Gympie Get Ready Resilience Program The Gympie Get Ready Resilience Program On the subject of Environmental Disaster and Extreme Weather Recent environmental events, locally and abroad have raised our awareness of potential vulnerability to natural disasters and extreme weather. Whenever extreme weather or other form of community emergencies occur, what they leave behind can lead communities wondering how to rebuild and how they might be better prepared to deal with such events in the future. What has become clear is the need for all of us to be better prepared to manage and recover from them whenever they occur. Some people when thinking about their own role in extreme weather might still think that it’s the role of local, state and federal government agencies to look after us all. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Everyone has a role to play in ensuring that we are effectively prepared, able to respond, ready to recover and rebuild. The Gympie Get Ready Resilience Program recognises that in order to be truly resilient, our ability to be prepared is reflected in all aspects of life, not just in disaster or emergency management situations. By assessing the consequences in the wake of an event, authorities decide to declare the event a ‘disaster’ or otherwise. By declaring a disaster, the government recognises that people might be entitled to special treatment and that the normal rules of business and life may need to be temporarily suspended. So, when we talk about being prepared for an unexpected event, it’s about preparing to step up and protect people and look after all that we care about including pets and animals, when the need to do more arises. As the full extent and impact of an event is not known until after the emergency has passed, preparing for the worst while hoping for the best is about the best we can do. Planning early is the best way to make sure we are as fully prepared as we can be. Like any other plan, this will be tested, challenged, adapted and need to be improved and updated over time. The "Toolkit" and "Leader's Network" Although we are beginning to understand that building personal and community resilience requires a significant challenge to old ideology that ‘the services and government will look after us’, there is still much work to do. In short, it starts with you, me and us in our local community. That’s what the Gympie Get Ready Resilience Program is all about. It’s designed to make it a bit easier for you to ‘get ready’ and to support individuals and households to build personal resilience by helping you to get your own affairs in order (The Resilience Toolkit). The Resilient Leaders Network aims to connect communities across the region to the information, support and resources they need to improve communication and connection within the community and with services before, during and after extreme weather or other community emergency.
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The Gympie Get Ready Resilience ProgramOn the subject of Environmental Disaster and Extreme Weather
Recent environmental events, locally and abroad have raised our awareness of potential vulnerability to natural disasters and extreme weather. Whenever extreme weather or other form of community emergencies occur, what they leave behind can lead communities wondering how to rebuild and how they might be better prepared to deal with such events in the future. What has become clear is the need for all of us to be better prepared to manage and recover from them whenever they occur.
Some people when thinking about their own role in extreme weather might still think that it’s the role of local, state and federal government agencies to look after us all. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Everyone has a role to play in ensuring that we are effectively prepared, able to respond, ready to recover and rebuild. The Gympie Get Ready Resilience Program recognises that in order to be truly resilient, our ability to be prepared is reflected in all aspects of life, not just in disaster or emergency management situations.
By assessing the consequences in the wake of an event, authorities decide to declare the event a ‘disaster’ or otherwise. By declaring a disaster, the government recognises that people might be entitled to special treatment and that the normal rules of business and life may need to be temporarily suspended. So, when we talk about being prepared for an unexpected event, it’s about preparing to step up and protect people and look after all that we care about including pets and animals, when the need to do more arises. As the full extent and impact of an event is not known until after the emergency has passed, preparing for the worst while hoping for the best is about the best we can do. Planning early is the best way to make sure we are as fully prepared as we can be. Like any other plan, this will be tested, challenged, adapted and need to be improved and updated over time.
The "Toolkit" and "Leader's Network"
Although we are beginning to understand that building personal and community resilience requires a significant challenge to old ideology that ‘the services and government will look after us’, there is still much work to do. In short, it starts with you, me and us in our local community. That’s what the Gympie Get Ready Resilience Program is all about. It’s designed to make it a bit easier for you to ‘get ready’ and to support individuals and households to build personal resilience by helping you to get your own affairs in order (The Resilience Toolkit).
The Resilient Leaders Network aims to connect communities across the region to the information, support and resources they need to improve communication and connection within the community and with services before, during and after extreme weather or other community emergency.
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How the Gympie Get Ready Resilience Program Relates to Gympie's Local Disaster Management ArrangementsGympie and Queensland's Disaster Management Arrangements
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What the Gympie Get Ready Resilience Program Includes1. The Gympie Get Ready Resilience Toolkit The Gympie Get Ready Resilience Toolkit is available in a Print version A4 Folder, on a USB Wrist band, can be downloaded from the Council Website at www.gympie.qld.gov.au/bubble and is a smart phone app (iPhone and Android).
