KEVIN MCCULLEY

Emergency Preparedness Coordinator and Senior Data Analyst Association for Utah Community Health Salt Lake City, Utah

Mr. Kevin McCulley serves as the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator and Senior Data Analyst for the Association for Utah Community Health, Utah’s association of Community Health Centers (CHCs). He has been involved with the CHC system since 2002, and his work includes disaster preparedness and response, health policy analysis, strategic planning, and community development. He has worked to integrate CHCs into local, regional, and statewide response systems; as such, he has had the opportunity to work with and assist Community Emergency Response Teams, hospice and homecare providers, long-term care facilities, and other community agencies in increasing preparedness. Following a principle of local response first, Mr. McCulley has worked to include non-traditional responders in traditional planning models.

Mr. McCulley’s current affiliation is with the Association for Utah Community Health which assists and represents community health centers and other accessible providers of care in Utah. Membership provides primary and preventive health care to more than 115,000 individuals in the State each year, the majority of whom are uninsured and/or living in poverty. As Federal grantees under the Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Primary Health Care, CHCs have been included as important aspects of community response and recovery. Mr. McCulley has been able to ensure both funding and inclusion of these agencies in local and State response planning and looks forward to continued work with these clinics.

Prior to working with CHCs, Mr. McCulley gained extensive experience in community resiliency and preparedness through his work as a CPR and first aid instructor for both the Salt Lake Chapter of the American Red Cross and various community groups. In working with the Red Cross as a volunteer instructor and Health and Safety Committee member, he was able to become extensively involved in the preparation and training of community volunteers for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake. During this time, he was able to train almost 100 volunteers to both assist with health and medical needs of visitors to Salt Lake and to staff, and to manage a number of first aid tents that the Red Cross erected during the Games. This process showed Mr. McCulley the value that even a small amount of training can produce for non-professional responders.

During this same time period, Mr. McCulley had the opportunity to develop expertise with working with people with disabilities. Starting soon after college, he was employed at Western State Hospital in Staunton, Virginia, as a front-line staff and later as a research assistant working mostly with institutionalized chronic schizophrenics. After moving to Utah, Mr. McCulley secured employment with Camp Kostopulos, a therapeutic recreation provider for people of all ages with disabilities. Many of the skills and management tools that he continues to use to this day were learned in his time there, especially during the travel trips throughout the State. He learned a great deal about accommodating people with differing abilities and self-sufficiency as he took people with disabilities on camping and river trips in remote locations in Utah.

June 2, 2010