 #1 Connect |
 #2 Learn |
 #3 Plan |
 #4 Community |
For Individuals
1. CONNECT to people in the community
- Connect to people through everday activities
- Get to know neighbors
- Volunteer
- Help in the community
2. LEARN new skills and use the ones you have
Learn First Aid, CPR or other disaster-specific skills. Or use existing skills to:
- Cook to feed people when there is an emergency
- Drive people to appointments if public transportation is not working
- Organize neighborhood's resources and responses to crises
- Translate for the community
- Provide psychological first aid to people when the community needs comforting
3. Make a PLAN that will carry you through disaster
- Plan for medical and emotional needs of the community and yourself
- For medical needs, take stock of prescriptions, medical equipment, special dietary needs, etc.
4. KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY
- Know where the community's resources are located and how to get to them to help yourself and others
- Work with the resources the community has
- Be aware of individuals who may need assistance
For Organizations
Everyone depends on organizations. Resilience allows organizations to stay active and keep their doors open during crises.
1. CONNECT to organizations in the community
- Other organizations can be a lifeline in a disaster
- Share resources and knowledge
- Partner with organizations that can address the emergeency needs of the community
2. LEARN new skills and use the ones you have
- Build skills to respond to and recover from disaster (employee CPR, psychological first aid)
- Expand services or expertise to help the community
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Train employees to be prepared at home:
- Help people get emergency SNAP (food stamps)
- Provide psychological first aid to responders and residents
3. Make a PLAN that will carry you through disaster
- Develop a continuing operations plan to continue services
- Develop a list of resources (e.g., competencies, people, money, infrastructure, equipment, services, relationships)
- Create a resilience plan or strategy—what to do when the organization is affected, how to continue working and take care of staff
- Strengthen the organization's assets to open for business soon after a serious event happens
- Check insurance policy and ensure that critical needs are covered
- Develop a staff communication plan
- Build financial reserves for emergencies
4. KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY
- Identify how the organization can help the community
- Create or join networks (e.g., healthcare coalition) to connect to other organizations that work on similar issues in the community
- Know where community resources are located