Emergency Preparedness Resources: PCC Ready Bags & Community Resilience Project
Student Created Resources
The PCC Ready Bags & Community Resilience Project was started through an Eco-Social Justice grant. This initiative is working to educate and prepare students for the aftermath of a large subduction zone earthquake. PCC students have created resources that are available for downloading and printing, as well as being involved in purchasing, packing and distributing the Ready Bags.
The ultimate goal of this initiative is to increase earthquake awareness and preparedness for PCC students while building community to increase our resilience.
Read the whole story about why this project is so important and how it came to fruition. For questions or for more information, please contact Taryn Oakley at taryn.oakley@pcc.edu.
PCC Ready Bag Campus Events
Keep watching this space for more events in the Fall!
Emergency Preparedness Podcasts
- PCC Podcast: From Campus to CommunityEngaging interview about the PCC Ready Bags & Community Resilience Project.
- Let’s Talk! Disaster Preparedness with Taryn OakleyOn the third of May in 2023 Carrie Cantrell attended an event at PCC Cascade Campus called Go Bag! The purpose of the event was to distribute small pre-packed emergency kits, or “go-bags” to attendees at the event in the event of a sudden natural disaster such as earthquake or fire. Carrie interviewed the host of the event, Taryn Oakley, as well as many students and other attendees to gather their thoughts and perspectives on this topic.
Additional Resources
Preparing:
- Free maps of PDX and surrounding communities available in multiple languages
- Emergency preparedness water resources in multiple languages
- Multnomah County’s list of resources and preparedness documents in multiple languages
Education:
- OSU’s free Cascadia Earthquake Preparedness Online Course
- Available in English and Spanish
- Goes through the details of what Cascadia is as well as great preparedness information
- Unprepared Film
- Talks about local impacts of a subduction zone earthquake and what Oregon SHOULD be doing to prepare
- DOGAMI’s more thorough preparedness guide
- Includes lots of images
- Lots of tsunami information for coastal preparedness
- Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest
- This is a free OER text
- For those who want to learn more about the geology of the Cascadia Subduction Zone.