South Alabama Nonprofit and Community Disaster Preparedness Experts to Meet Tuesday

July 25, 2011 - PRLog -- Mobile.AL. Project Connect Consortium, an outreach initiative of Tri-Coastal Community Outreach, Inc. of Grand Bay, Alabama, will hold their July meeting on Tuesday, July 26 from 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. at the International Trade Club, Killian Room (1st floor), 250 North Water Street, Mobile, Alabama.  

A panel of experts from Mobile County Emergency Management Agency, American Red Cross, Mobile Fair Housing, ACT II, Area Agency on Aging, Project Rebound, United States Coast Guard and other local agencies will discuss disaster preparedness and the role that individuals and agencies serve in communities during a critical incidence.  The meeting is free.

For more information about the consortium and how you can get involved, contact Carolyn Thompson, (228) 623-0017 or carolyn@tricoastalcommunity.org.


                                       Project Connect Consortium Meeting
                                                       July 26, 2011

Consortium Goal:   1) To strengthen the nonprofit community connection through embracing our organizational assets and our ability to adapt to change related to our communities, regardless of critical incident or crisis.

Consortium Meeting Objectives:  
1)   To embrace the nonprofit community by building personal relationships with each
other so that we may form collaborations and partnerships to serve our communities,  
                                                 wherever they may be or wherever support is needed.
2)   To discover how change impacts organizations during a crisis
3)   To provide real-time information related to critical incidents
4)   To provide knowledge and education about issues related to nonprofit management
     and leadership development, so that community leaders will be empowered to make
     positive  choices in guiding their entity into a sustainable future.
5)  To know that “we are not alone” in our journey to serve others

Be the change you want to see in yourself, your neighborhood and the world.


                                                                                            Agenda

8:30-9:00 a.m.         Registration, Beverage Bar, Networking
               
9:00-9:05 a.m.         Welcome – Carolyn Thompson

9:05-9:10a.m.                       Introduction of first panel of speakers - Sherrie Graham

9:10-10:10 a.m.               Group Exercise: Mass Casualty Planning

                                                Panel Discussion    Topic “Where is My Help?”

                              Martha Crosby, American Red Cross
                              Vicory Jones, Mobile Fair Housing
                                                  Michelle Kurtz, ACT II
                               Della Sanchez, Area Agency on Aging

                                                  Group Exercise: Who Is Impacted by the Disaster?

10:10-10:15a.m.                     Introduction of second panel of speakers-Carolyn Thompson

10:15-11:15a.m.         Lavonis Dubose, Trinity Gardens
                            Pam Maumenee, Project Rebound/AltaPointe
                            Donald Leeth, Mobile County Emergency Management Agency
                           Ensign Torry James, United States Coast Guard Sector Mobile
         
11:15-11:30 a.m.         “Consortium Connect” Activity –
                           PCC Participant Profile Forms Completion
                          Please complete form and turn it in before you leave so you are
                        included  in the resource guide.      
     
Media Contact
Sher Graham
BC2P
251.404.3924
sherrie@baycoastcp.com

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