National Incident Management System or Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation

National Incident Management System: Principles and Practice

Author: Donald W Walsh

National Incident Management System: Principles and Practice translates the goals of the original NIMS document from concepts into capabilities, and provides responders with a step-by-step process to understanding and implementing NIMS. Through the use of case studies, readers will gain valuable insight on how to effectively incorporate NIMS into their departments or jurisdictions. As responders are faced with the tasks of reforming training curricula and incorporating NIMS into Standard Operating Procedures, it is essential that they have a practical resource to guide them through the nation's homeland security strategies, as well as to assist them with NIMS implementation in their own locality.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction to the national incident management system	3
2	Integration of the incident command system	13
3	Command	23
4	Operations	33
5	Planning	47
6	Logistics	55
7	Finance/administration	67
8	Information and intelligence function	75
9	Multiagency coordination systems	81
10	Public information	93
11	Preparedness	101
12	Resource management	113
13	Communications and information management	123
14	Supporting technologies	131
15	The national response plan	141
16	Putting the NIMS all together	153
17	Implementation of the NIMS	157
App. A	Homeland Security presidential directives	167
App. B	Letter from the Department of Homeland Security	183
App. C	Homeland Security terror alert chart	189
App. D	Incident command system (ICS) forms	190
App. E	Participating in the national incident management system : a checklist for NIMS implementation	217
App. F	Planning responsibilities checklist	222
App. G	Answers to wrap-up case studies	226
App. H	Acronym glossary	228
App. I	U.S. Department of Homeland Security NIMS information, training, courses and NIMS certification	230

Interesting book: Desperation Entertaining or Pig Perfect

Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation

Author: Harry P Hatry

The second edition of Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation offers managers, analysts, consultants, and educators in government, nonprofit, and private institutions a valuable resource that outlines efficient and economical methods for assessing program results and identifying ways to improve program performance. The Handbook has been thoroughly revised.  Many new chapters have been prepared for this edition, including chapters on logic modeling and on evaluation applications for small nonprofit organizations. The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation is a comprehensive resource on evaluation, covering both in-depth program evaluations and performance monitoring.  It presents evaluation methods that will be useful at all levels of government and in nonprofit organizations.

Booknews

A comprehensive handbook for managers, administrators, and educators in government, nonprofit, and private institutions. Experts in the field of program evaluation outline methods of assessing program results and identifying ways to improve program performance. The authors explain how to create an evaluation design and how to collect and analyze data in a way that will result in low-cost and successful evaluations. Among the approaches to program evaluation explored are process evaluations, continuous monitoring of program performance, and ad hoc studies of past and present programs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)