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Barbara Childs-Pair Acting Director District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency Barbara Childs-Pair serves as the Acting Director of the District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency (DCEMA). She began her career in 1973 with the Office of Civil Defense, now the D.C. Emergency Management Agency, as a Clerk Typist. During the past 30 years she has held several positions within DCEMA, including Administrative Aide, Chief of Plans and Training, Chief of Operations, and Deputy Director of Emergency Operations. She served as Deputy Director of the agency from 1995 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2003. During Ms. Childs-Pair's tenure at DCEMA, she has participated in seven presidential inaugurations, the 1982 Air Florida response and recovery in conjunction with the metrorail crash and major snow storm, the 1977 hostage incident at the Wilson Building, the Million Man March, obtained 7 Presidential Emergency Disaster declarations, and provided coordination of other major events in the District of Columbia, such as the International Monetary Fund/World Bank demonstrations. She also served as the lead planner for the District of Columbia Government in its mitigation and preparedness efforts for the Year 2000 (Y2K) potential technology interruptions to ensure continuity of government operations. Following the incidents of September 11th , Ms. Childs-Pair assisted with the development of the District Response Plan, which reflects the functional aspects of the Federal Response Plan and ensures coordination and communications within the District Government, as well as with numerous Federal agencies, schools and universities, business and industry, and the community. As Program Manager for the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP), Ms. Childs-Pair coordinated all District agencies' documentation for compliance with the 54 standards under EMAP. The District, one of only two awardees, received full EMAP accreditation on September 4, 2003. Ms. Childs-Pair has participated on the regional and local Health and Medical Bioterrorism Task Force and the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile Task Force, and she is a member of the National Emergency Management Association and Black Public Administrators. She received the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Award for Distinguished DC Government Employees in the year 2000. Ms. Childs-Pair attended Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, majoring in biology. |
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