EMAC Tools, Guidance & Training
EMAC Resources Hub
Find the tools, templates, guidance, and training resources that support EMAC readiness, mission coordination, reimbursement, and continuous improvement.
Find Your Starting Point
Find the resource you need.
Browse by topic to quickly find the EMAC tools, guidance, templates, and practical resources that fit your role or task.
GENERAL EMAC RESOURCES
Start with the tools that support your EMAC role.
Manage your account, access available systems, understand the EMAC process, and find essential program, membership, and mutual-aid resources.
Your EMAC Account
Update your name, address, username, and password.
Your EMAC Springboard
Access EMAC's Systems and Tools (availability based upon your permissions).
Learn How EMAC Works
Explore the 5 phases of the EMAC process.
What is MASS?
Free online database for you to store your Mission Ready Packages.
Reimbursement & Finance
Find the reimbursement path that matches your role.
EMAC reimbursement is a shared process. Choose the guidance that fits your role—whether you are documenting costs as a Resource Provider or managing review, payment, and reimbursement coordination for a state.
For Resource Providers & Deployed Personnel
Build Your R-2 Reimbursement Package
Track mission costs, organize supporting documentation, and build a complete R-2 reimbursement package for submission to the Assisting State.
For Assisting & Requesting States
Manage State Reimbursement Operations
Review R-2 packages, prepare R-1 claims, communicate payment status, and support consistent finance, audit, and reimbursement operations.
Need a form, financial reference, or reimbursement best practice? Use the supporting tools below for eligible expenses, finance and audit FAQs, and advance reimbursement guidance.
EMAC Reimbursement
Learn about EMAC reimbursement and access job aids and other guidance.
EMAC Eligible Expenses Guide
Learn which expenses are eligible, ineligible, or negotiable and how they must be documented.
EMAC FAQs for Auditors
Answers to some frequently asked questions for finance personnel.
Advance of EMAC Reimbursement
Based on the 2021 NEMA survey, this document reviews some best practices for advancing payments to Resource Providers.
Resource Readiness
Build a Mission Ready Package before you need it.
A Mission Ready Package documents a resource’s people, equipment, capabilities, logistics, operational requirements, and estimated costs—so your organization can respond with confidence when assistance is needed.
Start Here
Build Your Mission Ready Package
Prepare, build, validate, maintain, and offer a defined deployable capability through EMAC. Learn what information to gather and how MASS or the MRP workbook can help organize your package.
Guided Learning
Mission Ready Package Development Workshop
Access workshop resources that help participants develop clear, complete, and operationally useful Mission Ready Packages with the right readiness, logistics, and estimated-cost information.
Use MASS to manage your MRP
MASS is EMAC’s online database for organizing and maintaining Mission Ready Packages. A prepared MRP helps teams focus on availability and mission-specific details when time matters most.
Learn about MASSField-Ready Tools
Use practical guidance before, during, and after an EMAC mission.
Download templates, standard operating guidance, communication tools, and policy resources that help teams prepare, deploy, coordinate, and document their work.
Several resources below open as downloadable documents or editable templates. Select a resource to access the file or supporting page.
EMAC SOG: Deploying Personnel & Resource Providers
Standard Operating Guidelines for Resource Providers & Deployed Personnel
EMAC Code of Conduct Template
Many states utilize a code of conduct, requiring all personnel deploying on the mission to sign it prior to deployment. Download the template code of conduct you can customize and use.
Personnel Accountability Reporting (PAR) Template
Many states require Deployed Personnel to check in daily with their home state emergency management agency through Personnel Accountability Reporting (PAR). Some states use Survey123 to gather feedback and address potential issues. Download the PAR template.
EMAC Reception Centers
A template for efficiently processing and tracking the arrivals and departures of personnel and resources.
EMAC Tips for Public Information Officers
A quick primer on EMAC for PIOs with tips for press releases, and more.
Model Intrastate Legislation
Model intrastate mutual aid language.
Prepare, Test & Improve
Strengthen EMAC readiness before a real-world mission.
Use exercises, after-action resources, and mutual-aid guidance to test plans, validate capabilities, build confidence, and improve how your organization supports EMAC.
Readiness is built before the mission.
Bring EMAC into your team’s planning and exercise program now, then use lessons learned after missions and exercises to strengthen future response and mutual-aid coordination.
EMAC Exercise Tools
Tools and injects for you to integrate EMAC into exercises.
After Action Reports
EMAC After Action Reports, hotwashes, and more.
FEMA Mutual Aid Resources
Links to FEMA resources such as NIMS, the RTLT, training, and more.
Explore EMAC Applications
Maximizing EMAC’s flexibility.
EMAC supports more than traditional deployments. Explore how mutual aid can support private-sector resources, telehealth capabilities, Tribal Nation partnerships, and other evolving operational needs.
Deploy Private-Sector Resources Through EMAC
Explore state experiences, case studies, and practical approaches for requesting and deploying private-sector and volunteer resources through EMAC.
Using EMAC for Telehealth
Learn how EMAC can support virtual missions, including telehealth, license reciprocity, EOC support, 911 call transfer, GIS mapping, and other remote capabilities.
Tribal Nation–EMAC Integration
Explore mutual-aid practices, surveys, and partnership models that support Tribal Nations, local jurisdictions, and states in coordinated emergency management.
Keep Learning. Keep Preparing.
Keep building EMAC readiness.
Explore self-paced training, strengthen your team’s preparation, and use the resources that support effective mutual aid before, during, and after a mission.
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