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SCHEDULE

STARTING AT 9:00AM with coffee & pastries

PAVILLION

Readiness for Emergencies

9:30AM

NPREP - Elizabeth Bindshadler 

Discover essential strategies for ensuring you're prepared at personal, household, neighborhood, and community levels

Neighborhood Preparedness Best Practices

10:30AM

NPREP - Deborah Stinson

Gain valuable insights from experienced volunteers as Neighborhood Leads share their strategies across the preparedness spectrum, from initial efforts to advanced tactics

Emergency Simulation

11:30AM

Multi-Agency

Dovetailing on last year's disaster briefing, this year's scenario will focus on our neighborhoods and communities experiencing disaster in their own back yard. Following the briefing will be a Q&A period with our panel of experts. 

HAY BARN

9:30AM

Wildfire Preparedness

NPREP - Elizabeth Bindshadler 

Discover essential strategies for ensuring you're prepared at personal, household, neighborhood, and community levels

10:30AM

Summer Heat & Smoke Safety

Public Health - Apple Martine Explore the importance of air quality during wildfire season and the health risks associated with extreme heat and wildfire smoke. Learn about the warning signs of both heat-related illnesses, and wildfire smoke exposure, and practical strategies for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones from heat and smoke.

12:30PM

Compassionate Living: Blunting the Effects of Disaster

Kees Kolff

Living with resilience and compassion reduces the personal & community effects of crisis and disasters. 

1:30PM

Wild Fire Evacuation - TBD

EJFR- Chief Black + Company

A survivors tale. 

TASTING PORCH

9:30AM

Neighborhood Organization: Whats a Hub?

NPREP - Deborah Stinson

How Neighborhoods Can Be Organized During Crisis/Disasters

10:30AM

Structure Safety Post Earthquake

Sam Neville, CERT

Is my home safe following an earth quake? Is it safe for me to go into someone's damaged home to help them? What can I do to make my home safer and more resilient from the effects of an earthquake?

PARLOR

Gardening for Life, Community & Resilience

10:30AM

Mary Hunt

Be it pots or plots, No time or Some time: How to garden for yourself, your community and to be resilient against crisis and disaster. 

The Poop on Dysentery:
The Disease that Lost Wars

10:30AM

Dave Codier 

Dysentery: A common post disaster disease that can be debilitating or fatal

THE FIELD

12PM

30+ Community Booths

Obstacle Course, Bounce Zone and Family Fun!

1PM

FREE Strawberry Shortcake

Sponsored by Jefferson Healthcare

3PM

Resilience Games

Tug of war, Bucket Brigade and Sack Race 

for All Ages

Goals for Preparedness Day​

  • Raise awareness of the importance of Emergency Preparedness

  • Provide Access to EP resources and networks 

  • Build community / strengthen relationships

  • Strengthening the working relationships among EP partners 

  • Strengthen community resilience in general 

  • Skill building for community members

  • Reaching folks that have never been a part of the EP world is a priority

 

More broadly, we seek to inspire every Jefferson County resident to prepare to survive without access to food, water and medical attention outside of their neighborhood. 3 Days prepared = Good, Two Weeks prepared = Better, 30 Days prepared = Best!

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