CARD trainings provided in English, Spanish and ASL (American Sign Language).Get Ready! Preparedness Fair: Thursday, May 26th, 10am-3pm, Oakland Coliseum, FREE!
Learn FAST, FUN, EASY emergency preparedness skills & meet disaster response agencies and vendors! Click HERE for more info.
THIS IS A DRILL!
CARD is pleased to be reporting from the Alameda County Emergency
Operations Center (EOC) in the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office in
Dublin. Operation Independence aka #OpIndy Is underway! Please note
all posts with the tag #OpIndy are about a DRILL, NOT A REAL
EMERGENCY. The purpose of Operation Independence is to evaluate
current response and capabilities in the event of a public health
emergency — in this case, an Anthrax release. CARD’s Executive
Director, Ana-Marie Jones will be serving in the Public Information
Office for the event. She is live-tweeting the exercise, and injecting
what community agencies are saying, doing, asking. Other CARD staff
and volunteers are dispatched throughout the EOC. CARD will be
contacting liaison officers throughout Alameda County to offer
assistance in reaching out nonprofits and faith based organizations
serving the public during. CARD will be blogging and tweeting in
real-time throughout the event. Please use this an an opportunity to
share about your preparedness and response commitments. Please be sure
to put THIS IS A DRILL at the beginning and end of any conversation
you may have have about this.
After more than a year of work, CARD is so pleased that the final language of AB 903 includes language covering Intermediary private nonprofits – a vital link in community response to emergencies! Although the road has been long, we appreciate the many positive relationships that have been built and the openness CalEMA has had in hearing our ideas and concerns. Great job everyone!
You can view the final wording of the bill below:
San Francisco Interactive Media Summit (SF-IM) at USF: Interactive Media for Public Purposes in Journalism, Government and Public Relations
Saturday, March 05, 2011 from 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM (PT),,San Francisco, CA
SF-IM is featuring a diverse array of presenters, including:
Get 50% off the Regular Registration price by using the discount code “fop” (short for Friend of Presenter) when registering at:
From our partner Nancy Sutton at Cal EMA:
After considering all public comments, objections and recommendations, Cal EMA has developed changes to the initial regulatory text noticed on April 23, 2010. Any interested person, or his/her authorized representative, may submit written comments relevant only to the changes to the proposed text which are indicated by double underlining for additions or strikethrough for deletions. The 15-day written comment period closes at 5:00 p.m. on February 16, 2011.
The Notice, the revised text and the Initial Statement of Reasons are attached for your convenience. These are also available on our website at www.calema.ca.gov
As the year 2010 comes to an end, take time to reflect on — and document — all that was and wasn’t accomplished with your emergency preparedness and disaster readiness initiatives. Thumb through your to-do lists, preparedness promises, planning calendars and other records to capture: what worked, what didn’t, what still needs to be done, and what items should be revisited.
It doesn’t matter whether your projects were booming successes, crashing failures, non-starters or something else. Whatever you find, simply acknowledge it, document it, and move forward. Begin 2011 by being complete with 2010, strengthened by your successes and failures, with a clean slate, and with renewed energy for future efforts.
Tip: Give the members of your team the opportunity to be complete as well. Whether they were the rock stars of readiness or the dead-weights of your disaster work, give everyone the chance to start fresh.
Happy New Year to all. Thank you for supporting CARD and our efforts to serve nonprofits! We are looking forward to serving you in 2011.
For safety and preparedness enthusiasts, Halloween offers great opportunities. Many popular Halloween items are excellent for preparing people and making facilities safer — especially for evacuations in the dark or when there are power failures. A fun preparedness task for everyone on your team is to be on the lookout for great sales and inventive uses for: lightsticks, reflective tape, glow-in-the-dark paint or appliqués, and reflectors. All of these items can be used to help people navigate more safely in the dark or just feel more comfortable when the lights go out.
Other excellent Halloween items include voice amplifiers and recorders. Being small enough to fit under masks and costumes, these small devices make excellent evacuation aids.
Task everyone to make use of the post-Halloween sales to stock up on some of these great safety items.
Tip: Check out the huge Halloween SuperStores — they often have awesome sales on some slightly dented or imperfect items!
CESA2010′s 
Keynote Speaker is everywhere. Amanda Ripley wrote the cover story for this week’s Time magazine. Today, she’ll be signing copies of her book “The Unthinkable,” a study of the brain’s physiological and psychological responses to potentially trauma-inducing scenarios. Meet Amanda. Have her sign your book. Today from 12:00-1:30pm.
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