IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aza/jbcep0/y2023v16i3p198-209.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The King County Regional Trusted Partner Network: A case study of programme development, implementation and lessons learned from the first two years

Author

Listed:
  • Badger, Sheri

    (King County Office of Emergency Management, USA)

  • Trimarco, Susanna

    (Public Outreach Specialist, King County Office of Emergency Management, USA)

Abstract

In 2017, Washington State passed a law requiring life-safety alerts and warnings to be delivered to its residents in languages they understand. In response, King County Emergency Management and its partners developed an inclusive emergency communications plan to address this challenge. A key goal of this plan was the development of a trusted partner network (TPN), run by volunteers from the county’s various language and ethnic groups, to relay timely life-safety alerts to their communities, in order to save additional lives and property. This paper outlines the development of the TPN from concept to activation, and shares the lessons learned along the way. It also describes the limitations of the programme and the various factors that jurisdictions should consider before replicating such a programme.

Suggested Citation

  • Badger, Sheri & Trimarco, Susanna, 2023. "The King County Regional Trusted Partner Network: A case study of programme development, implementation and lessons learned from the first two years," Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 16(3), pages 198-209, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jbcep0:y:2023:v:16:i:3:p:198-209
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hstalks.com/article/7510/download/
    Download Restriction: Requires a paid subscription for full access.
    File URL: https://hstalks.com/article/7510/
    Download Restriction: Requires a paid subscription for full access.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    LEP; alerts; emergency; language access; messaging; communications; ethnic;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aza:jbcep0:y:2023:v:16:i:3:p:198-209. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Henry Stewart Talks (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.