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.

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.