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Completing the Capacity Assessment does two things. First, it defines your community's baseline for mitigating the impact of an earthquake. Second, it points where your team needs to go next... | Completing the Capacity Assessment does two things. First, it defines your community's baseline for mitigating the impact of an earthquake. Second, it points where your team needs to go next... | ||
'''To make | '''To make these ideas work, we would need:''' | ||
* To decide what the content of a Capacity Assessment worksheet is and deciding what planning steps are relevant enough to go on it; | * To decide what the content of a Capacity Assessment worksheet is and deciding what planning steps are relevant enough to go on it; | ||
* To design the Capacity Assessment worksheet and guidance for NETs on how to use it. | * To design the Capacity Assessment worksheet and guidance for NETs on how to use it. | ||
'''From the Capacity Assessment comes two products:''' | |||
==== | ==== 4a.) Capacity Plan ==== | ||
...and that place your team is going next is Capacity Planning. The Capacity Assessment gives you the data needed to determine your baseline. But no neighborhood will be "100% ready to mitigate the impact of an earthquake". Being 100% ready is an aspirational goal. The Capacity Plan is the map that takes a team from their baseline assessment to their goal. | ...and that place your team is going next is Capacity Planning. The Capacity Assessment gives you the data needed to determine your baseline. But no neighborhood will be "100% ready to mitigate the impact of an earthquake". Being 100% ready is an aspirational goal. The Capacity Plan is the map that takes a team from their baseline assessment to their goal. | ||
Let's do a simple example with emergency water storage. | Let's do a simple example with emergency water storage. Imagine your Service Area has 32 humans and eight dogs living in it. That many people and pets need 464 gallons of water stored to get them through two weeks safely. During the Capacity Assessment, the neighborhood found out they have 300 gallons already stored. Their Capacity Plan sets up their goal of storing another 164 gallons, so they can get to "100% ready on water storage". | ||
Over the past year, we've | Over the past year, we've published the BEECN Dashboard, which you should have a look at here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=9094103decb2475885daa0b03ac13496. Just as important is the math that goes into the BEECN Dashboard, which you can read about here: [[BEECN Readiness Score#BEECN Score Aggregates]]. The BEECN Dashboard, aside from being important for the BEECN program, was always intended as a pilot concept and proof of feasibility for neighborhood-based resilience scoring. | ||
When PBEM receives a Capacity Plan, it will be scored and go on a dashboard similar to the one designed for BEECN. Teams will receive anonymous designations so that a score is not publicly tied to a specific team. But with an online dashboard, neighborhood members will be able to check their score and come together around the steps needed to increase it. This also leverages the concept of "gamification". Gamifying neighborhood resilience will generally result in greater community participation. For more on gamification, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification. | |||
'''To make these ideas work, we would need:''' | |||
* To design an input system that would extract Capacity Planning data and post it as a dashboard; | |||
* The dashboard, designed similarly to the BEECN dashboard. | |||
==== 4b.) Neighborhood Earthquake Response Frameworks (not NERFs?) ==== | |||
Finally, we get to what I have been calling "Neighborhood Earthquake Response Frameworks", but we'll vote on that name in the survey (I'll use "NERF" as a placeholder for now). These NERFs replace the NET Operations Plans. But they have essentially the same function: they designate response roles, specify the staging areas and communication channels, define prospective resources and vulnerabilities, and prospective response priorities. That information would be extracted from the Capacity Plan and then the NET leader would receive a NERF on a template for distribution in the neighborhood. | |||
'''To make these ideas work, we would need:''' | |||
* Automate linking Capacity Plans to a Response Framework template (should be easy to do with the software PBEM has access to). | |||
=== A Two Year Cycle === | |||
I envision this process of Assessment and Planning on a two year cycle. Over the course of two years, a neighborhood assesses, plans, and meets goals. At the end of two years, they re-assess, consider expanding or retracting their Service Area boundaries,<ref>''However'', I do also envision that teams would have the option of changing their Service Area boundaries at any time they choose.</ref> set new goals, and move forward. | |||
=== How do ATVs and VSFs fit into this plan? === | |||
To recap, an ATV is an Affiliated Team Volunteer. These are volunteers who are not NET trained and are not indemnified by the City of Portland. But they are MOST of the volunteers who make up a Neighborhood Earthquake Response Framework. Most of the people who participate in a NERF will not be NET trained like Glenn and Bob. | |||
So an ATV is WHO they are. A VSF is WHAT THEY DO. A VSF describes an area of volunteer specialization, such as communications or medical response. | |||
When Glenn and his team are doing capacity assessment, the team will realize they need volunteers assigned to specific VSF areas. Maybe, for example, they need two volunteers assigned as radio communicators. | |||
I want to point out that VSFs are important not just for organizing your team, but in maintaining a balance with ATVs between what they put in to a NERF and what they get out of it. For example: you say to an ATV that “if you help us get ready for an earthquake, we’ll arrange for you to be trained and licensed as a HAM operator”. VSFs are how NERF leaders are going to build and solidify relationships with their ATVs. | |||
== Notes and References == | == Notes and References == | ||
