ReadyCommunity
Building Disaster-Resilient Places
Curriculum
Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101
ReadyCommunity Summary Report Template
ReadyCommunity Overview
Roles & Responsibilities
Sample Press Release
Notebook Cover Page
Inside Cover Page
Process Skills Development
- Acquire a toolkit of resources, strategies and processes to build support and teamwork among community members
- Understand the basic elements of conducting effective meetings
- Acquire strategies for problem-solving and managing challenging situations
- Coaching Tools:
Forming a Collaborative Planning Team (Pre-planning meeting time: One hour; Session time: Two hours)
- Understand the background and structure of the ReadyCommunity precess
- Identify Core Team and Planning Team members
- Design a recruitment message to foster participation
- Explore the value of engaging the larger community
- Training Materials:
Forming a Collaborative Planning Team (Pre-planning meeting time: One hour; Session time: Two hours)
- Understand the background and structure of the ReadyCommunity precess
- Identify Core Team and Planning Team members
- Design a recruitment message to foster participation
- Explore the value of engaging the larger community
- Training Materials:
Understanding the Situation – Vulnerability and Resilience(Time: Two hours and 30 minutes)
- Learn steps in disaster management
- Explore approaches to disaster
- Discover what resilient communities look like
- Assess vulnerability in your community
- Training Materials:
Understanding the Situation – Vulnerability and Resilience(Time: Two hours and 30 minutes)
- Learn steps in disaster management
- Explore approaches to disaster
- Discover what resilient communities look like
- Assess vulnerability in your community
- Training Materials:
Determining Goals and Objectives(Time: Two hours)
- Learn about scenario planning, a process that can help imagine how hazards/threats could play out in a community
- Discover the elements of SMART goals and objectives
- Test the scenario planning process by having the community select a specific hazard or threat from Step Two deemed to be a risk for the community
- Based on the scenario planning experience, develop SMART goals and objectives for the key hazard/threat the community proposes to address
- Training Materials:
Determining Goals and Objectives(Time: Two hours)
- Learn about scenario planning, a process that can help imagine how hazards/threats could play out in a community
- Discover the elements of SMART goals and objectives
- Test the scenario planning process by having the community select a specific hazard or threat from Step Two deemed to be a risk for the community
- Based on the scenario planning experience, develop SMART goals and objectives for the key hazard/threat the community proposes to address
- Training Materials:
Developing the Plan(Time: Two hours and 40 minutes)
- Brainstorm options for achieving the goals and objectives developed in Step Three.
- Assess the community's capacity to carry out the options generated by participants and then select the most viable options using a variety of tools
- Develop an implementation plan that details the activities to be performed for each option and aligns these options to the components of the disaster cycle (prevention, preparation, response, and recovery)
- Training Materials:
Developing the Plan(Time: Two hours and 40 minutes)
- Brainstorm options for achieving the goals and objectives developed in Step Three.
- Assess the community's capacity to carry out the options generated by participants and then select the most viable options using a variety of tools
- Develop an implementation plan that details the activities to be performed for each option and aligns these options to the components of the disaster cycle (prevention, preparation, response, and recovery)
- Training Materials:
Plan Preparation, Review, and Approval(Time: Two hours and 50 minutes)
- Complete writing of the community's preparedness plan
- Submit the preparedness plan for an evaluation for its conformity to regulatory requirements and then approval
- Establish criteria for assessing the feasibility of the preparedness plan
- Training Materials:
Plan Preparation, Review, and Approval(Time: Two hours and 50 minutes)
- Complete writing of the community's preparedness plan
- Submit the preparedness plan for an evaluation for its conformity to regulatory requirements and then approval
- Establish criteria for assessing the feasibility of the preparedness plan
- Training Materials:
Implementing, Reviewing, Revising, and Maintaining the Plan(Time: One hour)
- Establish a strategy for testing the plan
- Create a schedule for maintaining the plan
- Training Materials:
Implementing, Reviewing, Revising, and Maintaining the Plan(Time: One hour)
- Establish a strategy for testing the plan
- Create a schedule for maintaining the plan
- Training Materials:
