Our Work

We provide hands-on-help to prepare you, your house and household, organization, neighborhood, and community for emergencies, including crime and disasters. Our readiness work includes standard and customized emergency preparedness plans and packages, memorable training, and tailored, in-depth consulting and project services.

Whether you need guidance, training, a household disaster plan, emergency preparedness kits, turn-key disaster preparedness set-up for your home, a security evaluation, or other product or service, we can get you ready.

• New! We now offer a Basic Disaster Plan that includes communication, reunification, medical, evacuation and other essential disaster planning elements.
• Four customized Disaster Preparedness Packages. Each includes a disaster program with 12 unique plans plus other essential planning elements, a qualified specialist* to customize the plan for your household,  multi-hazard survival instructions, and Defying Disaster Cards (medical, communication, and reunification information wallet cards for household members). Some plans have add-ons such as extra training and consultation sessions, vital document organization, duplication and storage, and household inventory documentation.
• Defying Disaster “Go” bags for home, work, car, and school, standard and customized
  
• Emergency Preparedness Kits and Supply Caches for your home

*Roz Potter, RN, MA, CIC, provides disaster plan assistance and training for clients

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All courses include resources and training aids to reinforce learning

• Crime Prevention / Personal Safety: Personal and situational assessment, awareness, and evasion of assaults, burglaries, robberies, identity theft and other threats, at home, work, in the community and during emergencies. Internet safety, child safety, identity theft, emerging threats, and special concerns of women, elders, and other vulnerable populations.
• Emergency/Disaster Readiness: The major risks your face, what to expect, what you should know, and general preparation and response for natural disasters, hazardous incidents, grid failures, severe pandemics, serious service and supply disruptions, terrorist attacks and other threats.
• Personal Preparedness At Home: Communication, supply and evacuation plans; vital documents; supply caches; equipment; alternative energy and fuels for lighting, heating, and cooking; sanitation; food and water storage and safety; security; and more.
• Infectious and Communicable Disease Prevention & Control: Home; healthcare and community infections, outbreaks, and epidemics; food safety; selection and use of respirators; disinfectants and other supplies; TB; MRSA; E. coli; Salmonella;  Norovirus; Clostridium difficile; Pertussis; Influenza; emerging and other diseases. OSHA and JCAHO compliance.
• Customized Curricula, Training, Presentations, Seminars, and Workshops, including skills practice and product demonstrations.
• Game-Based Disaster Preparation: Experience the circumstances, events, interactions and consequences of a severe disaster through a comprehensive disaster simulation that garners rave reviews. Learn facts and recommendations from expert sources. You’ll be better prepared for many serious emergencies.

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• Crime Prevention / Personal Safety. We can help reduce the likelihood that you will become a target through assessment of personal and situational risk factors, development of criminal/predator recognition and resistance skills, intuition, and the ability to take effective action.
• Home Preparedness Evaluation, and Set-Up. Assessment and planning; implementation; vital document preservation; household inventory for insurance reimbursement; safe room referrals
• Product and Equipment Evaluation and Demonstration. Formal evaluations, comprehensive reviews and demonstrations.

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