Equal Opportunities and Quality of Life Promoted by FEMA

Equal Opportunities and Quality of Life Promoted by FEMA

The Strategic Plan of FEMA for 2022 to 2026 established its primary mandate to ensure the quality of life. The main strategy to achieve this is by reducing the rate of mortalities and loss of life due to several reasons, for example, natural hazards, terrorist activities, and anthropogenic activities. It will also address the different social concerns of local inhabitants that function as a barrier to the ideal community’s social fabric. FEMA promotes a non-discriminative and just society when it comes to working for the rights and entitlements of the people who are included in the community. FEMA has also established a department named the Equal Rights Office. T

he main responsibilities of this office would be to ensure the liberties of civil equality and non-discrimination regarding the execution of different projects it is working on. Equal Rights Office by FEMA maintains the main values of justice, sympathy, honesty, and esteem to encourage incorporation and impartiality in the multiple community landscape (UNC, 2022).

Awareness-based initiatives

According to the rules of the Office of Equal Rights, the federal civil rights laws, and equal employment opportunities (EEO), reasonable accommodation of inhabitants are ensured. FEMA also devised many different programs and awareness-based initiatives to aware the public about social concerns that include social justice, health, and safety of life (FEMA, 2021). A framework for Natural Disasters Recovery is observed by FEMA that aims to reduce the damages caused to the environment and also promotes a community resilience program. 

The advantage of these programs is improving the quality of life. The quality of life is improved by providing social and economic opportunities providing them with basic necessities such as food and water supply, different ecosystem services, agricultural support, and recreation. (FEMA, 2021). For improving the individual’s employment opportunities and affordability, these policies are devised for the betterment of them and are a better way to ensure their wellness. 

Funding Sources and Policy Compliance of FEMA

FEMA gives the assurance of its legal identity and compliance according to authoritative policies so that it may add value to its mission and goals for the community. The policy compliance of FEMA is that it adheres to the Stafford Act 1988 (Perls, 2020). This act is based on providing relief services and emergency assistance in case of a disaster.  Stafford Act’s main objective is to assist in critical hazardous conditions; FEMA also collaborates with other legislative frameworks, such as the Code of Federal Regulations and the 1803 Congressional Act (Core, 2023).

The Stafford Act has been amended by the Act of Disaster Mitigation 2000. Specific laws are observed by FEMA following the amendments. The National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Act of Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) are the updated reforms FEMA is working on (Crepelle, 2019).

FEMA has established a funding department named Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) which deals with all funding resources.  All funding-related responsibilities i.e., management, allocation, assessment, and monitoring are capabilities of this department in FEMA. DRF manages all the finances of the programs (FEMA, 2023b).

NURS FPX 4060 Assessment 2: Impact of Funding

The monetary assistance provided by DRF for the restoration and renovation of the public property after any disaster has a paramount impact on FEMA. Furthermore, DRF works collaboratively with the federal government departments, state, local, territorial, and tribal administrative bodies which assist FEMA in getting better support. The collaboration also enables FEMA to efficiently utilize emergency-management resources. DRF also works for securing patients’ health, financial assistance to hazard survivors, and fire restoration, and asset renovation after any bad event (Garrett, 2019).

Impact on Health and Safety Needs of Community  

The framework and operation of FEMA have been beneficial for catering social, individual, professional, and cultural needs of community members. Whereas it is not necessary that FEMA interventions have positive impacts on endeavors for natural disasters and catastrophes. The programs and initiatives by FEMA for community strengthening and resilience are designed for better threat prevention and mitigation for the community. It has different implications for different citizens (Smith, 2019).

FEMA has importantly functioned on a number of measures and strategies implemented for reducing the threat risk and equipping the community members to better manage the threat situation. The programs which deal with