
Next Meeting:
Tues., Apr 6, 7-8:30 PM, Classroom 18/19 |
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Welcome to the St. Augustine Church's Emergency Shelter
Operation
Short Term Stewardship
Opportunity in March - Experience a Red Cross Shelter Exercise
Participate with the St. Augustine Shelter team during the annual Red
Cross disaster exercise Saturday, March 13, 2010 at Bon Air Baptist Church,
8644 Forest Hill Avenue, Richmond. The whole family is welcome.
Please complete
this
reservation form and return it to Paul Bedard. If you have
trouble filling out the Word document and emailing it, try these alternate
instructions to submit the reservation form: (1) copy the form
contents, (2) open link to my email, (3) paste form to the email (4)
complete the form, (5) send email to me.
Objective: provide area shelter teams and volunteers experience in
operating a large emergency shelter supporting 200 residents, using two
shifts of shelter team members. Employ local support agencies to prepare and
provide meals. Exercise the Red Cross staff and volunteers in their
oversight and support of the shelter.
The Red Cross needs 200 people to serve as evacuees and 70 shelter team
members (2 shifts of 35 members) to operate the emergency shelter. Snacks
and lunch will be provided.
Shift 1: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM.
- Shelter team set up at 8:00 AM
- Evacuee participants 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
- Lunch and shift debrief at 12:00 PM
Shift 2: 11:00 AM-3:00 PM.
- Shelter team in-brief at 10:30 AM
- Evacuee participants 11:00 AM-3:00 PM
- Lunch at 12:00 PM
- Close shelter and shift debrief at 3:00 PM
Directions from St. Augustine Church to Bon Air Baptist Church:
- Take Hopkins Road north to Chippenham Parkway (Rte 150);
- Left at light to Chippenham Parkway (north);
- Take Chippenham Parkway north; pass Powhite Parkway (Rte 76 toll);
- Take next exit (Forest Hill Ave); go under the bridge for Forest
Hill Avenue (West).
- Follow Forest Hill Avenue (1.5 miles). When it narrows from 4 to 2
lanes, look on the left for the very large parking lot of Bon Air
Baptist Church (1.5 miles).
For more information, contact Paul Bedard at 751-0007 or via email at
paulbedard42@verizon.net, or
call Katharine Anderson in the Parish Office at 275-7962.
Shelter
Planning
Notes
2009 Good Neighbor Award
The Red Cross presented its 2009 Good Neighbor Award to St.
Augustine Parish and its Emergency Shelter Team at their annual awards
ceremony on April 22, 2009. Here is the citation from the award:
This award recognizes an individual, organization or business
outside the American Red Cross that has made a significant humanitarian
contribution to the local community in support of the Red Cross. The
recipient has demonstrated exceptional initiative in identifying and
meeting one or more community needs through actions that resulted in
provisions of more effective services to people.
The St. Augustine’s Catholic Church shelter team began working with the
Greater Richmond Chapter in 2003 and currently serves as one of the
chapter’s primary “go-to” teams when a quick response is necessary.
The members have created their own shelter team manual, organized their
response team into specific job tasks and requirements, hold regular
meetings to further organize themselves, and participate in exercises and
training activities in order to maintain their readiness level. They
have shown their support to our sheltering efforts by recruiting additional
members to their team and have trained more than 60 congregation members.
Shelter Task Area Leads
If we are to effectively organize our planning group to accomplish the
necessary planning and to lead the effort when called upon by the Red Cross,
we need to have leaders in each of the major shelter task areas. We made the
following designations for shelter task area leads (March 2008):
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Registration: Kim Ackerman, Sue Ruppel, Danielle Honings and
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NOTE for 2008: If you cannot perform
the task listed for the shelter area, please notify Paul Bedard at 751-0007.
You may also email Paul.
Red Cross Training
Red Cross Shelter
Training Opportunities
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Date/Time |
Red Cross Training Class |
Location |
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8:00am to 4:00pm
Recruitment Notice
Quick Notice for Recruitment |
Red Cross Disaster Simulation Exercise
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Bon Air Baptist Church, Richmond (participants
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Wednesday, Apr 14, 2010, 6:00-10:00pm |
Red Cross Shelter Operations Class |
Hall and Classroom 18/19 |
| On-Line ** |
Intro to Disaster Services |
Red Cross Website |
** Attention new shelter volunteers or
those who have not had the opportunity to complete the Red Cross training
course, Introduction to Disaster Services. The Red Cross now
offers it on line. Click on the link in the table or below to launch
the course, or copy and paste the link into your Web browser.
Red Cross Training Website; Introduction
to Disaster Services:
http://www.redcross.org/flash/course01_v01/
When complete, please contact Paul Bedard
at paulbedard42@verizon.net or call
751-0007, or call Katharine Anderson at the Parish office, 275-7562.
Meeting Notes &
Documentation (2008 & later)
Upcoming Shelter Team
Meetings
- Tuesday, Apr 6, 7-8:30 PM: Shelter Team Meeting Classroom 18/19
- Wednesday, Apr 14, 6:00-10 PM: Red Cross Shelter Operations Class:
Hall and Classroom 18/19
- Tuesday, May 11, 7-8:30 PM: Shelter Team Meeting Classroom 18/19
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Shelter Team Meetings |
Training |
Other Documents |
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February 10, 2010 Notes |
Simulation Exercise Summary (3/14/09) |
Response Procedures (Oct. 2009) |
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January 12, 2010 Notes |
Simulation Exercise Lessons Learned (3/14/09) |
Shelter Building Diagram (10/12/09) |
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November 9, 2009
Notes |
Training Concept (2/20/09) |
Tips
for Shelter Workers
(10/12/09) |
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November 9, 2009 Agenda |
Shelter Exercise Outline (2/20/09) |
Email to Richmond Red Cross regarding 4/14/10 training session
(10/8/09) |
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October 6, 2009 Notes |
Shelter Training Exercise Notes (9/27/08) |
Emergency Shelter Diagram (2/20/09) |
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May 13, 2009
Notes |
Shelter
Exercise Scenario Summary
(9/27/08) |
Red Cross Meeting Notes (2/12/09) |
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May 13, 2009
Agenda |
Shelter Simulation Notes (3/8/08) |
Note on Shelter Representatives Team Meeting
(10/4/08) |
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February 17, 2009 |
Shelter Simulation Timeline (3/8/08) |
Letter
from Red Cross regarding March Shelter Exercise (4/4/08) |
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November 13, 2008 |
Shelter Simulation Review (3/8/08) |
Emergency Shelter Diagram (2/15/08)
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September 9, 2008 |
Shelter
Simulation Photo Collage
(3/8/08) |
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March 25, 2008 |
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February 7, 2008 |
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January 9, 2008 |
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Archived Meeting Notes &
Documentation
(2007 & earlier)
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