DHSEM Welcomes New Communications Specialist Sara Spualding

The Colorado Division of Homeland Security welcomes Sara Spaulding to the Startegic Communications team today.    She can be contacted by email at sara.spaulding@state.co.us, cell phone is 720-879-2462 and desk phone is 720-852-6625.

Sara Spaulding is the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) Communications Specialist and is based in the Centennial DHSEM Office. A member of the Board of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Colorado Chapter, Spaulding is an accredited public relations professional (APR) and a national PRSA Fellow.

Spaulding is a member of the Emergency Services Public Information Officers of Colorado (ESPIOC) and following the crash of an AirLife helicopter in 1997, founded the Friends of AirLife Committee, whose Board hosts the annual EMS Celebration and AirLife Memorial Run/Walk. She responded as the PIO/Spokesperson for Swedish Medical Center following the shootings at Columbine High School, for multiple incidents/exercises while working for Denver Health and Hospitals, for wildfires, blizzards and other disasters while serving with the Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross, and most recently during service outages experienced by CenturyLink. Spaulding also served for more than eight years as the Vice President of Communications for the Alzheimer's Association of Colorado receiving multi-year awards for media coverage.

Spaulding teaches part-time for the Metropolitan State University of Denver and, since 2006, has taught G290 and other PIO courses for DHSEM. She was recently deployed as the Lead PIO for the JIC during the Gold King Mine Release in Durango. Spaulding received her master's degree in communications from CSU.

Presentation: Social Media - Situational Awareness and Anonymous Apps

The presentation below was shared by DHSEM Strategic Communications Director Micki Trost on October 14, 2015 at the Colorado Safe School Summit. 

Social Media: Situational Awareness & Anonymous Apps from Trost, Micki

Presentation: Design and Manage an Integrated Public Information Campaign

This week the DHSEM Strategic Communications Team presented at the Fire & Life Safety Educators of Colorado 2015 Conference.  The presentation is available to view.

PIO Tools: Social Media Messaging Templates for January 2015

The DHSEM Strategic Communications team has updated and produced social media messaging templates for public information messaging throughout January 2015.

The templates are posted to the DHSEM website.  They include daily messaging for Twitter, Facebook and Google+. They also include weekly blogs on each of the topics below:

• Carbon Monoxide - How to Catch an Invisible Killer
• Avalanche Safety - Avalanches: Slippery Slope to Danger
• Cold Weather - Warming up to Cold Weather Safety
• Drug Safety - National Drug Facts Week

Thank you for your continued support and goal to make Colorado the most prepared state in the nation through this #COReady initiative.

Understanding Social Media and Using it to Your Advantage Presentation

The DHSEM Communications Specialist presented today at the Safe School Summit. View the Understanding Social Media and Using it to Your Advantage.