The International Association of Emergency Management-USA (IAEM-USA) awarded Bainbridge Prepares winner of the IAEM-USA 2022 Emergency Management Voluntary Organization of the Year Award. This award is presented to one U.S. voluntary organization that made extraordinary emergency management contributions. The City will receive receipt of this award during the Dec. 13 City Council Meeting beginning at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
During COVID, Bainbridge Prepares, in partnership with the City of Bainbridge Island, the Bainbridge Island Fire Department and the Bainbridge Island Community Pharmacy, helped mobilize over 500 volunteers to facilitate and operate over 90 vaccination clinics administering more than 45,000 vaccine doses since December 2020. People came from all over the county and beyond to get vaccinated at the Bainbridge Island High throughput clinics because they were well organized and more easily accessible than others. Booster clinics continued through 2022.
The IAEM-USA award was first presented at the 70th IAEM Annual Conference’s awards ceremony on Nov. 14 in Savannah, Georgia.
“The COVID response was an all-hands approach with our amazing partners and volunteers. We would not have been able to vaccinate as many members of the community without these strong partnerships and dedicated volunteers,” said Anne LeSage, Emergency Management Coordinator for the City of Bainbridge Island.
“Bainbridge Island is a special community with residents that care for their neighbor. This award is evidence of that care and commitment to each other, and the City Council’s commitment to the community. I am grateful for all the efforts of Bainbridge Prepares and our successful partnerships across agencies,” said Blair King, City Manager.
Bainbridge Prepares recently received the 2021 Bainbridge Community Foundation Humanitarian Award for their work during COVID. More than 500 of Bainbridge Prepares’ 650 volunteers participated in 2021, helping with vaccine clinics and operating a community-based test site. Vaccine clinics were held almost weekly from January to June in 2021.
The City of Bainbridge Island, as the local emergency management organization, is responsible for registering, credentialing and deploying volunteers and works in partnership with Bainbridge Island Fire Department and Bainbridge Prepares.
For more information about Bainbridge Prepares and the City of Bainbridge Island Emergency Management, please contact Emergency Management Coordinator, Anne LeSage at alesage@bainbridgewa.gov.
For more information about the International Association of Emergency Management, please contact IAEP Communications & Marketing Director, Dawn M. Shiley at shiley@iaem.com.
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