EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNCTION 6 MASS CARE & EMERGENCY
ASSISTANCE
“Your Role at the
State Emergency
Operations Center”
A Self Study
Course
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Course Modules
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ESF 6 in the State Plan
ESF 6 procedures
Position Task Books
Online tutorial
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Module 1
ESF 6 in the State Plan
Reference: Appendix 6, Mass Care & Emergency
Assistance, State Comprehensive Emergency
Management plan
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ESF 6
CEMP
Annex
The ESF 6 CEMP Annex describes “the framework through which a jurisdiction’s departments
and agencies, the private sector, not-for-profit and voluntary organizations, and other NGOs
coordinate and execute the common emergency management strategies. The actions
described in the Support Annexes apply to nearly every type of emergency. Each Support
Annex identifies a coordinating agency and cooperating agencies. In some instances, two
departments or agencies share coordinating agency responsibilities.” Source: CPG 101
ESF 6
SOG
“Standard operating procedures or operating manuals are
complete reference documents that provide the purpose,
authorities, duration, and details for the preferred method for
performing a single function or a number of interrelated functions
in a uniform manner.” Source: CPG 101
ESF 6
Position
Task Books
Comprehensive
Preparedness Guide
(CPG) 101 - Developing
and maintaining State,
Territorial, Tribal and
Local emergency plans,
March 2009, FEMA
Position Task Books describe and
identify all the basic tasks a person
holding the position should be able
to perform properly. Source: NIMS
Qualifications Process Guide
ESF 6
Job Aids
“Job aids are checklists
or other materials that
help users perform a
task.” Source: CPG 101
Comprehensive Emergency
Management Plan
 18 Emergency Support
Functions (ESF)
 Each ESF has a
Primary Agency and
several Support
Agencies
 Primary Agencies for
ESF 6 are:
 The Department of
Business and
Professional
Regulation (DBPR),
and
 The Department of
Children and Families
(DCF)
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Four Phases of Emergency
Management
 Mitigation
 Preparation
 Response – DBPR
is the lead agency
 Recovery – DCF is
the lead agency
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ESF 6 Support Agencies
 Agency for
Workforce
Innovation
 Agency for Persons
with Disabilities
 Agriculture &
Consumer Services
 American Red
Cross
 Education
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 Elder Affairs
 Florida Baptists
 Florida Voluntary
Organizations
Active in Disaster
 The Salvation Army
 Volunteer Florida
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Primary functions of ESF 6
 Mass Care
 Emergency Assistance
 Human Services
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Mass Care & Emergency Assistance
 Mass Care includes sheltering, feeding
operations, emergency first aid, bulk
distribution of emergency items, and
collecting and providing information on
survivors to family members.
 Emergency Assistance includes support to
evacuations (including registration and
tracking of evacuees); reunification of
families; support to non-medical special
needs survivors; and non-conventional
shelter management.
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ESF 6 mass care tasks
 Respond to requests for mass care support
from the counties.
 Report on mass care activities in a timely
manner to the State Emergency Response
Team.
 Coordinate closely with the American Red
Cross, Salvation Army and other Voluntary
Agencies Active in Disaster to assist and
augment their mass care capabilities, when
required, through the allocation of state
and federal resources.
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ESF 6 Emergency Assistance tasks
 Coordinate with federal, state and local
agencies, as well as non-governmental
organizations, to facilitate mass
evacuations, when required.
 Coordinate with federal, state and local
agencies, as well as non-governmental
organizations, to facilitate reunification of
separated family members.
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ESF 6 Emergency Assistance tasks
 Coordinate with federal, state and local
agencies, as well as non-governmental
organizations, to address the functional needs
of non-medical special needs populations.
 Coordinate with federal, state and local
agencies, as well as non-governmental
organizations, in securing conventional and
non-conventional mass shelter facilities when
traditional mass care systems are
overwhelmed.
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ESF 6 Human Services tasks
 Coordination of emergency food
stamps
 Disaster unemployment
 Temporary disaster employment.
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ESF 6 Human Services tasks
 Emergency food stamps (DCF):
provides a means to supplement
income for those families negatively
impacted by the affects of a disaster
through loss of food due to power
loss, income loss or damages to
residence.
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ESF 6 Human Services tasks
 Disaster unemployment assistance
(AWI): provides financial assistance
to individuals whose employment or
self-employment has been lost or
interrupted as a direct result of a
major disaster declared by the
President.
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ESF 6 Human Services tasks
 Temporary disaster employment (AWI):
provides temporary jobs in affected
communities through the employment of
federal grants for this purpose. These funds
are primarily used to provide temporary
employment for persons who lost their jobs
as a result of these disasters.
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Module 1 Summary
 ESF 6 is one of 18 Emergency
Support Functions
 ESF 6 is composed of multiple Lead
and Support agencies
 ESF 6 has three main functions
 Mass Care
 Emergency Assistance
 Human Services
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