Session 5
Emergency Preparedness & Mutual Aid

June 21, 2021 - 5 - 7 PM

Resources for Session 1

This Session Covered:

Disability justice frameworks
Core knowledge, practices and skills for earthquake and fire/smoke preparedness, heat (everyday/disruption/recovery) - i.e. reading maps, go bags, communication systems, home safety measures (i.e. gas, water)
Local examples and tools for mutual aid

Review the Zoom training for Session 5 here.

Thank you so much to our speakers!

Our first panel of speakers:

Tre Vasquez (from MG in Santa Rosa) Santa Cruz County or Sonoma or Cooperation Humboldt: (15’) How they set up mutual aid systems and how they used it during and after fires)
Disability Justice Culture Club - Patrice (10’) (practical how mutual aid is set up - how it was used (fire, power shut off, pandemic) - show mutual aid system
Kerry Fugett (Daily Acts) - Share Recovers.org and other mutual aid as a resource (5’)
Hoi-Fei Mok (City of San Leandro) shared a pod mapping tool

Our 2nd Panel of Speakers: This panel of governmental staff covered basic emergency management.

Please sign up for CORE classes, if you live in Oakland! Here is the link.
Donate to support the Disability Justice Culture Club.
Review this list of suggested materials to have on hand for your site, to get ready for various types of emergencies.
Work with our Climate Action Corps Fellows to complete your site assessment, or complete it on your own! It includes actions to take to be prepared for various emergencies. The link can be found here.
Look at signing up your community for Recovers.org.
Review the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective’s pod mapping worksheet https://batjc.wordpress.com/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/