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Overview
We're Ready Facilitator Training will prepare community leaders to facilitate the We're Ready Community Disaster Preparedness workshops.
We’re Ready! Community Disaster Preparedness Facilitator Training is designed to equip community leaders and interested individuals with the knowledge and skills required to adapt and deliver We’re Ready! workshops within their own communities. The training emphasizes capacity-building, enabling facilitators to tailor workshop content to diverse local contexts.
We’re Ready! Community Disaster Preparedness Workshop
The purpose of the WR! Community Disaster Preparedness workshop is to facilitate communities in designing and implementing their own disaster plans through interactive and engaging community-building activities. The goal is that through participation, residents are collectively prepared for emergencies and respond in ways that reduce confusion and distress, prevent injury, save lives, and minimize or avoid damage. WR! achieves this through a series of interactive and engaging activities that encourage participants to collaborate, share knowledge, and build strong social networks—key elements in effective disaster preparedness and response.
Facilitator Training - Learning Outcomes:
💡Organize and deliver We’re Ready! workshops in collaboration with local communities
💡Adapt workshop content to reflect the specific needs, risks, and contexts of participating communities
💡Implement all components of the workshop, from participant registration through to evaluation
Participants will be able to:
✅Adapt workshop activities (from registration to evaluation) to a selected community context
✅Demonstrate facilitation skills through role-play exercises, apply workshop activities and build experiential knowledge
✅Facilitate development of a community-based disaster plan, ( e.g., hazard and evacuation maps, communication strategies, and a community capacity inventory
Workshop Details:
Free lunch is provided
We're Ready! Community Disaster Preparedness Workshop and Trainings were developed with support from the Town of High River, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and York University.
LOCATION:
City of Edmonton Mill Creek Community Services Office
#221 Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre Professional Centre
8300 Whyte Avenue NW
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