Citywide Hub Training: Tabletop Exercise – Volunteer Resources

Seattle Emergency Communications Hub Training:  Tabletop Exercise – Volunteer Resources

Practice makes perfect!

Join the Seattle Emergency Communications Hubs as they hold a tabletop exercise to practice their skills.  For this indoor, slow motion exercise, we will practice deploying volunteers who come to a hub with a skill to share.  We expect that, after a major disaster, when all normal channels of communication are down, that people will step forward to help their neighbors. This is exactly what has happened at other times, the Christchurch earthquake, the tsunami in Japan, and at the Oso landslide.  We want to make sure that we can effectively assess and assign volunteers, manage them over time and ensure their safety

Join us in either of two roles:

As a Hub person: practicing your skill to develop volunteer management best practices.

As an actor: come play the role of a spontaneous volunteer that the hub members work to assign (we will of course provide you role playing scripts).  No experience needed, just a desire to help the Hubs with their training.

We actually can also use overseers, to help capture notes about what worked and didn’t work well, if you would like to come but are not comfortable in either of the two above roles.

See the attached flyer, Tabletop for Volunteer mgmt Nov 14 2015 (.pdf format), with more details.