CJA 376 Wk 5 – Summative Assessment: Interagency Communication Case Study

Emergency management is successful when multiple agencies can collaborate and communicate effectively and efficiently. In this assignment, you connect interagency collaboration theories to practice in a case study based around a natural or human-made disaster that occurred in your area. Use the instructor-approved event decided on in the Wk 4 – Interagency Communication Case Study Topic Choice assignment as the basis for your paper.

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.

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Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

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