Emergency Services
Verified identity mobilizes teams for disaster preparedness
Professional first responders and volunteers are critical to all phases of emergency management. But states can lose millions of dollars every year to disasters due to untracked response hours and underutilized personnel.
Merit in the field
Merit enables verified identity for workers and volunteers to support the mission areas and core capabilities of FEMA’s national disaster preparedness goals.
On-the-ground
Peer-to-peer verification of credentials remotely or onsite at any staging area, emergency operations center, camp, or command post.
Emergency operations center
Connects agencies and sets the foundation for interstate reciprocity. Verified credentials ensure deployment to highest and best purpose.
Aftermath
Statewide admin view for leadership, with time-tracking reports and optimization of reimbursements and human coordination.
Moments of transformation
All disaster response work must be performed by credentialed labor, but staffing shortages and credentialing mismatches during emergencies resulting from unreliable, incomplete staffing information.
States rack up millions of dollars in lost reimbursements for each disaster because manual tracking methods frequently undertrack response hours.
Climate change has resulted in increased frequency, severity, and unpredictability of extreme weather events.
First responders and other emergency workers are more likely to be exposed to COVID-19, putting their health and lives at risk.
How Merit helps
Prevention and planning
Build response teams and verify credentials immediately and contactlessly at scale.
Human Coordination
Enable agencies to work together more efficiently in crisis with a single method for verification. Connect thousands of emergency partners for mutual aid and merged capability views.
Privacy
A privacy-friendly, secure repository helps map and track all professional first responders and volunteers, and their skills, trainings, and availability.
Support
Merit’s deployment team is on 24/7 standby for notice of activation in a disaster to go on-scene and ensure all hours get tracked.
Reporting
Perform joint preliminary disaster assessments and identify mitigation opportunities. Categorize and identify COVID-19 disaster response activity for faster federal reimbursement via CARES Act funding.
Mitigation
Perform joint preliminary disaster assessments and identify mitigation opportunities. Categorize and identify COVID-19 disaster response activity for faster federal reimbursement via CARES Act funding.
Recovery
Manage spontaneous volunteers with full digital credentialing, with editing, updating, expiring, and revoking capabilities. Quantify recovery costs and unmet needs through tracking service hours.
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Verified credentials
How Merit works
Merit helps Emergency Services deliver for our communities, supporting Disaster Response, Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, Fire Response, Unmet Needs & Volunteer Services, and Coordination with National Security.
Issuers
How Merit works for Issuers
Digital credentials issued directly from the authorizing agency, pre-verified and ready to use. Issue timely policy updates, notifications of suspensions, and reminders for expiration dates and renewals.
Verifiers
How Merit works for Verifiers
Verify responder qualifications at a staging area, emergency operations center, command post, or camp. Replace paper sign-in sheets with Merit’s check-in suite on mobile, tablets, and desktop devices.
Recipients
How Merit works for Recipients
Emergency workers get 24/7 access to their credentials and can easily get verified at any staging area, emergency operations center, command post, camp, or even remotely.
Advantages
Supporting disaster response
Team building
Speed up disaster activation through better volunteer skill set and availability tracking.
Time tracking
Hours tracking to maximize and expedite FEMA reimbursement.
Portable
Recipients have access to secure, portable credentials from trusted organizations in the app or the web.
Prioritization
Starts with most pressing local needs and addresses gaps with the private sector and other institutions.
Deployment
Merit’s platform and deployment strategy can enable statewide adoption in months.
Integration
Works with any legacy system and existing technology, across different types of agencies within the state.
Interoperable
Work across state lines and collect certifications into a single repository, eliminating wait times.
Visibility
Dashboard shows current hours logged and trend lines by county.
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Rapid Deployment Package
In addition to vertical-specific solutions, Merit can be quickly implemented to solve a range of challenges. Every solution and rapid deployment package offering also connects to our ecosystem, expanding the network effects for merit recipients.
ReadyNow
Streamline emergency management with verified digital credentials for health care and emergency services, especially during COVID-19 and disaster response.
