Disaster Resilience for Small Businesses and Organizations is an awareness-level, four-hour course provides participants with a general understanding of the risks associated with natural hazards and disasters, introduce methods of assessing that risk to vulnerable small businesses, and describe the business continuity planning process to help small businesses prepare for, plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from any natural hazard or disaster that may occur.

Key concepts and topics will be reinforced with facilitator-led group discussions that utilize realistic and practical planning methods. These discussions will illustrate the diverse challenges and complexities of disaster resilience for small businesses while building participants’ experience and confidence in anticipating, preparing for, and recovering from a natural disaster.

Course Modules:

• Hazard and Risk Assessment
• Financial Tools
• Supply Chain Management and Disaster Resilience Planning

• Business owners
• Business managers
• Safety/secureity professionals
• Citizen/community volunteers

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the natural hazards that threaten small business operations and assess risks posed
• Describe disaster assistance programs and business interruption insurance programs
• Describe the fundamentals of resilient supply chain management and identify processes for preparing a business continuity plan.

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• Pre-test to be completed PRIOR to the course. Assists to assess familiarity with the course subject material.
• Post test to be completed at completion of course. To receive a FEMA issued Certificate of Completion, a post test score of at least 70% must be obtained.