The Disaster Resilience Network

“Expenses advertising 868 in-kind advertising 3,330 office expenses 8,430 information technology 188 travel expenses 15,694 in-kind sodexo 598 insurance expense 3,189 total 32,297”

“Accounts payable and accrued expenses 529 0”

“The mission of the disaster resilience network is to form partnerships between the public and private sectors that will facilitate the development of resilient communities through educating, mentoring, and advocating for the most effective ways to strengthen homes, schools, businesses, and communities against, and otherwise prepare for, disruptions and disasters, natural and man-made.”

“The disaster resilience network (drn) promotes its mission through a variety of collaborative efforts of public outreach coordinated by our paid staff, with leadership from volunteers and the involvement of organizational partners. We have three core programs, each led by a multi- sector council. -one drn program is the disaster resilient cross-cultural council. A grassroots network of multicultural and multilingual groups, the cross- cultural council works with these many communities to help their members prepare for disasters, and to help all people receive emergency communications in a way they can understand. We have continued monthly meetings of our council to coordinate activities among the different cultural communities on preparedness. The cross-cultural council major focus this year is the "emergency preparedness: real stories" video series sponsored by and developed in conjunction with tcc's center for creativity. In these recordings, a community representative presents either a personal or communal experience with disaster in the home language of the target audience. When these videos are screened at a community event, a subject matter expert, with an interpreter, responds to questions and shares information on emergency preparedness. These videos have been produced in american sign language (asl), arabic, burmese (zomi) english, russian, spanish and urdu and have been shown to over 500 people at local churches and community meetings arranged with community stakeholders, with more planned in the coming year. The videos can be found at https://www.disasterresiliencenetwork.org/crosscultural-council-info. Because a number of people within the spanish-speaking communities believe that they should leave their homes during tornado warnings and seek shelter elsewhere instead of sheltering in place, we developed tornado preparedness cards in english and spanish with a volunteer meteorologist and emergency manager who wrote the english messaging, volunteer spanish translators and a volunteer graphic artist who did the layout. Our local electric utility pso donated the printing of 5000 cards each in english and spanish and 50 posters each. In 2017 we completed work with locally-owned key plus broadcasting in doing spanish language radio ads on emergency preparedness. As in previous years, the cross-cultural council has continued to have booths at multicultural events like the coalition of hispanic organization's health fair and their back to school expo, the asian american festival, the cinco de mayo festival and other events using volunteers from our partners and from the oklahoma medical reserve corps. -another drn program is led by our disaster resilient business council. The drbc is a public/private partnership designed to educate businesses and nonprofits about the need for emergency and continuity planning, to offer networking opportunities for those interested in business emergency and continuity planning, and to assist in promoting the critical role of businesses and nonprofits in a community's disaster resiliency. Our fiscal year began with an ef2 tornado on august 6, 2017 primarily affecting businesses along a corridor in our midtown area, including one business high-rise. This led into our previously-planned a day without business symposium in september 2017, which included at least one business representative on the panel from the affected area. It was held in collaboration with the child care resource center who has grant funding to promote resilient communities with child care serving as a hub. This event provided emergency preparedness / business continuity information for 50 representatives of businesses, nonprofits and child care providers. We also had a table at the tulsa small business summit in the fall of 2017. Beginning in the spring of 2018, we held a series of small business seminars for both businesses and nonprofits on developing business continuity using the insurance institute for business and hom”