Disaster Tip Sheets for Religious Leaders this workshop is entitled “Managing in Chaos: Serving in Disaster” and explores disaster resilience for religious leaders. 
This is an interactive one-day orientation to disaster resilience is based on 16 all-hazards Disaster Tip Sheets for Religious Leaders. The tip sheets help leaders prepare to serve in effective, inclusive, and compassionate ways when disasters strike.

CURRICULUM:
A “chaos game” opens the session, engaging participants in the “feel” of a disaster in their community.  Subsequent activities focus on helping communities to manage the “chaos” in ways that promote healing and growth for the body-mind-and-spirit of individuals and their communities.
The day is generally divided into the four phases of a disaster lifecycle (like most of the Tip Sheets) as follows:

• Mitigation: Implement measures to lessen future impact of disaster on houses of worship and faith-based organizations and the services they provide
• Preparedness:  Incorporate best practices and lessons learned into plans/systems, ensuring necessary resources are available
• Response:  Implement contingency plans designed to save lives, protect property, provide for public welfare, maintain essential services
• Recovery:  Help communities heal, return to a state similar to or improved from pre-disaster conditions

Activities include:

• Spider web exercise
• Tabletop exercise
• Story-telling exchange
• Photo analysis
• Tabletop exercise – flu planning guide template
• Three-part brain exercise
• Nested model of analysis
• Meaning exercise

Tip Sheet Topics:

	- Disaster Basics for Faith Communities
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	- The Role of Faith Communities in Disasters
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	- The Disaster Lifecycle: Where Do Religious Leaders Fit In?
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	- Faith Communities & Evacuation Planning
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	- Faith Communities & Disaster Sheltering
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	- How to Use Your House of Worship in a Disaster
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	- Faith Communities & Disaster Volunteerism
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	- Faith Communities & Donations Management
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	- Continuity of Operations Planning: Ministry & Services Post-Disaster
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	- Disaster Spiritual Care
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	- Self-Care for Religious Leaders
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	- Faith Communities & Disaster Mental Health
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	- Trauma Resilience and Harm Reduction in the Community
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	- Disaster Backlash: Bias Crimes & Mitigation
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	- National Faith-Based Disaster Service Organizations
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