Fort Bend County PIO Network

The October Fort Bend County PIO Network meeting originally scheduled for October 4, 2019 has been cancelled. Please reach out to Fort Bend County HS&EM if you have any PIO-related training opportunities or requests for PIO support for upcoming events or exercises so we can share with the group. Thank you!

Dear Fort Bend PIOs;

Our next meeting will be this Friday, August 2, 2019.   Remember, last year we moved the start time to 9am, but we still meet every even-numbered month on the first Friday!

Date:  Friday, August 2, 2019
Time:  9:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.
Location:  Travis Building, 301 Jackson, Richmond, TX – First Floor Meeting Room

We will have a networking period and hold a workshop on Critical Incident Stress Management, learning from:

• Lisa LaDue, Americares – expert on post-disaster PTSD with the public
• Scott Soland – Experienced Crisis Intervention Team and Critical Incident Stress Management professional
• TBD – Animal therapy expert on the calming effect of comfort animals on responders

Come and bring your thinking caps and business cards!

Fort Bend County PIO Network flyer – Aug 2, 2019

If you know a PIO from another organization, please invite them to join us so we can grow our network! We meet the first Friday of every even month in the same location in beautiful, downtown, Richmond, Texas.

If you have any questions, contact:

Lach Mullen
Planner – Regional Emergency Public Info. Sys. Admin.
Fort Bend County Homeland Security & Emergency Management
Lach.Mullen@FortBendCountyTX.gov
O: 283-238-3405, M:832-361-9978

Dear Fort Bend PIOs;

Our next meeting will be this Friday, June 7, 2019.   Remember, last year we moved the start time to 9am!

Date:  Friday, June 7, 2019

Time:  9:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.

Location:  Travis Building, 301 Jackson, Richmond, TX – First Floor Meeting Room

We will have a networking period, and hold a workshop to come up with effective means for communicating road closures during a disaster (how timely, right?). TxDOT will have a PIO at our meeting tomorrow so we can ask any questions we need to right there. Come and bring your thinking caps and business cards!

If you know a PIO from another organization, please invite them to join us so we can grow our network! We meet the first Friday of every even month in the same location in beautiful, downtown, Richmond, Texas.

If you have any questions, contact:

Lach Mullen
Planner – Regional Emergency Public Info. Sys. Admin.
Fort Bend County Homeland Security & Emergency Management
Lach.Mullen@FortBendCountyTX.gov
O: 283-238-3405, M:832-361-9978

Greetings, Fort Bend County PIO Network!

The Fort Bend County office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management is facilitating a Levee Improvement District (LID) exercise this Friday in the morning from 0830-1200.

We will be standing up the Joint Information Center for the exercise with the goal of producing an update and conducting some strategic communication planning to feed back into the command structure.

If you didn’t have a chance to join us this month for our PIO Network meeting to see the strategic communication planning process or haven’t worked with our new PIO, Mary Staff, before you may want to stop in for all or part of the morning.

The exercise will be conducted at the Fort Bend County Emergency Operations Center:

307 Fort Street
Richmond, Texas 77469

We’ve also migrated the old outlook distribution list to our Jetty platform, so if you don’t need to be on this list or would like someone else in your organization to receive these notices, please reach out to Lach Mullen so we can update our list: lach.mullen@FortBendCountyTX.gov

Dear Fort Bend PIOs;

Our next meeting will be this Friday, April 5, 2019.   Remember, we have moved the start time to 9am!

Date:  Friday, April 5, 2019

Time:  9:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.

Location:  Travis Building, 301 Jackson, Richmond, TX – First Floor Meeting Room

Come join us for the first meeting of 2019! We will have a networking period, review some of the changes to how we run the Fort Bend County Joint Information Center, and walk through a Strategic Communications planning process Lach Mullen brought back from the E-388 class. We’re also proud to introduce Mary Staff, the first official PIO for the office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management, Mary Staff!

We hope to see you there, and bring your business cards!  If you know a PIO from another organization, please invite them to join you!  Let’s grow our network! We meet the first Friday of every even month in the same location in beautiful, downtown, Richmond, TX.

If you have any questions, contact:

Lach Mullen
Planner – Regional Emergency Public Info. Sys. Admin.
Fort Bend County Homeland Security & Emergency Management
Lach.Mullen@FortBendCountyTX.gov
O: 283-238-3405, M:832-361-9978

The February Fort Bend County PIO Network is cancelled. Please join us on April 5 and stay tuned for the formal invite once the program has been finalized!