Cascadia Coastal Coalition
Mission
The mission of the organization is to promote disaster readiness, response, recovery and resilience in support of Pacific Northwest coastal communities.
Overview
Cascadia Coastal Coalition is registered as a 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation. We are organized and shall be operated exclusively for purposes that are beneficial to the public interest. Donations may be tax-deductible.
Our Areas of Interest are the coastal communities in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington.
Our initial projects center around Medical Care (see below) and Emergency Communications during the inital phase of disasters.
Activities
Cascadia Coastal Colalition (CCC) is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes that are beneficial to the public interest.
- CCC provides consultation and liaison to build coastal public agency and private entity cooperation
- CCC promotes awareness, training and exercise development and coordination
- CCC is a catalyst for statewide and regional coalition development
- CCC pursues diverse sources of funding to support our mission, events and services
Cascadia Coastal Coalition's
Beat the WAVE 2024
Cascadia Coastal Coalition participated in the City of Florence's 'Beat the Wave' Disaster Preparedness Expo.
Supporting ODART's Whale Run 2024
Cascadia Coastal Coalition supported the Oregon Disaster Airlift Response Team's Whale Run 2024. We worked to coordinate whole community partners at five of the coastal airfields/landing areas in this year's field exercise. We also led efforts with State partner, Oregon Office of Resilience and Emergency Management, and with neighborhood groups, MRC and CERT ground crews to develop a process to transport ambulatory people who are relatively healthy but receive regular treatments (e.g., dialysis) that may not be available in a disaster area. These Evacuees would be transported in GA aircraft that would otherwise return empty after delivering much needed food and medical supplies.
Cascadia Coastal Coalition is working together with the whole community on the rural Pacific NW coast.
Thank you to Florence Rotary and Western Lane Community Foundation for this recognition and for your ongoing support of our emergency communications project and disaster readiness regional speaker series.
2023 Projects
Whale Run 2023 Oregon Disaster Airlift Response Team Exercise
Cascadia Coastal Coalition Provided Evaluators For National Disaster Medical System Patient Movement Field Exercise
Cascadia Coastal Coalition Brought an O-RAP to Southern Oregon Coastal Communities
Rural Coastal Oregon Hospital Tabletop
Cascadia Coastal Coalition is working closely with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to engage several rural coastal Oregon hospitals in a facilitated tabletop exercise to be held this winter.
Special thanks to the Oregon CISA Director, South Coos Hospital, Curry General Hospital,Lower Umpqua Hospital and Columbia Memorial Hospital! The risk of cybercrime and its impacts are very real. U.S. Healthcare facilities have had an 86% increase in cyberattacks just in the past year. Rural areas are not immune and in fact are increasingly targeted. Steps in prevention, mitigation, planning, incident notification, response and operational continuity for safe and effective patient care are all critical to learn and share.
Special thanks to the Oregon CISA Director, South Coos Hospital, Curry General Hospital,Lower Umpqua Hospital and Columbia Memorial Hospital! The risk of cybercrime and its impacts are very real. U.S. Healthcare facilities have had an 86% increase in cyberattacks just in the past year. Rural areas are not immune and in fact are increasingly targeted. Steps in prevention, mitigation, planning, incident notification, response and operational continuity for safe and effective patient care are all critical to learn and share.
2023 Invited Speaker Series
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Our Speaker Series is made possible, in part, through the generous support of the West Lane Community Foundation and from the Three Rivers Conference Center
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