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Stacey McCullough 2024 Bonnie Teater Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient pictured with SRDC Director, Dr. John J. Green
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Ready Community

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Building Disaster-Resilient Places

Coaching Tools

Step One

Forming a Collaborative Planning Team (Pre-planning meeting time: One hour; Session time: Two hours)

Forming a Collaborative Planning Team (Pre-planning meeting time: One hour; Session time: Two hours)

Step Two

Understanding the Situation – Vulnerability and Resilience (Time: Two hours and 30 minutes)

Understanding the Situation – Vulnerability and Resilience (Time: Two hours and 30 minutes)

Step Three

Determining Goals and Objectives (Time: Two hours)

Determining Goals and Objectives (Time: Two hours)

Step Four

Developing the Plan (Time: Two hours and 40 minutes)

  • Brainstorm options for achieving the goals and objectives developed in Step Three.
  • Assess the community's capacity to carry out the options generated by participants and then select the most viable options using a variety of tools
  • Develop an implementation plan that details the activities to be performed for each option and aligns these options to the components of the disaster cycle (prevention, preparation, response, and recovery)
  • Training Materials:

Developing the Plan (Time: Two hours and 40 minutes)

  • Brainstorm options for achieving the goals and objectives developed in Step Three.
  • Assess the community's capacity to carry out the options generated by participants and then select the most viable options using a variety of tools
  • Develop an implementation plan that details the activities to be performed for each option and aligns these options to the components of the disaster cycle (prevention, preparation, response, and recovery)
  • Training Materials:

Step Five

Plan Preparation, Review, and Approval (Time: Two hours and 50 minutes)

Plan Preparation, Review, and Approval(Time: Two hours and 50 minutes)

Step Six

Implementing, Reviewing, Revising, and Maintaining the Plan (Time: One hour)

Implementing, Reviewing, Revising, and Maintaining the Plan (Time: One hour)

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