National Preparedness Month: Community Readiness

Sept. 15, 2010 - PRLog -- MICHIGAN – Personal Recovery Concepts announces a new partnership with Continuity Compliance, an online authority for standards, legislation and trends that impact continuity of operations in defense,  business compliance (www.continuitycompliance.org), critical infrastructure key resources and supplier networks, to offer its Complete Solution™ for personal resilience via its micro-site www.planright.continuitycompliance.org.

Ann Coss, CEO of Personal Recovery Concepts explained the broadened company focus. “Over the last several years, our company has helped businesses, agencies and first-response organizations to increase employee availability through systems that communicate and document workforce roles and responsibilities as well as family roles and responsibilities into a personalized emergency plan.  Through this new partnership, Personal Recovery Concepts emphasizes how our program can bolster citizen preparedness.”

Lisa DuBrock, Contributing Editor, of Continuity Compliance.org, framed the partnership. “Through our discussions all over the country, we know citizens who have first-hand experience with disasters, such as those in Louisiana, Florida, the Carolinas, California and Texas, clearly understand and appreciate the value this system has to their personal safety and recovery. Planright.continuitycompliance.org is a natural extension of our core mission to enable continuity planners to improve readiness, response and recovery with information and resources.  This partnership places the solution to a very big problem directly into the hands of citizens with a retail storefront.  As we improve citizen preparedness, we can reduce their reliance on first-responders, creating faster and better recovery outcomes for an impacted region.”

The Personal Preparedness in America: Findings from the 2009 Citizen Corps National Survey reported that:
•   30 percent of Americans have not prepared because they think that emergency responders will help them
•   Over 60 percent expect to rely on emergency responders in the first 72 hours following a disaster
–   Yet, a report commissioned after Hurricane Katrina noted that uniformed responders comprise only 1% of the U.S. population, requiring citizens to be better able to fend for themselves immediately after a disaster.
•   Of those who perceived themselves to be prepared, 36 percent did not have a household plan, 78 percent had not conducted a home evacuation drill, and 58 percent did not know their community’s evacuation routes

The Complete Solution™ includes the Personal Recovery Professional™ life-information management software and the Interactive Participation e-Workshop™ which guides individuals through the resources and information that comprise an emergency plan.  The e-Workshop points back to the Personal Recovery Professional™ software to document the plan, which can be printed and stored electronically.  This solution delivers a number of benefits to the resilience of a disaster-impacted area, where prepared citizens:

•   Understand their shelter-in-place and evacuation plans, routes and communication/execution of emergency procedures for immediate and extended family as well as pets;
•   Have developed survival kits that support self-sufficiency for three days to three weeks;
•   Can access vital family data including medications, dosages, frequencies, and identification numbers;
•   Have asset inventories of properties they own;
•   Can access critical recovery information such as financial account and insurance policy numbers, personal identification numbers and contacts for these as well as  lawyers, accountants and critical business/supplier associates;
•   The thumb-drive version of the system includes a vault where scanned images of birth records, passports, and other essential documents can be stored and accessed.

Individuals can purchase the Complete Solution™ at www.planright.continuitycompliance.org .

About Personal Recovery Concepts
Personal Recovery Concepts, LLC is a leader in the emerging sector of people-continuity services for government, business and consumers with offices in Huntington Beach, CA and Harrison Township, Michigan.  Its products focus on increasing employee availability by simplifying the information needed to recover from a wide array of loss or emergencies, organizing this information in simple, highly restorable formats, and preparing individuals through risk assessment, developing a family emergency plan and the prevention, preparation and recovery from commonly occurring emergencies and natural disasters.  Personal Recovery Concepts Complete Solution solves the gap in human resiliency for government first-responders, business critical response teams and for employees who face everyday loss with a realized cost impact to the businesses they work for.

More information can be found at www.personalrecoveryconcepts.com or by calling 866-528-9186 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              866-528-9186      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

About Continuity Compliance
Continuity Compliance is an authority site dedicated to the areas of Security, Regulatory Compliance, and Business Continuity. Various professionals periodically contribute new material not found elsewhere to the site. The ambition of the site is to be the first place to go when you have a question about a variety of security, compliance or business continuity topics.

www.continuitycompliance.org, e-mail: info@continuitycompliance.org.