Initiative for Community and Disaster Resilience - ICDR

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EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT & COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE

Supporting communities. Strengthening systems.
Serving the world.

The Master of Science in Emergency Management and Community Resilience (EMCR) was built on a simple idea: a person, community, or system should have the ability to maintain its core purpose and integrity in the face of radically shifting circumstances. This resilience takes into account whether returning to a previous state perpetuates inequalities that helped to cause a disaster in the first place.

This is a degree designed to equip leaders to build more resilient communities and systems while serving the world in this critical time of need.

A skill-based program balanced with cutting-edge theoretical approaches, the Emergency Management and Community Resilience degree was created to train dedicated and compassionate professionals, who will go on to tackle the most daunting of problems, locally and globally.

The Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management and Community Resilience follows these same principles to provide a similar experience as the Master's degree. The certificate is a five course, 18-credit program, with multiple coursework options.

Our experts are your mentors
The Emergency Management and Community Resilience curriculum incorporates a multitude of fields, ranging from anthropology to urban planning to communication. The program’s transdisciplinary nature pushes our students to examine issues from multiple perspectives and equips them with the skills and the knowledge to create a more resilient, just future. With a focus on critical assessment, we strive to identify equitable pathways for informed resilience work.

Our scholars & practitioners apply their expertise in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the world.

Partner with the community
Building on Portland State’s legacy of community engagement, we built our EMCR degree on a foundation of community-based learning. We’ve created unparalleled opportunities for partnerships with organizations at the forefront of emergency management and community resilience. Examples of the types of partnerships we have formed include, local, state and federal agencies, sovereign Native American nations, nonprofits, international NGOs and agencies, universities, and private companies.

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Apply to Grad School - Start Your Application | PSU PSU offers more than 100 master’s degrees, 48 graduate certificates, and 20 doctoral offerings. Submit your grad school application today.

Deadline Extended! Professional Certificate in Building Cyber Resilience Registration deadline: January 12 CERTIFICATE IN BUILDING CYBER RESILIENCE Deadline Extended! Apply today to better protect your organization Too often we find ourselves responding to a crisis as it emerges. A cyber attack you aren't prepared for is much more challenging to fight. An organization th...

Webinar Registration: Multi-Organization Cybersecurity Collaboration: Trends & Innovation in a Mid to Post Pandemic World June 15 12:00 - 1:30 Multi-Organization Cybersecurity Collaboration: Trends & Innovation in a Mid to Post Pandemic World June 15th, 2021 Webinar 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM REGISTER Cybersecurity is not unlike what it takes to beat a global healthcare pandemic crisis: - Robust technological innovation - Sop...

https://www.orcities.org/education/conferences/2021-local-government-spring-symposium

Gain foundational knowledge in cybersecurity so that you can develop policies and strategies to manage your organization's cyber risk. Register for the Mark O. Hatfield Center for Cybersecurity's Professional Certificate in Building Cyber Resilience!

The 12-week non-credit professional certificate program is highly collaborative and will use a cohort-based case study approach to help you apply strategies to manage the risk of cyber-attack. Program coaches will work with participants to create a unique shared learning experience that is approachable for non-technical practitioners. The program dates are April 9 - June 25.
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The Frontiers of Disaster Prevention in the Era of Great Disasters: Ten Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Ten years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated Japan’s northeast. As a country that has experienced a variety of natural disasters throughout its history, Japan has developed various preventive and remedial technologies and social mechanisms, especially since the 1995 Hanshin Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. California has had similar experiences with natural disasters, particularly earthquakes, and it has developed its own preventive measures. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, this conference features two keynote speakers who have directly dealt with the aftermaths of recent earthquakes in Japan – Makoto Iokibe, who was the Chairman of the Reconstruction Design Council in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and is the author of The Era of Great Disasters, and Ikuo Kabashima, who as the Governor of Kumamoto led the recovery efforts from a major earthquake in 2016 and flooding in 2020. The conference will also provide a forum for speakers from Japan and California to learn from each other the cutting-edge approaches toward reducing the damages of natural disasters.



Date and Time

March 11, 2021 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Pacific Time



Organizer: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University



Co-sponsors: Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the Japan Society of Northern California, and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California





Outline：

https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/events/frontiers-disaster-prevention-era-great-disasters-ten-years-after-great-east-japan-earthquake



Register:

https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cZHa-mZ7R9i887wRB24lVw



Participation free

Simultaneous interpretation between English and Japanese available

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Frontiers of Disaster Prevention in the Era of Great Disasters: Ten Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Ten years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated Japan’s northeast. As a country that has experienced a variety of natural disasters throughout its history, Japan has developed various preventive and remedial technologies and social mechanisms, especially since the 1995 Hansh...

Now recruiting participants for "Professional Certificate in Building Cybersecurity Resilience"

Professional Certificate in Building Cyber Resilience | Portland State University Professional Certificate in Building Cyber Resilience Certificate Snapshot Format Courses delivered in a virtual format with live instructors & student interaction alongside online lessons to be completed each week. Duration 12 Weeks Dates March 15 to June 4, 2021 Cost $3,500 REGISTER HERE Who Shoul...

JOB INFO

Marion County is seeking a skilled manager to help lead recovery for the cities in the Santiam Canyon.



Long Term Disaster Recovery Manager position at



https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/marion/jobs/2951675/long-term-disaster-recovery-managers



Application deadline is 01/25/21.



Steve



Steven D. Powers

City Manager

City of Salem|Mayor/City Manager’s Office

555 Liberty Street SE, Room 220

Salem, Oregon 97301

[email protected]|503-588-6255

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ICDR is collaborating with the new Emergency Management and Community Resilience (EMCR) graduate program at PSU to host the "Toward Resilient Futures" Speaker Series, a virtual monthly series starting in January 2021!
Visit the series website to learn more & register for individual event at https://www.pdx.edu/urban-public-affairs/speaker-series

Each event will provide snippets of the various topics offered through the EMCR program.

Toward Resilient Futures | Portland State University Toward Resilient Futures Towards Resilient Futures Speaker Series Emergency Management and Community Resilience Program Initiative for Community and Disaster Resilience This monthly speaker series presents cutting-edge research and approaches on the resilience of urban and rural communities and syst...

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Were fires really unprecedented? - Portland Oregonian The wind-driven blazes that have burned more than 1 million acres and killed at least 10 Oregonians were unusual, but not unpredictable.

Andrew Russo, one of our former participants to our Japan Field Trip: Learn from Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Crisis course talks about his career as a coffee broker, and shares the lessons learn from participating in the Japan Field Trip in this Podcast "Dispatch 7." His comments on the Japan Field Trip starts around 13:54 timestamp.

Coffee in Nepal with Andrew Russo | Ep. 6 by Dispatch 7: global trends on all seven continents • A podcast on Anchor This week we are talking with Andrew Russo about his career as a coffee broker. We also discuss his work in disaster management following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. For an introduction to Nepalese coffee: https://lekalicoffee.com/ Thanks to Andrew Russo for being a great guest! Recorded and Creat...