About Us

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Mission

The mission of Wise Oak Consulting is to use the National Preparedness System to assist organizations and individuals nationwide to become more resilient to both natural and human-caused disasters.  

Purpose

Wise Oak Consulting provides organizations and individuals with the tools and resources to improve their disaster resilience so that they may properly prepare for, respond to, and recover from both natural and human-caused disasters.

Method

Wise Oak Consulting uses a wholistic approach based on FEMA’s National Preparedness System to assist organizations and individuals in starting or continuously improving their preparedness / emergency management programs. By using FEMA’s National Preparedness System, Wise Oak Consulting ensures its clients are aligned with FEMA requirements for risk assessments, grant applications, exercise standards, and general best practices. Wise Oak Consulting assists its clients through workshops, presentations, and direct development of preparedness products. 

National Preparedness System Alignment

• Identifying and Assessing Risk  
  • Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA)
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Emergency Preparedness Rule
  • Custom risk assessments
• Estimating Capability Requirements:
  • Stakeholder Preparedness Review
  • FEMA’s Core Capabilities 
  • Gap analysis
• Building and Sustaining Capabilities 
  • National Incident Management System (NIMS)
    • Training & exercise design
    • Organization design support
  • Homeland Security Grant Program support
  • Strategic partnership with security experts
    • Horizon Global Partners
• Planning to Deliver Capabilities
  • Emergency operations Plan (EOP)
    • National Planning System 
    • CPG 101, Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans, Version 2
  • Incident Response Plan
  • Continuity of Operations Plan
• Validating Capabilities
  • Tabletop Exercise design & facilitation
  • Functional/full-scale exercise support
    • Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) 
• Reviewing and Updating
• Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) support