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==BACKGROUND: The case for making changes to the NET program== | ==BACKGROUND: The case for making changes to the NET program== | ||
Both PBEM and the City of Portland are undergoing (and undertaking) the most sweeping bureaucratic changes seen in decades. This is resulting in reprioritizing and movement of resources, and that does impact NET programming directly. Expanding our view beyond City government and into the sociological, the COVID pandemic and climate change has made permanent changes to how we view disaster, resilience, and community organizing. | Both PBEM and the City of Portland are undergoing (and undertaking) the most sweeping bureaucratic changes seen in decades. This is resulting in reprioritizing and movement of resources, and that does impact NET programming directly. Expanding our view beyond City government and into the sociological, the COVID pandemic and climate change has made permanent changes to how we view disaster, resilience, and community organizing. | ||
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==== People are accustomed to meeting and organizing on virtual platforms ==== | ==== People are accustomed to meeting and organizing on virtual platforms ==== | ||
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* '''PBEM should offer a proportionally appropriate number of training events relevant to extreme weather event response and climate change resilience.''' This might include shelter response training, polishing training for heat illness response, outreach, and more. | * '''PBEM should offer a proportionally appropriate number of training events relevant to extreme weather event response and climate change resilience.''' This might include shelter response training, polishing training for heat illness response, outreach, and more. | ||
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==== Neighborhood-based response teams exist for no other purpose than to respond to an earthquake ==== | ==== Neighborhood-based response teams exist for no other purpose than to respond to an earthquake ==== | ||
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** Includes any interested NET volunteers, ATV, and neighbors inside a team service area; | ** Includes any interested NET volunteers, ATV, and neighbors inside a team service area; | ||
** PBEM develop curriculum to step teams through the arc of developing a NERF, to include initial community outreach/recruitment, progressive community involvement, response capacity analysis, and capacity planning. | ** PBEM develop curriculum to step teams through the arc of developing a NERF, to include initial community outreach/recruitment, progressive community involvement, response capacity analysis, and capacity planning. | ||
** PBEM develop an online system of reporting for every NERF/neighborhood team, taking into account their capacity planning, and providing a resilience score. This will give teams (and PBEM on a broader scale) quantifiable goals to meet.<br /> | ** PBEM develop an online system of reporting for every NERF/neighborhood team, taking into account their capacity planning, and providing a resilience score. This will give teams (and PBEM on a broader scale) quantifiable goals to meet. | ||
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Inside of NET are some problems that need solving (some widely recognized and some not). The NET program has a few long standing creaky problems that should be addressed, '''''and''''' changes are happening (at both the PBEM bureau level and the City government level) that open opportunities and create change factors we should move on. To wit: | Inside of NET are some problems that need solving (some widely recognized and some not). The NET program has a few long standing creaky problems that should be addressed, '''''and''''' changes are happening (at both the PBEM bureau level and the City government level) that open opportunities and create change factors we should move on. To wit: | ||