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Transcript of © Lemyre et al., 2010 Paul Boutette, MA, B. Ed., MBA & Louise Lemyre, Ph.D. Faculty of Social...
© Lemyre et al., 2010© Lemyre et al., 2010
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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© Lemyre et al., 2010
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
www.gapsante.uottawa.ca
www.gapsante.cawww.gapsante.ca/selfstudyguide
www.gapsante.ca/dstwww.youtube.com/gapsante