Team Rubicon presentation - michigan
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Team Rubicon is a veteran-led disaster response nonprofit that was founded in 2010 after the Haiti earthquake. It utilizes the skills and experiences of military veterans to provide disaster relief services both domestically and internationally. Team Rubicon operates with a dual mission of providing these services while also giving veterans opportunities for fellowship, continued service, and a sense of purpose. It has over 2,000 trained volunteers and is organized by FEMA regions, with capabilities that include debris removal, home repair, damage assessments, and logistics support.
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Team Rubicon presentation - michigan
- 1. Disasters are our Business, Veterans are our Passion
- 3. Topics • Background of Team Rubicon • Capabilities / Bridging the Gap • Value Added • Call Up
- 4. Overview • Founded in 2010 after Haiti Earthquake • Operates both Domestically and Internationally • Funded by Private Donation & Foundation Partnerships – 501c3 Non-Profit • National HQ in California and NOC in Dallas, TX • Organized by FEMA Region • National, Region & State Leadership
- 6. A New Mission • Purpose – Use skills and experiences from the military for continued service via disaster relief operations • Community – Serve alongside fellow veterans – Fellowship and camaraderie • Sense of Self – Positive self worth – A new outlet – External validation
- 7. Demographics 47% 29% 16% 8% Veterans & Civilians Military Veteran only Military First Responder Civilian First Responder Civlian only 77% 23% Gender Male Female 16% 31% 27% 15% 10% 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60 + Age As of September 2015
- 8. Capabilities
- 9. Operational Capabilities Disaster & Volunteer Management Debris Removal & Expedient Home Repair Damage Assessments & Asset Tracking
- 10. Management / Volunteers • Self Sufficient & Sustaining • Incident Command Team – IMT – Mobile Command Suite • Trained Volunteers, – ICS 100, 700 Minimum – TR Background Checks • Coordination of volunteers – Experience with 2000+ spontaneous volunteers
- 11. Data Collection & Management • Palantir Hardware & Software - Realtime Reporting / Tracking - Damage Photos - Waivers & Work Orders • Salamander Software - Realtime Asset Tracking - Credentialing
- 12. Logistics • Goal is to be completely self-sustained • Tools & Supplies, Vehicles & Equipment • Food & Water • We Network For “Accommodations”
- 13. Debris Management • We Have Personnel Trained In: - Chainsaw Safety & Operation - Heavy Equipment Operation - Expedient Home Repair
- 14. Value Added
- 15. • Haiti 2010 – First TR mission – Provided medical relief immediately after the earthquake • Joplin 2011 – First domestic operation – Search and rescue, debris removal after tornado • NY/NJ 2012 – Deployed 350 volunteers to NY and NJ – Saved the community over $3.8M • Moore 2013 – Deployed over 450 volunteers – Saved the community over $3.7M
- 16. Moore, OK Tornado Response
- 17. Michigan Operations Operation Silversides • Muskegon, MI. April 2014 • Straight Line Winds & Flooding • 40 Personnel, 2 week operation • Tree Removal, Muck-outs
- 18. Michigan Operations Operation Honor Walk • Wyoming, MI. July 2014 • F1 Tornado • 2 Week Operation • Sawyer & Debris Management
- 19. Michigan Operations Operation Flood Wrangler • Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Southfield, MI. August 2014 • Localized Flooding • 2 Week Operation • Muck-out & Debris Management
- 20. Michigan Operations Operation Two Rivers • Portland, MI August 2015 • EF 0 Tornado • One week operation • Sawyer & Debris management FOB
- 21. Michigan Operations Operation Sleeping Bear • Traverse City, MI • Straight line winds • Two week operation • 53 TR volunteers • Sawyer & Debris management • Volunteer management Skegemog Point
- 23. Mobilization Times 10 Volunteers 20 Volunteers 30 Volunteers 24 Hours 48 Hours 96 Hours From Operation Launch
- 24. Call Up Regional Operations Manager: Cort Beard 616-340-5997 • Deploy Recon Team • Evaluate Intel • Engage HQ, Determine Viability • Launch Operation • Call Up Volunteers • Deploy Assets 1 – 4h 3 – 8h 6 – 16h 12 – 24h 16 – 36h 24 – 48h
- 25. Are You On The Team? • Military veteran, first responder, or disaster professional? – Register as a volunteer • Support our teams in the field! – Donate – Fundraise
- 27. Contact Info Jim Simmons, Deputy State Administrator mjsimmons@teamrubiconusa.org 616-402-3357 Fred LaPoint, Michigan State Administrator Frederick.lapoint@teamrubiconusa.org 231-233-2042 Cort Beard, Region 5 Operations Manager cortney.beard@teamrubiconusa.org 616-340-5997
Editor's Notes
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvYLUjf2v6M One of the key elements of successful disaster response involves the quality of our “blue sky” relationships. Engaging opportunities that allow us to become more familiar with each other; faces, names, capabilities and capacities before a disaster occurs. Team Rubicon looks forward to opportunities when we can train together, drill together, and exercise together…to get to know each other before our expertise is needed. Thank you for this opportunity today.
