Community Engagement in Long-term Recovery Efforts, a KYEM Wednesday Webinar

Описание: Presentation Title: Focus on the People – Community Engagement in Long-term Recovery Efforts

Description: During this webinar you’ll gain proven community engagement strategies from Colorado that you can adapt to strengthen counties and communities across Kentucky.
• Understand how “under-promise, over-deliver” builds trust in communities recovering from disaster, and learn simple ways to apply it in real time.
• Learn why repeating key messages in different formats helps people actually hear and use the information you’re sharing.
• Practice how to lead early listening sessions that give you a clear picture of what a community needs before long-term recovery efforts begin.
• Spot stress and trauma in secondary responders - and learn how PIOs can provide steady, clear communication to support their well-being.
• During this webinar you’ll gain proven community engagement strategies from Colorado that you can adapt to strengthen counties and communities across Kentucky.

Featured Presenter: Katie Arrington, MPH, Boulder County (CO) Recovery and Resiliency Program Manager
Bio: Katie has been working for Boulder County since 2013.
• Katie has her M.P.H. with a specialization in emergency preparedness from the University of California, Los Angeles.
• Katie’s passion is in community engagement examining racial equity issues during short and long-term recovery. She is a certified practitioner in the Courageous Conversations About Race protocol and is deeply committed to equity work.
• Katie has a passion for the mental health impacts of disasters on survivors and secondary responders and recently completed her certification in Forest and Nature Therapy – to help those populations better reconnect to the land after a disaster.

For more information, contact: David Davis, KYEM Public Information Officer, [email protected]; (502) 607-1049

Wednesday Webinar Series: The Wednesday Webinar Series was established to provide Public Information Officers (PIOs) and other communication related fields with virtual opportunities to address topic specific issues in quick 1-hour monthly webinars. Monthly topics and featured speakers will be selected and scheduled accordingly to help provide attendees with real-world application to the following: planning and developing a process with clearly defined procedures to gather and provide accurate, timely, and accessible information on an event as it approaches or as it has occurred.