GNY Spring Disaster Ready Summit - 2025

Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview
Deployment Fundamentals for Workers Traveling Away from Home

Staff Services Fundamentals is a basic level course that is designed to inform participants how to successfully complete Staff Services tasks on a disaster operation and provide anticipatory customer service and support to assigned disaster workers. The primary focus of this course is directed toward regional staff but also provides the tools to support a larger disaster operation. The purpose of this course is to prepare disaster workers for successful completion of required Staff Services tasks on a regional disaster operation and to provide the opportunity to become familiar with the Staff Services job tools.

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