April 8, 2020

To: Emergency Management and Business Continuity Professionals

The DRIE West community would like to support all our members and emergency management / business continuity colleagues who are engaged directly with the government’s response to COVID19 crisis or leading their organization’s crisis management response.

These are unprecedented times and we are in the midst of writing the response and recovery playbook as this event unfolds. There are many new scenarios and challenges that we as an emergency management community have not come across. During this time more than ever it is essential that DRIE West members have an opportunity to share best practices and recommendations, ask questions and offer advice. To help facilitate this exchange of information, DRIE West is recommending that our members use the DRIE West LinkedIn page as a community forum to exchange information and ask for advice and recommendations.

Although DRIE West members cannot meet as normal during our monthly lunch and learns, we can meet virtually by using our LinkedIn platform to post questions and answers, share best practices and encourage members to connect with each other to address their specific challenges.

The COVID19 crisis may require us to remain physically apart but now more than ever it is important for us as emergency managers to keep connected, support each other virtually and ask for help and offer advice.

Together we will get through this challenge.

DRIE West Team