Deaf Get Ready Deaf Liaison Officers champion preparedness

Deaf Get Ready Deaf Liaison Officers champion preparedness: building bridges between deaf community and emergency services

Deaf Get Ready is an ABCD Program • Asset Based Community Development • Strengths based • Capacity building: Developing Skills Enhancing Networks

NSW Disability Industry Innovation Awards Deaf Get Ready: winner of Leadership in Community Accessibility

Resilient Australia Award Deaf Get Ready: winner of Community Leadership

PARTNERSHIP Deaf Society Rural Fire Service SES Fire & Rescue Red Cross Deaf Community

Deaf Get Ready involves: 1. 2. 3. 4. Deaf Liaison Officers Auslan videos of Red Cross Redi. Plan Deaf Awareness Training for Emergency Services staff Deaf-friendly emergency preparedness workshops for Deaf Communities

DEAF LIAISON OFFICERS • • Newcastle & Hunter Central Coast Metropolitan Sydney Blue Mountains South West & Campbelltown South Coast Tweed Heads & Northern Rivers Chrissie Field & Leonie Slade Haley Martin Wendy Lancaster & Carolyn Anetter Andrew Niklaus Tracey Clissold Donna White Andrew Myers

RECRUITMENT

DLO TRAINING

DLO TRAINING

DEAF AWARENESS TRAINING

DEAF AWARENESS TRAINING

AUSLAN RESOURCES Red Cross Redi. Plan

DEAF COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

IMPACT 12 Deaf Liaison Officers trained 9 Deaf Awareness Training workshops attended by 311 Emergency Services Personnel 11 Community Workshops attended by 327 people 8 School Workshops attended by 236 children

IMPACT

FUTURE

FUTURE

QUESTIONS?

Thank You Genevieve Roberts Co-ordinator, Community Capacity Building The Deaf Society, NSW