2023-2024 NET Program Realignment: Difference between revisions

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== Summary ==

* Address the fall-off of meeting attendance at routine NET Team Meetings;

* Encourage the growth and development of block-scale neighborhood teams.

Two other important notes about this proposal:  

* The ideas here are reflected in what NETs are already doing and what NETs have asked PBEM to do;

Since NET's founding in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y 1994], the threat of a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake drove urgency behind disaster preparedness and response programming. That threat remains. But a new fighter has entered the ring: extreme weather events caused by climate change. Extreme weather, such as heat domes and snow storms, have (and will continue to) take lives and result directly in more NET volunteers deployed for more hours.

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I'll take these one at a time...

=== Centralized Deployments ===

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=== Training Centers ===

This might confuse folks a bit because '''a Training Center is a role for a ''person'', not a place.''' Calling this role a "training center" puts the parlance in line with organizations such as [https://goto.hsi.com/safety-management-software?leadsourcelvl1=MKT+-+Google+Adwords&leadsourcelvl2=EHS+-+US+-+Search&leadsourcelvl3=safety-management-software&kw=safety%20training%20programs&cpn=19753733452&utm_term=safety%20training%20programs&utm_campaign=SMS+-+US+-+Search+-+EHS+Essentials&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=5110386882&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_cam=19753733452&hsa_ad=652468232856&hsa_kw=safety%20training%20programs&hsa_grp=147979472832&hsa_mt=b&hsa_ver=3&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=aud-470099037279:kwd-14027133&gclid=Cj0KCQiAr8eqBhD3ARIsAIe-buNZGM0PqhVO2p1ufMbrJ-BCnt8VdGKCmwYwO1CO7nAVW7AJEIDD7hIaApwrEALw_wcB HSI]. Glenn, for example, is an HSI Training Center.<ref>If you're wondering, HSI is the organization through which PBEM certifies for Stop the Bleed, First Aid, Wilderness First Aid, and a smattering of other stuff.</ref> In that role, he can schedule HSI classes, assign instructors, and certify trainees. It's the same idea here, but for Portland NET. The role would be available to any active NET volunteer in good standing.

=== Block-scale earthquake response teams ===

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.

I'll take this apart step by step:

==== 1.) Team decides on a Team Service Area ====

I've already drafted the policies that would govern how Team Service Area boundaries would be formed; '''you can read them at the [[Team Service Areas]] wiki page.'''

* A contract in place to manage online mapping. We already have a GIS tech in mind, and he's the same person who designed all of [https://pdx-net.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html these NET maps].

* A date on the calendar by which all NETs who plan to develop a block scale earthquake response framework turn in their maps for review by PBEM and publication.

==== 2.) Initial community outreach ====

* Get the Speakers Bureau running, which will allow NETs to request a preparedness instructor for a neighborhood meeting;

* Create a guide on how to hold hybrid meetings for volunteers.

==== 3.) Conduct a Capacity Assessment of the neighborhood ====

* 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.

'''From the Capacity Assessment comes two products:'''

* To design an input system that would extract Capacity Planning data and post it as a dashboard;

* The dashboard, designed similarly to the BEECN dashboard.

==== 4b.) Neighborhood Earthquake Response Frameworks (not NERFs?) ====

* Automate linking Capacity Plans to a Response Framework template (should be easy to do with the software PBEM has access to).

=== A Two Year Cycle ===

I envision this process of Assessment and Planning on a two year cycle. Over the course of two years, a neighborhood assesses, plans, and meets goals. At the end of two years, they re-assess, consider expanding or retracting their Service Area boundaries,<ref>''However'', I do also envision that teams would have the option of changing their Service Area boundaries at any time they choose.</ref> set new goals, and move forward.  

[[File:VSF Badges.jpg|alt=The VSF badges.|thumb|''The VSF badges.'']]

=== How do ATVs and VSFs fit into this plan? ===

* To finalize policies governing ATVs and ATV status;

* Volunteer position descriptions for key VSFs, such as medical response, communications, and search and rescue.

== Timeline ==

* Complete volunteer position descriptions on key VSFs such as comms, medical, etc. so that NETs can assign them to ATVs.

* Complete online surveying tools for Capacity Assessment, Capacity Planning, and response frameworks.

=== Phase 2 (these steps would happen in order) ===

# PBEM calls for interested volunteers to declare themselves as Training Centers.

# PBEM publishes the Training Center directory, and training events are managed through the calendar in MIP.

# PBEM reviews revised Team Service Areas.

# Response Framework dashboard goes live.

=== Phase 3 (these steps would happen concurrently) ===

* Block-scale teams head into their two-year cycle.

* Groups of block-scale teams glom together (as an option) into federations of response teams.

== Q&A from NET Volunteers ==

===== Q: Will there be support for NETs who want to start a NERF but have no other nets in their immediate area? =====

== Notes and References ==