Please take the training interest survey to inform the BNA Emergency Prep Team about how you would like to participate in the Be 2 Weeks Ready training program. Will you be doing this program individually? Would you like facilitated training next spring? Would you like to be a Community Host and help train your neighbors?
Be 2 Weeks Ready is a community-based program that helps people prepare for emergencies alongside their friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers. It is organized into eight user-friendly lessons and an activity book filled with helpful hints, fun projects, and resources to help you prepare for a disaster. By the end of this program, you’ll be confident and prepared when the next disaster strikes!
This program can be done individually or in a group led by a volunteer Community Host.
The program information and resources originated at OEM’s Be 2 Weeks Ready Webpage, www.oregon.gov/oem/be2weeksready. Please visit this website for additional resources including available versions of resources in English, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and soon ASL.
OEM provides the B2WR resources in a single Toolkit document or broken down into eight individual units and associated activities. Below is a summary of the eight units on preparedness including local links and resources provided by the BNA Emergency Prep Team to help you in your various activities. Links to OEM’s English version of resources are also included.
Any questions?
Contact the BNA Emergency Prep Team.
B2WR Community Hosts
As mentioned above, you can go through this program at your own pace or join a group facilitated by a volunteer Community Host. We use the term “community” to refer to any group made up of individuals such as neighborhood associations, HOAs, religious groups, or businesses. One person can be a part of many different communities and can help those communities to Be 2 Weeks Ready.
For Bryant Neighborhood, two members of the Emergency Prep Team have completed training to act as Community Hosts. If you are interested in acting as a Community Host, please reach out to BNA Emergency Prep Team.
Resources
PrepLO has November 2024 Community Host Training that is Free for Lake Oswego residents.
Community Host Guide provided by OEM.
B2WR Toolkit
The Be 2 Weeks Ready Program is designed to help you start from where you’re at and build your self-reliance and community preparedness step-by-step.
The Toolkit is the program curriculum including all eight user-friendly lessons and the activity book combined into a single document.
Below and on the OEM website, the toolkit is also broken down into eight individual units and associated activities.
Ratings key used throughout the materials below as documented at OEM Website.
Unit 1: Preparing to Prepare
A disaster can happen anywhere, at any time. Think about how prepared you’d be if an earthquake happened and your household had to survive weeks without running water, working toilets and functioning appliances. In this section, you’ll record your thoughts for later use.
ACTIVITY 1: Journal Two Weeks of a Disaster Scenario
Includes a discussion checklist for each dayACTIVITY 2: Track Your Food and Water for Two Weeks
Includes a table to track your food and water consumption
Includes a checklist about what you eat, water consumption, and how to prepare for and deal with food, human and animal waste.ACTIVITY 3: Words to Your Future Self
Includes thoughtful questions to think about on day 1 of disaster, day 3, day 7 and post disaster.ACTIVITY 4: Practice Mindfulness to Build Preparedness
Includes steps and resources for mindfulness.
Unit 2: Your Emergency Plan
Preparedness begins by thinking about what each person in your home might need and understanding the risks you might encounter. The goal is to make sure everyone in your household is ready. When everyone is prepared for unexpected situations, it can save lives and make it easier to go back to your usual routine faster.
ACTIVITY 5: Get Kids Involved!
Includes ideas like your children building their own go-bag, walking around and identifying emergencies in your neighborhood or practicing your emergency plan.ACTIVITY 6: Build Your Emergency Plan
Includes comprehensive charts to help you build your emergency plan and stash at an incremental pace.Stash and Emergency Plan Checklist as Google Doc (BNA Emergency Prep Team custom resource based on B2WR, save a copy to edit)Customizable Emergency Plan Checklist as Google Doc (BNA Emergency Prep Team custom resource based on B2WR, save a copy to edit)Another OEM resource to create your own emergency action plan.To assist in your planning there are additional resources that are available for download from the FEMA website. ACTIVITY 7: Catalog and Insure Belongings
Includes an example chart to help you in your cataloging efforts.ACTIVITY 8: Test Your Out-of-Area Contacts
Make sure they are prepared to be your contact.ACTIVITY 9: Practice Protective Actions
Unit 3: Food Plan
Making a food plan is a key step to being 2 Weeks Ready. You and your household, including service animals, pets and large animals, need food to survive any emergency. With a food plan, you’ll know how to gather and store two weeks’ worth of non-perishable food and how to prepare it without electricity or gas.
ACTIVITY 10: Create Your Food Plan
ACTIVITY 11: Grow Your Own Food
ACTIVITY 12: Alternative Cooking Methods
ACTIVITY 13: Pizza Box Solar Oven Cooking
Unit 4: Water Plan
Hydration matters, especially in times of stress. A water plan shows you how to gatherand store enough water for 14 days and make it safe to drink without modern conveniences.
ACTIVITY 14: Learn How To Store Water
ACTIVITY 15: Learn How To Boil Water By Using Common Methods
ACTIVITY 16: Finding Other Water Sources (After Disaster Strikes)
ACTIVITY 17: Learn How To Remove Water From A Water Heater
Unit 5: Waste and Hygiene Plan
A waste and hygiene plan is essential to maintain healthy living conditions during disasters. Studies show damage to sewer and wastewater infrastructure is likely to take much longer to recover than other types of infrastructure, such as drinking water supplies.
ACTIVITY 19: Build A Handwashing And Dishwashing Station
ACTIVITY 20: Prepare A Two-Bucket Toilet
ACTIVITY 21: Make An Emergency Washing Machine
Unit 6: Shelter Plan
A shelter plan helps you prepare for a variety of safe locations following a disaster. Whether you shelter inside or outside your home, in a community shelter, or with family and friends, you need to be prepared to shelter for up to two weeks following a disaster.
ACTIVITY 22: Home Hazard Hunt
ACTIVITY 23: Utility Shut-Off
ACTIVITY 24: Prepare A Go-Bag
Unit 7: First-Aid Plan
After a disaster, the emergency medical system will be in high demand and help may be delayed. Learning how to treat different injuries and illnesses can prepare you and the people you care about and help save lives. You are the help until help arrives.
ACTIVITY 25: Build Your First-Aid Kits!
ACTIVITY 26: Take A First-Aid Training Class
Local links provided by the BNA Emergency Prep TeamGet certified in CPR through Lake Oswego Parks & Recreation. Upcoming class on December 7.Find a Red Cross training class near you.Find REI Wilderness Training within 50 miles of Bryant Neighborhood.ACTIVITY 27: Practice Your First-Aid Skills
Unit 8: Emergency Management
Emergency management agencies at the federal, state, tribal and local levels help protect people and places during disasters. Emergency managers partner with the public to help everyone Be 2 Weeks Ready. Building prepared communities means knowing what support you may or may not receive from emergency managers and first responders after a disaster and planning accordingly. Know where to go when the official response doesn’t meet all your needs.
Local links provided by the BNA Emergency Prep TeamACTIVITY 28: Meet Your Local Emergency Manager
Lake Oswego Emergency ManagmentACTIVITY 29: Sign Up Or Update Your Contact Information For Emergency Alerts
Clackamas County Public AlertsACTIVITY 30: Help Your Community Prepare
Lake Oswsego Fire Department CERT TrainingJoin the BNA Emergency Prep Team to help your Bryant neighbors!Join the PrepLO Team to help all Lake Oswego neighborhoods!