Ready Friendly

Our Emergency Preparedness Team has rebranded to Ready Friendly. 

Map Your Neighborhood is a self-guided, 2-hour training that residents conduct by gathering with their immediate neighbors. This program promotes community resiliency for short-term disruptions and large disasters. It connects individual preparedness with preparedness on your block. Know who your neighbors are and who might need special assistance. When the emergency responders are overwhelmed, we will only have each other to rely on. 

Download Map Your Neighborhood materials.

Groups of neighbors learn 9 essential steps to take immediately following a disaster. (See below.) Neighbors also work to identify the skills and equipment they have that could be useful in a disaster. Additionally, neighbors develop a block map identifying neighbors with special needs and homes with important features such as gas service. The goal is to create a functional neighborhood team that would provide support within the immediate neighborhood until normal city services can be restored. The MYN program was developed by LuAn Johnson of SPAN Disaster Services in Seattle. ​

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This map shows our progress as of March 2020. Our goal is to have at least 100 groups/blocks in Friendly Neighborhood participate. We are recruiting 10 organizers in each of 10 neighborhood zones to convene their neighbors for this program. Let us know if you can help fill in our gaps!

​This program is designed as do-it-yourself. Or you can let us help you get started by contacting fan-ept@friendlyareaneighbors.org.

• If you want to start a new MYN group, we can suggest group boundaries for you and review the training materials you will need. If there is no colored polygon over your block on the map above, no group exists there yet. 

• If a MYN group already exists on your block, we can put you in contact with the Group Leader. ​​​

   

Community Emergency Response Team

Have you already participated in Map Your Neighborhood and now want more training? The City of Eugene offers CERT training, a free training program, to provide in-depth information on disaster preparedness for hazards most likely to impact our area. It trains residents in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. Graduates also are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community.

This training is offered once or twice per year. Sign up for the next one at the City's Emergency Management office at 541-682-5665.

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Goals of Ready Friendly

• ​get you and your neighbors ready to help each other in the next emergency—if it's an ice storm or The Big One—or a pandemic.
• improve overall preparedness, from the individual and business level to the FAN neighborhood level
• promote widespread participation in the Map Your Neighborhood program
• read our team meeting notes.
• Our organizing team meets monthly, online for now, and newcomers are welcome to join the team. Or just listen in for a few meetings to see if you are interested. Contact us: fan-ept@friendlyareaneighbors.org

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