Introduction
Disaster Recovery Plan for the Valley City
Most of the community needs in Valley City include the necessity to be provided with support, normalize the living conditions, and go through physical and psychological recovery. First of all, external resources are important as resources for the survival of the civilian population in the event of a train crash, that is, timely evacuation from the affected territories.(Tawil et al., 2023). Taking into account the of catastrophe, both external resources and internal resources are necessary as coping mechanisms in the current conditions. Getting one’s own housing of good quality and social and medical support from the professional environment ca be listed among eternal resources. Internal resources include professional skills of social services workers, medical workers and rescuers.
Among the personnel involved, rescuers are needed, physically and mentally strong people with fire training. Professional psychologists who are able to provide psychological support and medical professionals specializing in burns are also needed (Tawil et al., 2023). Environmentalists are also needed to assess the environmental damage from the explosion and oil spill. It will be necessary to use the emergency budget, which is being developed and introduced in a state of emergency in the US and in its individual territories. It will be based on the emergency spending of the budget of North Dakota.
Among the members of the community, it will be necessary to divide irretrievable losses – six people who died at the time of the explosion and died before entering the first stage of medical evacuation, as well as sanitary losses – about two hundred injured and sick as a result of the explosion, who lost their ability to work and in need of medical care. People accountable for plan implementation are emergency response managers and emergency rescue service managers, as well as emergency rescue units (Sayed, 2020).
The role of people accountable for plan implementation will be the execution of emergency response plans and the organization of interaction of all personnel with community members. Emergency response managers are also required to take all measures to immediately inform the relevant state authorities. Healthy People 2020 Goals are to prolong the life expectancy of community members, as well as its quality. Therefore, it is necessary to make efforts to reduce the environmental and emotional consequences that shorten life expectancy (Tawil et al., 2023). It is also necessary to carry out treatment as effectively as possible in order to exclude the possibility of repeated injuries or their transformation into disabilities.
The timeline for recovery effort will be divided into several stages. The first stage includes a tight time frame of two weeks to eliminate the immediate consequences of train derailment. The subsequent stage is more extended in time for several months and includes the fight against the non-obvious consequences of the accident. The collaborative partners that need to be mobilized are neighboring communities that are indirectly interested in helping, since the environmental consequences of train derailment may affect them too.
Assessing Community Needs
Physical needs of the community are the daily needs of the affected community members in food, water, utilities, and household fuel (Tawil et al., 2023). Moreover, the needs are the provision of emergency medical care. Emotional and psychological support is of paramount importance. Family members also strive to establish connections with loved ones, so during an emergency, helping services can meet the needs of victims in the connections between families who survived the tragedy and community members. On the other hand, victims who have lost their loved ones need connections with other family members and friends.
Cultural needs require emergency workers working in the disaster area to take into account ethno-cultural factors when interacting with the local population. These questions relate to the following aspects: whether they work in their own cultural region or in a region with different cultural traditions, where attitudes, beliefs, traditions, customs and communication features differ significantly from their own. Employees of psychological services should be convinced that their psychotherapeutic concepts, assessment and treatment methods are acceptable for ethnic groups and the conditions in which they will be used (Sayed, 2020). The financial needs of the community will be to finance medical care for the victims and pay for the repair of railway tracks.
Equitable Allocation of Services for Diverse
It is necessary to organize a common help point that accepts all community members regardless of income, nationality and gender. It is also necessary to organize home visits to those community members who do not have the opportunity to visit organized points. It is necessary to cover the needs of emergency victims depending on their diversity characteristics: for example, to provide minorities with a psychologist who speaks their native language. According to triage classification, immediate help will be required for those injured who have low capillary filling and do not execute commands (Al-Hajj et al., 2021). All other patients will receive deferred care.
Plan contact tracing of the homeless, disabled, displaced community members, migrant workers, and those who have hearing impairment or English as a second language in the event of severe tornadoes will be with the help of alarm sirens and a special patrol created from local social workers who know the characteristics of these population groups to notify them each one separately. Clustering will unify the process of managerial decision-making and the development of measures for their implementation in the community health management system, which will lessen health disparities. Nurses with their experience of community members patient care should ensure that patients have the most reliable information and care protocols are designed in such a way as to ensure proper representation and participation in meeting the needs of all population groups (Tawil et al., 2023).
To reach Healthy People 2020 objectives, the plan will focus in customizing medical, psychological, financial and social aid help according to the needs of diverse community members. Key messages for contract tracing will be the availability of various types of assistance for free. Talking points will include the presence of various needs, for example, physical and emotional well-being, as well as financial situation (Al-Hajj et al., 2021). Sample public service announcement will include memos with the procedure for obtaining any of the listed types of assistance.
Plan for Contact Tracing During Disaster & Recovery Phase
The plan for contact tracing during disaster consists in notification by means of mass media (television, cellular communication and the Internet), as well as notification by alarm sirens on the streets. The plan for contact tracing during the recovery phase will consist of notification at volunteer aid points, with the help of pamphlets distributed on the streets, as well as a visit to the house of representatives of social services.
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