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. For example, CERT programming from FEMA is best suited for residential communities | |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. | ||
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