2023-2024 NET Program Realignment: Difference between revisions
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Hello! Jeremy Van Keuren here This page is composed in the [[wikipedia:First-person_narrative|first person]] so I can type and edit faster. | Hello! Jeremy Van Keuren here This page is composed in the [[wikipedia:First-person_narrative|first person]] so I can type and edit faster. | ||
After reviewing this page and/or the embedded video, please provide feedback at the survey located at: <u>'''https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/93a3779358154fb1b61dbba48a7671bb'''</u>. '''We will accept feedback ''only'' through the survey on these proposals.''' Feedback sent as email will be | After reviewing this page and/or the embedded video, please provide feedback at the survey located at: <u>'''https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/93a3779358154fb1b61dbba48a7671bb'''</u>. '''We will accept feedback ''only'' through the survey on these proposals.''' Feedback sent as email, telegram, or [[wikipedia:Flag_semaphore|semaphore]] will not be reviewed | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
This page presents a proposal for realigning elements of PBEM's volunteer programming (which includes NETs, BEECN, and ATVs). '''The objectives of these changes would be to:''' | This page presents a proposal for realigning elements of PBEM's volunteer programming (which includes NETs, BEECN, and [https://volunteerpdx.net/index.php/Volunteer_Statuses#Affiliated_Team_Volunteers_(ATVs) ATV]s). '''The objectives of these changes would be to:''' | ||
* Address the fall-off of meeting attendance at routine NET Team Meetings; | * Address the fall-off of meeting attendance at routine NET Team Meetings; | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
From January 2022 to October 2023, NETs logged approximately 3,917 deployment hours. That includes planned deployments, such as serving as parade guides and first aid response at the Rose Festival or fire fuel mitigation.<span style="background:#FFFF00; color:#FFFF00">.</span><span style="background:#FFFF00">'''61% of those deployment hours were logged in response to events caused by extreme weather.'''</span><span style="background:#FFFF00; color:#FFFF00">.</span> When I started at PBEM in 2012, that percentage was closer to 10%. And the percent attributable to extreme weather events is likely only to climb. | |||
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=== Centralized Deployments === | === Centralized Deployments === | ||
'''Nothing changes here.''' This is when the city has some kind of emergency or event that fully trained/active NETs can help at. PBEM organizes and leads the deployment. | '''Nothing changes here.''' This is when the city has some kind of emergency or event that fully trained/active NETs can help at. PBEM organizes and leads the deployment (though we might detail a NET TL to lead on the scene). | ||
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=== Training Centers === | === Training Centers === | ||
[[File:Hillsdale.jpg|alt=Hillsdale NET after a training event.|thumb|350x350px|'' | [[File:Hillsdale.jpg|alt=Hillsdale NET after a training event.|thumb|350x350px|''NETs at Maplewood Elementary School. Maplewood and Hayhurst were joined with volunteers from other SW NET teams.'']] | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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===== Q: Will there be support for NETs who want to start a NERF but have no other nets in their immediate area? ===== | ===== Q: Will there be support for NETs who want to start a NERF but have no other nets in their immediate area? ===== | ||
A: Yes; essentially, that's the curriculum. The curriculum will assume that a NET is the only one in the service area, and it also will work for neighborhoods that have ''no'' NETs. | '''A:''' Yes; essentially, that's the curriculum. The curriculum will assume that a NET is the only one in the service area, and it also will work for neighborhoods that have ''no'' NETs. | ||
===== Comment: My understanding is that our current NET groups really have three options... ===== | |||
...1) continue our NET group as it is, 2) let people know they can go to a block scale model, or 3) allow NETS to be unaffiliated and support PBEM deployments, attend trainings as they are able, yet be ready to self respond during a big earthquake event. | |||
'''A:''' Yes, precisely. | |||
'''Q:''' '''What problem is this intended to solve?...''' | |||
... Where is the data to justify it? This smells of someone looking to justify spending or building a palace in the sky rather than fixing a real problem. Of course, if the problem cannot be articulated, the solution is intended serve an ulterior motive. | |||
'''A:''' Yes, PBEM has been recruited by [[wikipedia:Illuminati|The Illuminati]] to use NET to cover up the JFK assassination and this is the first step. I've already started photoshopping NET hard hats on the grassy knoll and printing NET IDs that say "Clint Hill" on them. You found me out. But no seriously, I wrote a whole section answering this question, [https://volunteerpdx.net/index.php/2023-2024_NET_Program_Realignment#What_is_Driving_Realignment? please go back and read it]. Also, do you realize what happens if NETs don't approve these changes? ''I have less work to do.'' I'll bet you didn't expect "Creating more work for myself" as the breathtaking ulterior motive, did you? | |||
===== Q: But NETs <u>will</u> self deploy in response to a windstorm, like the Columbus Day Storm! ===== | |||
'''A:''' Admittedly not impossible, but very unlikely. Hurricanes, for example, can and do knock out cell service (Hurricane Ian, with highest winds at 160 mph, positively murdered cell phone coverage...by comparison, high winds during the Columbus Day Storm were 170 mph near Portland). So yes, in that scenario, a self deployment is possible. But the storm would also need to sneak up on us, without warning. If we saw a storm like that coming (and we almost certainly would) we would prep teams for deployment and therefore it wouldn't be a self-deployment. | |||
So sure...not impossible, but very unlikely. I would prefer to focus on the widespread self deployment we would need in the event of a CSZ quake, because that would be several magnitudes more complicated. If we can handle the earthquake, we can handle a windstorm. | |||
== Notes and References == | == Notes and References == | ||
