This activity is designed to enhance your understanding of the event content through hands-on learning. You will be asked to perform a series of tasks and then reflect on your experience.

Objective

To map your community's resources and practice a mock crisis event.

Overview

A key step in crisis planning is to determine the resources in your community that you can call on during a crisis and to make sure that your team has practiced what it will do before an actual crisis takes place. Again, you may not be able to complete this activity in one day. You can use whatever parts that you cannot finish as a template for taking the next steps in crisis response planning and practice.

Part 1: Mapping Community Resources

Step 1
Using the worksheet, Mapping Community Resources, begin researching the resources in your community that could respond to a crisis. Include police, fire, and emergency responder contacts, as well as mental health centers, the Red Cross, and the parent/teacher association, if they are not part of the crisis team.

Step 2
Fill out the worksheet, including updated contact names and numbers, along with the expertise or assistance that each contact can offer.

Part 2: Practicing a Mock Crisis Event

Step 1
Arrange for a meeting of the crisis response team to practice a table-top exercise of a possible crisis event.

Step 2
Using the practice crisis event, go through the exercise outlined.

Step 3
Discuss with the team what you learned. Make any changes necessary to your plan as a result.

Please respond to the discussion questions that appear at the end of Day 2.