Conference Themes
- Building the Diversity Business Case
- Defining diversity
- The imperatives of diversity in an emergency management framework
- What are the benefits and successes?
- How does the business case address the What's In It For Me question?
- Practical Case Studies
- Building Capacity of the Emergency Service
- Skills development- training
- Competency Development
- Resource development
- Recruitment and Retention
- Strategies to over come barriers experienced by diverse groups
- Strategies to attract, retain and maintain
- Practical Case Examples
- Community Engagement/Partnership
- Why are community engagement and partnerships important for emergency services?
- What is the impact of community engagement internally and externally?
- Strategies for engaging with diverse communities
- Role of Emergency Services in assisting newly-arrived communities with their settlement process
- Benchmarking and Measuring Progress
- How do we evaluate our actions?
- What sort of measures are appropriate to use?