Contact the City of Eugene, Emergency Management Program for information on how to get involved.

 Looking for a (hopefully) once in a lifetime experience?
Participate in the Great Oregon ShakeOut Drop, Cover, and Hold Drill.
For more information and to register, go to the following website:
! http://www.shakeout.org/oregon/

 Preparedness plans for 2010 will be the topic of discussion at 2nd and Chambers, Classroom 2 when City of Eugene, Emergency Planning Department shares what events are being planned for 2011.

  This is the fourth in a series of informational training sessions extending CERT disaster preparedness to animals.  Training will be held in the Michael Rogers Room, Lane County Mental Health, 2411 Martin Luther King Blvd. To register, email Karen.gaggney@co.lane.or.us To sign up as a volunteer and receive future mailings, go to www.lanecounty.org/animals and click on Animals in Disaster.

  This is the third in a series of informational training sessions extending CERT disaster preparedness to animals.  Training will be held in the Michael Rogers Room, Lane County Mental Health, 2411 Martin Luther King Blvd. To register, email Karen.gaggney@co.lane.or.us To sign up as a volunteer and receive future mailings, go to www.lanecounty.org/animals and click on Animals in Disaster.

  This is the second in a series of informational training sessions extending CERT disaster preparedness to animals.  Training will be held in the Michael Rogers Room, Lane County Mental Health, 2411 Martin Luther King Blvd. To register, email Karen.gaggney@co.lane.or.us To sign up as a volunteer and receive future mailings, go to www.lanecounty.org/animals and click on Animals in Disaster.

 This is the first in a series of informational training sessions extending CERT disaster preparedness to animals.  Training will be held in the Michael Rogers Room, Lane County Mental Health, 2411 Martin Luther King Blvd. To register, email Karen.gaggney@co.lane.or.us To sign up as a volunteer and receive future mailings, go to www.lanecounty.org/animals and click on Animals in Disaster.

When: January 25th @ 7:00pm - 9:00pm 
For more information, contact Charlie Fernandez, CANDO team lead, at charlesfernandez@comcast.net

Date: Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Location: Emergency Training Center, 2nd and Chambers
Agenda: MYN Training
The May CAN DO meeting is a training session for the Map Your Neighborhood program, a nationally recognized strategy to improve neighborhood preparedness by understanding neighborhood resources.
Dr. Geoff Simmons will be presenting this two-hour class as part of the CAN DO CERT speaker series. The results will be immediately applicable to you and your preparedness plan, and give you something to talk to your neighbors about as well.
The location for the class is the Fire and EMT training center at 2nd and Chambers.
Because of logistic limitations, please contact Charlie Fernandez, Churchill area CERT lead, if you plan to attend. He can be reached at 1-541-520-3465 or charlesfernandez@comcast.net
 
 

The CAN DO meeting for April is cancelled.
Team leaders are attending the first annual We-gene Celebration at the Campbell Center. We-gene celebrates neighborhood volunteers and their efforts to create better neighborhood communities. CAN DO CERT is one such effort and we can be justly proud.
The May CAN DO meeting will be a 2-hour training session on the Map Your Neighborhood program. More on that next month.

The Churchill Area Neighbors Disaster Organization (CAN DO), a group of Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) trained volunteers, is holding their February meeting at the Eugene Bible College.
 
These meetings are open to anyone interested in being better prepared for disasters of any scale.
 
For more information, contact Charlie Fernandez, CAN DO CERT team lead, by phone at 1-541-520-3465 or by email at charlesfernandez@comcast.net 

 Place: Eugene Bible College, Room 103
Agenda:
1) Layout of 2010 meeting topics
2) 2010 Map CAN Project
3) CAN Plan for Disaster
For more information contact: Charlie Fernandez e:charlesfernandez@comcast.net c:541-520-3465

 If you were watching KVAL TV evening news a couple weeks ago, you'll know about one update for our Awareness Project. But wait, there's more! And you'll want to hear all about it first hand. See you at the meeting!

Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Time: 7:30-9:00PM
Location: Eugene Bible College (at the OBC Library, classroom #103) 

Agenda:
Awareness Project Update (People)
Neighborhood Map Project Update (Property)
December Meeting?
2010 Vision Exercise
Wrap-up and Announcements

In the event of a large-scale disaster, it may take several days for professional rescuers to reach your Churchill area residence. Before they arrive, you must fend for yourself, your family, and work with your neighbors to aid others in your area.
 
Of the 13,000-plus people living within the Churchill Area Neighbors neighborhood association, perhaps twenty have taken the CERT training. CERT - Community Emergency Response Team - training teaches you some of the things you can do to help your family and neighbors in the event of an emergency such as a flood, earthquake, or fire.
 
The next training session begins Monday September 21st. CERT skill-building classes take place every Monday and Wednesday from 6PM to 9PM for eight weeks.  Contact Patence Winningham at the City of Eugene (541-6882-5665 for more information.

Place: Churchill Estates
Time: 7:30PM-9:00PM
 
Agenda: Speaker Series: The Incident Command System Overview and Structure
The presentation provides an overview of the Incident Command System (ICS) used by emergency response teams in the event of a disaster. The presentation will also provide practical examples of how a CERT team like CAN DO will work within the ICS structure and be deployed through the Incident Command Center (ICC).
 
For further information: call Charlie Fernandez at 520-3465 or email him at charlesfernandez@comcast.net