Tribal Leaders National Emergency Management Conference & FEMA Emergency Management Course

Justin O’Connor
President
Native Nation Events 

• How gratitude impacts daily performance and behavior.
• Modeling gratitude in the workplace.
• Proactivity vs. Reactivity and its impact on workplace climate.
• Understanding how to create pattern interruptions to disruptive workplace behavior.
• Managing and deepening emotional intelligence in the workplace.
• Strategies for embedding a culture of gratitude within your tribe or organization.
• Organizing around your tribal mission statement.
• Training employees on powerful reactions to difficult situations.   

Jim Stroker
Training Specialist
NNE Leadership Solutions Group

• What does the culture in the U.S. look like today vs. 20 years ago?
• Do any of your Tribal Enterprises, such as casinos, healthcare facilities, schools or government centers have an armed staff? If so, has their training been validated?
• Are your training programs sufficient enough to withstand a lawsuit, and what effect can this have on your insurance premiums?
• What kind of effect can this situation have not only on your people but on the brand of your business enterprise?
• How safe do your employees feel in their workplace?
• What is the advertised response from local or on-site law enforcement, and what has been the collaboration between internal and local security forces?
• Is your organization and its employees prepared and properly trained to effectively respond to an active threat?

 Michael Biller
President / Chief Operating Officer
Tomahawk Strategic Solutions
Naval Special Warfare Operator from Naval Special
Warfare Development Group – Retired  

• Emergency Management? Did you know that the majority of Tribal Nations do not have an emergency management department. Our FEMA course offering will introduce you to Emergency Management basics and help you get off to a running start. 
• FEMA policy is changing with significant direct impacts to Tribes. Are you ready? Come learn about the new FEMA Tribal Consultation Policy and the FEMA Tribal Policy. 
• Did you know that your Tribal Nation may now go directly to the President of the U.S. to request a Declaration of Disaster?  Learn more about the newly released FEMA Tribal Pilot Guidance for Declaration and some of the things you will want your accounting departments to know. 
• Planning Documents, Preparedness Documents, Response and Recovery Documents. Emergency Response Plans, Hazard Mitigation Plans, Continuity of Operations Plans. We are prepared to answer your questions about which documents and plans you should have and why.

Richard Flores
Director of Legislative Affairs & Tribal Relations
National Tribal Emergency Management Council
Former Special Advisor for National Tribal Affairs
FEMA Headquarters

Alan Ball
Senior Emergency Management Program Specialist
FEMA

• The Robert T. Stanford Act and the Sandy Improvement Recovery Act
• Tribal Homeland Security Grant, Emergency Management Performance Grant
• Hazard Mitigation Grants

• Tribal Leaders
• Tribal Programs
• Tribal Members

• Planning
• Mitigation
• Response
• Recovery

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. GAO’s mission is to support the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. They provide Congress with timely information that is objective, fact-based, nonpartisan, non ideological, fair, and balanced. GAO is initiating a review of FEMA’S Tribal Disaster Declaration and would like your assistance to review your experience in the disaster declaration process.

Kathryn Godfrey
Assistant Director
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Homeland Security and Justice Team

Denton Herring
Senior Analyst
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Homeland Security and Justice Team

Jim Stroker
Training Specialist
NNE Leadership Solutions Group

Welcome to the National Tribal Emergency Management Council (NTEMC). The NTEMC is a long standing sub-committee of the Northwest Tribal Emergency Management Council bringing Tribes and Tribal emergency management organizations from around the Nation together to share information and best practices and to discuss public safety, public health and homeland security issues affecting those in Indian Country. 

 Three things that differentiate the NTEMC from all others:

• The NTEMC remains committed to Sovereign Immunity, assisting our Tribal partners with building infrastructure and internal capacity. There are many groups out there that want to come into the Tribe and be the Incident Commanders, the Incident Management Team, and the First Responders. We want to continue to help our Tribal Nations remain in the driver’s seat of the their own incidents, and the best way that we can assure this is to continue our work in the areas of sharing information, training, skill sets, resources and best practices. 
• We believe that Public Safety and Public Health are Trust Responsibilities of the Federal Government, and therefore, do not charge dues or membership fees to be a part of our organization. Although this makes sustainability difficult at times, we do not believe that our Tribal Nations should have to pay for what the Federal, State and Local Partners are receiving in the way of grants and technical assistance. Therefore, we continue to work hard on bringing grant dollars into the individual Tribal Nations, training opportunities to our Tribal Lands, and Technical Assistance to Indian Country that continues to help build our emergency management and homeland security programs, free of charge.
• We provide guidance and tools for member tribes to develop sustainable and all-hazard approaches to Emergency Management and Homeland Security, through an approach that emphasizes both inter and intra jurisdictional cooperation to maximize resources in mutual aid, training, exercises, planning, and equipping by sharing information and best practices.  

A collective voice is a stronger voice. Network with the National Tribal Emergency Management Council, Tribal Emergency Managers and Tribal Leaders from across the country. 

Richard Flores
Director of Legislative Affairs & Tribal Relations
National Tribal Emergency Management Council
Former Special Advisor for National Tribal Affairs
FEMA Headquarters

• How will the change in Administration impact Tribal Emergency Management Programs.
• Funding an emergency management program: A review of past, current and projected budgets. 
• Grant programs that are available for Tribal Emergency Management and Homeland Security Programs.

• Will you be able to communicate during a large scale event? Come learn about many of the new initiatives that are being deployed to help facilitate better communications capabilities in Indian Country today.
• Ham Radio and the National Tribal Amateur Radio Association.
• FirstNet.
• The use of Satellites in Emergency Management.
• Drones and the Emergency Manager.
• FirstNet, PSAC, the Tribal Working Group and Emergency Management: How will FirstNet impact the Tribes?

Nathan Nixon
Public Safety Director
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.

Gregory Smith
Tribal Liaison Officer/Public Health Advisor
Centers for Disease Control