If you have time in your regular meetings to discuss disaster preparedness, here are some things you could consider to be set up for greater success:
- Threat model your environment, political situation, and personnel dynamics.
- Identify and support the different ways individuals respond, such as shutting down or leaping to action.
- Others have gone through similar things, some of them in your organization. Find them and ask.
- Slow down. Think. Breathe. Act strategically.
- Add contingency planning time to regular meetings on a quarterly basis.
- Checking in with each other
- Evacuation plans
- Data backups
- Identify and increase resources and capacities in your community, including food and water storage. See other resources referenced in this guide for how to prepare.
- Identify and flag burnout patterns in people, offer interventions.
- Perform ongoing personal and community care to increase resilience.
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