2012 National Preparedness Month Launch Webinar

Please JOIN US on June 5th for the official launch webinar for National Preparedness Month 2012 this September. National Preparedness Month has grown every year, and with your help, this will be our most successful and coordinated effort to date!

The theme for this year's National Preparedness Month is Pledge to Prepare. DON'T MISS this great opportunity to learn about the number of easy ways that you, your organization, or your business or place of work can fulfill the pledge and become better prepared for disasters this year:

• Free Publicity: Thousands of people visit this site. Having your events and training and education activities in one place makes it so much easier, not just for us and the public, but also leadership and the media, to learn about the great work that you're doing. Please post any upcoming events and learning opportunities on the site's events calendar. Your events will be placed on a Google map and the public will be able to search for events by zip code.

• Connect with Current and New Partners: The discussion boards are a great way to meet new partners and to exchange information with the stakeholders you already work with. Please introduce yourself so that the public and other participants know who you are!

• Event Ideas and Resources: Get access to new ideas on how you and your community can get involved and plan events in your community to raise awareness about emergency preparedness and help people learn to protect their homes and families from all hazards 

Details for the kick-off webinar are below.  We look forward to working with you to make the nation more prepared.

Sincerely,

Darryl Madden, Director, the Ready Campaign
Paulette Aniskoff, Director, FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division

WEBINAR DETAILS:

Presenters for this webinar will include representatives from organizations including:

• FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division

• The Ready Campaign

• Arizona Division of Emergency Management

• New York City Office of Emergency Management and Citizen Corps 

DATE: Wednesday, June 5, 2012

TIME: 3:00 PM ET/Noon PT

Please note that we will be opening the webinar meeting room beginning at 2:30 p.m. EDT in anticipation of a large volume of participants. Please feel free to join the webinar at this time, while understanding that the official event will still begin at 3 p.m. EDT.  

If you have not participated in a previous HSIN webinar and need to register, please click here in order to view this webinar.

If you have participated in a previous HSIN webinar and already have a username and password on the HSIN system, please log-in here in order to view this webinar.

How to view our webinars

The Community Preparedness Webinar Series is conducted via DHS's HSIN Connect system. Audio for this webinar will be broadcast within HSIN Connect and will play through your computer speakers; there will not be a concurrent, phone-based teleconference. Questions and answers will be moderated via text-based chat inside the webinar. In addition, please ensure your computer's speakers are working prior to the webinar. If for any reason you have trouble accessing the system, please send an email to citizencorps@dhs.gov.

This webinar will last approximately one hour. In addition to airing live, the webinar will be recorded and viewable at a later date and linked from this web page. The live webinar will offer Closed Captioning and a transcript of the webinar will be posted with the recorded version of the webinar.

If you have not participated in a previous HSIN webinar and need to register, please click here.

If you have participated in a previous HSIN webinar and already have a username and password on the HSIN system, please log-in here.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR PARTICIPATION!