Community Preparedness Team Strategic Plan: Difference between revisions
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|PBEM is an "all hazards" emergency management organization. | |PBEM is an "all hazards" emergency management organization. | ||
|Community programming must consider the region's disaster risks (preferably through a formal hazard identification and risk assessment) and be mindful of how different disasters require different community resources. For example, the differences in how communities prepare for an earthquake compared to preparation for an extreme weather event. | |Community programming must consider the region's disaster risks (preferably through a formal hazard identification and risk assessment) and be mindful of how different disasters require different community resources. For example, the differences in how communities prepare for an earthquake compared to preparation for an extreme weather event. | ||
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|Communities underserved by government bear the brunt of a disaster. | |||
|Those communities may include immigrant communities, communities of color, persons with disabilities, and low-income households. To address this, PBEM advocates for the application of [https://belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2022-12/Targeted%20Universalism%20Primer.pdf Targeted Universalism]. | |||
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|Communities | |Communities manage 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. | |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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