Emergency Shelter

The St. Augustine Shelter Team will participate in the Red Cross Annual
Shelter Training Exercise, to be conducted on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the
First Baptist Church, Ashland, VA from 8:30 am until 2:00pm. The event will
apply only to shelter teams; no other participants will be invited. The Red
Cross training team has designated six areas to be trained:
.    Registration
.    Food service
.    Dormitory
.    Health/mental health services
.    Staff recruitment and client services
.    Shelter manager/operations/logistics

    All shelter team participants will receive Registration training during the
first training period.

    Participants will rotate through the other training stations during the
remaining five training periods.

    They have allotted 40 minutes per station (including 10 minutes rotation
time). Plan for 30 minutes of discussion/hands-on per station.

    Training will focus on questions to generate discussion.

    Contact (place my email link here) to confirm that you plan to attend.

The Beulah United Methodist Church Shelter Team met with our team last fall
and both have agreed to do joint shelter team training during 2012. We will
have our first planning session in mid-February, date to be determined. Look for
more details to follow.

Thanks and Peace,

Paul

St. Augustine Shelter Team

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandhtitus@aol.com [mailto:Sandhtitus@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 2:34 PM
Subject: Red Cross Classes

To: Church Team Coordinators and Team Members
From: Sandra Titus

This is a reminder of the two classes which will be taught at the Red Cross
building on Cary Street on Saturday, January 28. The two classes are:

Shelter Operations
Shelter Simulation

I have received notice from some of you that you are planning to attend one or
both of these classes. If you are planning to attend both classes, please
remember to bring a bag lunch.

The time will be:

Shelter Operations - 9:00 AM
Shelter Simulations - 1:00 PM

The instructor will be Ken Strout and he will be assisted by Jacqueline Muoio

Please let me know if you are planning to attend so that the instructors can
prepare the handouts.
Thank you,
Sandra Titus
# 594-0738

Shelter Team Meeting and Support of CARITAS: Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Bob,

Thanks to you and Carole for attending our shelter team meeting on October 12. It was very beneficial for us; lots of constructive discussion; and a good start for pursuing joint shelter team operations and training.

For information about our team, I would recommend checking our link to the St. Augustine Parish Website: http://www.staugustineparish. net/Emergency%20Shelter.htm. The building diagram, showing how our shelter team uses the building space which we we reviewed last night, is listed in the Document section at the bottom of the page.

The agenda for the next meeting on November 17 is attached. It is also available from our Webpage.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks and Peace,

Paul

Shelter Task Area Leads
If we are to effectively organize our planning group to accomplish the necessary planning and to lead the effort when called upon by the Red Cross, we need to have leaders in each of the major shelter task areas. We made the following designations for shelter task area leads:

NOTE: If you cannot perform the task listed for the shelter area, please notify Paul Bedard at 751-0007. You may also email Paul.

                                                Red Cross Training
                                                             Red Cross Shelter Training Opportunities
                                              (We are working to restore the link to Red Cross Training.)

The above Red Cross Training Class addresses are not working at the moment, but check back later. (5/3/11 8:30 a.m.)

** Attention new shelter volunteers or those who have not had the opportunity to complete the Red Cross training course, Introduction to Disaster Services. The Red Cross now offers it on line. Click on the link in the table or below to launch the course, or copy and paste the link into your Web browser.

When complete, please contact Paul Bedard or call 751-0007, or call Katharine Anderson at the Parish office, 275-7562.

Meeting Notes & Documentation
(click on Meeting Notes above to return to top of page
or click on date or document title below to access the desired file)

02/07/12