Using the information you have learned in the Homeland Security and Emergency Management program, and from the completion of the FEMA Independent Study Course IS 393b Introduction to Hazard Mitigation, write a paper on policies, procedures, and planning in homeland security and emergency management. Specifically, your paper should include the following:

1.Select a real-world crisis event occurring in the past 5 years.

2.Summarize the scenario. What made it a crisis event?

3.Analyze in detail how the event prompted changes in policies, procedures, and planning.

Create a mitigation action plan for the future based on lessons learned from this event. In the mitigation action plan discuss the mitigation techniques, policies and procedures, and necessary stakeholders that would be implemented if the crisis event occurred again. Remember, you are mitigating for a better outcome than the original event.

Write a 5–7 page (1250-1500 word) paper Word format. Use the American Psychological Association (APA) style (7th ed.) for writing your assignment.