Course Description:

Improve your capacity to assist others cultures and communities in a disaster. The training format includes exercises to work on with other participants and will also include short videos. 

Objectives:

• To understand what culture is and be able to communicate your own culture
• To recognize the importance of cultural competence in emergency situations
• To identify implicit bias
• To understand cultural humility
• To identify ways to learn more about other cultures

Target Audiences:

Disaster Volunteers, Emergency Management professionals, Medical professionals, First Responders, Behavioral Health.

** Must bring ID **

NO Cost and NO Recommended Pre-requisites For This Course

Please note, all seats for this training have been reserved. If you find you are interested in attending this event we can place you on a waiting list in the event of cancellations(limited to first 10 individuals). Email us at emdtraining@rivco.org with your interest. 

A Message to all Emergency Management Department Volunteers:

Hello Volunteers!

In honor of your hard work and dedication, we would like to cordially invite you to our Volunteer Appreciation Day. This year we are doing things a bit different. The county is so vast we wanted to make sure that as many of you could attend. So, we decided to host a continental breakfast in the East county and a coffee and desert bar in the West County.

Please see flyer for details.

Please note that this event was specifically created for registered emergency management volunteers. Please do not register for this event if you are not a current participating volunteer with our programs. 

Any inquiries about this registration should be sent to: EMDVolunteer@rivco.org