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FY 1999 -2000 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMIISSIONERS PROPOSED GOAL Enter date this document prepared: 03/30/99 GOAL STATEMENT: Develop a crisis preparedness plan for a variety of public health emergencies. Goal Initiated/Proposed By: Board of County Commissioners Most Recent Version Adopted by BOCC: May, 1998 At the Board of Commissioners Meeting of June 2, 1997, the Health Director was asked to establish a goal to prepare a plan to respond to public health emergencies such as disease outbreaks, environmental hazards, and natural disasters. The health director at the time conducted a literature search that revealed an outline for a crisis preparedness plan, which must be completed by a process involving the staff who would carry out the plan. The plan had been to hire a consultant to prepare this plan. Since an effective plan needs to involve staff that would actually carry out the plan, it was decided in the summer of 1998 to keep the planning process internal to the health department. An initial staff team was formed and met in August to begin developing a crisis response plan. To date, the team has identified core response members and have begun scenario definition. The process milestones for producing a fully executable plan are attached. The Board of Health in its November 19, 1998 ;d continuing support for this County Commissioner originated goal. 13a„ase�d_Qn In addition to time from current OCHD staff in planning, it is anticipated that a fully developed crisis response team will need two additional part-time staff members. One staff member would be responsible for investigating potential outbreak situations and for providing contact tracing and other field investigative work. The second staff member would be responsible for producing educational materials, planning and conducting educational sessions, and for developing the communications tools and messages for the media and for the public.