Vision Risk Management

[Giordano Thibault]

Themission of University Risk Management is to safeguard both the human and physical assets of the University. To do this effectively, we provide guidance and assistance for our faculty, staff, and students to identify and manage risks associated with their activities, consistent with Cal Poly Pomona's mission, vision, and learning-centered philosophy.

The Vision of University Risk Management is to continually improve our service to the University community, to protect the University's human, intellectual, physical, and financial assets and resources, and to collaborate with faculty, staff, and students to help them meet their goals while still protecting the University.

With funding through a FY 2021 FEMA Fire Prevention & Safety Grant, Vision 20/20 created CRR Academy, a learning management system (LMS) that houses all Vision 20/20 training content. This new virtual format helps us reach larger and more diverse audiences.

The Vision 20/20 Advisory Council provides guidance to the operations of the project through a diversity of backgrounds, interests and views. The daily operations of Vision 20/20 are guided by members of the Executive Committee.

CRR Week will celebrate its fourth anniversary January 15-21, 2024. The Week starts on January 15, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday and national day of service, which encourages volunteerism to improve the community.

CRR Radio is your podcast source for information about Community Risk Reduction. Tune in for interviews with people who are using CRR in their communities and other experts in a variety of fields. Subscribe wherever you get your radio podcasts.

Chief Hoover is an accomplished executive with more than 20 years of management experience in both local and state government. She has successfully worked at high levels of government in developing and implementing fire protection, fire prevention, fire training, and community risk reduction programs.

From July 2009 to July 2016, Chief Hoover served as the California State Fire Marshal, where she was responsible for statewide fire prevention, fire service training, pipeline safety, code and regulations development, analysis and implementation. She was the California Assistant State Fire Marshal from September 2007 to June 2009. Previously, Chief Hoover served as the Fire Marshal/Battalion Chief for a local fire department and was a deputy campus fire marshal for the University of California at Berkeley. Chief Hoover served on the board of directors for the National Fire Protection Association and the International Fire Service Training Association and continues to engage with the International Code Council and Vision 20/20.

Chief Hoover received her MBA in Business and Human Resources from the University of Phoenix in 2006 and a Bachelor of Science in Technical Education, specializing in Fire Protection and Safety, from Oklahoma State University in 1985. She holds an associate degree in Fire Protection Engineering Technology (also from Oklahoma State University) and possesses a California lifetime teaching credential for fire science.

She teaches professionals how to work with children who start fires and how to present fire prevention education. She writes and peer reviews scholarly articles, is a contract instructor for the National Fire Academy and works with Vision 2020 on the YFIRES project.

She developed and maintained a statewide youth fire intervention team in Minnesota consisting of fire service, mental health, law enforcement, justice and social service professionals. She also developed a nationally recognized certification for youth fire intervention specialists and program managers in Minnesota.

Don Porth has been a member of the fire service since 1980. He began his career as a student and volunteer. In 1983, Don became a Firefighter/EMT with the Salem (Oregon) Fire Department. In 1984, Don was hired by Portland (Oregon) Fire & Rescue, serving his first 6 years as a firefighter/EMT and working as a hazardous materials specialist.

In 1988, Don began working with the youth firesetting intervention program, becoming the manager 1990 when promoted to Fire Inspector and assigned to the Public Education Office (PEO). In 1996, Don was promoted to supervise the PEO, overseeing all community outreach activities. In 2004, Don was reassigned to a specialist position in PEO to focus on the development of the Safety Learning Center & Fire Museum, a project he completed in 2008. Don was re-assigned to his supervisory position in 2010 where he remained until his retirement from Portland Fire & Rescue in July 2011.

