Community Preparedness Team Strategic Plan: Difference between revisions
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|Portland NET is an urban volunteer disaster response program. | |Portland NET is an urban volunteer disaster response program. | ||
|Organization and training of volunteers must consider the urban landscape, particularly when PBEM adopts curriculum from other programs. For example, CERT programming from FEMA is best suited for residential suburban and rural communities. NET has modified CERT curriculum to consider vertical communities (e.g. apartment buildings) and organizing into multiple teams across city neighborhoods as opposed to having a single "Portland" team. | |Organization and training of volunteers must consider the urban landscape, particularly when PBEM adopts curriculum from other programs. For example, CERT programming from FEMA is best suited for residential suburban and rural communities. NET has modified CERT curriculum to consider vertical communities (e.g. apartment buildings) and organizing into multiple teams across city neighborhoods as opposed to having a single "Portland" team. | ||
As an accessory to this policy driver, programming should consider that approximately 47% of Portlanders are renters.<ref>''State of Housing report''. (n.d.). Portland.gov. https://www.portland.gov/phb/state-of-housing-report</ref> | |||
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|Disaster response volunteers have access to sensitive information, vulnerable populations, secure property access, and taxpayer-owned equipment. | |||
|For this reason, disaster response volunteers must undertake a criminal background check. If a volunteer serves in the EOC, they should read and sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). | |||
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|Communities will organize their own disaster response volunteer teams. | |||
|It is not the responsibility of PBEM or the City of Portland to manage neighborhood-based teams of disaster response volunteers; only to support them through training, equipment, and information. Community organizing must happen at the community level. | |||
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