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Meeting the Needs of Latino Communities in Emergency Management
March 26, 2013
Today’s Webinar Agenda
Welcoming Comments and ICPD Update
• Marcus Coleman, Program Specialist, FEMA ICPD
• Karen Armes, Deputy Regional Administrator, FEMA Region IX
Meeting the Needs of the Latino Community from a Faith-based Perspective
• Martin Garcia, Community Engagement Specialist, World Vision Southern
California
Disaster Preparedness Education for Latino Populations
• Barbara Anderson, Gracie Huerta, and Maria Trochimezuk, Orfalea
Foundation
NaLEC’s Hurricane Sandy Disaster Response
• Rev. Gabriel Salguero, President, National Latino Evangelical Coalition
Promoting Latino Community Resiliency in the Face of a Disaster
• Venus Gines, CEO/Founder and Instructor, Promotores and Community Health Workers at Dia de la Mujer Latina, Inc
Question and Answer Period
Welcome
Karen Armes, Deputy Regional Administrator FEMA Region IX
MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE
LATINO COMMUNITY
(FAITH-BASED PERSPECTIVE)
Martin Garcia, World Vision
Southern California
The Reality
• The outreach for Latino
Ministries sometimes has
been poor
• Disaster trainings are not
basic enough for the
entry level Latino
congregation
• Theological barriers
The Solution
• Develop an intentional and patient outreach for
Latino congregations
• Develop a 101 type of disaster preparedness training
• Make an extra effort to keep including Latino
congregations in this process
• Remember that Latinos congregations are part of a
diverse set of Christian traditions (Roman Catholic,
Pentecostals, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterians, etc)
• Latinos are multigenerational, and congregations are
as well.
DISASTER PREPARE DNESS EDUCATION
FOR LATINO POPULATIONS
M A R C H 2 6 , 2 0 1 3
B A R B A R A A N D E R S E N
O r f a l e a F o u n d a t i o n
G R A C I E H U E R T A & M A R I A T R O C H I M E Z U K P r o g r a m C o n s u l t a n t s
Listos Juntos Hacemos la Diferencia
The Orfalea Foundation
“We envision a resilient community where families and society nurture all children to
become responsible, compassionate, healthy and engaged citizens.”
The Orfalea Foundation
Focus Areas include:
Early Childhood Education
Education
Youth Development
Critical Community Needs
Strategic Initiatives launched in 2007
Aware & Prepare Initiative
Aware & Prepare Initiative
A public-private partnership dedicated to enhancing capabilities to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies and
disasters within the Santa Barbara County Operational Area.
Public-Private Partnership
Aligned strategic planning priorities with government
More comprehensive approach built trust among stakeholders and strengthens sustainability
Priority Theme Areas
Public Education & Awareness
Preparedness
Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations
Emergency Public Information
Authority, Management and Operational Area Coordination
Resources and Personnel
Volunteers and Voluntary Organizations
Public Education & Awareness
Total Population = 431,249 Latino Population = 43.4%
Public Education & Awareness
Santa Maria 70.4%
Guadalupe 86.2%
Lompoc 50.8%
Santa Barbara 37.9%
Buellton 30%
Solvang 29.1%
Goleta 32.8%
Carpinteria 48.7%
Public Education & Awareness
Review and assessment of existing Spanish language emergency preparedness information
Most materials are directly translated from English to Spanish and are not culturally-appropriate
Do not account for issues impacting many Latinos including:
Low literacy rates Cramped living quarters Lack of financial resources
Public Education & Awareness
Facilitated roundtable discussion with Latino community leaders from across sectors to:
Discuss Specific Needs and Gaps
Identify Trusted Information Networks
Develop a List of Available Resources
Listos
Provides Spanish-speaking populations with information about the importance of disaster readiness that includes the sharing of preparedness skills and information with family and friends
Emphasizes targeted recruitment and Spanish-language presentations tailored to the specific cultural and linguistic needs of Latino communities
Listos
Listos Curriculum
Focuses on low-cost to no-cost preparedness
Visually engaging and conversational
Provides education and information that serves participants not only during disasters, but also throughout their everyday lives
Listos Curriculum
Curriculum includes the following topics:
Identifying Vulnerabilities
Fire Extinguisher Use
Important Document Back-Up
Disaster Supply Kits
Utilities Shut-Off
Creating Reunification and Communication Plans
Triage
Disaster Medicine
Team Organization
Disaster Psychology
Listos Train-the-Trainer Curriculum
Building communities and sharing resources is a concept that is highly prized among Latino populations
Listos recognizes this fact and uses it to strengthen communities through disaster preparedness education
Why It Works
Works within the strengths of the Latino community Empowers families to take care of themselves
Bring in other community resources
Curriculum created with target community in mind Oral teaching style
Partners with already established community leaders Allows us to focus less on recruitment
Flexible, adaptable, portable
Key Lessons
Meet them where they are (at work or home)
Neighborhoods
Mobile home parks
Agricultural workers
Welcome children
It’s all about the food!
