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Assignment: With COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, business leaders are scrambling to deal with a wide variety of problems, from slumping sales and stalling supply chains to keeping employees healthy and making sure they can continue working.The rapid spread of COVID-19 reminds us how our wellbeing is interconnected, and the flurry of heartwarming responses people have exhibited in the face of this crisis reveals our tremendous willingness and ability to help one another. These truths will persist when life goes back to normal. A number of related trends are shaping the future of the emergency services landscape. Their implications may vary but the common thread is that they are often driven by increasing societal expectations and concerns. The hyper-connectivity of today's world is a driving factor as is the growing level of global disruption and uncertainty. As a response to the implications of these trends, new governance structures are being established with the aim of ensuring that community and government expectations are met. Policy direction is being shaped by these new structures, which in turn is raising new capability requirements to facilitate policy implementation. We as a Global are now in a new world of interconnectivity because of this COVID-19 Virus. It has and will continue to change our entire world and this brings me to your last assignment.

Where is the future of Emergency and Disaster Management heading? What is the future of emergency management in our new world today? What is FEMAs new vision for emergency management? What are the new trends in emergency management ? Who is and who should be envisioning the future of emergency management in this NEW GLOBAL PANDEMIC. I would like your last paper assignment to be on these topics and about the future challenges of emergency management. Please write a 4 page paper -- APA format.

This has been a most unusual and unprecedented school term to learn while in the mist of the most difficult societal changes and hardships all Americans and the world has had to deal with in modern times. I hope that each of you have had an opportunity to research at your own pace about the topics of how this Corona Virus has changed everyone and YES this entire world. Also I trust you have become more aware of how the profession of emergency management will be an essential and demanding career with many great opportunities for those that work in the profession. I hope and trust you each stay safe and learn to adapt to implementing what you know and continue to learn about how emergency management and disaster management is vital to our ability as humans to move forward using the five phases of emergency management. The future of emergency management is the :

The Preparedness Cycle :

1. Prevention focuses on creating concrete plans, training and exercises well ahead of a disaster to prepare your organization. Emergency planning activities will allow organizations to reduce loss of life and sustain environmental challenges by developing organizational specific plans, standardized planning tools and emergency management protocols.

2. Preparedness is a continuous cycle of activities such as emergency planning, staff training, exercising, assessment and remedial actions. Preparedness and readiness go hand in hand as organizations and communities prepare for disaster.

3. Response is the how organizations respond to whatever challenges disasters bring such as supply chain interruptions, changes in service delivery or day to day staffing. As organizations respond to disaster, they must use all their emergency preparedness tools such as emergency plans, policies and procedures and staff training to respond to any type of disaster.

4. Recovery focuses on restoring critical business functions to stabilize day to day services and increase capacity to continue to serve their community after a disaster. The recovery phase allows organizations to return normal service levels as soon as possible.

5. Mitigation activities allow organizations to reduce loss of life and physical assets such as buildings and supplies that will lessen the overall effect of disaster on an organizations and community as a whole.