GNY Winter Training Weekend 2024

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the liaison’s roles, responsibilities and assignment settings within the framework of the disaster cycle.
• Explain the liaison’s role in preparedness efforts.
• Manage and communicate critical information, offers and requests during the response phase.
• Explain how to engage with partners to organize recovery efforts.
• Describe the importance of coordinating with internal and external partners to meet needs and enhance service delivery.
• Identify tools and resources for emergency management and relief operation settings.
• Identify next steps to becoming an effective liaison by creating an action plan.

Audience:
Individuals interested in becoming government liaisons who have previous Red Cross experience and have completed the course prerequisites.
Prerequisites:
Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview

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Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Advocate for inclusive emergency management and response.
• Implement key skills and strategies to find and engage diverse populations.
• Build trust, increase access to programs, and build relationships with diverse community partners.
• Deliver services in a culturally and linguistically competent manner.

Prerequisites

• Mass Care: An Overview
• Everyone is Welcome
• Partner Engagement Essentials
• Psychological First Aid: Helping Others in Times of Stress

Al servicio de los latinos y las poblaciones diversas es un curso de nivel básico que puede impartirse virtualmente o en persona.
Este curso prepara a los voluntarios y al personal para comprender la gestión inclusiva de emergencias, desarrollar estrategias para implicar a poblaciones diversas de forma significativa, generar confianza y aumentar el acceso en comunidades diversas, y mejorar la competencia cultural de la fuerza laboral.

Collaborating Essentials

Want to be the best collaborator you can be?

This full-day interactive class promotes teamwork at its best, practicing skills necessary for collaborating successfully within Red Cross & with partners/other organizations. Recommended for leadership positions and required for some.

Target audience: ALL Red Crossers!

Prerequisite:

• Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview

Great Instructor-

The course is intended to teach Red Cross volunteers and staff who are interested in serving in the Public Affairs activity on national Red Cross relief operations as Service Associates or Supervisors. This course is designed to teach Red Cross visual guidelines to a mixed audience of novice to expert photographers and videographers to support objectives during disaster. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in open discussions to reinforce important concepts and meet segment objectives.

Prerequisites

• Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview
• Public Affairs Essentials