sector interests coordinate health resilience.

The Office of Infrastructure Protection's Infrastructure Development and Recovery (IDR) program works with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government officials and infrastructure owners and operators to plan, design, and implement solutions that enhance the security and resilience of critical infrastructure against a variety of threats.

NPPD is leading USG efforts to greatly enhance critical infrastructure and cyber resilience through the Integrated Task Force.  The Task Force is coordinating dual-implementation of Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, and the Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Presidential Policy Directive.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) coordinates with public and private sector partners to help strengthen the security and resilience of the nation's critical infrastructure through technical innovation across multiple sectors through technical expertise and targeted solutions.

Resilience STAR, a DHS pilot project, provides a Government-backed label for homes and critical infrastructure that are resilient.  Modeled after the EPA’s successful ENERGY STAR, Resilience STAR incentivizes stakeholders nationally through identifying the business case, or ROI, that comes with being resilient.

FEMA released the National Disaster Recovery Framework which was developed in partnership with stakeholders representing local, state, tribal and federal governments, private organizations, professional associations, academic experts, and communities recovering from disasters.  The Recovery Framework defines how federal agencies will work together to best meet the needs of states and communities in their ongoing recovery, by aligning key roles and responsibilities among all our partners.

Launched in February 2003, FEMA's Ready campaign is a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural and man-made disasters. The goal of the campaign is to get the public involved and ultimately to increase the level of basic preparedness across the nation.