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​
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Raise awareness of the importance of Emergency Preparedness
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Provide Access to EP resources and networks
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Build community / strengthen relationships
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Strengthening the working relationships among EP partners
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Strengthen community resilience in general
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Skill building for community members
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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!
