Regional Exercise Support Program (RESP)
Regional Exercise Support Program (RESP) : "The National Exercise Division, in partnership with FEMA Regional Officers, announced in January [2008] the implementation of the Regional Exercise Support Program (RESP). This marked a shift in strategy from a State10/ focused approach to a regional (multi-state) approach to more effectively integrate national, regional, territorial, tribal, state, and local preparedness exercises. The primary goal of the RESP is to support and promote regionally coordinated exercise initiatives. As such, it will also serve as the mechanism through which several NEP exercises will be conducted. The RESP provides exercise support teams for all phases of design, development, conduct, and evaluation of preparedness exercises. While consideration may be given to requests for support to an individual State, territorial, tribal, and/or local exercise initiatives, priority will be given to those that support collaboration within a Region. Exercise support requests must be associated with the appropriate State/territory multi-year training and exercise plans and, as they are developed, the regional multi-year training and exercise plan. These plans should incorporate broader preparedness planning such as operational plans, State Preparedness Reports and applicable outputs from various other emergency management and homeland security program planning". (FEMA, National Exercise Division, Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program, Quarterly Newsletter. Washington, DC: FEMA, Spring 2008, pp. 7-8)
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