Leading and Managing Training for Faith Based Leadership

Citizens will emerge at their places of worship to seek reassurance, support and to offer their assistance to those in need after a disaster or emergency.

In the Department of Homeland Security Report, “Heralding Unheard Voices: The Role of Faith-Based and Non-Governmental Organizations During Disasters,” faith–based organizations (FBO) were recognized for providing services across the entire geographic region affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. According to the Homeland Security Institute's findings, “The scale of their (FBOs) response was unprecedented. In some communities, they—not the government—were the focal point for services. In other communities, they were the sole or lead provider of services for days or weeks. They made life-and-death differences in people’s lives. They gave food to the hungry and vulnerable. They reduced suffering, facilitated restoration of infrastructure (primarily by housing relief worker and volunteers), and lessened the economic impact of the hurricane by donating services and material resources.(2)” While many of these FBOs provided one or many of these services on a daily basis, they had not anticipated handling the surge capacity of volunteers and material resources. Spontaneous volunteerism is a historical fact of emergency response. However, the preparation and management of these resources, never should be spontaneous.

This workshop series introduces faith- based leaders to the specific skills needed to assess their place of worship’s role in disaster response and how they can better prepare themselves to lead their constituency to serve in a safe and effective manner.

At the end of this three part series, faith-based leaders will walk away with a comprehensive plan to prepare their places of worship to respond to local and large-scale emergencies and disasters, to outreach to and train their constituencies and to create connections with emergency management groups.

Techniques include spot training, management, spot credentialing, and integration of constituencies into agency frameworks. Managers are asked to explore their organization’s internal readiness and how their constituencies could fill surge capacity needs based on their internal agency assessment.

Target Audience: Faith-based Leadership wishing to serve witin their community. This is not a deployment course.

The Management Series

Introduction - Leading and Managing Module I - 7hrs
Lesson 1: Special Demands of Disaster Response and Faith-based Institutions
Lesson 2: Assessing Internal Readiness and Balancing Existing Programs
Lesson 3: Protocols, Templates and Tools

Intermediate - Leading and Managing Module II - 7hrs
Lesson 1: Selecting the Right Member for the Right Role
Lesson 2: Management and Community Engagement: Balancing Disaster Work with Your Role as a Faith Leader.
Lesson 3: Building a Resilient Team

Advanced Leading and Managing Module III - 7hrs

Disaster Volunteering One: Train-the-Trainer Fundamentals
Lesson 1: Trainer Fundamentals
Lesson 2: Grassroots Readiness and Response as a Tool to Engage Constituents
Lesson 3: Experimental Learning and Role-play

The Outreach Series
Additional Advanced Train the Trainer 7hrs each
Basic Grassroots Readiness and Response i: Train the Trainer Comprehensive Preparedness- 7 hrs
This train-the trainer workshop enables Faith-Based Leaders to engage, prepare, and manage community members around issues that are most important to them and are immediate risks to themselves and their families.

Intermediate Grassroots Readiness and Response II : Train-the-Trainer: Assessing your Community- 7hrs
Do your community members know how to assess the risk, vulnerabilities, and resources that exist within their community? Trainers will gain the knowledge to teach community members how to gather and use the risks and vulnerabilities information to create a community assessment that includes local assets, community contacts, and other culturally relevant resources.

Advanced Grassroots Readiness and Response III: Train-the-Trainer: Bridging the Divide- 7hrs
Synergy in relationships is very important and the relationship between Emergency Managers, Faith-Based Leaders and citizens is no different. Bridging the divide is a train-the-trainer workshop in which trainers will learn how to engage citizens to help them understand the lifecycle of a disaster and the all-hazards approach to disaster management. Trainers will educate community members about their agency as well as Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), as well as other local, state, and national disaster response agencies.

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Leading and Managing Training for Voluntary Agencies and Local Groups

After a disaster or emergency, citizens will emerge at places they know, trust and are associated with to seek reassurance, support and to offer their assistance to those in need.

After disasters, local groups, including voluntary agencies, non-profit groups and community groups, not the government, are the focal point for services. In some catastrophic disasters, it is the communities that are the sole or lead provider of services for days or weeks. It is the community groups, their members and unaffiliated community volunteers that come together to help despite the lack of disaster management and response training.

This workshop series introduces community leaders with specific skills to assess their organization’s role in disaster response and how they can better prepare themselves to lead their members and local community to serve in a safe and effective manner.

