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My name is Vicky Travis. I am the deputy director for Tangipo Parish Emergency Operations Center in Southeast Louisiana. We’re currently using Juvare WebEOC, and, we have executed on a jurisdiction level to where we have two nineteen users. We have trained all fire, police, municipal mayors and other organizations, including private sector, to use our software.

So therefore, daily activities can be logged in as well as resource request. If it’s not being able to be fulfilled on a local level, we can send it over to the governor’s office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Software. I am the type person, if I believe in a software, I can execute it to the capacity that it needs to. And so I believe everybody learns in a different level.

The diversity that there is using the software is so important. Some people, you know, I call walk, run, and then we can sprint. Juvare software is always evolving into something new, and I think everybody can utilize it from a private sector, oil and gas, our government entities, our our schools, our education. It’s just a software that I’ve learned myself after doing the training one on one and even up to, like I said, the amount of users that we have in WebEOC that after hurricane Francine that came right through to Antelope Parish that I saw the data entry that was put into WebEOC and how it was such a success.

So I was very proud of the training that we had done and executed it. My parish president, Robbie Miller, was phenomenally, and my OEP director, Dawson Promise, was just ecstatic with it. Jeff basically asked me what I plan to get out of it. My, my goal was to get out of the conference was to meet as many Juvare reps that I have been able to go through the breakout sessions, and, I was able to see that we have now the opportunity.

We just moved to Nexus.

We have the opportunity to where we can email, text, phone, and send out a message through using the WebEOC. And so we have not executed that on a parish level. I’m excited about it because currently right now, we have an emergency notification system. And when we can merge to one and maybe use Jabari as that, our top priority, and execute it through one software rather than multiple.

That’s my ultimate goal. And so, yes, I have been through several breakout sessions and they have been very, very beneficial. I was able to learn about the text message, the email. That was that’s new to me because we have not ever done that.

We like I said, we use an emergency notification system. I would definitely recommend because I don’t think that this software is being utilized nationwide the way it should and has potential to. I think that this should be executed to the capacity, and I think we need to network with our elected officials, our state partners, our federal partners, telling them that we need more grant funding because when you can talk and communicate through a software to make sure that no ball is dropped and that every resource request is executed and fulfilled to the potential in a timely manner, I think that showing our elected officials and showing parish and county executives that it’s the best software out there.

I believe in it. And if I believe in it, I think I can train others. And after I got through speaking a while ago, several people want me to help them. And I’m willing to.

That’s my ultimate goal is to tell others other. My goal is to go back and speak at the Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Conference, where I was president for two years, hopefully to get those grant funds rolling in there to where it gets it in the hands of our parishes and they execute it from a local standpoint on a daily uses on a jurisdiction level, not from just a jurisdiction to a state level.