With more than 60 years of experience, Church World Service provides free, online training to people who care about their communities and want to see everyone recover from disaster.  Each Webinar is 2 p.m to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time on the first Tuesday of each month starting September 1.

Scheduled Webinars

Jun 1, 2010

Cultural Sensitivity
Explores ethnic, language, religious, gender, and other cultural factors that influence the way people react to disasters and traumatic events and the importance of care-giver sensitivity to them.

October, 5, 2010
Disabilities in disasters
 Learning how emergency management and disability agencies can collaborate with each other

December 7, 2010
Technology Caused Disasters: How Healthy is Your Community?
This webinar provides an overview of technology-caused disasters, explores how they are different from natural disasters, and outlines appropriate response strategies.

February 1, 2011
Farmers, Rural Communities, and Disasters
All of us depend on farmers for food, fiber, and fuel.  As a consequence, disasters in rural communities have consequences far beyond the immediate impact.  This webinar will introduce attendees to the unique characteristics of rural communities, issues of food security, and the unique vulnerabilities and resources of  disaster affected farmers and rural communities.

April 5, 2011
Health and Safety in Disasters
Disaster sites are inherently chaotic.  All persons, especially contractors or volunteers working on disaster damaged structures, will be vulnerable to potential injury and illness.  Taking some basic protective actions will minimize that vulnerability.  This webinar will give an introduction to some of the hazards that attendees might not have thought about, basic health and safety protective measures, and suggestions of where to find more particular information to address specific health and safety issues.


June 7, 2011
What's the Story and How to Tell It
This webinar will discuss what it is you want to communicate about your disaster and the work of the Long Term Recovery Group  and how to communicate it effectively in today's world.

August 2, 2011
What comes after Recovery?
When you can begin to see the last of the LTRGs work being completed, what do you need to do and what might the future look like?  What tasks need to be done to finish up?  Do you completely close down the LTRG? Do you "hibernate" the group? Do you attempt to collect data to prepare for the future so that the community will know what assests it has and where it might need assistance?  Do you transition to a COAD?