“Emergency Preparation Campaign” Written narrative essay of 4 written pages (not including references and title page) Use between 4-6 sources at minimum (Do not cite Wikipedia) Paper Overview: Preparedness begins at community level. For this essay, you are required to select a community type and the associated hazard from the provided list. You may use a community of your choice to represent the community type, or use the example provided. Give a detailed description of your community, the associated hazard and possible secondary hazards, and the specific community groups that may be most vulnerable to the hazard. Develop a public education and public information campaign that you would employ to prepare your community to cope with your hazard. Include one community-base initiative that you would use. Discuss the challenges that you may encounter and give a description of the desired results of your campaign. Paper Details: Select one of the community categories and the associated hazard from the list below. Choose a community that fits into one of the defined categories, or you can use the example communities. High-density urban community – example community (St. James Town – Wikipedia) – St James Town, Toronto, Ontario Hazard –Power Outage- a disruption of electrical power generation, transmission, or distribution, leading to severe concerns. Rural community with a predominantly senior population – example community(Elliot Lake – Wikipedia) – Elliot Lake, Ontario Hazard – Winter Weather – a severe weather event with varieties of precipitation that can form only at low temperatures, such as a snow, freezing rain and ice. Area near a large urban university that has a high percentage of student renters – example community(York University Heights – Wikipedia), York University Heights, Toronto, Ontario Hazard – Hazardous Material Transportation Incident (Rail) – an unintentional release of a material that is hazardous to humans, animals, plants, or the environment due to its explosive, flammable, combustible, corrosive, oxidizing, toxic, infectious, or radioactive properties. Suburban commuter community – example community(Burlington, Ontario – Wikipedia), Burlington, OntarioHazard – Riverine Flooding – a flood due to the increase of the water level beyond the channel capacity of a natural or somewhat natural watercourse. Structure your paper as follows: 1. Title 2. Introductory Section • Provide a description of your community. 3. Hazard Identification Section • Describe the nature of your hazard and the risk to the community. • Identify potential secondary hazards that may arise in conjunction with the primary hazard. • Describe how the hazard may affect your community. • Identify the community group(s) that may be more vulnerable to the effects of your hazard. 4. Emergency Preparedness Section • Describe some of the public education initiatives that you would employ and your target audience(s). • Describe the public information initiatives that you would use and your target audience(s). • Identify the types of organization(s) that you might approach a community-based partner. 5. Discussion/Conclusion • Discuss some of the potential challenges that your campaign may encounter. • Conclude your paper describing your desired results of your campaign
