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Paul Boutette, MA, B. Ed., MBA& Louise Lemyre, Ph.D.

Faculty of Social Sciences, McLaughlin Research Chair on Psychosocial Risk,

Institute for Population Health GAP-SantéUniversity of Ottawa

13th Annual All-Hazards Emergency Management Higher Education Conference

Mapping Community Assets Pre-event: A Psychosocial Risk Manager Capability Tool

for Pre-Disaster PlanningJune 2010

The PRiMer Project

3 Planning Principles• Anticipate

• Communicate

• Coordinate

5 Psychosocial Considerations• Perceptions Matter

• Routines Predict Behaviour

• People Act in Purposeful and Adaptive Ways

• People Are Differentially Affected

• People Want to Connect and Help

3 Tools• Web-based Self Study

Guide

• One-Day Workshop

• Decision Support Tool

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Social Media & Emergency Management

• For warning systems• For surveillance• For real-time

communication• For conveying risk

messages to the public

• For tracking emergencies using GIS

Social media offers a powerful new array of tools for use in emergency management

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Proven Power & Untapped Potential

GIS Technology in Haiti• Ushahidi

• Survivors texted their needs (rescue, food, water, shelter, etc.)

• These messages and locations were posted using crowd sourcing and Open Street Map (wiki) technology

• Google maps• Responders used Google maps to

report on the demographics of displaced persons camps, facilitating the distribution of food and shelter materials

Building Capability

The PRiMer

Decision Support ToolTapping into social media’s potential,

Pre-Event

Psychosocial ChecklistGapville InteractiveCapability Tool: Community Mapping

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Psychosocial Checklist

Assessing Needs:• ‘Map’ psychosocial issues• Focuses users on gaps in

their planning• May be completed online

or on paper

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Gapville Interactive

Educate & inform: • Used to explore

psychosocial needs of at-risk populations in a community context across event timeline

• Provides links to resources

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Gapville Interactive

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Capability Tool

Community mapping pre-event:

• Community mapping using Google Maps; shared or private

• Asset categories: people, service, space and equipment

• Allows people to make connections and determine needs, pre-event

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Considerations

Opportunities to...

• Foster public engagement• Organize connections and

build networks of social support

• Identify and utilize at-risk populations, pre/post event

• Increase pre-event situational awareness

• Prepare pre-disaster MOU’s• Identify and target education

and training needs

Challenges related to...

• Privacy /legal rights• Data accuracy/trust• Data integration/info

overload• Timeliness of information• Uptake of new technologies

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Community Mapping

The power of pre-event asset mapping... from reactive to proactive;

from individual vulnerability to community resiliency.

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Paul Boutette, MA, B. Ed., MBA& Louise Lemyre, Ph.D.

Faculty of Social Sciences, McLaughlin Research Chair on Psychosocial Risk,

Institute for Population Health GAP-SantéUniversity of Ottawa

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