The State of Oregon has launched a new Be 2 Weeks Ready emergency preparedness toolkit. This program offers 8 modules and a variety of activities to enhance each module.
Being 2 Weeks Ready means having an emergency plan and enough supplies for you and everyone in your household to survive for at least two weeks following a disaster. This may sound overwhelming, but you’re probably more prepared than you think! The Be 2 Weeks Ready program is designed to help you start from where you’re at and build your self-reliance and community preparedness step-by-step.
The State of Oregon Community Preparedness Coordinator, Kayla Thompson, says:
“You can access the toolkit on your own at any time by going to our website, https://www.oregon.gov/oem/hazardsprep/pages/2-weeks-ready.aspx.
… For this program, a community is any group of people who spends time together. … Communities could be co-workers at a job, parents and guardians of students in a school, neighborhood associations, faith-based groups, or even students in a college dorm.
Again, this program can be done individually, but we’ve added that community structure. So it starts with the Community Preparedness Coordinator at OEM, which is me. I manage the program and I support the program coordinators. The program coordinators are individuals who are in an outreach or a training position and want to bring this program to their community. They then select community hosts who are people within their community who want to teach this information to others.
And lastly, the communities are the groups of people who want to learn the preparedness information.”
Learn more about the program, access the materials, learn how to become a coordinator or host, and get more information at the above link.
Ready NW Be 2 Weeks Ready trained coordinator Dawn Scott is preparing to roll out this training in northwest Eugene and welcomes collaboration with other Eugene coordinators. Contact her at readynweugene@gmail.com.
–Dawn Scott / Robert Sprowl / Ed Farren
Ready NW Eugene Coordinating Committee
Ready NW Eugene YouTube Channel
ReadyNWEugene@gmail.com
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