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  Adapt tried and true principles, practices and techniques

  Adapt the training for nonviolent direct action usually required of all action participants, which is mature and robust (e.g. Rosa Parks had attended such training before she refused to give up her seat on that bus in Birmingham, AL), for various age groups and make it freely available throughout our society. Do not despair of reaching every citizen; any increase in the understanding, awareness and imagination it engenders ...more »

  Adapt the training for nonviolent direct action usually required of all action participants, which is mature and robust (e.g. Rosa Parks had attended such training before she refused to give up her seat on that bus in Birmingham, AL), for various age groups and make it freely available throughout our society. Do not despair of reaching every citizen; any increase in the understanding, awareness and imagination it engenders will benefit many more than the number so trained.

  Because we are so mobile, it is likely that many will not be at their respective home bases when any significant challenge arrives. In those cases, people will need to move directly and gracefully into working relationships with unfamiliar people. In stressful situations marked by uncertainties, ordinary politeness cannot be expected to suffice! Principles, practices and techniques of people who have consciously prepared themselves for plausible predicaments are far superior.

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  Submitted by David Eggleton 2 years ago

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  Elderly Preparedness Training & Disaster Kits Grant

  I would strongly suggest and support a grant program that would assist the elderly and special needs community with providing disaster preparedness training along with providing them with a disaster kit that suits their needs. This type of training can be conducted in their homes at their request and would help the local communities with identifying those who will require assistance during a disaster.

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  Submitted by Craig Mercier, CHS-III 2 years ago

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  Hands on Approach to Preparedness Training

  A vast majority of the training opportunities is classroom based or online when it comes to preparedness. While it is important to to provide information in that manner we should begin to create a more hands on approach. People tend to learn more by doing than trying to absorb information given to them by a presenter.

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  Submitted by Craig Mercier, CHS-III 2 years ago

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  Train the MD and Nursing students to deal with disasters

  Require that all medical school students and nursing school students learn/practice disaster medicine and include them in exercises and other such events. We can also utilize the students for NDMS' DMAT teams. In disasters, they may not have all of what they are learning to use and need to have some idea of how to manage during a disaster.

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  Submitted by Gary Miller 2 years ago

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  Include responders' families in agency planning and...

  Require all agencies that would respond to a disaster to include training and assistance for the families of the responders. We saw NOPD officers leave the city at the time they were needed most to take care of family and so on. Well, if the agency included training and other support to ensure the responders' families were taken care of or have the ability to handle the crisis, then the responders can focus on their job. ...more »

  Require all agencies that would respond to a disaster to include training and assistance for the families of the responders. We saw NOPD officers leave the city at the time they were needed most to take care of family and so on. Well, if the agency included training and other support to ensure the responders' families were taken care of or have the ability to handle the crisis, then the responders can focus on their job. That includes having the necessary supplies to support operations for at least 7 days out in the field. The same would be required of the capabilities of the families of the responders.

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  Submitted by Gary Miller 2 years ago

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  Course Lesson Plans

  Make the training more learner friendly. Allow organizations to use local events or drills and after action reports in lieu of training exercises in the lesson plans. It would be more relevant and help keep the learners more involved in the learning.

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  Submitted by Kim Wilker 2 years ago

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  Community Preparedness Initiative (CPI)

  Community Preparedness Initiative One of the biggest struggles when it comes to preparedness is distribution of information that will actually grab the attention of those who are reading it. Anybody can build a website and post information but if no one knows where to find it then its meaningless. We need to start thinking outside the box and start a Community Preparedness Initiative (CPI). The concept of CPI would be ...more »

  Community Preparedness Initiative

  One of the biggest struggles when it comes to preparedness is distribution of information that will actually grab the attention of those who are reading it. Anybody can build a website and post information but if no one knows where to find it then its meaningless. We need to start thinking outside the box and start a Community Preparedness Initiative (CPI). The concept of CPI would be to develop a single source entity (SSE) whose sole job is to seek out the various networks of information and provide one place for everyone to find it. This concept is similar to the intelligence community. Information is handled by several different agencies and then combined to determine an overall analysis of the threat. The CPI would create a standardized system that would make finding information as easy as a few mouse clicks.

  An important component of this CPI would be developing a Public Education System (PES) that would network organizations who can provide various levels of training and education. When push comes to shove an organization or community will hire the lowest bidder because the country is in a recession and everyone is experiencing budget constraints and cuts. From a federal level the CPI can develop a standardized curriculum that defines the education requirements for various levels of officials from the Federal level all the way down to the local and tribal level. Everyone wants to develop their own way of doing things, and in some cases that works, but we need to find a common ground for all entities to start with that allows everyone to have the same minimum education no matter what level of the government you belong to.

  Another important component to this CPI is social media networking. Today millions of people find themselves tweeting, blogging, talking to friends on Facebook and Myspace and joining various online communities to discuss topics that are important to them. Over the last five years officials and citizens on all levels have began using these social networking websites to develop a network of friends. We can use this same concept to pass information regarding preparedness. Local Emergency Managers should be utilizing news papers, radio, bulletins, blogging websites, and/or other various social media networks to pass critical information regarding preparedness. Why not publish preparedness tips in your local news paper on Sunday? Why can't we use the radio to pass important preparedness information? We have the tools to pass the word we just don't utilize them to their fullest capabilities.

