About Us

The Illinois Professional Emergency Management Association (IPEMA) is a a association that will be serving the State of Illinois and the Illinois emergency management community. 

 The goal of this association is to embrace an “All Hazards, Whole Community” approach taking emergency management response, training, and planning in Illinois to the next level.  What truly sets IPEMA apart is that it utilizes the 'All Hazards/ Whole Community" as specified in the National Preparedness Goal.  IPEMA will work to increase communication between agencies and to better identify capabilities and resources. In addition to state, county, and local emergency management agencies, IPEMA looks to engage with private industry, consulting firms, higher education institutions, hospitals/public health, non-governmental organizations. Utilize lessons learned from previous disasters across our nation such as hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and the COVID 19 pandemic support that emergency management needs to embrace a whole community response.  

IPEMA is host to the State Incident Management Assistance Teams (IMAT), State Drone Team, State Damage Assessment Team and Soon the State Structural Engineer Team that can quickly respond to assist local counties or municipalities dealing with a large scale or expanding incident or event. Along with hosting the above mentioned Mobile Support Teams, IPEMA also serves as the Not-for-profit arm of the Illinois Incident Management System (IL-IMS).

IPEMA will work with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI) to focus on education and build capabilities 

Are you passionate about what we're doing? Let us know! We are always looking for volunteers to help us make our vision a reality. We'll help you find a way to volunteer that best suits you. We're excited to have you join the team!

Whether you help through monetary donations, volunteering your time, or spreading our mission through word-of-mouth, thank you. We couldn't accomplish our goals without the help of supporters like you.