CMIST framework highlighted as organizing lens for DHS planning challenge
DHS emphasized the CMIST framework—communication, medical, independence, safety/support and transportation—as the organizing approach for mapping needs and estimating resources across the islands.
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Leah Tom Denick stressed that emergency managers commonly use the CMIST framework to categorize access and functional needs and told entrants to aim for need estimates across those five areas. "Emergency managers use a framework called CMIST to describe people with access and functional needs," she said, and then spelled out each category: communication, medical, independence, safety/support and transportation.
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