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Our team is committed to delivering solutions tailored to the challenges our clients face on a daily basis. Explore our customized services below.

Disaster Recovery Services

Our expertise includes FEMA Public Assistance, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), commercial insurance, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR), and the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). We provide advisory services, technical support, management oversight, and staff augmentation that supports grant applications, management and use. We help our clients obtain the maximum funding they are entitled to, allowing them to maintain day-to-day operations while navigating the complexity of recovering from a catastrophic incident. Specific areas of support include:
  • Providing executive advisory and subject matter expert services
  • Assistance in creating and managing internal administrative processes
  • Preparing Damage Estimates
  • Developing/performing Damage Assessments
  • Reviewing Invoices
  • Assisting with procurement compliance
  • Serving as a liaison between FEMA and state emergency management departments
  • Reviewing force account labor, material, and equipment claims
  • Advising on cost-share and finance related issues
  • Preparing and managing insurance claims
  • Preparing grant funding appeals
  • Conducting project close-outs

Active Shooter Preparedness

Active shooter incidents have become an alarmingly common threat to schools and universities nationwide. While regulations mandate that educational institutions provide active shooter response training, the specific content and response plans are often left vague, leaving institutions to develop their own approaches. High Street is at the forefront of active shooter preparedness, offering the following:
  • Active Shooter Training and Exercises: HSC’s active shooter training is specifically designed for educational institutions. Our comprehensive approach facilitates collaborative discussions among key stakeholders – including educators, first responders, counselors, nurses, and leadership – to address all aspects of the active shooter threat: prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery. Training events feature facilitated classroom discussions, followed by practical table-top exercises. This approach builds relationships, identifies planning strengths and gaps, and fosters a shared understanding of the actions needed to strengthen emergency plans and prepare for a response.
  • Family Reunification Training and Exercises: Accountable student reunification with parents is a critical, yet often overlooked, aspect of crisis response. School systems and first responders are highly interdependent during these situations. A well-coordinated and rehearsed plan to reunite students with their parents can significantly reduce the stress and potential trauma experienced during a crisis. HSC has developed specialized training and exercise programs that address every stage of the family reunification process, including school evacuation, staging, transportation, communications, student/parent processing, etc. Our approach provides a well-rehearsed reunification plan to help prevent a stressful situation from descending into chaos.
  • Active Shooter AARs: After an active shooter incident, AARs are essential for evaluating the performance of first responders, educational institutions, emergency management, communications, and other key stakeholders. HSC experts conduct a thorough analysis, examining client data, open-source information, emergency protocols, interviews, communications, and records to identify strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations for handling future crises. Our detailed reports and improvement plans provide actionable steps to enhance emergency response capabilities and preparedness.

Public Assistance Training

Our comprehensive Public Assistance Financial Administration training prepares your community to plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters with the support of federal grant funding and other resources.

Disasters and emergencies impact communities each year, causing millions of dollars of damage. Federal disaster recovery funding provides important resources and is a critical part of recovery efforts, but the complex financial reporting and compliance requirements are often difficult to navigate, especially for local governments who are working in constrained post-disaster operating environments.

Our custom Disaster Recovery Public Assistance Training is a comprehensive program designed to address all aspects of financial administration when preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters to leverage the benefits of FEMA’s Public Assistance (PA) program, the agency’s largest grant program for local communities.

This training is tailored for those with little to no prior disaster experience. Our comprehensive curriculum equips participants to fully leverage FEMA’s Public Assistance program. We offer practical, actionable steps your community can take immediately before a disaster hits, so you are prepared to receive and manage disaster grant funding and other important resources.

AI Exercise
Generator Tool

At HSC, we leverage our proprietary AI-powered tool, Beehive, to assist in the design and delivery of high-quality, HSEEP-compliant tabletop exercises while ensuring that client data remains secure and confidential. Our unique approach combines AI-powered efficiency with human expertise, allowing the exercise process to be completed significantly faster and more cost-effectively than traditional methods.

We regularly achieve 60-70% time and cost savings with Beehive.

Beehive works by automating key HSEEP processes allowing for exercise experts to focus on customization and quality. The AI tool supports each stage of the planning lifecycle by continuously incorporating feedback from key meetings – the Concept and Objectives, Initial Planning Meeting, Midterm Planning Meeting, and Final Planning Meeting. This ensures documents are updated consistently through every HSEEP stage to reflect new inputs and evolving priorities.

How does it work?

When an exercise concludes, Beehive processes observation data and participant feedback to produce comprehensive After-Action Report drafts within minutes. These are reviewed and finalized by our evaluators. Beehive’s automation of the documentation process accelerates development and delivery, ensuring a custom exercise that is supported by the quality, depth, and precision of an AI tool.

Beehive encrypts and uses client data in real time, but never retains it or uses it to train other models. You can be confident that your data remains secure and under your control.