Summative Assessment: Interagency Communication Case Study

Write an 875- to 1,050-word paper in which you analyze the various government agency components involved in resolving a disaster event in your area. Address the following in your paper: 

  • Provide an overview of the natural or human-made disaster that occurred in your geographic region.
  • Describe the emergency management steps that were taken.
  • Discuss the interagency collaboration theories that can be applied to this scenario, and how they apply.
  • Explain the effectiveness of the relationships between the government agencies involved in the event.
  • Describe how the effected agencies communicated.
  • Explain how interagency collaboration was achieved. Provide examples.
  • Provide recommendations for how to improve communication and collaboration between agencies in the future.