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JEM MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of JEM Teams is to promote awareness of local community resources, to train local agencies to work together and provide a structure for coordinated local emergency response.
JEM CONCEPT
- To work with local agencies and community residents
- Participate in emergency planning & response
- Coordinate neighbor/community emergency preparedness and awareness
- Participate in coordinated humanitarian efforts
- Support role to 1st Responders
- Bring local community resources to bear during emergency event
- Act as single voice from the community to establish priorities & resource allocations
- Maintain a local community resource list
- Train to assist the community through future unknown perils
Joint Emergency Management (JEM) is a concept developed by the Halifax Regional Municipality's Emergency Management Office (EMO), to allow community organizations to prepare for,and respond quickly to, a wide range of emergencies. In times of crises, EMO will activate JEM Support Centres (JSC) to coordinate humanitarian response to the JEM coverage area. These centres are a facility where trained individuals can meet to provide local input to the Emergency Operations Centre, located in Dartmouth. Currently there are five such JEMs in HRM:
Sheet Harbour
Eastern Shore
Middle Musquodoboit
Western Region
District 2
NEIGHBOUR HELPING NEIGHBOUR
This is based on the principle of "neighbour helping neighbour". In the critical hours following a crisis situation, while local and provincial response agencies are dealing with the immediate and urgent needs of the municipality, residents in affected communities need to be prepared to help themselves and to assist their neighbours, who may have been seriously impacted by the event. It is during this period that the JEM will be activated and will mobilize local resources.
JEM teams operate under the auspices of and takes direction from the Halifax Regional Municipality - Emergency Management Office.
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