Workshop: Community and College Preparedness Program    

Course ID - CTD0833a

Short Title: 3CP2    

Description:
A disaster resistant college understands the threat posed by natural hazards to its campus and its mission. It actively implements policies, programs, and practices to address its risk. It integrates loss reduction into its teaching and public service activities. A well-prepared college has well prepared students.
This module addresses the knowledge, skills, and abilities students need to survive natural, technological, and artificial disaster. Whatever the scale of the disaster, members of the local community will carry out the first response. Therefore, students and citizens need to be able to: Understand preparedness as it pertains to their unique situation and to their responsibility as a citizen and understand specific threats and how to respond.
 

Objectives

As a result of successful completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Explain why preparedness is everyone's responsibility  
• Identify potential natural, technological, and artificial disaster threats
• Assess potential local threats
• Identify locations for sheltering in place
• Prepare a survival and first aid kit
• Establish communication capabilities with family and others
• Develop evacuation capabilities with considerations for special needs/special populations and domestic animals
• Discuss how to volunteer to assist with community preparedness and response
• Utilize web resources provided by your instructor to gain additional information for preparedness
• Identify support resources in their community
• List local points of contact for assistance during a disaster event

 

Dates of Workshop	Reference #	Delivery Format	Meeting Days/Time	Campus/Room	Instructor
04/17/13	770465	F2F	Wednesday 1:00pm - 3:00pm	Carrie Meek/1103	Ken Staab

Registration information
Course ID: CTD0833a 
Course Title: 3CP2 
Reference # - see table 

How to Register

Registration for CT&D workshops are through the Student Information and Registration system.  The process for registering for a CTD workshop will be the same as registering for a regular class at MDC.  

New - Easier registration for workshops

You can access the Registration System and register for a CTD workshop using the same user name and password that use to login to your computer.    Example:   Richard Johnson  would be rjohnson     (You will NOT need to create a separate student myMDC account to register for a CTD workshop) 

Make a note of the Reference Number for the workshop then go to Registration Instructions

Once you have registered for a class, you can print your schedule.    Please make every effort to attend once you've registered as seats are limited.     However, If you need to drop, you can also do this through the Web Registration screen.     CTD classes will appear on your transcript as non-credit classes.

If you need special assistance to participate in this workshop due to a disability, please call CT&D at 7-2366 so that appropriate arrangements can be made.  College Training and Development complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act.