Presentation Requests: Difference between revisions

'''One of NETs' most important "blue skies" preparedness tasks is to encourage all-hazard preparedness education, and empower neighbors to develop their own plans.'''

These kinds of questions seek prescriptive answers, and require analysis. Providing that kind of individualized advice is not the job of NETs. (Nor anyone at PBEM.) This is not meant to be mean or lazy. It is ''fantastic'' that your neighbors have the confidence in you to ask! However, NETs are trained to do the greatest good for the greatest number under all-hazard response protocols. Your team may, of course, choose to ''support'' any plan that a business, school, or other organization develops – ''if'' you decide to make it part of your team’s ops strategy among other competing interests, and ''if'' you consider the plan to be safe, and ''if'' scene size-up during an emergency determines it safe for you to respond.

This is a good time to recall the fact that if you were not trained to do something by PBEM, you are not [[Indemnification|indemnified]] for it.’ Family reunification? Seismically retrofitting a building? How to chainsaw a tree? Nope. Specific emergency management planning for business or school entities involves COOP (Continuity of Operations Planning), which is a field of expertise; see [[Presentation Request#Additional Resources|Additional Resources]] below. Private entities must make their own determinations for their emergency assessments and plans, and assume the liability for them. NETs (and most PBEM staff) are not generally qualified to offer specific advice, so it would be inappropriate to do so

* ‘You are the person who is ideally suited to plan for your [students/family/colleagues]. And I want to provide holistic information so that you can figure out what is best for them and you.’

== NETs provide education, not individualized solutions ==

* ''What to say:'' ‘Based on our successful experience with organizations like yours, the best next step for your audience is to schedule our free, 60-75 minute interactive presentation titled ''Emergency Preparedness for You, Your Family, and Your '''Community'''''.’ (Note the intentional emphasis on Community.)  

* This presentation is the foundational [[Speakers Bureau]] presentation. It is is best delivered in-person for a close-knit group, but also can be delivered online.

Please channel the request through PBEM if it all possible by providing this link: https://pbem.link/eprep

When the request is received, PBEM will channel it to the nearby Team Leader(s).

# The form logs the request for PBEM's NET performance metrics, to support budget requests. '''Requests that are not counted are not funded.'''

 

 

''What to say:'' ‘Spending only a few minutes on this important topic is not worth either of our time, and probably will not save any lives in an emergency. I would not want to create more questions than I answer, or provide a false sense of security by merely checking a couple of boxes.’