Everything's Fine: The Disaster Deck is designed around the FEMA Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) doctrine. This page documents how the platform aligns with HSEEP guidance for exercise design, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning — and how your session documentation supports HSEEP compliance.
Per HSEEP doctrine, a Tabletop Exercise (TTX) is a discussion-based exercise where elected officials, senior officials, and staff examine and discuss simulated situations in an informal, stress-free environment. TTXs are designed to generate discussion of various issues regarding a hypothetical, simulated emergency. The Everything's Fine platform delivers all structural elements of a HSEEP-defined TTX, including a scenario-based situation, facilitated discussion, multi-functional participation, and a formal AAR.
All exercises in this platform operate within the Response mission area of the FEMA National Preparedness Goal. Each scenario is tagged to the specific Response Core Capabilities it primarily exercises — this tagging appears in the HSEEP Training Report for documentation purposes.
Operational Coordination
Establish and maintain a unified and coordinated operational structure and process that appropriately integrates all critical stakeholders and supports the execution of core capabilities.
Situational Assessment
Provide all decision makers with decision-relevant information regarding the nature and extent of the hazard, any cascading effects, and the status of the response.
Operational Communications
Ensure the capacity for timely communications in support of security, situational awareness, and operations by any and all means available, among and between affected communities in the impact area and all response forces.
Public Information and Warning
Deliver coordinated, prompt, reliable, and actionable information to the whole community through the use of clear, consistent, accessible, and culturally and linguistically appropriate methods.
Critical Transportation
Provide transportation (including infrastructure access and accessible transportation services) for response priority objectives, including the evacuation of people and animals, and the delivery of vital response personnel, equipment, and services into the affected areas.
Environmental Response / Health & Safety
Conduct appropriate measures to ensure the protection of the health and safety of the public and workers, as well as the environment, from all hazards in support of responder operations and the affected communities.
Fatality Management Services
Provide fatality management services, including decedent remains recovery and victim identification, working with local, state, tribal, territorial, insular area, and federal authorities to provide mortuary processes, temporary storage, and final disposition of human remains.
Fire Management and Suppression
Provide structural, wildland, and specialized firefighting capabilities to manage and suppress fires of all types, kinds, and complexities while protecting the lives, property, and the environment in the affected area.
Infrastructure Systems
Stabilize critical infrastructure functions, minimize health and safety threats, and efficiently restore and revitalize systems and services to support a viable, resilient community.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Deliver essential commodities, equipment, and services in support of impacted communities and survivors, to include emergency power and fuel support, as well as the coordination of access to community staples.
Mass Care Services
Provide life-sustaining and human services to the affected population, to include hydration, feeding, sheltering, temporary housing, reunification, and distribution of emergency supplies.
Mass Search and Rescue Operations
Deliver traditional and atypical search and rescue capabilities, including personnel, services, animals, and assets to survivors in need, with the goal of saving the greatest number of endangered lives in the shortest time possible.
On-scene Security, Protection, and Law Enforcement
Ensure a safe and secure environment through law enforcement and related security and protection operations for people and communities located within affected areas and for response personnel engaged in lifesaving and life-sustaining operations.
Public Health, Healthcare, and EMS
Provide lifesaving medical treatment via emergency medical services and related operations and avoid additional disease and injury by providing targeted public health, medical, and behavioral health support.
Exercise type, HSEEP classification, participants, training objectives with Met/Partial/Not Met assessment, core capabilities exercised, key findings (Strengths / Areas for Improvement / Recommendations), Improvement Plan table with corrective actions, NIMS alignment statement, certifying official signature block.
Board visualization, all cards placed by response arm, inject log, individual player self-assessments with ratings across 4 dimensions, AI-generated debrief summary, NIMS/ICS alignment assessment.
Core capability-based evaluation framework with observable task checklists, performance ratings (Performed Well / Some Challenges / Unable to Assess), evaluator observations, overall assessment, strengths and areas for improvement.
Visual record of all response actions taken during the exercise, organized by functional area. Inject timeline showing when and what complications were introduced.
The HSEEP Training Report and AAR documents produced by this platform are designed to meet the documentation requirements for a discussion-based TTX exercise as defined in HSEEP doctrine. Organizations can use these documents to demonstrate exercise participation for NIMS compliance and federal grant reporting purposes.
State-specific requirements: Documentation requirements for grant compliance, NIMS training credits, and exercise program validation vary by state and funding source. Organizations should verify specific requirements with their State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) and relevant grant program officers before submitting platform-generated documentation for compliance purposes.
HSEEP Program Reference: FEMA Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) — April 2013 revision and subsequent updates. Available at fema.gov/hseep.
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