At the end of this three part series, community leaders will walk away with a comprehensive plan to prepare their organization, club or group to respond to local and large-scale emergencies and disasters, outreach to and train their constituencies and create connections with emergency management groups.

Techniques include spot training, management, spot credentialing, and integration of constituencies into agency frameworks. Leaders are asked to explore their organization’s internal readiness and how their members could fill surge capacity needs based on their internal agency assessment.

Target Audiences: Community Leaders, Non-profit Executive Directors and volunteer managers.

The Management Series

Introduction - Leading and Managing Module I - 7hrs
Lesson 1: Special Demands of Disaster Response and community groups
Lesson 2: Assessing Internal Readiness and Balancing Existing Programs
Lesson 3: Protocols, Templates and Tools

Intermediate - Leading and Managing Module II - 7hrs
Lesson 1: Selecting the Right Member for the Right Role
Lesson 2: Management and Community Engagement: Balancing Disaster Work with Your Role as a Community Leader.
Lesson 3: Building a Resilient Team

Advanced Leading and Managing Module III - 7hrs
Disaster Volunteering One: Train-the-Trainer Fundamentals
Lesson 1: Trainer Fundamentals
Lesson 2: Grassroots Readiness and Response as a Tool to Engage Members
Lesson 3: Experimental Learning and Role-play

The Outreach Series
Additional Advanced Train the Trainer 7hrs each
Basic Grassroots Readiness and Response i: Train the Trainer Comprehensive Preparedness- 7 hrs
This train-the trainer workshop enables Community Leaders to engage, prepare, and manage community members around issues that are most important to them and are immediate risks to themselves and their families.

Intermediate Grassroots Readiness and Response II : Train-the-Trainer: Assessing your Community- 7hrs

Do your community members know how to assess the risk, vulnerabilities, and resources that exist within their community? Trainers will gain the knowledge to teach community members how to gather and use the risks and vulnerabilities information to create a community assessment that includes local assets, community contacts, and other culturally relevant resources.

Advanced Grassroots Readiness and Response III: Train-the-Trainer: Bridging the Divide- 7hrs
Synergy in relationships is very important and the relationship between Community Leaders and citizens is no different. Bridging the divide is a train-the-trainer workshop in which trainers will learn how to engage citizens to help them understand the lifecycle of a disaster and the all-hazards approach to disaster management. Trainers will educate community members about their agency as well as Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), and other local, state, and national disaster response agencies.

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Leading and Managing Training for Risk Managers

Comprehensive Risk Management: Beyond the Desktop

If your business continuity program depends on your employees, then who do your employees depend upon? Innovators and leaders in human resources, business continuity, security and risk management rely heavily on their employees to get their organizations back on their feet after a disaster. Yet these intellectual leaders often overlook employees' commitments at home and in their community when disaster strikes. They fail to consider how individual, family, and community preparedness affect their employee’s ability to return to work following disaster.

Disasters like Hurricane Katrina have proven that individuals who are better prepared at home and secure in the knowledge that their loved ones are safe and taken care of will be more readily available when needed. Prepared employee’s families could be essential resources when post-catastrophic event needs reach beyond the skill base of the current employee pool. Have you considered the benefits of integrating this network of untapped skills and resources into your business continuity planning?

Many would argue that it is not a corporate responsibility to help your employees and their families prepare themselves for what might happen outside of the workplace, but disasters like Hurricane Katrina have proven the importance of comprehensive preparedness. World Cares Center’s Comprehensive Risk Management: Beyond the Desktop workshop walks corporate leaders and innovators through the steps of assessing corporate internal readiness, conducting employee interviews, surveys and workshops and building a resilient team.

Assessing Corporate Internal Readiness: 7 hrs
Review of existing programs
Risks
Vulnerability
Human Assets
Corporate responsibility to the community
Making personal and family preparedness fit
Gaps in human capability and resources to engage and manage
Roles for pre-trained and spontaneous volunteers
Tools that facilitate proper engagement and participation
Working with stressed populations and the worried well
Covering liability issues
Approach: A “Corporate Cares” Campaign

Conducting employee interviews, surveys and workshops-3 hrs
Perceived risks
Vulnerability at work and home
Barriers of working during emergencies and disasters
Employee awareness of their roles in incident response
Family matters
Outside assets

Tying it all together: Community Engagement and Building a Resilient Team– 3 hrs
Development of a comprehensive program
Making it a family matter
Training and Exercises

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