GNY Spring Disaster Ready Summit - 2025

Shelter Resident Transition Overview

The purpose of this course is to provide SRT workers, and others who will complete SRT Triage, with both an overview and in-depth understanding of SRT Triage, including:

• Providing the background to the questions asked during SRT Triage assessments;
• Best practices for holding a dynamic client conversation during SRT Triage;
• How to successfully use the Shelter Client Information App (SCIA) to record SRT Triage responses; and,
• How SRT Triage information is used to inform operational decision making and plan SRT Casework.

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.

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.

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.

The purpose of this course is to prepare local Feeding supervisors to successfully perform required feeding tasks to stand up regional/divisional disaster operation. This course includes a feeding exercise to give participants an opportunity to become familiar and practice with Feeding and other operational job tools.