Challenges
Recruitment
Attendance
Storytelling
Measuring Success
“Sobrevivencia”
Opportunities
Awarded $75,000 Grant from PG&E Foundation
San Luis Obispo County and now into Monterey County
Partnering with California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA)
Los Angeles Region
San Diego County
San Francisco/Bay Area
Partnering with statewide community leaders from community-based organizations, emergency management, and media
Opportunities
State of California
38%
Bay Area
23.5%
Los Angeles
48%
San Diego
32.5%
Program Structure
Program Manager Finance, Administration and Personnel
Scheduling, Logistics, Supply Acquisition and Disbursement
Evaluation and Reporting
Lead Trainer Stakeholder Relationship-Building
Listos Workshops and Train-the-Trainer Sessions
Listos Assistant Trainers Listos Workshops and Listos Program Maintenance
Program Sustainability
Partnering with community leaders
Hosting partners that have already established trust to reach out to community members
Following completion of the Listos Train-the-Trainers course, the new instructor will be asked to promote future Listos trainings
Future Listos Trainers will be required to track their contacts with community members
Program Evaluation
Evaluation criteria for each workshop will include:
Baseline Survey
Number of Listos Train-the-Trainers
Participants Identified for Future Training Sessions
Final Survey
Instructor Evaluation
Year-End Report
Community Empowerment
Knowledge is strength
Confidence and trust to access community resources
Changing lives
Building relationships
General Overview NaLEC’s Hurricane Sandy
Disaster Response
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
Nalec.org Twitter: @NalecNews
(PCAA)
Pool Resources Create Infrastructure
Assess Act
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
• Pooling Resources: What Tools do We Have in our Treasure Chest? What Can/Can’t we do? – Estimated 3,000 Grass Roots Networks local
churches, Not-for-Profits, regional leadership, denominational leadership
– Local Elected Officials
– Large Relief Organizations Convoy of Hope, Covenant World Relief, Nazarene Disaster Relief, Wesleyan Relief
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
•Church of the Nazarene •Office of Councilman Fernando Cabrera •Bronx Borough President •The Wesleyan Church •Evangelical Covenant Church •Assemblies of God •New Life Church •Latino Pastoral Action Center •The Lamb’s Church of the Nazarene •Promise Land Church •Metro Hope •City Line Church •Coast To Coast •NYPD •National Guard •Convoy of Hope •Office of Emergency Management
•ECC Great Lakes District •Nazarene Disaster Relief •Nazarene Compassionate Ministries •Gifted Hands •JUMP •Association of Latino Chaplains •Thessalonica Church •Concilio Latino Americano •Radio Vision Cristiana •Micah Network NYC •Metro District COTN •Wesleyan NJ/PA District •Roosevelt HS Basketball Team •Office of Councilman Cabrera •Kingsbridge Armory •Fordham University
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
NaLEC currently concentrates on the RESPONSE &
RECOVERY aspect of Disaster Relief
• Deploy Food & Supplies
• Restore affected areas & return them to previous state
• Search & Find • Reduce the risk before
disaster hits. News broadcasting, etc.
1.
Mitigation
2.