- TR combines the skills and experience of military veterans with civilian first responders to rapidly deploy disaster response teams. Disasters are our business, bet veterans are our passion. We will cover these topics during this presentation. I will be glad to address any questions you may have afterward.
- Talk briefly about Team Rubicon’s first mission in Haiti Crossing the Rubicon/Artibonite against all advice Got to Port Au Prince 4 days after the 7.0 earthquake that caused widepread devastation 8 original members, 5 of them were veterans Conducted medical triage throughout the city for 20 days It was there that TR discovered that veterans can have an impact on disaster response Don’t get into the weeds on what we do domestically and internationally, that will be a later slide Partnerships with Home Depot Foundation / Team Depot – Palantir Technologies , Goal Zero, and others.
- 2.8 million veterans served in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are coming home after more than a decade of war, and face many challenges during their transition from military life to civilian life. - Team Rubicon seeks to engage veterans and provide them with purpose, community and a sense of self through disaster response and continued service. -Team Rubicon has discovered that many of the same issues veterans faced on the battlefield: Chaos, risk, limited resources, uncertainty, danger, the need to function as a team, are also found in disaster zones. -Veterans have had tremendous success overseas, and they bring these same skills home with them—high skill set, decisive leadership, ability to lead and ability to follow, ability to function as a cohesive team, some field medical training.
- We’re not only a disaster relief organization, we’re a veteran service organization. For many of the 2.8 million veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, the transition from military to civilian life is challenging. Without the community and support that the military provides, many feel lost or without purpose. Many lose a positive sense of self. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a recent survey found that 92% of military veterans still have a desire to serve even after taking off the uniform. Through opportunities of continued service, Team Rubicon seeks to provide these intangibles that many lose upon leaving the military: Purpose, Community, and Sense of Self. Purpose Using the skills gained in wartime to provide disaster and humanitarian relief; a new mission Community TR offers veterans a chance to serve alongside their fellow veterans again. To be able to talk, reflect, and most importantly, to work and sweat alongside a cohort of veterans. This can be extremely therapeutic. A positive sense of Self.
- Approximately 80% of our volunteers are military veterans 45% are current or former first responders Gender breakout Age breakout—Nearly 60% within the 30-49 age group
- TR combines the skills and experience of military veterans with civilian first responders to rapidly deploy disaster response teams. Disasters are our business, bet veterans are our passion. We will cover these topics during this presentation. I will be glad to address any questions you may have afterward.
- TR has placed a large emphasis on domestic response with limited international response. Much easier to engage volunteers in domestic responses vs. international Ability to rapidly assess and deploy local and regional personnel and staged resources Less expensive Able to engage more volunteers in service opportunities
- Disaster management/ Incident Management/ Spontaneous Volunteer Management We mobile, agile, adaptable, and capable of rapid response Our volunteers are vetted and trained. Our Team Leaders are well prepared and selected to lead tactical teams. Our command and general staff personnel have demonstrated abilities to organize and lead. Our Incident Commanders have significant field experience and have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills. working with local authorities and other NGOs, we can assist in organizing and running a disaster recovery operation, and provide valuable operational resources.
