(7 pages  needed.)

You are a recent college graduate with a degree in emergency management and homeland security. You move to another state for your first professional position in this field, which is with a county emergency management office, serving a population of 50,000 citizens. When you arrive your first day, you ask to see the existing emergency operations plan (EOP). Other personnel tell you that your county employs a County Emergency Management Plan or CEMP, the design of which is determined by the state legislature. This is unexpected because you studied the National Response Framework (NRF) and National Incident Management System (NIMS) and other DHS-provided guidance and you assumed that these would be the basis for plans and strategies wherever you went.

You also discover that although the county’s CEMP is dated within the last year, it probably has not been truly revised in many years. There is little indication that any national-level guidance or resources were considered in its development, and it does not appear to have much, if any, stakeholder buy-in. Additionally, there are no county-level strategies to draw upon, though you know from your educational program that this is not uncommon. Lastly, while your colleagues are clearly bright and motivated folks with diverse professional and educational backgrounds, none of them has a degree in EM or HS.

You decide that it is essential to inform your managers and peers of the role of national strategies for local communities and their planning. In a 5–7 page “white paper,” you will do the following:

• Provide a brief review of the National Response Framework (NRF), National Incident Management System (NIMS), and at least one other national-level strategy (of which there are dozens to choose).
  • In your review, do not spend too much time summarizing the strategy. Rather, focus on what elements are most useful for the county as applications.
  • An example might be highlighting Emergency Support Function (ESF) #4 on Firefighting from the NRF, because your county has recurring wildland fires each year. (This example is notional, and you may use hypothetical examples as well.)
  • In the wildland fires scenario, explain how the ESF #4 might provide useful information or guidance for this county.
• Provide at least three main proposals for exactly how the county might incorporate strategic principles or tenets when revising its plans.
  • These principles or tenets can be specific, such as providing ESF #4 points-of-contact and informing the reader where in the county plans these should go; or broader, such as engaging partners during planning, exercises, and operations, and how this inclusion will benefit the county.
  • Whether specific or broad, be persuasive in arguing how these elements will aid the county in providing the best possible emergency management capability.
• Do not exceed seven pages for the body of your paper. You want the leadership and personnel to actually read it, so your work must be concise yet comprehensive.
  • If you are challenged to stay concise, provide references to the readers embedded within your narrative and direct them to strategy elements that are specifically applicable. Do not just provide the general source reference at the end of the document if you are referencing specific portions of it in your paper.
  • Ensure that your paper is well-organized and mechanically sound. Again, you are hoping to impress your colleagues with your insights and ability to express these.
• Do not make your product an opinion piece. While it is based on your perspectives, write affirmatively, using a professional and official tone and language. The words I, our, we, you, (and the like) should not appear anywhere. You may give the county a name if you like.

 Write a two-page paper on the key aspects of any theoretical approach covered in the course. This is any theory covered (Realism, Liberalism or Marxism.): simply cover what you think are the key tenets, or core ideas, and present them to me in this document. This will be a two-page document, single spaced, with a works cited not counted in the two pages.

 What is your experience in Program Evaluation? List and describe 3 qualities of an effective Early Education Program. Lastly, in providing program administration with feedback, what is an effective way to ensure that the foundation for collaboration is in tack before sitting down to have that conversation with staff?  

Throughout the next four weeks, you will complete a Weekly Learning Activity Assignment, using the worksheets provided. These assignments will build upon each other, and create the foundation of your Week 5 Final Paper.  The topic content of each of the Weekly Learning Activities are listed below. These are also the four main parts required for your Final Paper. This assignment is the first step toward completing your Final Paper in Week 5. It is recommended that you review the Learning Activity assignments and review the Final Paper prompt before beginning this assignment.

• Week 1 – Learning about Death
• Week 2 – Facing Death
• Week 3 – Hospice
• Week 4 – A Death of One’s Own

The weekly worksheets will help you build all of the necessary parts for your Final Paper. It is recommended that you review the Learning Activity assignments and review the Final Paper prompt before beginning this assignment. This week, you will examine and evaluate Americans perception of death. In the worksheet, you will describe the development of these perceptions. This effort begins the process of critically analyzing key components of death and dying in the U.S.

To complete the assignment, save the Week 1 Learning Activity Worksheet to your computer, fill it out, and submit it via WayPoint.

Scholarly Support 

• Must include in-text citations in APA format, as outlined here (Links to an external site.) and here (Links to an external site.).
• Must integrate information from your sources (Links to an external site.) rather than simply inserting it.
• Must use at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library. While your textbook can be utilized as a source, it does not count towards your two sources for this assignment. Two new sources should be utilized each week to meet the minimum of eight required sources for the final. By finding and supporting your material with these sources each week, you will have the research necessary to construct a strong Final Paper.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must include a references list (Links to an external site.) in APA format.