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2. Gympie’s Resilient Leaders Network Members of Gympie’s Resilient Leaders Network are located across the Region and founding members are currently located in:
• Gympie CBD • Mary Valley & Kybong• The Coast—Tin Can Bay, Cooloola Cove and Rainbow Beach• The North—Curra and Gunalda • The West —Widgee and Woolooga
Our Resilient Leaders provide information, support and resources in their local Community; some are qualified First Aiders; some are JP’s and others facilitate the Get Ready Workshops. Leaders support community members to ‘Get Ready’ and support the work of the LDMG’s Coordination Centre and the ‘Community Coordination Groups’ when required and are responsible for keeping community notice boards up to date, as appropriate.
Some Leaders are members of established ‘Community Coordination Groups’. These local groups include trained emergency services personnel and are activated as part of the Local Disaster Management Arrangements. (See pages 2 and 5).
3. Gympie’s Resilient Leaders Network (GRLN) on FacebookThe Facebook page is a great way to find out what’s happening in the Gympie community. Facebook users are encouraged to ‘like’ the page and share information across community generally and during nasty weather. Information about courses, events and opportunities about how to get involved are also posted on the GRLN FB Page.
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Why Gympie’s Resilient Leaders Network? The Resilience Leadership Program started by inviting community leaders around the Gympie region to come together and discuss the roles we all play in enhancing community resilience and in helping local communities to be more prepared, to be able to respond appropriately and recover from natural disasters and bad weather. By bringing community leaders, local government and disaster management agencies together we hoped to create opportunities for collaboration across community sectors and start to work through some ideas about how we might be able to work together.
Volunteering Queensland’s Natural Disaster Resilience Leadership Project was designed to be responsive and flexible to local needs and to take into account the interests and different learning styles of the project’s participants. So it was the ideal choice for the foundation of our resilience program. In total, thirty five local leaders participated in the first four day workshop program.
The workshop incorporated the following preparedness and leaderships areas:- The Queensland Disaster Management framework- Holistic community resilience- The emotional impacts of disaster- Leading in times of change: Adaptive leadership- Working with volunteers and young people- Best practice community engagement and - Building healthy communities
Our 35 founding Leaders reported a high level of benefit arising from the program and its overall effectiveness is demonstrated in the continued drive and commitment of the Resilient Leaders to support local communities in building their own resilience. As not everyone that would like to join Gympie’s Resilient Leaders Network can afford the time to commit four days to the training program, Volunteering Queensland can run one day master classes as needed.
Other Leadership program opportunities include support being provided to:- Become a Justice of the Peace (JP, Qualified)- Complete Apply First Aid Certificate - Psychological Flexibility*- Facilitation Skills* and Photography Short course* NB. * Planned programs subject to funding and facilitator availability
Look our for ‘A’ Frame Resilience Program Notice BoardsLook out for the ‘A’ Frame Resilience Program Notice Boards around the region. These provide community information, weather and flood updates as well as Emergency Information Updates.
These notice boards are currently located in: Amamoor, Imbil, Kandanga, Kybong (Matilda Roadhouse), Rainbow Beach Hall and newsagency, Tin Can Bay SES Shed, Goomborian (Matilda Roadhouse), Kilkivan, Goomeri, Curra (Matildas Roadhouse), Mary Street–Energy Centre, 8 Duke Street, Gympie, Mothar Mountain Hall, Community Services Building 24 Mellor Street, Gympie (Window Signage).
The Resilience Leaders NetworkSupports local community members and organisations to
• Build individual capacity to strengthen relationships within the communities they support. • Identify priorities and share ideas and resources widely across our community. • Identify the most effective way of communicating with people within the community prior to, during and after a crisis.• Acting as a communication link between community and council, keeping everyone informed about what’s happening and what’s needed within their local community. • Assist community to produce their Local Community Action Plan.
Local Community Action Plans include:
• Hazard Identification and potential Impact exploration • Safety First—People, Pets and Livestock• Contact—Information and telephone contacts• Accommodation• Clean up, Rebuilding and Reconstruction and • Community & Social Support
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Gympie Get Ready Being Prepared for Life, What does that mean? These two part workshops are designed to help Gympie area residents compile important personal and household Information, to help prepare for unexpected life events.At the Workshop, participants are provided with a copy of the Gympie Get Ready Resilience Toolkit, which is used to guide conversations with family and others in helping the participant to get prepared.
The workshops cover the following areas:
1. My Household• Why do I need a Plan?• What’s in a household Emergency Kit?• Who is on my household emergency contact list and who should be?
2. Hazards and Risks• Things to think about when Preparing a Plan• What hazards are relevant to us here in Gympie?• Which risks or hazards are of a higher priority to me than others?
3. Me, You and Community• What do we do already and how can we be better prepared?• What skills and resources can I offer and are available to me locally?
The information shared during these workshops is used for developmental purposes only and personal information is kept strictly confidential.
For more information or to register your interest please call 5481 0760
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