Ann Adams has been a Social Worker since 1981. She is currently employed by the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) as the Program Director of the Office of Community Relations where she works closely with DCF involved families as an Ombudsman. She is also facilitator of the CT. Statewide Youth Firesetting Steering Committee and is a co-trainer of the Youth Firesetting course through the CT. Fire Academy. Ann is also a member of the Board of International Firesetting Intervention, Research and Education (IFIRE). Throughout her career within DCF, it was apparent that the State of CT. has not had a consistent statewide response to address the issue of youth involved with firesetting. Ann has worked closely with Fire Services, and other agencies to create and provide consultation to programs within the state of CT.

Will Mueller is an Assistant Fire Chief with the Colerain Township Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services located just northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a 28-year veteran of the fire service and holds certifications as a Firefighter/Paramedic, Fire Safety Inspector, Fire Instructor, and EMS Instructor.

Charles Jennings has a long involvement in community fire risk analysis and reduction strategies. He was fortunate to work in seminal work including early US Fire Administration national fire safety campaigns in the 1980s. He also coauthored the TriData report Proving Public Fire Education Works.

Jennings studied residential fire risk for his dissertation, and helped to define criteria for targeting social, economic, demographic, and building stock characteristics for reducing risk. He worked with the City of Surrey, BC to develop and evaluate their HomeSafe campaign, which is one of the longest-running well-documented CRR programs in the fire service.

Jennings has a PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers and a Chief Fire Officer designee. He has served in multiple fire service roles including as a firefighter, line officer, Acting Chief and First Deputy Commissioner for Public Safety for the City of White Plains, NY. He is an Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York where he also directs the Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies.

Dr. Nathan Estrada is the VP of Clinical for Nymbl Science and a subject matter expert on older adult balance training and fall prevention. He is a physical therapist by training, receiving his Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of Colorado Denver Health Science Center, where he also received the Hubert J. Levy Humanitarian Award in 2007.

Professionally, he has worked in outpatient orthopedics, sports medicine, and home health, where he discovered a passion for empowering older adults to participate more fully in life. He was the program manager for Senior Living at Bayada Home, where he focused on older adult population health.

Tom Jenkins serves as a Senior Advisor / Research Manager for UL Fire Safety Research Institute on the NERIS project. Prior to joining the NERIS team, he was the Fire Chief for the City of Rogers (AR). In that capacity he led over 160 career firefighters and successfully attained accreditation from the Center for Public Safety Excellence and Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services. Chief Jenkins was asked to serve by Governors Beebe and Hutchison to serve on several state commissions and groups, including the Trauma Advisory Council, Firefighter Cancer Benefit Review Panel and the Safe Schools Commission. He has served as a professor for Drury University, Northwest Arkansas Community College, Tulsa Community College, and Oklahoma State University. In 2015, Chief Jenkins was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Fire Chiefs as the Second Vice President. In 2017 and 2018, he served as President and Chairman of the Board for the IAFC.

Dr. Victoria Reinhartz is an industry leader within Emergency Medical Services and the Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Health Consultants, helping Mobile Integrated Health and Community Paramedicine teams establish frameworks, track outcomes, and prove their impact as they navigate the path to revenue. She is also the founder of MIH Academy, providing education and training to paramedicine teams. As a lead faculty within the MIH Academy, Dr. Reinhartz helps community paramedics take their real-world experience and establish themselves as board certified industry leaders.

Dr. Reinhartz is a national advocate for innovative models of care, serving on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Mobile Integrated Healthcare Providers and is an Advisor for Vision 20/20 Community Risk Reduction, a project of the Institution of Fire Engineers-USA Branch. Innovation is at the forefront of her work with Rainbow Health, bringing care coordination, behavioral health specialists, and medication management to teams across the U.S. Dr. Reinhartz is also the Mobile Integrated Health subject matter expert for the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, the first entity to establish accreditation standards for Mobile Integrated Health and Community Paramedicine within the United States.

Dr. Reinhartz has been named a 2021 Top 50 Most Influential Leader, and was also selected as the 2020 Next Generation Civic Leader, an honor awarded to one pharmacist nationwide whose vision for interprofessional care best spotlights the needs of underserved communities.

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