Prepared and Ready Club

1. Prepared and Ready Club What is it?

2. Two types of clubs • Neighborhood Prepared and Ready Club NPRC • Business-zone Prepared and Ready Club BPRC

3. NPRC • 50 adjacent homes • About 100 adults and their children • An all volunteer safety team of neighbors: about thirty volunteer functions for a truly prepared neighborhood – a great group! • Back-up for each function

4. The Safety Team Instead of being effect, being cause over possible unfortunate events by training and preparing! Functions include activities such as: Organizer – arranges neighborhood meetings; Trainer – teaches safety to all members – encourages members to take CERT class; Ham radio communications – FRS radios; Administrator – online private club administrator – helps neighbors meet online; Medical – knows CPR/First aid, etc.

5. Meetings • Barbeque – at a neighbors house – out front or in back – demonstrate fire extinguisher • Evacuate to a park for a picnic – 2pm Saturday – wait in your car with “5 minute evac pack” – convoy to a local park • Disaster Preparedness Training – at a neighbor’s house – using the FEMA “Are You Ready” book • Christmas Party – at a neighbor’s house: bring one safety gift item per adult, wrapped – play the “game”

6. Merit badges Like the Boy Scouts • 21 different merit badges • Judged and assigned by the Trainer • Includes: • Ham radio • FRS radio • Running a generator • Pack to evac • Total all the merit badges for all 100 adults and that is the “safety level” of the neighborhood • Compete for safest neighborhood in each city

7. Private Online network • Each neighborhood has its own private meeting area on a secure Intranet • Includes “real” face – picture taken by the neighborhood safety team member – the photographer • Real name and an “about me” written by the neighbor • Announce events, find a baby sitter, share a hobby, sell the golf clubs, keep each other informed

8. Sample “interaction” screen

9. Benefits • Increased sense of community • Increased willingness to help each other in an emergency • Opens up resources and contacts • Reduction in crime as “everyone” will look out for their neighbors • Increased incident readiness and knowledge of what to do • Co-operative training, including being able to rapidly evacuate “as a neighborhood” to a safe area

10. Who is organizing this program? • Neighborhood Safety Net, a non-profit 501 (c)(3) non-profit public benefit organization • Our mission is to implement an effective evacuation program in each city that can be activated in an emergency • To do this it is vital to have knowledge, cooperation and prior drilling within each neighborhood • The first step is the Neighborhood Prepared and Ready club and the establishment of Safety Teams with both online and “radio only” communication systems

11. What about city officials? • City officials are not allowed to endorse anything – good or bad • However County Supervisors, Mayors, Police chiefs, Fire chiefs, City managers, Beat officers, the Red Cross, Churches and several other agencies have privately expressed their support

12. Working together • We will invite the Crime Prevention Officer in each city to attend our meetings and give briefings • We will invite the Fire Prevention Officer to come and talk about the CERT program • We will invite the city manager to work with our Organizers in planning the city wide evacuation program

13. Who pays? • We invite a sponsor, often a Real Estate agent to help us start each neighborhood club • Eventually there may be many sponsors in a city. Sponsors may pay for: • the people who knocked on your door • the people running the presentation • the private online club in your neighborhood • the city-wide management of teams and meetings • the “safety tip” emails that you receive • the handheld Ham radio • the safety vests for the team

14. What does the sponsor get? • Good will – the sponsor is the good guy • The direct sponsor of your neighborhood is invited to attend your neighborhood meetings wearing their “Safety Team Sponsor” badge • Their name and face will appear on “safety” material • This is an opportunity for the sponsor to meet neighbors and build trust – the first step in business

15. Getting a sponsor If you are looking at this slide show and do not have a sponsored club, simply call up your Real Estate agent, Mortgage Broker or Insurance agent and tell him or her a little bit about the program and give the person this email address: support@neighborhoodsafety.net

16. First step • Please fill out the volunteer form • We start with two key individuals in each neighborhood • Organizer (to get the meetings going) • Administrator (for the online club) • We will have follow up meetings with these individuals to train them and get the club up and running