DISASTER RESPONSE SPRING TRAINING
2 locations and dates

Training Tracks:
Mass Feeding
Prayer/Counseling
Distribution of Goods
Medical

Sponsored by: (On our flyer, we don’t list these, but put the logos for the orgs.  If that is easy to do, email me and I can just email the man who made the flyer and he’ll send them to me  I could get them to you right away.)
Network of Hope
Relief Ministries Calvary Chapel Sarasota
Mercy Chefs
Operation Compassion
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Manatee County
God’s Pit Crew

April 3, 5, 10, 12
July 17, 19, 24, 26

• Introduction to disasters (all-hazard approach)
• Disaster Fire Suppression
• Disaster Medical Operations

• Light Search and Rescue Operations
• Crisis Management
• Terrorism and CERT

For further information, contact NancyKenney@NetworkofHope.net
or call 941-727-3279

OTHER SUGGESTED TRAININGS – Times and Places TBA
For further info on any of the following trainings please contact NancyKenney@NetworkofHope.net  or call 941-727-3279

• Creating a Comprehensive Church Disaster Response Plan For Ministering to Your Neighborhood  (for individual churches upon invitation)

  • You not only have a building and a congregation to care for, but a community

  • Become a Neighborhood Center
     

• Early Response Training and Certification – 1 day training - includes chain saw and tarping segments (Coming in the spring - dates and times TBA)

  • Training and certification are required to have access to devastated areas of your community

  • Learn the basics of disaster response and safety

  • How to develop a successful disaster response team
     

• Resources and the FEMA Process (Coming in the spring - dates and times TBA)

  • Help survivors with the confusing process of getting through the FEMA process

  • Know the local, state, and national resources available to survivors
     

• Ministering to Disaster Survivors (Coming in the spring - dates and times TBA)

  • Know how to properly support survivors as they deal with the stress and problems of a disaster

  • Some of the elements:

    • What to do and what NOT to do

    • Bringing Christ into their situation

    • How to reduce the survivor’s sense of isolation, helplessness, and frustration
       

• Caring For Your Volunteers (Coming in the spring - dates and times TBA)

  • Know how to care for the responders

  • Some of the elements:

    • The psychological difficulties and dangers of disaster response

    • How do you know when one of your volunteers is in trouble?

    • The necessity of looking out for one another

    • Can you recognize the signs of compassion fatigue

• Training / Round Table Discussions for each of the Response Teams

• Volunteerism
  • How to Get Them / How to Keep Them / How to work together to get the best out of both of you