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Paul Boutette, MA, B. Ed., MBA& Louise Lemyre, Ph.D.
Faculty of Social Sciences, McLaughlin Research Chair on Psychosocial Risk,
Institute for Population Health GAP-SantéUniversity of Ottawa
13th Annual All-Hazards Emergency Management Higher Education Conference
Mapping Community Assets Pre-event: A Psychosocial Risk Manager Capability Tool
for Pre-Disaster PlanningJune 2010
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The PRiMer Project
3 Planning Principles• Anticipate
• Communicate
• Coordinate
5 Psychosocial Considerations• Perceptions Matter
• Routines Predict Behaviour
• People Act in Purposeful and Adaptive Ways
• People Are Differentially Affected
• People Want to Connect and Help
3 Tools• Web-based Self Study
Guide
• One-Day Workshop
• Decision Support Tool
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Social Media & Emergency Management
• For warning systems• For surveillance• For real-time
communication• For conveying risk
messages to the public
• For tracking emergencies using GIS
Social media offers a powerful new array of tools for use in emergency management
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Proven Power & Untapped Potential
GIS Technology in Haiti• Ushahidi
• Survivors texted their needs (rescue, food, water, shelter, etc.)
• These messages and locations were posted using crowd sourcing and Open Street Map (wiki) technology
• Google maps• Responders used Google maps to
report on the demographics of displaced persons camps, facilitating the distribution of food and shelter materials
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Building Capability
The PRiMer
Decision Support ToolTapping into social media’s potential,
Pre-Event
Psychosocial ChecklistGapville InteractiveCapability Tool: Community Mapping
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Psychosocial Checklist
Assessing Needs:• ‘Map’ psychosocial issues• Focuses users on gaps in
their planning• May be completed online
or on paper
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Gapville Interactive
Educate & inform: • Used to explore
psychosocial needs of at-risk populations in a community context across event timeline
• Provides links to resources
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Gapville Interactive
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Capability Tool
Community mapping pre-event:
• Community mapping using Google Maps; shared or private
• Asset categories: people, service, space and equipment
• Allows people to make connections and determine needs, pre-event
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Considerations
Opportunities to...
• Foster public engagement• Organize connections and
build networks of social support
• Identify and utilize at-risk populations, pre/post event
• Increase pre-event situational awareness
• Prepare pre-disaster MOU’s• Identify and target education
and training needs
Challenges related to...
• Privacy /legal rights• Data accuracy/trust• Data integration/info
overload• Timeliness of information• Uptake of new technologies
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Community Mapping
The power of pre-event asset mapping... from reactive to proactive;
from individual vulnerability to community resiliency.
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Faculty of Social Sciences, McLaughlin Research Chair on Psychosocial Risk,
Institute for Population Health GAP-SantéUniversity of Ottawa
www.gapsante.uottawa.ca
www.gapsante.cawww.gapsante.ca/selfstudyguide
www.gapsante.ca/dstwww.youtube.com/gapsante