Emergency management/hazard mitigation planner

BROOKE TARABOUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND

HAZARD MITIGATION

PLANNER

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Project Assignment: Emergency Response, Community and

Hazard Mitigation Planning, Outreach, Writing/Editing and Legal Handbook – HSEMA – Currently, Ms. Tarabour is

Communications writing and editing The Legal Handbook on emergency

response for General Counsels in departments throughout

Years Experience: 11

Washington DC for the DC Homeland Security. The

Education: M.S., Urban and Regional Planning, The New

handbook is a resource guide for policies, procedures and

School of Social Research; M.B.A., Southeastern

operations to coordinate the emergency response activities

Massachusetts University

as a team.

Current Responsibilities: FEMA Region II As a community planner, Ms. Tarabour

Brooke Tarabour has 11 years of experience in emergency analyzed and reviewed hazard mitigation plans and

management, risk assessment, land use, public outreach program implementation. She identified and analyzed

and mitigation planning. She has a diversified planning strategies for risk reduction to life and property from

and project management background and has formed natural disasters. To strengthen teams in local

partnerships with non profit, corporate, local, state and jurisdictions, Ms. Tarabour built consensus as agreed upon

federal governments for maximum impact in major in project based actions for public and stakeholders. She

funding projects. She has also designed programs on focused resources on mitigation strategies to address

statewide and national platforms in collaboration with greatest risks and current and future vulnerabilities, and

State Legislature and Universities. structured partnerships by involving local jurisdiction

Ms. Tarabour’s specialties include emergency response, agencies and officials, citizens, organizations and

hazard mitigation, authoring standards guides and public businesses. Ms. Tarabour designed a number of public

outreach projects. Ms. Tarabour has been instrumental in outreach workshops; each geared toward a target

the organization and active continuation of community audience and modeled to simplify the plan process for

based partnerships and collaborations, thus strengthening participants, the public and various stakeholders,

the community by responsibly stewarding resources and including the expansion of education and awareness of

eliminating duplicate services. She is currently working on disaster threats and hazards, as well as their risks. Ms.

two county hazard mitigation plan updates – Luzerne and Tarabour served as a Community Planner and Volunteer

Lackawanna Counties, PA. Agency Liaison for FEMA Region II, specializing in

designing programs for long term preparedness on

Summary of Experience: community and county levels and writing and reviewing

New Jersey Statewide Hazard Mitigation Standards Hazard Mitigation Plans.

Guide

At FEMA, Ms. Tarabour wrote the first statewide hazard Needs Assessment for the Food System in the State of

mitigation standards guide, a user friendly, step by step New Jersey Ms. Tarabour designed and wrote a needs

primer from scope of work to plan maintenance. The assessment of the New Jersey food system to research,

guide was an update to the previous document, including assess and ultimately transport surplus food from farmers,

recent changes to laws, regulations and the impacts of processors, producers and retailers to at risk people. She

natural and man made hazards specific to the State. collaborated with corporate, government, nonprofit

organizations and industry experts to systemize process

Stafford Township, Ocean County, NJ. Ms. Tarabour for optimum yield. The project was funded for $5 million

was the lead on a project working with the local flood by the New Jersey Legislature and all research and

plain manager in researching, writing and processing the analyses was performed at Cook College, Rutgers

adoption of a CRS plan for a municipality that would have University. A major component of the project was to

lost their rating; instead, the region increased its status, design and present town meetings throughout the state to

thereby saving significant resources for the government engage vendors, contributors, the general public and

and local residents. legislators to create a model in which waste was

eliminated and product was optimized. Some of the

New Jersey Food Policy Institute Ms. Tarabour stakeholders included government procurement officers,

designed and conducted community outreach workshops corporate decision makers, local mid and small sized

in New Jersey to build stronger planning missions; businesses and service organizations.

coursework includes solutions to resolving hunger issues,

funding for non profits, hazard mitigation, strategic and Hazard Mitigation Plan Update Lackawanna County,

business planning and human services needs. PA This project involves the preparation of a multi

hazard plan for Lackawanna County and its 40 Feasibility Study of the Establishment of a Foundation

municipalities based on FEMA’s Disaster Mitigation Act of in Support of Community Enhancement Projects

2000 (DMA 2000) regulations. Key steps in the project Port of Baltimore - This project involves conducting a

include: Hazard identification, and vulnerability study for the Harbor Team of the Port of Baltimore to

assessment; Capability assessment; Assessment of consider applicable issues and identify possible funding

alternative hazard mitigation measures; and an sources relating to community enhancement projects. The

Implementation strategy. Specific Role: Document review goal of the study is to design an effective, efficient, and

and editing, and project research and data collection. sustainable model for managing community enhancement

project funding sources. Ms. Tarabour will research

Hazard Mitigation Plan Update Luzerne County, PA successful models from among the U.S. seaport industry

This project involves the preparation of a multi hazard and make recommendations as to process and best

plan for Lackawanna County and its 40 municipalities practices.

based on FEMA’s Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA

2000) regulations. Key steps in the project include: Hazard

identification, and vulnerability assessment; Capability

assessment; Assessment of alternative hazard mitigation

measures; and an Implementation strategy. Specific Role:

Document review and editing, and project research and

data collection.

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