Community Education Curricula
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Community Resilience Workbook
The Community Resilience Workbook is PBEM's principal community resilience curriculum publication. PBEM produced it in partnership with Voz, APANO, and Latino Network in 2018 and 2019. Before PBEM published the Community Resilience Workbook, staff distributed Map Your Neighborhood (MYN). The Community Resilience Workbook was designed to remedy ongoing problems with MYN and have a curriculum:
- Whose design started with equity and inclusion, in order to produce something culturally competent and appealing to many different Portland communities;
- That was relatively easy to print;
- Was available in multiple languages;
- Featured more engaging graphic design than found in most other curricula available.
Specifications
Finishing size is 8 ½" x 8 ½", full color CYMK; color/ink 4/4 with heavy coverage. Printed on REC 90# White-11, recycled content preferred. Booklet is coil bound (PBEM usually uses a clear coil).[1] Composed in InDesign. Graphic design and layout completed by Hexad.
Appropriate Use and Facilitator's Guide
The Community Resilience Workbook was designed to engage a broad social spectrum and generally works well for any gathered group of community members who want to engage in disaster resilience. More specialized curricula might be a better match for some audiences (e.g. tenants in an apartment building might prefer to consider the Vertical Communities Toolkit produced by the Pearl District Neighborhood Association).
While in the production process, PBEM recognized the need for a Workbook facilitator's guide.
Project history
Prior to starting the Workbook, PBEM relied on Map Your Neighborhood (MYN) as the go-to community resilience curriculum. But MYN had a number of problems: it was (weirdly) copyrighted, it was poorly designed for simple printing (meaning the public had to rely on PBEM to print them copies), several of its concepts were outdated, it was not produced with an equity lens, and it was available only in English. Facilitator guidance did exist as a series of videos, but they were difficult to find because the videos were often taken down from YouTube (possibly because of the copyrighting).
Everyone on PBEM's Community Resilience Team recognized the need to replace MYN as soon as possible. Regina Ingabire led the effort and began development with a series of focus groups in the second half of 2018. Participants in the focus groups included representatives from Voz, APANO, and Latino Network. The focus group produced an initial workbook draft released for review on 11/30/2018. That version of the workbook was roundly rejected by community partners, and the next revision went out on 02/02/2019. About this time, Regina brought graphic design firm Hexad in to begin illustrating workbook concepts and a second draft went out in early March 2019. The final version was completed in Spring 2019, and Hexad began producing versions in multiple languages.
PBEM kicked off initial print runs of the workbook with an extensive campaign envisioned to bring the publication to multiple communities. Unfortunately, the COVID pandemic in early 2020 handily obliterated that plan, and the Workbook never made a strong debut.
Community Education Curricula: not published by PBEM
Red Cross Prepare! Resource Guide
PDF available at: https://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/about-us/our-work.html
Be 2 Weeks Ready
https://www.oregon.gov/oem/hazardsprep/pages/2-weeks-ready.aspx
Disaster Preparedness Tokyo Manual ("Tokyo Bosai")
PDF available in English at: https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/english/guide/bosai/index.html.[2]
Tokyo Bosai is a disaster preparedness manual (modeled after a manga) developed for Tokyo households by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and available in English. Though the content is comprehensive and high quality, PBEM has declined to publish and distribute it. Printing costs for a manual of this size makes for a very low return on investment (particularly printing information that anyone can find online for free). Though the manual is popular in Japan, there is no credible data suggesting Portlanders consume disaster preparedness information the same way Tokyoites do.
From the website linked above:
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has compiled a manual called “Disaster Preparedness Tokyo” (Tokyo Bousai) to help households get fully prepared for various potential disasters, including an earthquake directly hitting Tokyo. “Disaster Preparedness Tokyo” is tailored to the various local features of Tokyo, such as its urban structure and the lifestyles of its residents. It contains easy-to-understand information on how to prepare for and respond to a disaster. This information is useful both in the event of an emergency and to help you prepare proactively now.
A Portland-centered version, created by a local artist, is rumored to be published soon.
Connection is Protection
PDF available at: https://fairvieworegon.gov/431/Emergency-Preparedness