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* Paperback Version - 140 Pages - Full COLOR * NOTE: This is V3.0 - The Latest Release - Sept. 2021 Have You Prepared Your Community For The Coming Emergencies? "A shared planning community increases the likelihood of integration and synchronization, makes planning cycles more efficient and effective, and simplifies plan maintenance." Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 provides guidance from FEMA on the fundamentals of planning and developing emergency operations plans. The guide describes the steps to produce an emergency operation plan, possible plan structures and components of a base plan and its annexes. Other FEMA guides provide detailed information about planning considerations for specific functions, hazards and threats. 1 CPG 101 is a key resource in the emergency management community. The updated content in CPG 101 Version 3.0 is based on practitioner feedback, identified lessons learned and successful practices from real-world events and exercises that can inform the planning process. The guide provides methods for planners to: Conduct community-based planning to engage the whole community through a planning process that represents the actual population in the community and involves community leaders and the private sector; Develop plans by identifying and analyzing risk; Identify operational assumptions and resource demands; Prioritize plans and planning efforts to support the transition from development to execution for any threat or hazard; and Integrate and coordinate efforts across all levels of government, the private sector and nonprofit organizations. Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 provides guidelines on developing emergency operations plans (EOPs). It promotes a common understanding of the fundamentals of community-based, risk-informed planning and decision making to help planners examine a threat or hazard and produce integrated, coordinated and synchronized plans. The goal of CPG 101 is to simplify the