Press Release

Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)

DHSEM is pleased to announce the awards for the State of Colorado's Legislature allocated $923,006 for the 2024 Preventing Identity-Based Violence (PIBV) Grant Program.  Twelve recipients were selected to receive funding as directed by HB22-1234.
Thank you to all of those who applied for the 2024 PIBV Grant Program.
Everyone is eligible to apply again next year. The funding announcement for the 2025 PIBV Grant Program will be in the first calendar quarter of 2025.

Message from OEM Director Mike Willis

I am pleased to present the updated Office of Emergency Management Strategic Plan for years 2023-2026. I am grateful for the time and effort you have put into implementing this plan over the past year and appreciate your efforts to refine it. This plan is divided into two key parts. 

Last week, Colorado marked four years since the state’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, the Colorado Department of Public Safety and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment are releasing the Colorado Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) After-Action Report (AAR), an analysis of the state’s response to an emergency of unprecedented duration and scale.

Between February 22 and 29, 2024, DHSEM’s Mitigation Sect

WebEOC Upgrade on February 15, 2024 from 1-2 a.m. will interrupt the WebEOC systems.

Do not contact your WebEOC Systems Administrator, local or regional administrator during this time. Save any work prior to this time and log-off from WebEOC.

Colorado Nonprofits,

The Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management announces a public hearing to adopt emergency rules 8 CCR 1507-47 Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) as amended permanent rules. The hearing will be held virtually on March 22, 2024 at 10 a.m. MST using the Google Meet platform. Attendees may join the virtual meeting at meet.google.com/eso-yqfv-vza or by phone (US) 720-316-4658 PIN: 288 637 864#.

The Office of Preparedness, within the Division of Homela

The Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Managemen

Currently Planned Warming Centers and Shelters