2012 Schedule

All sessions are held at the Holiday Inn Portland Airport.  Click here to register for the conference.

Tuesday, October 30th

• Long Term Recovery Day One – Case Management Training  – Day One of Three Day workshop –
• During this 8 hour course you will learn the ways that Case Management can be implemented in relationship to Long Term Recovery Groups.  This workshop will guide participants in thinking about how to assess their organizational capacity. Download the Agenda.
• Business Preparedness and Continuity Planning  – In this day long, two part workshop, you’ll learn the skills to get you on the road to weathering any type of emergency, from power outages, to a computer virus attack, equipment failures, theft, flooding, accidental damage or a big earthquake. Click here to see the agenda.

• Medical Professionals track – Mass Antibiotic Dispensing Workshop

Wednesday, October 31st

• Medical Professionals track – Basic Disaster Life Support Course for Health Care Professionals, CERT members, EMTs, and others (and additional registration sequence will be emailed to those who register for this course).
• Long Term Recovery Day Two Workshop – The amazing 3-day Long Term Recovery Workshop  has brought together some of the most experienced recovery work professionals from across the country.  Download Agenda.

Thursday, November 1st

• Long Term Recovery Day Three Workshop – The amazing 3-day Long Term Recovery Workshop  has brought together some of the most experienced recovery work professionals from across the country.  Download Agenda.
• Shelter Operations – For Faith-based, non-profit, private industry, government agencies, and community members who are interested learning sheltering practices and techniques for opening, operating, and closing a disaster shelter.

Session Schedule: Friday, November 2nd 2012
Friday and Saturday sessions will be filled on a ‘first seated’ basis.  There is no ‘pre-registration’ for the classes listed below.  However, we do ask that when registering for the conference – you indicate whether you intend to attend on one or both of these days.

speaker bios are available here

	Salon A	Salon B	Salon C	Salon D	Mt. Bachelor
7:15-8:00	Registration in the Atrium
8:00-8:30	Opening Remarks in the Ballroom
8:30-9:45	Engaging the Community in Preparedness Part I JoAnn Jordan & Jeremy O’Leary	Burn Disaster Care and Treatment Part I Curtis Ryun	Connecting Land Use Planning to Disaster Preparedness Jason Franklin	Donations Operations Dan Patchin & Sam Pellecer	Wilderness Survival Skills in a Collapsing Urban Environments Steph Sharp
9:45-10:00	Break
10:00-11:15	Engaging the Community in Preparedness Part II JoAnn Jordan & Jeremy O’Leary	Burn Disaster Care and Treatment Part II Curtis Ryun	The Prepared Home– Avoiding Crime in After math of Disaster Sara McClurg	Social Media Trends Cheryl Bledsoe	Establishing Neighborhood Food Security Systems Jonathan Brandt
11:30-12:30	Quake Up Call! James Roddey Presentation in the Ballroom Boxed Lunches Available in the Atrium
12:45-2:00	Preparing for your Pooch (or Cat, or Canary, or Cow): Got Animals? Got a clue how to prepare them? Jo Becker	Developing and Maintaining Volunteers FEMA IS 244 Part I Scott Preston	Tracking Communicable Disease Outbreaks in Disasters Kimberly Repp	Emergency Water Supplies- What You  Should Know Rebecca Geisen & Mark Knudson	Beyond Color: Cultural Competency in Disaster Preparedness and Response Peggy McCarthy & Francisco Ianni
2:00-2:15	Break
2:15-3:30	Preparing for your Pooch (or Cat, or Canary, or Cow): Animals in Jeopardy, THE GAME! Jo Becker	Developing and Maintaining Volunteers FEMA IS 244 Part II  Scott Preston	The Invisible Inclusion – The Deaf Jane Croft	What Doesn’t Happen During Disasters Robert Grist	Ecosystem Services: Community Resilience & Sustainability Kevin Halsey
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-5:00	Preparing for your Pooch (or Cat, or Canary, or Cow): Info.Sharing Jo Becker	Developing and Maintaining Volunteers FEMA IS 244 Part III  Scott Preston	Preparedness, Resiliency, Sustainability: Same Thing on Different Timelines Jeremy O’Leary	Food Storage: Where do I Begin? Tanya Dow	Resolving Conflicts in Low- and High-Stake Situations Peggy McCarthy & Francisco Ianni
5:00-8:00	Networking Reception in Holiday Atrium Sponsored by ONA District 1

Session Schedule: Saturday, November 3rd 2012

	Salon A	Salon B	Salon C	Salon D	Mt. Bachelor
7:15-8:00	Registration in the Atrium
8:00-8:15	Opening Remarks in the Ballroom
8:15-8:30	Break
8:30-9:45	Preparing People with Disabilities: What May You be Missing? Danielle Bailey	Media Training for Volunteers Part I Kathleen G. Vidoloff, Ph.D. & Julie Black, Ed.M.	Vulnerable Communities Lori Chorpenning	Lessons Learned from Katrina and Rita Gregg Ramirez	Disaster Awareness, Map Your Neighborhood, Train the Trainer Part I Alice Busch
9:45-10:00	Break
10:00-11:15	Pet Preparedness and More Marilee Muzatko	Media Training for Volunteers Part II Kathleen G. Vidoloff, Ph.D. & Julie Black, Ed.M.	Telling Difficult News Ameen Ramzy, MD, MBA	Water, Sanitation and Hygiene – Family Solutions to Survive a Quake-Tsunami Stew Martin	Disaster Awareness, Map Your Neighborhood, Train the Trainer Part II Alice Busch
11:30-12:30	Magnitude 9 Paradigm Shift – PNW Implications from the Tohoku Tsunami Jay Wilson Presentation in the Ballroom Boxed Lunches Available in the Atrium
12:45-2:00	Prepping Your Garden & Gardening “Prepared” Part I Karen Wolfgang & Isabel LaCourse	Social Media & Technology History of the Deaf Part I Jane Croft	Psychological First Aid Judy Olivier, Ph.D.	Dealing with Difficult People Part I Alice Busch	The Best Prepared Town in America (Hint: it’s in Oregon!) James Roddey
2:00-2:15	Break
2:15-3:30	Prepping Your Garden & Gardening “Prepared” Part II Karen Wolfgang & Isabel LaCourse	Social Media & Technology History of the Deaf Part II Jane Croft	Disaster and Complicated Grief Survival Tim Serban	Dealing with Difficult People Part II Alice Busch	FC-204: Funding and Support Part I Stella Hickey
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-5:00	Social Media in Disasters and Emergency Preparedness James Roddey & Scott Reuter	ReadyRating Francisco Ianni	Beyond Basic CERT- CAT (Cert Advanced Team) Darren Branum	Disaster and DIY Herbalism – How to Manage Common Injuries with Herbs Jeremy O’Leary & Stephanie Dougherty	FC-204: Funding and Support Part II Stella Hickey