This Citizen Corps News Digest is provided by FEMA's Individual & Community Preparedness Division to highlight community preparedness and resilience resources and activities recently announced by federal agencies and Citizen Corps partners.

National Disaster Recovery Framework Webinar is a Huge Success!

More than one thousand participants, including those from emergency management, all levels of government, as well as the private sector, joined this one-hour session to learn more about the NDRF from various subject matter experts within FEMA's Preparedness and Recovery divisions. Discussion topics included the collaborative Whole Community approach used to develop the NDRF and the ways in which NDRF provides a more inclusive, collaborative, and comprehensive approach to addressing disaster recovery challenges and other issues. The NDRF defines how we will work together as a nation to best meet the disaster recovery needs of individuals, families, communities, and States. Since its release in September, much progress has been made in an effort to implement the NDRF and align it with Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8).

Click here to listen to a recording of this webinar.

FEMA Provides Youth-Based Technical Assistance Workshops

Leading educators and scholars in the field of preparedness education consider our nation's youth to be the best envoy for taking preparedness messages home to their families. In order to better prepare our nation's youth to bring preparedness home, FEMA is providing technical assistance workshops to state and local practitioners who support youth-based programs and who are interested in integrating preparedness education into their offerings.

As part of these workshops, participants hear from experts who have developed and delivered some of the most successful youth preparedness programs across the country. In discussing their programs, they also emphasize the following:

• Getting Started & Engaging Partners
• Identifying Curriculum
• Implementing the Program
• Promoting the Program
• Sustainment & Evaluation

The next workshop is scheduled for November 30, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. However, you don't have to wait to get started. For more information about integrating preparedness education into your local youth programs, send a message to citizencorps@dhs.gov .

To obtain information about the upcoming Los Angeles workshop, contact Brenda Emrick at bemrick@ceooem.lacounty.gov or call (323) 980-2260. Registration forms are due by Friday, November 18.

Citizen Corps Partners and Affiliates Updates

CERT Basic Training Materials Now Available in Spanish

The Community Emergency Response Team Program at FEMA is pleased to announce a Spanish-language version of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Basic Training Course materials is now available for use. Designed to extend CERT's reach into our nation's Spanish-speaking population, these CERT publications will allow easier and more effective delivery of the basic training course.

Providing the same content as the English version, the Spanish-language Basic Training Course materials cover nine units highlighting topics such as Disaster Preparedness, Fire Safety, Terrorism and CERT, Disaster Medical Operations, and Light Search and Rescue Operations.

Available Spanish-language materials include the Instructor Guide , Participant Manual , and PowerPoint Slide Deck . For more information, please visit the national CERT website or contact CERT via email for any questions.

The National Office of Citizen Corps

FEMA Individual & Community Preparedness Division

FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

CERT Basic Training Materials Now Available in Spanish

CERT Community,

The Community Emergency Response Team Program at FEMA is pleased to announce a Spanish-language version of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Basic Training Course materials is now available for use. Designed to extend CERT's reach into our nation's Spanish-speaking population, these CERT publications will allow easier and more effective delivery of the basic training course.

Providing the same content as the English version, the Spanish-language Basic Training Course materials cover nine units highlighting topics such as Disaster Preparedness, Fire Safety, Terrorism and CERT, Disaster Medical Operations, and Light Search and Rescue Operations.

Available Spanish-language materials include the Instructor Guide , Participant Manual , and PowerPoint Slide Deck . For more information, please visit the national CERT website or contact CERT via email for any questions.

National CERT Program
FEMA Individual & Community Preparedness Division

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FEMA Major Disaster Declarations Updates

Connecticut Severe Storm
Major Disaster Declaration number 4046 declared on Nov 17, 2011

Virginia Remnants of Tropical Storm Lee
Major Disaster Declaration number 4045 declared on Nov 17, 2011

Nevada Pinehaven Fire
Fire Management Assistance Declaration number 2973 declared on Nov 18, 2011

New Mexico Flooding
Major Disaster Declaration number 4047 declared on Nov 23, 2011