Our group, South King County Organizations Active in Disasters (SKCOAD), itself is not a Community Organization Active in Disaster (COAD)! Instead SKCOAD is a coalition of COADs focused on the southern King County region, between Seattle and Tacoma, in northwestern Washington state.

We serve the approximately 20 communities in King County Regional Emergency Coordination Zone 3. We are not active at the community level ourserves - that is our members' role.

We do not have a formal organization, staff, a budget, or responsibility during a disaster. Instead we simply strive to foster better communications and coordinate some common tasks faced by our participating organizations. Organized informally, we have no dues or fees.

Organizations and agencies may form a COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disasters) to serve their own community in a disaster. It is not SKCOAD's intention to duplicate what COADs do.  Instead, SKCOAD serves across jurisdictions and cities with organizations that serve all of South King County, an area far larger than one community.  For that reason, SKCOAD does not include neighborhood groups that would typically belong to COADs.  A key purpose for SKCOAD is to develop a database of the organizations and agencies willing to serve the whole South King County area, to include in the database the services each organization or agency plans to provide in a disaster, and to share the database with all South King County emergency managers and organizations involved with SKCOAD.

SKCOAD is Not a COAD!

Organizations and agencies may form a COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disasters) to serve their own community in a disaster.  It is not SKCOAD's intention to duplicate what COADs do.  Instead, SKCOAD serves across jurisdictions and cities with organizations that serve all of South King County, an area far larger than one community.  For that reason, SKCOAD does not include neighborhood groups that would typically belong to COADs.  SKCOAD's primary purpose is to develop a database of the organizations and agencies willing to serve the whole South King County area, to include in the database the services each organization or agency plans to provide in a disaster, and to share the database with all South King County emergency managers and organizations involved with SKCOAD.  

The mission of SKCOAD is to identify cross-jurisdictional agencies willing and able to support timely and effective disaster readiness, response and recovery efforts.  

Purpose

1. Primary role - identify, recruit and log SKCOAD Partner Agency resources and services that could be made available to support:

• SKCOAD partner agencies
• Local and regional South King County emergency management jurisdictions

2. Secondary role - relationship building and iinformation sharing

Area Served

The geographic area of our primary interest is South King County, and includes incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county.  South King County is defined by the region south of I-90, excluding Newcastle and Seattle, and corresponds to "Zone3" as used by emergency management personnel.

Pre-Disaster Scope of Work

1. Partner Agencies to approve the SKCOAD Mission, Purpose and Scope of Work.
2. Recruit partner agencies willing and able to provide resources during a disaster and strive to include organizations that serve the most vulnerable populations.
3. Create a SKCOAD Partner Agency contact database, including capabilities and resources and make available to King County Office of Emergency Management
4. Inform Zone 3 emergency managers of SKCOAD partner Agencies and resources
5. Assist SKCOAD Partner Agencies in emergency preparedness by sharing knowledge and plans.
6. Apprise and brief SKCOAD partner Agencies and appointed representatives of other area organizations of impending disasters in Zone 3.

Disaster Operations Plan

1. SKCOAD Partner Agencies respond to direct requests from Zone 3 emergency managers and other SKCOAD Partner Agencies.  When scope is large, KCEEOC may make requests.
2. In a disaster where Zone 3 is not activated, but a COAD or local jurisdiction is overwhelmed by needs resulting from a large scale emergency or localized disaster, a COAD and/or jurisdiction can make requests directly to SKCOAD partner agencies.
3. Zone 3 Liaison will serve at the Zone 3 EOC as available
4. SKCOAD Liaison will serve in regional EOC Coordination Center as available.
5. SKCOAD will maintain and share information on incident awareness.

Long Term Recovery

1. SKCOAD responds to long-term recovery groups' needs. 

SKCOAD Membership

SKCOAD partner Agencies are organizations and agencies that serve regionally (across jurisdictions) in South King County (Zone 3) that are willing and able to provide resources for, or assist in, disaster readiness, response, relief and/or recovery efforts.  Partner agencies include government, faith-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, service clubs and private sector companies.

SKCOAD Meetings

The following are invited to attend and/or encouraged to send appointed reporsentatives:

1. SKCOAD Partner Agencies
2. Organizations or Agencies being recruited by SKCOAD
3. COADs in South King County
4. Government (city, county, state) emergency management personnel
5. WAVOAD

Individual volunteers not affiliated with a group will be referred to a volunteer resource bank.  Organizations that do not serve more than one jurisdiction will be referred to their jurisdiction's COAD or emergency manager.

Leadership

Meeting Coordinator

Coordinates and leads regular meetings, agendas and announcements with the purpose of:

1. Networking, relationship-building
2. Familiarity with resources, understanding needs
3. Training, preparations
4. Focused planning

Resource Coordinator

1. Identifies the needs of South King County prior to a disaster through coordination with Zone 3 emergency managers, SKCOAD Partner Agencies and appointed reporsentatives from other agencies or organizations
2. Recruits organizations that are willing to share their resources in a disaster, from pre-disaster through recovery
3. Ensures SKCOAD Partner Agencies complete the resource page for the SKCOAD Partner Agency contact database
4. Ensures resource information is entered into the SKCOAD partner Agency database

Zone 3 Liaison

1. Serves as the SKCOAD Liaison is a regional coordination center
2. Communicates resources with Zone 3 emergency managers and SKCOAD Partner Agencies.  Preferred access is via Zone 3 emergency managers and SKCOAD Partner Agencies
3. Coordinates post event evaluation, debrief, lessons learned.   

 Our geographic scope coincides with King County Emergency Coordination Zone 3. We report to King County Office of Emergecny Management, but as we are a coalition, our purpose is more of coordination and resource location and focusing on the long term recovery aspects of any incident.

Clothing & Food-

Donated Goods-

Emergent Volunteers-

Emotional Support-

Information and Referral-211 Info- Human Services Council

Mass Care and Shelter-

Spiritual Support-