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  Submitted by Craig Mercier, CHS-III 2 years ago

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  Community Preparedness Initiative (CPI)

  Community Preparedness Initiative One of the biggest struggles when it comes to preparedness is distribution of information that will actually grab the attention of those who are reading it. Anybody can build a website and post information but if no one knows where to find it then its meaningless. We need to start thinking outside the box and start a Community Preparedness Initiative (CPI). The concept of CPI would be ...more »

  Community Preparedness Initiative

  One of the biggest struggles when it comes to preparedness is distribution of information that will actually grab the attention of those who are reading it. Anybody can build a website and post information but if no one knows where to find it then its meaningless. We need to start thinking outside the box and start a Community Preparedness Initiative (CPI). The concept of CPI would be to develop a single source entity (SSE) whose sole job is to seek out the various networks of information and provide one place for everyone to find it. This concept is similar to the intelligence community. Information is handled by several different agencies and then combined to determine an overall analysis of the threat. The CPI would create a standardized system that would make finding information as easy as a few mouse clicks.

  An important component of this CPI would be developing a Public Education System (PES) that would network organizations who can provide various levels of training and education. When push comes to shove an organization or community will hire the lowest bidder because the country is in a recession and everyone is experiencing budget constraints and cuts. From a federal level the CPI can develop a standardized curriculum that defines the education requirements for various levels of officials from the Federal level all the way down to the local and tribal level. Everyone wants to develop their own way of doing things, and in some cases that works, but we need to find a common ground for all entities to start with that allows everyone to have the same minimum education no matter what level of the government you belong to.

  Another important component to this CPI is social media networking. Today millions of people find themselves tweeting, blogging, talking to friends on Facebook and Myspace and joining various online communities to discuss topics that are important to them. Over the last five years officials and citizens on all levels have began using these social networking websites to develop a network of friends. We can use this same concept to pass information regarding preparedness. Local Emergency Managers should be utilizing news papers, radio, bulletins, blogging websites, and/or other various social media networks to pass critical information regarding preparedness. Why not publish preparedness tips in your local news paper on Sunday? Why can't we use the radio to pass important preparedness information? We have the tools to pass the word we just don't utilize them to their fullest capabilities.

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  Submitted by Craig Mercier, CHS-III 2 years ago

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  School CERT

  School CERT

  I am a trained CERT instructor and the manager of emergency preparedness for school district of 24,000 students in the earthquake prone desert of Southern California. I tweeked the CERT course to make a course for school personnel which I entitled SERT (school emergency response teams) - We have a trained team on each elementary and secondary campus

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  Submitted by Roy Hill 2 years ago

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  Veterans for CERT and Civil defence,CFR.

  Fire Inspector and former Crash Fire Rescueman, I would like to have training on aircraft emergencies and disasters for the major cities and communities . Train veterans for this duties to inculde medics and ambulances persons. This would be injuction with civil defence and CERT. I would like to do this. I would like to organize this, pay a show up milage and monthly stipen.

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  Submitted by D'Andrea Adams 2 years ago

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  Train and equip first responders against nuclear terrorism/attack.

  

  The average first respnder says "we are expected to respond to nuclear terrorism or attack but we have not been trained or equipped." What is needed is a leader like Governor Tom Ridge who would be willing to equip our first responders with SIRAD radiation monitors developed by the Department of Defense (goto TSWG.gov and search "SIRAD") Governor Ridge could also inform U.S. emergency management of the self-training ...more »

  

  The average first respnder says "we are expected to respond to nuclear terrorism or attack but we have not been trained or equipped."

  What is needed is a leader like Governor Tom Ridge who would be willing to equip our first responders with SIRAD radiation monitors developed by the Department of Defense (goto TSWG.gov and search "SIRAD") Governor Ridge could also inform U.S. emergency management of the self-training Nuclear War Survival Skills manual developed by the U.S. Department of energy.

  The technology is there and the training is there to take our first responders out of harms way at the cost of a rounding-error. Not to mention protection of our communities.

  The solution is to hire Governor Ridge or someone like him who cares enough about our first responders and has the ability to connect the dots in government to get them trained and equipped against the effects of nuclear terrorism or attack.

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  Submitted by Stephen Jones 2 years ago

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  Training the Media

  Training the media by inviting key TV reporters and anchors to drills and events so that they know how ICS functions, what is reasonable, worst case scenarios etc. Since most of these people have no idea who response mitigation, preparedness and response works they are the one spreading the fear and confusion. Instead of giving their opinion and speculating they might actually be able to give good advise and explain to ...more »

  Training the media by inviting key TV reporters and anchors to drills and events so that they know how ICS functions, what is reasonable, worst case scenarios etc. Since most of these people have no idea who response mitigation, preparedness and response works they are the one spreading the fear and confusion. Instead of giving their opinion and speculating they might actually be able to give good advise and explain to people why things move at the pace that they do, and in the order that they do.

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  Submitted by Ines de Pablo 2 years ago

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  Revise FEMA's IS-22 Are You Ready? course (last updated in 2004)

  The FEMA "IS-22 Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness" should be revised and updated. The course was last revised in August 2004 - before the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and well before the explosive growth of social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The curriculum revision should involve representation from communities across the nation, including people who have been using the curriculum to provide ...more »

  The FEMA "IS-22 Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness" should be revised and updated. The course was last revised in August 2004 - before the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and well before the explosive growth of social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The curriculum revision should involve representation from communities across the nation, including people who have been using the curriculum to provide training in their communities.

  For those unfamiliar with the course, please visit http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/is/is22.asp

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