Creating Safe Environments: Disaster Risk Management

The Disaster Risk Management (DRM) team supports Indigenous communities as they navigate disaster risk reduction (DRR), emergency planning, preparedness, response, and recovery. The DRM team offers practical, community-driven, and researched solutions with the aim of strengthening individual and community capacities.

Learning Events

• Planning and preparedness
• Review and recommendations on EM plans
• Communication during emergencies
• Recovery after a disaster
• Disaster risk planning
• Preparedness webinars
• Sheltering in place
• Risk exposure and identification of hazards
• Workshops and tabletop exercises tailored to community needs

Resources 

• Evacuation preparedness
• Emergency planning for households
• Emergency preparedness checklists
• Fire preparedness
• Flood preparedness
• 7-10 day emergency kits
• 72-hour emergency backpack
• Grab and go for Elders and children
• Other Community-specific resources and events as requested