About Us
Our Mission
Minimize the effects of major emergencies and disasters on the community through:
- Targeted vulnerability and risk reduction strategies and actions;
- Comprehensive and effective agency preparations;
- Engagement with the full spectrum of emergency management stakeholders;
- Effective coordination and appropriate integration of program plans and activities with those of local, regional, state, and federal agencies and those of the private sector and non-governmental organizations, and;
- Sustained efforts to ensure the community is aware of the risks it faces, knowledgeable of the actions it can take to mitigate those risks, and empowered to take those actions.
Our Vision
A disaster resilient Washington County community…one that has mitigated its vulnerability to major emergencies and disasters, one that is prepared to respond to major emergencies and disasters when they occur, and one that is organized and prepared to restore community services and guide and facilitate community recovery following major emergencies and disasters.
Our Staff
County Emergency Management has seven full-time and one part-time staff members and a full-time EMC-funded employee.
Our County Partners
In addition to Emergency Management staff, our work is supported by several internal groups. These groups provide leadership, goal setting and evaluation as well as support in the County's Emergency Operations Center and Department Operations Centers. Some examples include:
- Emergency Management Cabinet
- Emergency Operations Center (EOC) staff
- Department Operations Center (DOC) staff
- County Continuity of Operations (COOP) Coordinators
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness staff
Our External Partners
Our program works closely with a number of local, regional, state, and non-governmental organizational partners. Together we seek to develop integrated, coordinated, and standardized plans, procedures, and policies. Among others, these partners include:
Local
- City of Beaverton
- City of Cornelius
- City of Forest Grove
- City of Hillsboro
- City of North Plains
- City of Sherwood
- City of Tigard
- City of Tualatin
- City of Wilsonville
- Clean Water Services
- Joint Water Commission
- Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue
- Tualatin Valley Water District
- Washington County Consolidated Communications Agency
- West Slope Water District
Regional
- Northwest Health Preparedness Organization
- Regional Disaster Preparedness Organization (RDPO)
- Regional Water Providers Consortium
State
- Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
- Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM)
- Oregon Health Authority (OHA)
- Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT)
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)
