Tabletops & Practice
Action: Check out the online courses available through FEMA that could help you feel more prepared. Sign up for a CPR or First Aid course when it is safe to do so, and consider that defensive driving course as well. Sign up to volunteer with a local organization or group such as CERT, the American Red Cross, or a local fire department. And remember, not everyone has the capacity to plan and supply beforehand, so find a local food bank to use or donate to depending on your circumstances, and help out our undocumented (1, 2), indigenous (1, 2), and trans friends through mutual aid programs as they face this virus with fewer resources and less government support than should be the case.
Educate: Read all about how you can troubleshoot and scenario build for your own emergency plans and practices. Think through what a family, neighborhood, or workplace tabletop exercise could look like for your communities, and use our Community Tabletop Exercise Presentation from the week of May 18, 2020.
Source Material: Click through the links to the source material we used to research this week – take a deep dive into what was most interesting to you!
- Practicing Your Emergency Plan from Texas Ready
- Disaster preparedness from IFRC
- Exercises from Ready.gov
- CERT Tabletop Exercises from FEMA
- Example TTX Presentation from Colorado Community Health Network
- How Tabletop Exercises Can Help Prepare For Emergencies from AlertMedia
- 7 Steps To Preparedness – Step #6: Practice Emergency Plans from Preparis
- USA: ‘It won’t happen to me’: Why people don’t prepare for disasters from PreventionWeb
- How Psychological Biases Shaped My Response to This Pandemic from Psychology Today
