GNY Spring Disaster Ready Summit - 2025

Get credit for two Feeding courses!
Feeding Activity Introduction
Feeding Activity Introduction is a basic level course that introduces the tasks and responsibilities for disaster workers who support the Feeding Activity on a disaster relief operation (DRO). This course is also intended for Red Cross Feeding workers who are new to the Feeding Activity.

Feeding Activity Fundamentals V2
Feeding Fundamentals v2 is a basic level course for disaster responders who conduct tasks associated with Feeding when supporting disaster relief operations (DROs). The purpose of this course is to provide participants with skills and knowledge about the feeding process for disaster response at the Red Cross.

Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview
Public Affairs Essentials

Disaster Public Affairs For National Relief Operations is a basic level course that can be taught virtually or in-person. This course explores how public affairs workers tell the Red Cross disaster relief story, principles for initiating and maintaining a public affairs response and key disaster messages.
The course is intended for Red Cross responders with a professional background or training in public affairs, media relations, journalism and related fields who are interested in serving in the Public Affairs Activity on national Red Cross relief operations as Service Associates or Supervisors. Additionally, it may be required for responders pursuing a position in an external relations function.
The purpose of this course is to prepare public affairs workers for deployment on national disaster relief operations by giving them the tools and resources to be successful. It provides a high level of awareness for how public affairs is handled for those who are pursuing an external relation position.

Responders from:
Disaster Health Services
Disaster Mental Health
Disaster Spiritual Care
Casework and Recovery Planning
Other functions that may be involved in requesting or deploying Integrated Care Condolence Teams. (Response/DAT, Duty Officers, Mass Care).

Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview
(Note: Learners should already be Disaster Cycle Services workers in Disaster Health Services, Disaster Mental Health, Casework and Recovery Planning, or Disaster Spiritual Care and have completed the appropriate training for their respective activity).

Integrated Care Condolence Team Fundamentals supports the standards and procedures and highlights the unique aspects of working as a team to provide services to families and friends of missing, injured and deceased loved ones. The purpose of this course is to train current disaster responders in Casework and Recovery Planning, Disaster Health Services, Disaster Mental Health and Disaster Spiritual Care on the Integrated Care Condolence Team (ICCT) Standards and Procedures, and to provide guidance and best practices for working in an integrated care condolence team environment.

Mobilize the Community Overview (Required)
Collaborating Essentials (Recommended)

Facilitative Leadership Skills for Mobilizing the Community is a virtual and instructor-led professional development course. It discusses what is meant by the term facilitative leadership in the Red Cross context, as well as the challenges associated with being a facilitative leader. Participants examine some of the theories and practices relevant to facilitation and then apply them to situations in which they are asked to mobilize the community. Role plays that center around working with stakeholders and partners give participants a chance to apply models for interest-based problem solving and intervention. The purpose of this course is to prepare participants to be effective facilitative leaders when mobilizing the community to meet client and community disaster-caused needs.

Disaster Relief Operation Planning Fundamentals
Supervising the Disaster Workforce
Collaborating Essentials
Concept of Operations Intermediate
Disaster Relief Operations Planning Management

Operations Management: Intermediate is an advanced level disaster leadership course. This course is intended for all disaster leaders and is designed for learners to apply concepts and develop their understanding of the Concept of Operations in a no-fault environment to manage up to Level 4 Disaster Relief Operations.
This course is the intermediate tier of the ConOps training strategy for training our workforce to manage Level 3 and 4 operations. The purpose of this course is to prepare disaster leaders to successfully apply the Concept of Operations, required processes, best practices and leadership principles to successfully lead a disaster operation.

This Discussion Based Exercise is open for those interested in obtaining/ have a Disaster Event Based Volunteer Activity Service Associate Group/ Activity/ Position or higher.
Discussion will include:

• Transitioning to a Disaster Relief Operation
• How our Disaster Event Based Volunteer Plan is activated
• What are the different roles you are able to do with your DEBV GAP and how they work together 

  

Shelter Resident Transition Overview
Shelter Resident Transition Triage Fundamentals

Shelter Resident Transition Casework Operations is a basic level, instructor-led or virtual-instructor-led course that brings together learnings from Shelter Resident Transition Overview and Shelter Resident Transition Triage Fundamentals to provide an in-depth look at Shelter Resident Transition (SRT) Casework. This includes the goals of SRT, as well as how SRT fits into Mission Adaptation Outcomes and the Disaster Services 5-Year Vision. Furthermore, participants will learn about the cycle they will work through with a family, key information to capture about a household, and the services provided through SRT Casework to create complete Shelter Resident Transition plans. Participants will also partake in scenario-based learning to apply their learnings to real-life scenarios.

Cuidado en Masa: Descripción general
Todos son bienvenidos
Aspectos esenciales de la participación de los socios
Primeros auxilios psicológicos: Ayudar a otros en momentos estresantes

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.
El propósito de este curso es preparar a los voluntarios y al personal de primera línea para que establezcan conexiones con diversas poblaciones históricamente marginadas y desatendidas, especialmente las comunidades hispanohablantes, y colaboren con ellas de una manera cultural y lingüísticamente competente.

The purpose of this workshop is to prepare participant to register clients in a Red Cross shelter. The Shelter Client Information Application has been designed to enable shelter workers to easily capture basic client information on any phone, tablet or laptop without significant training or technical abilities. This workshop includes an exercise to give participants an opportunity to become familiar and practice registering clients in the system.

Explore how to better serve Red Cross clients and improve our client satisfaction with this deep dive into Satisfaction and Respect, two elements of the survey clients receive after interacting with Red Cross workers.