Office of the Director
Under the leadership of the Director, OHSEPR’s Office of the Director is responsible for the administrative oversight and strategic direction of all OHSEPR programs, projects, and activities. The Office serves as advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families and ACF’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the areas of emergency management and disaster human services. The Office of the Director leads preparedness efforts to ensure that OHSEPR is positioned to lead disaster human services operations on behalf of ACF and the Department; coordinates with lead federal and non-federal emergency management, public health, and human service partners; and oversees OHSEPR's disaster response and recovery operations.
The Deputy Director oversees OHSEPR’s Division of Operations, Division of Intelligence, and Division of Planning, Training, and Exercises.
Operations
The Division of Operations is responsible for leading ACF's disaster human services operations in response to emergencies, major disasters, public health emergencies, and the repatriation of U.S. citizens and their dependents. Deployable missions may include the Disaster Human Services Case Management Program, the U.S. Repatriation Program missions, and providing ACF human services subject matter experts and staffing assets for incident planning, response, and recovery. This Division works closely with emergency management, public health, and human service federal and non-federal partners.
Intelligence
The Division of Intelligence is responsible for maintaining situational awareness of developing and no-notice incidents, monitoring conditions that may prompt the repatriation of U.S. citizens back to the United States, coordinating information management needs of disaster human services response and recovery operations, and conducting threat assessments in response to emergencies, major disasters, public health emergencies in order to identify impacts to ACF grantees, human services providers, and vulnerable communities.
Planning, Training, and Exercises
The Division of Planning, Training, and Exercises (PTE) is responsible for administering OHSEPR's planning activities to support readiness of operations. PTE conducts “steady state” activities to ensure readiness of deployable and non-deployable assets and programs, including the development of plans, guides, procedures, training, exercises, and staffing assets. This Division ensures human service impacts from disasters affecting ACF programs and human services providers are addressed in HHS-wide and government-wide emergency planning and policymaking. PTE is responsible for coordinating the development and currency of ACF Continuity of Operations Plans (COOP) as required by the Presidential Policy Directive 40 (PPD-40), National Continuity Policy. PTE works closely with ACF programs, grantees and stakeholders, HHS operating divisions, federal human service programs, and state and local human service programs.