Resources

Some of our member's favorite resources!

Planning and Coordination

• Agency Emergency Plan -  A Simplified Version for Community-Based Organizations - A brief planning guide to walk you through what your agency needs to have in place to prepare for a disaster. - Bay Area Emergency Preparedness Coalition for Seniors and People with Disabilities

• Disaster Planning for Nonprofits Guide: Resources, discussions prompts, checklists and tips for you and your team to generate a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP).  - Nonprofit Association of Oregon and Safe & Ready Nonprofits

• Partnering for Strength: MOUs, Getting Your Relationships in Print: Learn how to prepare an MOU to formalize and institutionalize relationships so that they will withstand the loss of key personnel or other disruptive effects of a disaster. Download Agency Emergency Plan Workbook. - Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster (CARD)

• Crisis Communication Plan Toolkit: Template for nonprofits to adapt. - Colorado Nonprofit Association

• Community-Based Organization Disaster Response Preparedness Toolkit: Things to consider when creating a business plan, pivoting programs, and leading an organization during a disaster response.  - Mercy Corps Northwest

Earthquake Preparedness

• Preparing for the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) Event: OSU Extension provides a free, online training program with four modules to help individuals and communities know what to expect and how to respond during and after the CSZ, with a strong focus on community resilience and support. This self-paced program is designed to help agency staff, volunteers and neighborhood leaders learn how to prepare now to provide the needed services and leadership for a disaster. A great complement to your training and development programming!

  • Module 1 (What is the Cascadia Subduction Zone Event?): Estimated to take about 2 hours.

  • Module 2 (The Experience): Estimated to take about 1.5 hours.

  • Module 3 (It's Time to Get Ready!): Estimated to take about 2 hours.

  • Module 4 (For the Professional: Building Resiliency and Expanding Capacity): Estimated to take about 40 minutes for each session (4.1 or 4.2).

Health and Wellness Support

• Psychological First Aid (PFA): Psychological First Aid (PFA) Online is a 5-hour interactive online course that helps participants learn the core actions of PFA and describes ways to apply them in different post-disaster scenarios and with different survivor needs. This course also covers provider well-being before, during, and after disasters. This course is relevant for new providers who are wanting to be oriented to PFA, as well as for seasoned practitioners who want a review of the PFA concepts. This 5-hour interactive online training offers a certificate of completion with 5 CEs upon completion.

• Building Workforce Resilience through the Practice of Psychological First Aid: This course offers you the opportunity to consider and pursue strategies for supporting colleagues and team members during a disaster response as stress levels increase for workers and the demands on your organization become more urgent. The goal of this course is to help individuals you work with cope with stress at manageable levels making it possible for them to effectively function and build resilience with each successive event they encounter. Climate change, the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, and a global pandemic have put workers across the workforce sectors in challenging and often distressing circumstances. Individuals who possess effective coping and stress management skills characterize a resilient workforce. 

Volunteer Tools

• Oregon Volunteers in Disaster (ORVID):  When disasters strike, every minute counts, and the effectiveness of disaster relief efforts heavily relies on well-organized, volunteer response efforts. ORVID is an all-in-one volunteer management system, bringing together volunteers and essential disaster response organizations. Volunteers can create a comprehensive profile, highlighting their expertise, availability, and areas of interest. While on the other end, disaster response organizations can post specific projects and opportunities, detailing the skills required and the location of each project. ORVID is ideal for emergency managers and various organizations active in disaster including government agencies, non-profits, and tribal organizations. - Oregon Serves

Wildfire Smoke

• Wildfire Smoke Online Course: This online course will discuss several topics including: air quality measurements, potential health effects and symptoms, proper usage of filtering facepiece respirators, and details about the rules. It concludes with a quiz, certificate of completion, and additional resources to further your knowledge about wildfire smoke protection. Available en Español