- Disaster Assessment: Damage & Impact Assessment / Disaster Mapping and Work-Order Management Field-based and ICP-based Palantir gear and personnel By gathering damage and impact assessments, we can easily identify areas that have been hit hardest, quickly and correctly dispatch teams and gear to perform the necessary work, and finally share our progress and any additional work with our recovery partners TR uses Salamander credentialing software combined with current hardware technologies to quickly get volunteers credentialed
- TR comes prepared. Incident management capability Debris Management/ Emergent/Hasty Home Repair/Muck out the bread and butter of our domestic operations. Expedient home repair: by removing any immediate danger to the structure (unstable trees, etc), tarping the roof, etc, can allow the homeowner to return their home Debris removal: mucking out flooded homes or removing debris left by tornadoes can help save homeowners money (through insurance, not paying contractors, etc) Hazard Mitigation (Fire/Flood) We’re not all about disasters – we can do a lot to prepare and reduce the impact of disasters – Fire breaks, potential flood debris clearing, if it limits the impact of a disaster, you name it, we’ll get it done. Service projects to keep our members engaged.
- TR comes prepared. Incident management capability Debris Management/ Emergent/Hasty Home Repair/Muck out the bread and butter of our domestic operations. Expedient home repair: by removing any immediate danger to the structure (unstable trees, etc), tarping the roof, etc, can allow the homeowner to return their home Debris removal: mucking out flooded homes or removing debris left by tornadoes can help save homeowners money (through insurance, not paying contractors, etc) Hazard Mitigation (Fire/Flood) We’re not all about disasters – we can do a lot to prepare and reduce the impact of disasters – Fire breaks, potential flood debris clearing, if it limits the impact of a disaster, you name it, we’ll get it done. Service projects to keep our members engaged.
- TR combines the skills and experience of military veterans with civilian first responders to rapidly deploy disaster response teams. Disasters are our business, bet veterans are our passion. We will cover these topics during this presentation. I will be glad to address any questions you may have afterward.
- TR has deployed on response missions across the US and around the world. I want to walk you through some of the more important or pivotal operations for our organization. Haiti, our first mission. The first team, comprised of military veterans, doctors, and first responders, discovered how effective veterans can be at disaster response. Over the course of the six week mission, over 60 volunteers traveled to Haiti and delivered medical aid to those who needed it most. Joplin was the first domestic operation for TR. After one of our first volunteers and dear friend Clay Hunt took his own life, the organization realized it needed to do more to engage veterans in service. Without the risk and financial burden of international work, TR is able to deploy countless more veteran volunteers domestically. After the devastating tornado in Joplin, TR deployed volunteers to perform search and rescue, debris removal, and expedient home repair. Hurricane Sandy saw TR deploy over 350 volunteers, mainly concentrated in Rockaway Beach, NY and Union Beach, NJ. Moreover, TR managed over 10,000 spontaneous volunteers in NY, completing muck-out work on over 900 homes, saving the community an estimated $3.8 million. Moore, OK is TR’s largest operation to date. Lasting for seven weeks, over 450 volunteers from across the country deployed to Moore, helping hundreds of families recover from the tornado. TR focused on expedient home repair, debris removal, and demolition. Three disaster response deployments in Michigan in 2014
- Team Rubicon stands able to deploy volunteers in the following mobilization times: 24 Hours 10 VOLUNTEERS 48 Hours 20 VOLUNTEERS 96 Hours 30 VOLUNTEERS
- Detection, initial recon, initial situation report, monitoring/planning , standby notification , OPORD, deployment of IMT, deployment of resources
- We’re always looking to add people to the TR Nation. Volunteers If you’re a military veteran, we want you on the team, head to the website (teamrubiconusa.org) to register We’re also in need of volunteers who have backgrounds in emergency management, first response, or medical If you don’t fit in one of those roles, there are still other ways to help out Donate or help us fundraise – it’s critical to allowing us to continue deploying and helping those affected by natural disasters We host various service projects or social events, check with your regional managers to get more info and come hang out!