Municipal Collaboration
From emergency preparedness to procurement of goods and services for municipalities, MAPC's Municipal Collaboration team works with Greater Boston leaders to provide support and training that helps keep their communities functioning and safe.
2024 Highlighted Projects
Local youth playing basketball at Shannon SummerFest 2024.
2024 Shannon SummerFest
In August 2024, Shannon SummerFest 2024 was hosted in Winthrop, and included youth from Braintree, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Quincy, Revere, Somerville, and Winthrop. Also participating were community based organization (CBO) workers, law enforcement officials, and State Representative Jeff Turco. Shannon SummerFest is an annual event to support the reduction of youth violence and gang involvement across Metro Mayors Coalition communities.
Table Top Exercise.
Cape Ann Table Top Exercise
In June 2024, MAPC's Emergency Preparedness team facilitated a regional tabletop exercise at the American Legion in Manchester-by-the-Sea, that brought together five communities – Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Gloucester, Rockport, and Ipswich – to work collaboratively to identify potential areas for regional shelter plan development and growth.
NERAC Topsfield Fair MCI Exercise
Also in June 2024, the Northeast Homeland Security Regional Advisory Council (NERAC) funded the Topsfield Fair Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Functional Exercise for first responders and hospital personnel (over 120 attended). This exercise brought together numerous local, regional, and state agencies to prepare for a resonse to a large incident occuring at the Fair. MAPC serves as the fiduciary and program manager for NERAC.
2024 Awards and Accomplishments
Multi-Hazard Mitigation Conference
MAPC, as the sponsoring organization of the Massachusetts Region 3 Health and Medical Coordinating Coalition (HMCC), hosted a successful Multi-Hazard Mitigation Conference at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill. The event, aimed at strengthening emergency preparedness and response efforts across the region, brought together key stakeholders from public health, emergency medical services, long-term care facilities, hospitals, and other healthcare providers in the region.
November 2024
The Multi-Hazard Mitigation Conference at Northern Essex Community College.