[SOA] FW: Free Disaster Planning and Response Curriculum Now Available

[Carleton, Janet]

From: Donia Conn via Society of American Archivists <Mail at ConnectedCommunity.org>
Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 9:56 AM
To: Carleton, Janet <carleton at ohio.edu>
Subject: [SAA preservation] : Disaster Planning and Response Curriculum Now Available

Dear esteemed preservation colleagues,   We are pleased to share with you the full curriculum for Finding Common Ground: Collaborative... -posted to the "Preservation Section" community

Dear esteemed preservation colleagues,

 We are pleased to share with you the full curriculum for Finding Common Ground: Collaborative Training for the Cultural Heritage and Emergency Response Communities.  This program was developed by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) in conjunction with the Massachusetts State Archives and the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services between 2017 and 2018. The project builds on a quarter century of the MBLC's statewide preservation and disaster response activities but is applicable in any region and any state with minor revision.

 Protecting humanities collections and municipal records is crucial to preserving our nation's story, sustaining the economy, and fostering resilience. This goal can only be accomplished by the cultural heritage community if communication and training with the emergency response community is already in place. By bringing both communities together to learn from each other at the local level, we can affect the inclusion of cultural heritage in municipal risk assessment, mitigation planning, response to, and recovery from a disaster. It is time that both communities come together to recognize that once life safety has been addressed following a disaster, the health and welfare of a community depends on the recovery and vitality of all sectors, including cultural heritage.

 To address these issues at the local level and to serve as a pilot at the national level, Finding Common Ground: Collaborative Training for the Cultural Heritage and Emergency Response Communities was developed through a two-year National Endowment for the Humanities grant to provide statewide, preparedness and response training project for cultural heritage and emergency responder personnel. The training package is available on the MBLC website at guides.mblc.state.ma.us/finding-common-ground<https://guides.mblc.state.ma.us/finding-common-ground>.  The website includes:

  *   5 pre-program webinars to ensure all participants arrive with the same foundational knowledge;
  *   Trainers materials for the program's five workshops;
  *   Slide decks and text for each in-person workshop;
  *   Checklists to help develop your own live burn and salvage exercise;
  *   Videos for the live burn and salvage workshops held in MA; and
  *   Handouts

 We hope that you find the curriculum helpful.  Please share it with your constituents.

 Sincerely,

Gregor Trinkaus-Randall, Project Director

Donia Conn, Project Coordinator and Curriculum Developer

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Donia Conn
Ballston Spa NY
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