Why Your Membership in CCROA Will Help Strengthen Homeland Security

September 11, 2001 has not only changed the way communities view their preparation and response to crisis, but also redefined the role that citizens and corporations have in helping their community prepare and respond to threat and crisis. Though governments at the local, state and federal level are responsible at one level or another, there are not enough resources to protect all communities and property at all times, nor to respond equally or quickly. The threat and the country are too open and large.

CCROA's Role

CCROA is part of a national effort to bring corporations together with communities, responders and governments. Corporations in every community must establish a corporate Crisis Reponse Officer (CRO), to serve as a contact point between responders, the public sector and corporations to share information, create preparedness response strategies and generally develop simple but effective ways to train and prepare employees for threat or crisis as resources to the responder sector during community response.

December 17-18, 2007...
National Congress for Secure Communities  at the Capitol Hill Hyatt, Washington, D.C.

May 31, 2007...
Initial meeting in Hamilton County, IN with county/city stakeholders on the 5-community pilot project.

May 7, 2007 ...
Planning meeting in Charleston, SC with community stakeholders on the 5-community pilot.

April 25, 2007...
Meeting in Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan for the 5-community Pilot.

November 16, 2005 ...
Washington, D.C.:  Formation meeting of the Advisory Committee to the National Task Force on Community Preparedness and Response at the Capital Hilton from 12:00 noon to 5:00pm.

CCROA Picks Up Slack in Private-Sector Disaster Response
Private companies in local communities are taking matters into their own hands and organizing under the banner of a relatively new organization to make their assets available to prepare and respond to disasters. The Corporate Crisis Response Officers Association was formed to bring elements of the private sector together to develop their own response plans to natural and man-made disasters. The association also aims to teach the private sector how to interact with federal, state and local governments to better prepare in advance for crises. “I think one of the biggest lessons from the Hurricane Katrina disaster is that the private sector has to be more engaged early on in disaster preparedness and response,” said Asa Hutchinson, chairman of the association’s advisory board and former DHS undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security.  Read more ...

Homeland Security Journal coverage
NCORP and the Kennedy School of Government convened a meeting in March with leaders in government, industry, response and community sectors to help develop the format for a national template for community response.  Homeland Security Journal attended the meeting and has prepared a cover story for their April printed issue.  Click here to visit the homepage, and read the cover story "ReadyAmerica - the First 72 Hours"...

Draft Transcript of Preparedness Congress

December 15: Over 600 mayors, police and fire chiefs, EMS directors, health care representatives, corporate and association representatives and community leadership met in Washington for the formation meeting of the Advisory Committee to the National Task Force on Community Preparedness and Response. The draft transcript of the introduction and general sessions has been made available for review by the participants, to correct and use as the basis for the regional meetings for 2006...read or download the transcript>>