GNY Spring Disaster Ready Summit - 2025

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.

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.

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.