Step 1 - Map Your Neighbourhood
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Last spring, Mika McKinnon reminded us how party planning can jump start our disaster preparedness (Party Planning for Apocalypse). Dunbar Earthquake and Emergency Preparedness coaches people into getting prepared in a small “ice-breaking” activity: Map Your Neighbourhood.
When communities organize on a block-by-block pattern, we have the building blocks of a prepared community. Dunbar Earthquake and Emergency Preparedness (DEEP) works to prepare the Dunbar area for when the whole City gets disrupted.
VECTOR partners with DEEP in 4 ways:
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Helping DEEP keep the amateur radio in the Dunbar Disaster Support Hub programmed to VECTOR’s list
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Helping DEEP members understand how to use their GMRS radios effectively
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Helping DEEP reach the community
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Helping DEEP locate local amateur radio operators outside VECTOR
Follow-up
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How DEEP operates the Dunbar DSH: with video
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Connect with VECTOR’s partnership team
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Attend a Map Your Neighbourhood session and learn how VECTOR volunteers might help: register
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Join a live Disaster Support Hub field exercise: example from 2017