In June 2021, a deadly heat dome hovered over Oregon, killing about 70 people in in Multnomah County and 100 statewide. The event led several agencies—including the Portland Bureau Emergency Management, the Multnomah County Health Department and Portland’s housing authority, Home Forward—to partner on better understanding the heat exposure risks of people living in affordable housing.
In 2022 and 2023, the Home Forward Indoor Temperature Assessment gathered temperature data from sensors installed in public housing units, as well as information from residents about how they were weathering the heat. The project resulted in a number of findings that can be applied broadly wherever heat and housing are issues.
Join project leaders as they discuss what they learned from the temperature data and what residents shared about their heat-related perceptions, experiences, and coping strategies. Speakers will also discuss resident-informed recommendations for emergency, health, and housing agencies.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar.
A free interactive workshop about emergency response and serving the community during a disaster
Washington County is a hosting a free interactive workshop on August 29th from 9am-12pm focused on the County’s emergency response procedure and gathering community insight on ways the County can partner with CBOs to serve the community during a disaster. This workshop will discuss response, collaboration, and coordination following the Cascadia earthquake as well as in response to more frequent emergencies like heat domes, severe winter weather, and wildfires.
This training will contain:
· Educational presentations
· Discussion based mini exercises
· Collaborative brainstorming and problem solving
Simultaneous interpretation and group discussion will be available in Spanish.
This training is part of a larger exercise called IronOR 24. Organizations who participate in this workshop have the opportunity to simulate response coordination with the County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on October 29th. More information about this activity will be shared during the August workshop.
Educational seminar series aimed at enhancing community preparedness and resilience. This series is hosted by IOEM with collaboration from the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Albertsons Companies. Register here.
Join Serve Washington and subject matter experts from the Washington State Emergency Management Division as they discuss Washington State’s greatest natural hazard hits – volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and more on this webinar! Learn what the state is doing to better understand its natural hazards and mitigate their impact before disaster strikes. Topics covered will include how to know if you’re in a hazard zone, how to get alerts, and how to prepare yourself and your loved ones for emergencies large and small.
Join link (advance registration not required): https://servewashington.wa.gov/tta-washington%E2%80%99s-greatest-hits-volcanoes-earthquakes-tsunamis-and-more
August 28, 11:00 AM: RNPN‘s Resilience Exchange on “Managing Multi-Hazard Risk.” Explore how hazards are connected and the strategies we need to build climate resilience. The event is part of a Resilience Exchange series, which offers monthly learning sessions on a specific subject to share knowledge and advance conversations around a particular area of natural hazard resilience. Register here.
Women, girls & gender-diverse people are disproportionately affected by disasters, especially those who have preexisting vulnerabilities because of structural inequities. Women & children are 14 times more likely to die from a disaster than men. Transgender adults are twice as likely than cisgender adults to report being in poor health, which impedes full recovery after a disaster.
Yet funding to support women, especially in larger complex humanitarian emergencies is insufficient and usually does not go to women-led organizations. A feminist humanitarian response to crises and climate change is one way to address the root causes of women’s marginalization. It is also a way to ensure that all vulnerable groups are identified & prioritized for assistance, that they have delegated decision-making power, and that intentional efforts are made to ensure people from all marginalized groups participate in the decisions that affect them, as well as in the response & recovery efforts in the aftermath of a disaster.
This four-day functional exercise will bring state, local and tribal, public, private and non-profit partners together throughout Oregon to practice our collective capabilities to response within a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake scenario. Exercises play a vital role in national preparedness by enabling whole community stakeholders to test and validate plans and capabilities, and identify both capability gaps and areas for improvement. A well-designed exercise provides a low-risk environment to test capabilities, familiarize personnel with roles and responsibilities, and foster meaningful interaction and communication across organizations.
Exercises bring together and strengthen the whole community in its efforts to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to and recover from all hazards. Overall, exercises are cost-effective and useful tools that help the nation practice and refine our collective capacity to achieve the core capabilities in the National Preparedness Goal.
This webinar will focus on the critical intersection of heat vulnerability and climate change in FEMA Region 2, focusing on lessons learned from New York City. We will explore the different factors that impact heat vulnerability, especially for people with disability, access, and functional needs, as well as individual and policy strategies to mitigate the effects of extreme heat.
