GNY Spring Disaster Ready Summit - 2025

Driven from a review of the major failures of the Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina of 2006, a major finding was that there was a lack of inclusion and services available to individuals with disabilities resulting in additional hardship, loss of life, and lack of recovery options available to them. This course reviews The Red Cross commitment to ensuring that no one is left behind when a disaster strikes.
This course is a lively, honest, and uplifting perspective on interacting with people who have varying disabilities. It will offer concrete suggestions on how to best serve the community as a whole, while striving to make all Disaster Responders comfortable interacting with people who may have physical, communication, or intellectual differences.
Presented as a safe space to ask questions, review skills and gain new ones, disability integration is not a catchphrase, it is a way of ensuring the Red Cross message and programs reach all of our clients, while our responders are comfortable working with everyone.

Join this exciting and informational session covering Response Escalation in the city that never sleeps. NYC does operational scale up unlike any other metropolitan, not just because it’s serving populations fluctuating from nearly 9 million plus residents a day but to match all the unique qualities that make it the one and only concrete jungle of its kind. All attendees can expect an engaging virtual seminar focusing on NYC Ops from experienced NYC Leaders in this interactive style training.

Disaster Action Team Response Fundamentals is a basic level, instructor-led course that provides instructions to new and potential Disaster Action Team (DAT) responders on how to perform tasks and key job duties for local disaster responses as described the in the Disaster Action Team Standards and Procedures. The purpose of this course is to prepare participants to respond safely on-scene to local disasters as a member of a Disaster Action Team (DAT). It is designed to orient prospective DAT volunteers to engage in the DAT mission as a valuable member of a team as quickly as possible.