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A Training Center would be responsible for coordinating (not necessarily instructing) multiple training events every year for NET, BEECN, and ATV volunteers. Dates/times/locations/frequency/event size of training events would be entirely up to them. Whatever a Training Center decides, PBEM publishes their training events to a training calendar accessible through MIP for signup. Optimally, a Training Center would put on training events that any volunteer can attend (in other words, a Training Center is "at large" and not defined by a neighborhood). But we can explore assigning a Training Center to a specific area of the City. | A Training Center would be responsible for coordinating (not necessarily instructing) multiple training events every year for NET, BEECN, and ATV volunteers. Dates/times/locations/frequency/event size of training events would be entirely up to them. Whatever a Training Center decides, PBEM publishes their training events to a training calendar accessible through MIP for signup. Optimally, a Training Center would put on training events that any volunteer can attend (in other words, a Training Center is "at large" and not defined by a neighborhood). But we can explore assigning a Training Center to a specific area of the City. | ||
My model for this (though he may not know it) is Woodstock TL Mark Ginsberg. | My model for this (though he may not know it) is Woodstock TL Mark Ginsberg. Mark puts on training events for his team, but also invites volunteers from other neighborhoods to participate as well. Not only does Mark bring volunteers together for learning new things or refreshing training, but it’s a chance for NETs to network together. | ||
==== What we would need to make NET Training Centers work: ==== | |||
# '''A training/exercise cookbook:''' We would use the Wiki as a reference platform to present "recipes" for trainings and exercises that Training Centers could coordinate. Like what I did for the [[Scenario Village]] page, but on a smaller scale. For example, a Training Center could get onto the Wiki and read over how-to instructions on putting NETs through a knots training, or a small-scale triage exercise, or a quick refresher on using FRS/GMRS radios, or a scenario for a tabletop exercise. Now that we're getting CERT Coordinators all over Oregon working together, they are also interested in contributing to a team-scale training/exercise "cookbook". | |||
# '''A database of instructors:''' Again, Training Centers ''can'' instruct, but their primary responsibility is setting up training events. Some training events might need specialized knowledge. For this reason, we would create a database of qualified instructors. Only Training Centers would have access to it. Through it, Training Centers could request an instructor for a training in a specific topic. For example, the database might have a list of qualified Stop the Bleed (StB) instructors. If a Training Center wanted to put on a StB training, they could access the database and request an instructor. | |||
# '''A list of NET volunteers who want to be Training Centers:''' Glenn and I would need to put out a formal request for NET volunteers to become Training Centers. Our intention would be to get several, at least, in every geographic segment of Portland (North, Northwest, South/Southwest, Southeast, and East). | |||
# '''Internal work on MIP signups:''' Glenn would need to program MIP to include this new volunteer role, and we would need an intake process for training events to put them on the calendar. | |||
=== Block-scale earthquake response teams === | |||
[[File:Nerf Herder.jpg|alt=As the designated coordinator at PBEM, I was looking forward to changing my title to "NERF Herder" if the NERF acronym stuck. Alas, not everyone likes it. Yes, this is a nerdy in-joke.|thumb|''As the designated coordinator at PBEM, I was looking forward to changing my title to "NERF Herder" if the NERF acronym stuck. Alas, not everyone likes it. Yes, this is a nerdy in-joke.'']] | |||
In the presentation, I refer to these as Neighborhood Earthquake Response Frameworks (NERFs), but that only somewhat belabored acronym is proving unpopular. We need to workshop it a little, it seems. But the ideas behind it haven't changed: As the section title implies, this is a curriculum where NET volunteers '''''have the option''''' of organizing their block scale communities. | |||
Under this proposal, an Active NET volunteer '''''does not''''' have to be part of an earthquake response team; nor do they need to coordinate one. If a NET volunteer so wishes, they can earn their required twelve hours of volunteer service each year by deploying incidents and going to training events held by Training Centers. | |||
But if a NET volunteer chooses to (independently or with other volunteers), they could opt to take the following steps in the indicated order: | |||
# Decide what their Service Area boundaries will be and publish them; | |||
# Undertake a process of community engagement inside that service area to gather neighbors together; | |||
# Conduct a Capacity Assessment of their community; | |||
# Turn that Capacity Assessment into a Capacity Plan and an Earthquake Response Framework. | |||
I'll take this apart step by step: | |||
==== 1.) Team decides on a Team Service Area ==== | |||
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== Notes and References == | == Notes and References == | ||