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The Capacity Assessment phase is where the NET leader works with their team to assess '''''how ready the neighborhood is to respond to an earthquake.''''' Critical to this will be an electronic worksheet which will prompt the team to explore questions such as: : How sturdy is the construction of the properties in our area? How many, and what severity, of injury should we prepare for? Should we be prepared to shelter pets? Do we know how we will communicate with the nearest BEECN if we need to? And so on. The overarching question here is: '''how much and what kind of damage do we expect an earthquake to cause in our service area, what resources do we ALREADY have to mitigate that impact?''' | The Capacity Assessment phase is where the NET leader works with their team to assess '''''how ready the neighborhood is to respond to an earthquake.''''' Critical to this will be an electronic worksheet which will prompt the team to explore questions such as: : How sturdy is the construction of the properties in our area? How many, and what severity, of injury should we prepare for? Should we be prepared to shelter pets? Do we know how we will communicate with the nearest BEECN if we need to? And so on. The overarching question here is: '''how much and what kind of damage do we expect an earthquake to cause in our service area, what resources do we ALREADY have to mitigate that impact?''' | ||
Completing the Capacity Assessment does two things. First, it defines your community's baseline for mitigating the impact of an earthquake. Second, it points where your team needs to go next... | |||
'''To make this ideas work, we would need:''' | |||
* To decide what the content of a Capacity Assessment worksheet is and deciding what planning steps are relevant enough to go on it; | |||
* To design the Capacity Assessment worksheet and guidance for NETs on how to use it. | |||
==== 4.) Capacity Planning ==== | |||
...and that place your team is going next is Capacity Planning. The Capacity Assessment gives you the data needed to determine your baseline. But no neighborhood will be "100% ready to mitigate the impact of an earthquake". Being 100% ready is an aspirational goal. The Capacity Plan is the map that takes a team from their baseline assessment to their goal. | |||
Let's do a simple example with emergency water storage. Pretend your Service Area has 32 humans and eight dogs living in it. That many people and pets need 464 gallons of water stored to get them through two weeks safely. During the Capacity Assessment, the neighborhood found out they have 300 gallons already stored. Their Capacity Plan is what indicates their goal of storing another 164 gallons, so they can be "100% ready on water storage". | |||
Over the past year, we've been piloting the BEECN Dashboard, which you should have a look at here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=9094103decb2475885daa0b03ac13496. Just as important is the math that goes into the BEECN Dashboard, which you can read about here: [[BEECN Readiness Score#BEECN Score Aggregates]]. | |||
== Notes and References == | == Notes and References == | ||