This curriculum provides an overview of why and how to engage faith communities during disasters and public health emergencies. The modules demonstrate how diverse religious and cultural practice increases partner capabilities and builds whole community resilience. The course offers tools
The NDIN Emergency Rest Center Course trains volunteers from houses of worship seeking to self-activate as Emergency Rest Centers (ERC).
This two-day (16-hour) trainer program equips participants to train others in NYDIS's Disaster Spiritual Care Curriculum. In addition to content review, this two-day training examines the characteristics of adult learners and models cooperative learning. (Pre-requisite: Two-day NYDIS Disaster Chaplain Training)
This two-day (16-hour) training course prepares chaplains and credentialed religious leaders to provide spiritual and emotional care during deployment to disaster sites as well as within their own communities.
Designed as a half-day or evening session, this training provides a basic introduction to Disaster Spiritual Care, Disaster Mental Health, and Self-Care, in an interactive format. Each registrant must be endorsed for this training and/or currently serve as a
Two companion resources tools, a Field Guide and a Religious Literacy Primer for Crises, Disasters, and Public Health Emergencies are a must for all emergency managers, disaster mental and public health providers and disaster human services personnel or volunteers.
This resource outlines the six-step process for successfully engaging faith communities in creating a strategy for disaster response.
Financial and material donations are part of the fabric of disaster recovery—and a traditional function of faith communities and their houses of worship.
Volunteering is an important part of individual and community response to a disaster. It creates solidarity within and between communities as it taps the enormous reservoir of gifts and skills of individuals who desire to serve their neighbors near
A list of most of the national organizations that every LTRO and religious leader should have.