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Counties testify on creating a more resilient nation

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    Counties testify on creating a more resilient nation

    Mecklenburg County, N.C. Commissioner George Dunlap testifies on behalf of NACo before the House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery, highlighting how counties are utilizing funding from FEMA’s Urban Area Security Initiative Program, the challenges and opportunities to addressing inequities in disaster response and recovery, and how federal programs have affected the overall preparedness of communities. Learn more about the hearing here.

    Mecklenburg County, N.C. Commissioner George Dunlap testifies on behalf of NACo before the House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery.
    2022-05-17
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    2022-05-17

Mecklenburg County, N.C. Commissioner George Dunlap testifies on behalf of NACo before the House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery, highlighting how counties are utilizing funding from FEMA’s Urban Area Security Initiative Program, the challenges and opportunities to addressing inequities in disaster response and recovery, and how federal programs have affected the overall preparedness of communities. Learn more about the hearing here.

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    The Stepping Up Initiative

    In May 2015, NACo and partners at the CSG Justice Center and APA Foundation launched Stepping Up: A National Initiative to Reduce the Number of People with Mental Illnesses in Jails.
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    Resilient Counties Initiative

    The NACo Resilient Counties Initiative builds leadership capacity to identify and manage risk, and prepare counties to become more flexible and responsive to system shocks and stresses. It has a holistic approach to resilience, examining social and economic resilience, sustainability and disaster management.
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    <p>Hurricanes, wildfires, economic collapse, and other disasters can be natural or man-made, acute or long-term, foreseeable or unpredictable.

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    Justice & Public Safety Steering Committee

    All matters pertaining to criminal justice and public safety systems, including ​criminal justice planning, law enforcement, courts, corrections, homeland security, community crime prevention, juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, emergency management, fire prevention and control, and civil disturbances.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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    <p>All matters pertaining to criminal justice and public safety systems, including ​criminal justice planning, law enforcement, courts, corrections, homeland security, community crime prevention, juvenile justice and delinquency preven

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    Transportation Policy Steering Committee

    Responsible for all matters pertaining to federal transportation legislation, funding and regulation and its impacts on county government. This includes highway and bridge development, finance and safety, public transit development and finance, transportation planning, airport development and service, passenger and freight railroads, ports and waterways, freight movement, and research and development of new modes of transportation.
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    <p>Responsible for all matters pertaining to federal transportation legislation, funding and regulation and its impacts on county government.

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    Opioid Solutions Center

    NACo’s Opioid Solutions Center empowers local leaders to invest resources in effective treatment, recovery, prevention and harm reduction practices that save lives and address the underlying causes of substance use disorder.
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    <p>NACo&#39;s Opioid Solutions Center empowers local leaders to invest resources in effective treatment, recovery, prevention and harm reduction practices that save lives and address the underlying causes of substance use disorder.

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