AFSS Consulting Services

• Grants Management
  • AFSS and our partner company, MCM Consulting Group, Inc. have successfully completed Congressional Earmark Requests, Public Safety Interoperable Communications Grants (PSIC)

     Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG), Emergency Operations Center Grant Programs, Hazardous Materials Response Fund (HRMF), Hazardous Material Emergency Planning (HMEP), Interoperability Emergency Communications Grant Program (IECGP), State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSGP)

  • AFSS manages both the acquisition and expending of federal grant programs.  AFSS has assisted the NWCPAERG in obtaining and expending over $2,000,000.00 since 2007.  AFSS prepares all required reporting documentation, including Categorical Progress Reports, Equipment Inventories, Project Revisions, Reimbursement Requests, Quarterly Financial Reports.
  • AFSS effectively writes federal grant application materials, including Investment Justifications, Projects, Project Milestones, Budgets, and Equipment Requests.

   

• Program Management
  • AFSS and our partner Company, MCM Consulting Group, has a team of skilled managers who effectively and efficiently manage individual projects and large scale programs.  We work with committees, sub-committees, government liaisons, public safety agencies, and vendors to ensure total project understanding.  AFSS develops attainable milestones for projects and reports out on every stage of the project.  We are capable of guiding projects to completion with little involvement from the contracting agency.
  • AFss and MCM provide to Municipal and County Emergency Management Agencies and Regional Task Forces consulting and equipment management services including, Communications Equipment Purchase, Specifications, Development of Specialized Equipment Operations Guides, Equipment Management Services, RFIs, RFPs & RFQs, Contract Negotiations, Project Management and Specialized Equipment Workshops.

   

• Planning
  • AFSS, along with our partner company, MCM Consulting Group, offer a diverse range of services provided by experts who have years of experience working in EMA and Emergency Services.  We offer Commodity Flow Studies, Communications Plans (RICP), Continuity of Operations or Continuity of Government Planning, County and Local Emergency Operations Planning, Day Care Planning, EOC Disaster Relocation & Recovery Plans, EOC Design, Equipment Procurement & Implementation, EOC Operations, SOP Design and Planning, HazMat SOPs & SOGs Preparation, Hazard Mitigation Planning, Hazard Vulnerability Assessments, Mass Casualty Planning, Nursing Home Planning, NIMS Implementation and Maintenance Planning, MDMC/POD Planning, SARA Site Planning, Special Event Planning, Special Event Management, School District Emergency Planning and Interoperability Emergency Communications Planning (IECGP).

   

• Healthcare

  • AFSS provides ICS, Triage, and Decontamination training  to healthcare facilities with programs designed with the specific goals and issues of healthcare in mind.

  • We coordinate, conduct, evaluate, and report out HSEEP exercises with elements including, Incident Command, Decontamination, Triage, Medical Surge, Communications, Evacuation, and IED

  • AFSS has conducted emergency plan review and revisions for healthcare facilities throughout Northwestern and North Central Pennsylvania, ensuring that plans are up-to-date, effective, and comprehensive.  We are also able to revise current plans or create new ones based on site specific issues, including mobile versus static command centers, command center location, decontamination location based on accessibility, security, and runoff.

   

• MDMS (SNS) & POD Sites

  • AFSS works with regional taskforces and county government in the development of effective MDMC (formerly SNS) and Point of Distribution (POD) site plans. AFSS also develops and conducts POD activation exercises and is currently working on the development of an outreach program to assist counties in securing volunteers to staff POD sites.  AFSS can also provide POD operations guidance and coordinate for training for POD volunteers.