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NAACP RELEASES TOOLKIT–“IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: A
PEOPLE’S GUIDE TO TRANSFORMING CRISIS AND ADVANCING EQUITY IN THE DISASTER
CONTINUUM”
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Media contact: Malik
Russell mrussell@naacpnet.org
BALTIMORE (September 26,
2018)–Today, the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) announces the release of In the Eye of the Storm: A People’s Guide to
Transforming Crisis and Advancing Equity in the Disaster Continuum Toolkit. The
“eye” refers to how some communities, due to pre-existing vulnerabilities,
find themselves more in the crosshairs than others. And it also refers to the
need for watchful vigilance as we document and take action on
inequities. This 190-page manual prepares frontline
communities to be first responders in disasters as well as to serve as
monitors for equity in disaster response, and to advance an equitable
disaster policy platform.
NAACP believes the key to adequate and equitable
disaster preparedness and recovery is training and planning,” said Katherine
T. Egland, Chair, National Board of Directors Environmental and Climate
Justice Committee. “This toolkit
provides guidance on taking action to ensure that each
phase of the disaster continuum–from mitigation to preparedness to
response, relief, recovery, and redevelopment–is rooted in human and civil
rights.”
Recognizing the inequities along the entire disaster
continuum, from differential protective levee fortification, to who gets
served first in the disaster aftermath, to the ICE raids that have happened
in post-disaster contexts, to gentrification and displacement that can result
from disaster capitalism, the NAACP sees disaster justice as a core focus in
our civil rights agenda,”said Jacqui Patterson, Senior Director,
NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. “Components of the
In the Eye of the Storm Toolkit include: Disaster Policy and Governance
Framework, How to Start a Community Emergency Response Team, Hosting a
Community Visioning Session, Establishing a Community Advisory Board, Civil
and Human Rights In Emergency Management Monitoring Tool, Partnership Matrix
of What Agencies/ Organizations Do What in Disasters, Disaster
Management Resource List, and more.”
“In January, the NAACP Florida State Conference made
sure that 28 of our units were trained as Community Emergency Response Teams
under FEMA. We then issued a challenge for all the NAACP State Conferences
to follow in our footsteps,” said Adora Obi Nweze, President NAACP
Florida State Conference and Chair, NAACP Emergency Management Taskforce. With
the release of this toolkit that provides guidance on setting up a CERT, we
re-issue the challenge! Katrina, Maria, Irma, and now Florence, as well as
the wildfires out west and the tornadoes and flooding in the
Midwest….all of these disasters and the impacts on our communities,
tell us in no uncertain terms that we have to be prepared! We implore
you to please join us in taking advantage of this toolkit to get geared
up and start your state and local NAACP Community Emergency Response
Teams, before disaster finds itself at your doorstep.”
The In the Eye of the Storm: A People’s
Guide to Transforming Crisis and Advancing Equity in the Disaster
Continuum Toolkit can be downloaded from the NAACP website by
clicking HERE.
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Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest
nonpartisan civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United
States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in
their communities. You can read more about the NAACP’s work and our
six “Game Changer” issue areas here.
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