How does my program benefit by participating in the EMAP process?
• For an emergency management program, EMAP: • Provides benchmarks for program management and operations; • Focuses on comprehensive emergency management; • Encourages collaboration of state- and community-wide programs rather than individual agencies; • Validates professional capabilities; • Recognizes program quality and individual effort; • Demonstrates effective use of public resources and provides justification for resources; • Encourages intra- and interagency communication and team-building through the assessment and accreditation process. • For individual emergency managers, EMAP: • Broadens perspective on the profession of emergency management and emergency preparedness activities; • Deepens understanding of one’s own program organization and operations; • Expands experience and knowledge through networking and sharing of best practices; and • Contributes individual skills to improving the nation’s public safety and security by increasing emergency management program effective
