Specific Areas in the Guidance (PART 1 of 5)

Specific Areas in the Guidance documents that can be satisfied and addressed by SES Exercise and Assessment Services

Overarching Requirements and ASPR Expectations

•  Education and Preparedness Training - Page 5

"Describe how the knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired as a result of education and training activities proposed in your work plan will be incorporated into exercises/drills"- SES can assist your state in developing and conducting exercises to validate your education and training activities.

•  Exercises, Evaluations and Corrective Actions - Page 6

"All applications must address the evaluation of State and local preparedness and response capabilities through drills and exercises"- SES can work with your state to address ALL of these requirements in a coordinated systematic way through SES exercise service sets.

•  At Risk Populations and/or those who represent them must be engaged in preparedness planning and exercise activities - Page 6, 8

SES can provide specifically targeted and designed exercises addressing at risk populations such as nursing home patients, pediatric populations, and disabled populations.

•  Cities Readiness Initiative(CRI) - Page 6

"Awardees must ensure at least one exercise is conducted in each CRI city and ensure that healthcare organizations in those areas participate in these exercises with a tabletop component to test the MOU's that are in place"- SES can assist your state in satisfying this requirement though SES Desktop "Exercises which involves multiple community agencies and facilities and testing of response agreements.

•  Exercise Plan - Page 7

"Awardees must develop an exercise plan, ensure that lessons learned from after action plans are shared, integrate training plans with exercises, and track training, drills, and exercises"-

SES provides an independent and objective assessment of participant performance during each exercise through a process designed to establish meaningful evaluation criteria relative to the objectives of the exercise.   SES then audits and scores participant performance during the event against those criteria.   SES prepares a formal after action assessment which describes the event's planning, objectives, and execution, a presentation of the results from the evaluation session and written survey responses, including identified areas of opportunity for improvement.   Results of the after action assessment,   which include recommendations of potential best practices, training, etc., can be benchmarked over time and compared with the results of   other participating organizations establishing baseline data.

•  Track All Funded Training, Drills, and Exercises - Page 7

"The system shall detail the subject matter of training and the number trained by healthcare specialty. Awardees are required to track the level of exercise, the sub-capabilities being targeted, and the participating organizations" -SES tracks all exercises, participants and participant organizations as well as providing all necessary documentation for performance measures tracking which can be submitted with the end-of-year progress reports.

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