Rescue
3. Response 4. Recovery
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
• Creating Infrastructure: How Will We Steward Resources? – Center of Operation secure locale
– Management Operations executive leadership, administration, finances, communications, fund raising & donations, strategic planning
– Volunteer Operations captains, inventory, transportation, social media, telephone operations
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
Executive Team
Administrative Management Team
Captains
Volunteers
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
• Assessing Needs on the Ground (Continuous): What is Truly Needed? – Call Local Pastors
– Site Visits
– Create Inventory of Needs as Needs Change
– Social Media
– Leverage Resources to meet real needs
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
3. Response
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
• Action: How will we respond? – Secure & train over 700 volunteers (Shifts)
– Organize donations, inventory & distribution
– Organize transportation, shipping & receiving
– Organize local distribution sites through grass roots partners
– Organize telephone system and operators
– Organize IT, press & social media operations
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
• Recovery: What’s next? – Secure donations for rebuilding
– Create dissemination process
– Create vetting process
– Follow through on fulfillment
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
4. Recovery
Copyright 2012 (NaLEC)
Promoting Community Resiliency in the Face of a Disaster
with Promotores/Community Health Workers
Connecting Community and Faith-Based Leaders with the local Emergency Management, Law Enforcement, Fire and Rescue, Emergency Medical Services, Public Works, Mayor’s Office, Consulates and your business community
Venus Ginés, CEO, Día de la Mujer Latina, Inc
Texas State Certified Instructor of Promotores and
Community Health Workers
The Facts
• 1. Latinos are a large, growing, and widely dispersed U.S. subpopulation
• 2. Latinos face a number of barriers to full inclusion in emergency planning and response
• 3. Successful Latino-focused emergency preparation and response benefits everyone
Impact
• With Katrina: The 117 hardest-hit parishes and counties along the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coasts had about 1.8 million Latino residents, many of them immigrant
• More than 50 million Latinos live in the U.S. including Puerto Rico accounting for almost one of every six residents and living in areas prone to major disasters.
Understanding and meeting the actual
needs of the whole community
BUILD Trust – HOW?
BUILD a Relationship with the
Community – HOW?
BUILD Alliances with local
leaders- HOW
“Are you talking to me?”
Preparedness is a Shared Responsibility Engaging all aspects of the community
Faith-based Volunteers Teachers Health Educator
Local Leaders Media CBOs Youth
Promotores Community Health Workers as CERT
Plan, organize, equip, train, and exercise to build and
sustain the capabilities of our Whole Community
Empower Motivate
Respond to,
Prevent
Mitigate the
effects
Protect
against,
83 Promotores/Community Health Workers, as
CERT - establishing 4 community preparedness
principles.
Collaboration Integration
Volunteer Service Personal/Organizational Preparedness
Orlando,FL Homestead, FL
Miami, FL
San Juan, PR
Washington, DC
Philadelphia, PA
New York City, NY
San Diego, CA
Seattle, WA
Día de la Mujer Latina Outreach
Hialeah, FL
Chicago, IL
Lexington, KY
Savannah
Augusta
Phoenix, AZ
Salt Lake City, UT
Denver, CO
Pueblo, CO
Des Moines, IA Erie, PA
Casper, WY
Augusta, GA
Savannah, GA
Atlanta, GA
Houston, TX
Indianapolis, IN
Columbus, OH
Jacksonville, FL
New Jersey, NJ
Raleigh, NC
Milwaukee, WI
Ann Arbor, MI
Sioux City, IA
Dallas, TX
El Paso, TX
Corpus Christi, TX
Austin, TX
Maui, HI
Las Vegas, NV
Los Angeles CA
Ft Worth,
San Antonio, TX
McAllen, TX
Lubbock,
Getting Involved in Emergency Preparedness
5 steps to help you stay involved
1. Sign up as a National Preparedness Coalition Member (http://community.fema.gov)
2. Help others learn their local hazards by visiting www.ready.gov or www.listos.gov
3. Download IS-909 Community Preparedness: Simple Activities for Communities Everywhere tools (www.ready.gov/citizen-corps)
4. Collaborate with your local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) (http://www.fema.gov/cert )
5. Get Youth in Your Community Involved in Preparedness (http://www.ready.gov/youth-preparedness)
Questions?