Registration is now open for NENA's NG9-1-1 Standards & Best Practices Conference! Click here to register and here to book your housing!

Learn, Collaborate, & Contribute at the NG9-1-1 Standards & Best Practices Conference!
#NENASBP (January 16-19, 2023 at the Hilton Clearwater in Clearwater, FL) is a conference unlike any other. It is an interactive, informative, attendee-driven event where you work to address the most pressing issues facing 9-1-1, including: recruitment, hiring, and retention; GIS and NG-data needs; location services and accuracy; culture; interoperability; telecommunicator SOPs; real-time text; transition planning; cybersecurity; multimedia messaging and accessibility; training; wellness and resiliency; the evolution of 9-1-1 center supervision and management; and more! Check out all the sessions here.

No other event provides you with the opportunity to shape the future of 9-1-1 and impact public safety for decades to come! Don’t miss your chance to be part of it! 

Click here to learn more about #NENASBP.

From now through October 31, NENA is accepting session proposals for the NENA 2023 Conference & Expo taking place at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, TX from June 17-22.

Presenting a session at NENA 2023 allows you to share your knowledge and experience with an audience of 9-1-1 professionals eager to gain and share information. It is also your chance to give back to the profession and help inspire, inform, and educate attendees on important issues.

To ensure your submission receives due consideration, please ensure that:

• Your proposal is issue-focused, not product-focused;
• Your 65-word presentation description contains a precise objective;
• You are able to identify three clear audience takeaways;
• You fully complete all areas of the submission form and provide accurate contact information, including phone number(s), email address(es), and mailing address(es);
• You use proper grammar, capitalization, and punctuation; and
• You provide the names of any co-presenters with your submission (or prior to the close of the submission window).

Click here to submit your great idea today! All proposals are due by Monday, October 31.

NENA and 911 Authority, LLC are proud to establish a scholarship to honor the life, passion, integrity and career of Wendy Ann Day. This scholarship honors the mission of 9-1-1 policy and regulatory development, women’s empowerment within 9-1-1, and Wendy’s valuable contributions to the policy and regulatory aspects of public safety programs across the country. The objectives of this scholarship are to assist public safety professionals in reaching a higher level of knowledge by participating in NENA’s 9-1-1 Goes to Washington conference and to empower women who are building their careers and aspiring to share new ideas with their peers and colleagues.

Who should apply?
This scholarship opportunity is open to women in their first five years in the 9-1-1 industry who have not previously attended 9-1-1 Goes to Washington.

The scholarship recipient will receive the following: 

• Complimentary registration to NENA's 9-1-1 Goes to Washington conference;
• Four nights hotel accommodations; and
• A travel stipend of up to $1,000 to help cover transportation costs to and from the event (provided as a post-event reimbursement). 

Eligibility
To be eligible for the scholarship you must meet the criteria listed about in the "Who should apply" section complete and submit the below scholarship application, including a 1,000 word or less essay and a current resume.

Deadlines
Applications will be accepted through November 15, 2022. The scholarship winner will be notified no later than December 10, 2022.

Click here to apply.

*ILO stands for Instructor-Led Online

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The ANSI-approved NENA Standard for NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model defines the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Data Model, which supports the NENA Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) Core Services (NGCS) of location validation and routing, both geospatial call routing or to the appropriate agency for dispatch. This model also defines several GIS data layers (layers) used in local Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) and response agency mapping applications for handling and responding to 9-1-1 calls. The data structures defined in this document are related to, but different from the data structures defined in Appendix B of NENA's i3 Standard for Next Generation 9-1-1. Appendix B describes the Spatial Interface (SI). The purpose of the SI is to provision a functional element (e.g., the Emergency Call Routing Function) with GIS data. In contrast, this Data Model document describes the structure (e.g., field names, field data types, domains) of GIS data. Care has been taken to ensure that this Data Model is compatible with the SI provisioning process.

The NENA Information Document for GIS Data Stewardship for Next Generation 9-1-1 will assist GIS and PSAP staff in understanding and adopting best practices related to managing specific GIS data layers in support of Next Generation 9‑1‑1 (NG9‑1‑1) deployments. GIS data is at the heart of NG9‑1‑1 systems. Civic addresses associated with fixed caller locations are validated against GIS data to ensure that they can be mapped. When an emergency call is made, it is routed using the caller’s location along with the GIS boundaries of responder agencies to determine the correct responder.

Click here to download the document and submit comments by selecting "Add a Comment" from the "Document Actions" icon. Please complete all requested data and click "Save,"  or if submitting multiple comments, click "Save and Add Another." If you are providing editorial comments, such as corrections to typos, grammatical errors, style/numbering errors, and incorrect references/links to documents, please document them under one comment and list the page and line number for each.

All comments are due by November 18, 2022. You may contact the NENA Committee Resource Manager with any questions or concerns.

Having adjudicated all comments, the NENA Standard for the Conveyance of Emergency Incident Data Objects (EIDOs) between Next Generation (NG9‑1‑1) Systems and Applications is now considered "stable." Per NENA IPR & Antitrust Policy, Section 4.5.1 "Stable Form Notice" is being issued and can be viewed here.