So often we think of Mass Care in terms of shelters and mass feeding operations. Though these services are important in short term disaster relief, many “smaller” or more niche aspects of mass care are just as important and in fact they are essential towards building a long-term recovery plan for communities here in San Francisco and the surrounding region. Examples might be:
- Emotional and Spiritual Care (non-licensed mental health services)
- Immigrant Community Outreach/multi-lingual capabilities
- Youth Services, especially for challenged youth groups
- Victim Services
- Women’s Services
You have been invited to participate in this important workshop because you and your agency has services necessary in serving people after disasters of nature and human making. This program has been designed by the San Francisco VOAD to help you identify the unique and important resources you have as an organization, and to build collaboration amongst attending agencies that will have a role in helping communities after a disaster.
Sign up today. These few hours will be time well spent getting you plugged in to our City’s disaster response network.
Proposed Program
0830 – 0900 Registration and Network
0900 – 1000 Essential Components of Disaster Relief: Exploring the Vital Need for Community Groups in Disaster Relief
1000 – 1020 Break and Network
1020 – 1140 Group Exercise: Forming Community Responses to Meet Needs of Affected Individuals
1140 – 1200 Wrap Up and Next Steps
1200 Adjourn
So often we think of Mass Care in terms of shelters and mass feeding operations. Though these services are important in short term disaster relief, many “smaller” or more niche aspects of mass care are just as important and in fact they are essential towards building a long-term recovery plan for communities here in San Francisco and the surrounding region. Examples might be:
- Emotional and Spiritual Care (non-licensed mental health services)
- Immigrant Community Outreach/multi-lingual capabilities
- Youth Services, especially for challenged youth groups
- Victim Services
- Women’s Services
You have been invited to participate in this important workshop because you and your agency has services necessary in serving people after disasters of nature and human making. This program has been designed by the San Francisco VOAD to help you identify the unique and important resources you have as an organization, and to build collaboration amongst attending agencies that will have a role in helping communities after a disaster.
Sign up today. These few hours will be time well spent getting you plugged in to our City’s disaster response network.
Proposed Program
0830 – 0900 Registration and Network
0900 – 1000 Essential Components of Disaster Relief: Exploring the Vital Need for Community Groups in Disaster Relief
1000 – 1020 Break and Network
1020 – 1140 Group Exercise: Forming Community Responses to Meet Needs of Affected Individuals
1140 – 1200 Wrap Up and Next Steps
1200 Adjourn
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