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Ramsey County │ Glossary
<br />Community Based Organization (CBO): Public or private not-for-profit organizations that provide
<br />specific services to the community or targeted populations within the community. CBOs include, but are
<br />not limited to, aging and disability networks, community health centers, childcare providers, home
<br />visiting programs, state domestic violence coalitions and local domestic violence shelters and programs,
<br />adult protective services programs, homeless services providers, and food banks that work to address
<br />the health and social needs of populations. CBOs are trusted entities that know their clients and their
<br />communities, want to be engaged, and may have the infrastructure/systems in place to help coordinate
<br />activities or serve as a trusted source to distribute timely and accurate information.
<br />Concept of operations: Presents a clear picture of the sequence and scope of a planned emergency
<br />response including what should happen, when, and at whose direction.
<br />Continuity of government: A coordinated effort within the executive, legislative, or judicial branches to
<br />ensure that essential functions continue to be performed before, during, and after an emergency or
<br />threat. Continuity of government is intended to preserve the statutory and constitutional authority of
<br />elected officials at all levels of government.
<br />Continuity of operations: An effort within individual organizations to ensure that essential functions
<br />continue to be performed during the disruption of typical operations.
<br />Critical infrastructure: Assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the
<br />community that the incapacitation or destruction of such assets, systems, or networks would have a
<br />debilitating impact on security, economic security, public health or safety, or any combination of those
<br />matters.
<br />Damage assessment: The process used to appraise or determine the number of injuries and deaths,
<br />damage to public and private property, and the status of key critical infrastructure and services such as
<br />hospitals and other health care facilities, fire and police stations, communications networks, water and
<br />sanitation systems, utilities, and transportation networks resulting from a man-made or natural disaster.
<br />Department Operations Center (DOC): An operations or coordination center dedicated to a single,
<br />specific department or agency. The focus of a DOC is on internal agency incident management and
<br />response. DOCs are often linked to and/or physically represented in a combined agency EOC by an
<br />authorized agent(s) for the department or agency.
<br />Disability and access and functional needs: Persons who may have additional needs before, during, and
<br />after an incident in functional areas, including but not limited to maintaining independence,
<br />communication, transportation, supervision, and medical care. Individuals in need of additional
<br />response assistance may include those who have disabilities, live in institutionalized settings, are
<br />seniors, are children, are from diverse cultures, have limited English proficiency or are non-English
<br />speaking, or are transportation disadvantaged.
<br />Disaster: An incident that overwhelms a jurisdiction’s governance model to the degree that the
<br />continuity of public safety and/or civic services is threatened or disrupted. The jurisdiction requires
<br />external assistance to support response and recovery actions to protect life safety.
<br />Disaster declaration: A formal statement by the jurisdiction's chief public official that a disaster or
<br />emergency situation exceeds their response capabilities. It allows public officials to exercise emergency
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