The role for national organizations and federal

The role for national organizations and federal agencies in recovery
is to support the state leadership, empower communities, and provide
them every resource and tool that will help them achieve recovery. The
community needs ownership of the process, White concluded.

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BOX 10-1
Examples of Individuals and Organizations That Participate
as Task Force Members
• State agencies with children’s services equities
• Affected parents and youth
• Child care providers
• Child care resource and referral agencies
• Child welfare agencies
• Behavioral health agencies
• Individual pediatricians, pediatric nurses, social workers, child
psychologists, child life specialists
• After school care providers
• Recreational services programs
• Runaway and homeless youth providers
• Family violence prevention and services agencies
• Agencies serving children with disabilities
• Public health and environmental health authorities
• Schools (principals, teachers, counselors, social workers)
• Local religious leaders
• Community action agencies
• Head Start providers
• National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD) focused
on children (e.g., Save the Children, Southern Baptists, Church of the
Brethren Children’s Disaster Services)
• Child advocate organizations
• Federal partners including ACF, ASPR, FEMA, others as needed
(e.g., Small Business Association, HUD, EPA)
SOURCE: White presentation, June 11, 2013.
Note: ACF = Administration for Children and Families, ASPR = Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, EPA = Env-
ironmental Protection Agency, FEMA = Federal Emergency Management
Agency, HUD = Department of Housing and Urban Development.
STATE PERSPECTIVE:
NEW JERSEY CHILD TASK FORCE
Allison Blake, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of
Children and Families (DCF), discussed preparedness and response
before, during, and after Hurricane Sandy. In the state of New Jersey,
DCF is responsible for Child Protective Services, all of children’s
behavioral health care, and services for children with intellectual and
developmental disabilities. DCF operates a network of special education
schools for pregnant and parenting teens and children with profound

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physical impairments, and a very large network of community-based
family-strengthening child abuse prevention programs. Blake noted that
DCF has no responsibility or authority for sheltering or decision making
around mass care. Each of the 21 counties in New Jersey has a county
department of human services that is responsible for emergency