About the Partnership for Community Safety

• About Partnership Members

The Partnership for Community Safety: Strengthening America's Readiness is a new coalition formed to advocate for strengthening community readiness for biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism and other disasters. The Partnership for Community Safety will call on federal policymakers to support and sustain comprehensive readiness efforts in the nation's public health departments, emergency departments, hospitals, fire services, ambulance and emergency medical services (EMS) organizations, medical education institutions, and the nursing profession.

While proposals pending in Congress represent important first steps, the Partnership will advocate for a comprehensive and sustained approach to community readiness. Partnership members said the tragic events of September 11 and the recent anthrax incidents demonstrate the urgency for strengthening community preparedness plans to protect the public from acts of terrorism.

In addition to working together to help shape national policy, the new alliance will promote collaboration among its members to retool disaster plans and focus on the need to increase capacity for frontline responders to prepare for the new challenges of terrorism. In addition, Partnership members will work to reduce duplication of effort and develop a "bank" of best practices through exchanging ideas and highlighting model programs. The Partnership also plans to educate the public about local readiness issues.

The Partnership for Community Safety: Strengthening America's Readiness represents firefighters, paramedics and other EMS professionals, emergency physicians, all other physicians, hospital officials, medical education professionals, public health officials, nurses and state regulatory agencies in the United States.

Click here to view a listing of coalition members.