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CARD provides disaster preparedness and emergency response training that empowers nonprofits, businesses and faith-based organizations to work with government and each other in serving clients with special needs.
The core curriculum includes:
1. Basic Agency Emergency Plan
In simple, inexpensive and straight-forward steps, this course helps you develop, update and maintain an Emergency Plan tailored to your individual agency and designed to work in harmony with other community agencies and the overall emergency response structure. Participants receive a basic plan template and learn simple action steps to complete and customize it to their particular needs.
2. Incident Command System (ICS) for Community Responders
This is the most user-friendly, easily-understood training available on responding to emergencies and managing disasters in California. This training gives the basic information without extra acronyms or unnecessary complexities, and leaves participants able to mobilize their own response operations. Participants receive a simple clipboard and nametag system that clearly outlines disaster roles and responsibilities.
3. Self & Home Preparedness
This is a very personal look at preparedness, designed to address fears and move past barriers, and is tailored to individual needs of participants. Help employees, volunteers, or community members feel secure in their ability to deal effectively with emergencies, learn simple response skills, and feel safer - at home, at work or on the road.
4. Non-structural Hazard Reduction Workshop
This assessment focuses on making the physical environment of the office safer for employees, volunteers and clients. Participants learn their agency's physical strengths and vulnerabilities, understand how to improve them, and learn to estimate the cost of hazard reduction efforts. Participants are given specific action suggestions to improve the safety of their physical environment.
5. Disaster Exercise Scenario / hands-on practice
Using earthquakes, Shelter-in- Place emergencies or other disaster scenarios, we help agencies test their disaster plans and refresh skills. These exercises provide an opportunity for agencies to update or expand their plans, test Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), and learn to work effectively with government and other emergency responders.
6. Agency Cluster Meetings
These community meetings support agencies in building relationships with emergency services staff and with other community organizations. They are an opportunity to share emergency response and disaster preparedness information, share about events at your agency, learn to develop MOUs, and create partnerships and critical linkages with agencies providing necessary services.
CARD develops and provides trainings on new topics as circumstances warrant. Modified, advanced or specialized versions of these classes are available upon request. Some of CARD's additional courses include:
- CARD Basics - Overview of CARD services and courses
- Shelter-in-Place - training and hands-on exercise
- Planning for the Unthinkable: Everyone Survives
(who our vulnerable residents are and why they are more vulnerable and harder to reach)
- Disaster Preparedness for Childcaregivers and Parents
- Workshop: Building Your Emergency Go-Kit
- Workshop: Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
- Workshop: PIO function/ Media Relations for Nonprofits
- Disease Containment and Prevention Strategies
For further information on CARD training classes, email us or call (510) 451-3140.
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