TRAINING FOR TRAINERS COURSE How to keep volunteers active and motivated during the peace time
What is one of the most important thing for people living in a community ? TEAM CHARLIE 2
The sense of belonging to the community! The persons feel important for their family, for the friends, for the entire community. In the community they share the language, the way of life, the food, the same interests, and so on. TEAM CHARLIE 3
What is the most important thing for a volunteer belonging to a civil protection group? TEAM CHARLIE 4
The sense of belonging to the group, team working and feeling useful in its group! TEAM CHARLIE 5
To keep volunteers active and interested, it is necessary to have motivated members of a group that must be: � a respected organization with highly trained and effective members providing valued and appreciated support to the emergency services and the community, � an organization that is fully integrated into emergency planning arrangements, � an organization whose members are proud to serve the public on a purely voluntary basis and where there is a strong demand for membership. TEAM CHARLIE 6
Number of volunteers E v e n t s Time During the emergencies, many people are available to help rescuers but, we loose them when the emergency is finished. Only if they are well trained and committed in the peace time, these people will be faithful to the group and ready to face the next emergencies. TEAM CHARLIE 7
The appearance is important! The organization must have The organization must an emblem that allow to have a uniform recognize the volunteers If necessary, citizens must be able to immediately recognize a member of the civil protection group to ask for help or for any other problem. TEAM CHARLIE 8
The members of the group should have meetings regularly; at least once a month. They must have a place where to have their meetings, to keep their equipment, if any and where planning the drills and the civil protection campaigns. TEAM CHARLIE 9
The volunteer’s day Once a year, it is useful to organize the volunteer’s day that involves all the volunteers and the citizens. During the manifestation, the volunteers should prepare activities showing to the population the experience acquired during the trainings. During this day it should be useful to organize tests that allow the volunteers to involve the people. TEAM CHARLIE 10
Equipment The equipment is an important part of the material available for the volunteers. They should check regularly its efficiency. Define exactly how many time during a year the team should control the efficiency of the equipments. TEAM CHARLIE 11
Personal equipment The personal equipment should be assigned to each member of the team. It is important to keep a file with the list of the volunteers and the personal equipment assigned. TEAM CHARLIE 12
Personal Equipment It is not necessary to supply the volunteers with a huge amount of sophisticated equipments. The material should be bought only if finalized to the activities suggested by the contingency plan of the community.. The only equipment absolutely necessary is the equipment for the personal protection: helmet, gloves, boots, safety shoes, etc. Together with the uniform this will be part of the personal equipment. TEAM CHARLIE 13
Personal protection It is not sufficient to have a huge list of the personal protection equipments. It is necessary to “STAY SAFE” during the emergencies. TEAM CHARLIE 14
How to work during the sandbagging TEAM CHARLIE 15
What could have been done to reduce, or mitigate the impact of this disaster? Flood in Lodi (Italy) - November 2002 TEAM CHARLIE 16
What could have been done to reduce, or mitigate the impact of this disaster? Flash flood in a Caribbean country - December2013 TEAM CHARLIE 17
In both cases, we could not avoid these events but, most probably, the consequences may have been mitigated. Emergency NaDMA Manager Civil protection groups Forecasting service Do not park here in the next 24 hours TEAM CHARLIE 18
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The last mile of the St. John river in Grenada TEAM CHARLIE 20
St. John river (last mile) – flooding area - Assessment of the river conditions - Interviews to the people living in the area - Take picture of the critical points - Anthropic impact on the river conditions - etc. TEAM CHARLIE 21
Grenada - St. John river (details of two river bands) TEAM CHARLIE 22
Bushes could stop debris and other floating material that could reduce speed of the stream. Flash flood is working as a tsunami wave TEAM CHARLIE 23
LODI – Old bridge Flood – November 2002 20 Inches TEAM CHARLIE 24
Font: Italian Civil Protection Department “Earthquake: I don’t take risks” Seismic risk reduction national campaign Is an initiative for seismic risk reduction which was held for the first time in 2011 and aims at promoting a culture of prevention, training volunteers more aware and specialized and starting a process to guide the citizen in acquiring an active role in seismic risk reduction. . TEAM CHARLIE 25
Font: Italian Civil Protection Department Civil protection volunteers are the main characters of the initiative: they are trained on seismic risk and then they in turn train other volunteers, making them actors of the process of knowledge diffusion. Volunteers receive training on historical earthquakes, seismic hazard and vulnerability, prevention and communication techniques. Before the campaign takes place, a simulation is organized, to let the volunteers feel comfortable in the approach with citizens.
Font: Italian Civil Protection Department The campaign takes place in squares in municipalities, with priority for those classified in zone 1 or 2 – where strong earthquakes may occur . During the two days event, volunteers distribute informative documents, a leaflet and a cardboard containing rules of behavior in case of an earthquake, and answer to citizen’s question on possible actions to undertake for seismic risk reduction. This year the campaign is planned for 15 and 16 of June in more than 200 squares all over Italy. About 3000 volunteers were involved in the project.
Font: Italian Civil Protection Department Tsunami: I don’t take risks It was held on an experimental basis in the Province of Salerno in the four weekends of the month of October and it has involved 28 coastal municipalities exposed to tsunami risk. The campaign was touring: every weekend in October. It was carried out simultaneously in marinas and squares of 7/8 coastal municipalities. Only in the town of Salerno it took place every weekend. 300 volunteers from local groups and regional associations of civil protection of Campania and from local sections of seven national organizations have been involved in the campaign. Campania Region supported the activities of the volunteers providing a camper van with the logo and colors of the initiative, which stopped in ports and squares to promote the campaign . The initiative has been part of the project TWIST - Tidal Wave In Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, funded by the European Commission. TEAM CHARLIE 28
A contingency plan should be owned and preferably prepared with the people who will have to operate and who know best what will, or will not, be effective. The plan, or part of it, should be tested on regular basis. TEAM CHARLIE 29
Prevention, reduction and mitigation include volunteers preparedness that involves a range of activities, including testing of contingency plans. Where to evacuate the people? Rest of population Shelters Evacuation and Nursing home Evacuation of safety measures for with health care rescuers Schools Chronic patients and industries, malls, facilities for Churches disabled people in farms, etc. elderly people Other hospital or nursing home shelters TEAM CHARLIE 30
Availability to do specialized tasks assigned to the volunteers and better specified in the support functions. A generic rescuer is useful but a skilled rescuer is essential. TEAM CHARLIE 31
In any case, during an emergency, menial jobs could seem to be less important then others. This is not true! For example, a volunteer in charge to clean the toilet helps to reduce the probability of gastro-intestinal diseases. TEAM CHARLIE 32
A “stupid” example for the emergency in a camp is what I am calling the “Toilet Manager” Team of Doctors Team of psycologists TEAM CHARLIE 33
Event Response Warning Community Whole Few persons Forecast Alone Days Hours Minutes Seconds Minutes Hours Days Seconds Before the Event After the Event Timetable for the events response and involved people TEAM CHARLIE 34
Haiti earthquake just after the event Earthquake , at the moment, cannot be forecasted and there is not the early warning period. When the event happens, we can only rely on our self and on our preparation. The preparedness must be focused on the self help during and immediately after the event. Initially, waiting for the external help, the response will consist in helping your family and your neighbors. We have to remember that, after an earthquake, 95% of the lives are saved by their familiars and their neighbors. TEAM CHARLIE 35
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