CARD CAN HELP:
- community service providers by offering empowering, cost-effective training that allows them to keep their consumers and staff safe, and understand how to keep their businesses open and operating after a disaster.
- special needs communities by creating a safety net of their trained and trusted services agencies.
- government by connecting all parts of our community for a united response.
- traditional emergency responders by training the community to work in partnership with police, fire, Office of Emergency Services, and other disaster service agencies.
- businesses by strengthening the resiliency of service providers such as childcare, eldercare or other critical components of a strong, thriving business community.
- faith-based organizations by helping them provide support, information and guidance to their congregants in times of disaster.
- foundations and corporate sponsors by helping secure their investments in agencies and the vulnerable communities they support.
- the general public by creating an easy way for all people to fully participate in preparedness and response, in their own way.
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 Planning
In simple, inexpensive and straightforward 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 name-tag 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. SKIP Kits and Everyday Preparedness Tools
SKIP (Safety Kept In Place) Kits let you keep a few simple, extremely helpful items in a convenient location. These basic items can let you be more prepared without spending a fortune. Practice your creative thinking skills to learn how to be resourceful with everyday resources.
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 information about community events, 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
- Prepare to Prosper / Joy of Preparedness – principles and insights of the CARD philosophy
- 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: Public Information Officer (PIO) function/ Media Relations for Nonprofits
- Disease Containment and Prevention Strategies
