Get Ready Teams
Are you, your family, and your property ready for floods, bushfires, and other emergencies?
Join your local Get Ready Team to improve how our local community recovers from disasters.
Get Ready Teams are led by the community for the local community, and provide a way for residents to support each other and improve capacity for disaster resilience.
Locals know their history, risks, people, resources, capacity and location better than anyone. Community-led teams can improve disaster preparedness and resilience, and provide new ways to support each other.
Local Get Ready Teams work alongside Council and emergency service agencies to build capacity within rural areas, promote preparedness, develop disaster readiness plans and take part in specialised training such as first aid, and chainsaw skills.
What is a Get Ready Team?
A Get Ready Team is simply a way to connect with people in your community. A Get Ready Team is a group of community members who would like to help their friends and neighbours in times of need.
Research has shown that building connections with people in your community is great for building resilience in all areas of life. Creating or joining a Get Ready Team helps build resilience to disaster. Communities that work together and create a plan for disaster preparedness respond quicker and recover faster after an event.
What does a Get Ready Team do?
A Get Ready Team connects people from all different backgrounds and life experiences to identify and discuss their community needs. Through these discussions community members can learn from each other and prepare themselves and their community for when disaster strikes.
What this looks like will be different for each community. Everyone brings something different to the table and a disaster that affects one community may not affect another.
How can it benefit me and my community?
Every person has a particular skill set which works well for their day-to-day life. Another person may have a very different skill set based on their own life experiences. Bringing everyone together creates a strong knowledge and skill set base that can be beneficial in times of need.
Some community members may be better resourced than others and may like to lend equipment or a helping hand to those who need it.
The one thing that is certain about a disaster is that there is nothing certain about it. One flood is completely different to the next depending on many different factors. You cannot know or accurately predict that you will not be affected. The best thing you can do is prepare and be better connected with your community so when disaster does strike you will be able to respond and recover faster.
How can Council help?
Council can help to develop community connections that may have already been created, or to help get people together to start connecting.
Council aims to assist Get Ready Teams with sessions or workshops to help communities establish and develop plans that will provide support before, during, and after disasters.
Council can help identify various opportunities and programs that will enhance community preparedness and resilience, such as collaborating with local emergency service agencies.
Singleton Council and the Local Emergency Management Committee are working with the community to establish Get Ready Teams in the Singleton area. Localities include:
- Broke
- Bulga
- Goorangoola
- Jerrys Plains
- Lambs Valley
- Mirannie
- Mt Royal
- Putty/Howes Valley
- Scotts Flat
- Whittingham
Join your local Get Ready team
Join today to learn new skills, know your risk, share information, and find out what to do if there is a disaster in your area.
Fill in the Expression of Interest (EOI) form below to register your interest in your local Get Ready Team.
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