IAP 2015 Activities by Category - Public Service and Community Outreach

Andrea Finnin, CERT Program Manager

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/02
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must ultimately attend all sessions, make-up sessions TBA.
Prereq: Must be a member of the MIT community.

Thank you so much for being interesting in joining MIT’s Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT)!  Ultimately we hope to build a presence in all main campus buildings, so that in the event of an emergency we have a network of people in place that can help to manage the event on location until disaster responders arrive, or to evacuate the building if necessary.  To do this we first need to build a capable team, and that's where you come in!

Started in the 80’s in California, CERT is a program whose main mission is to do the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people.  Information about the mission and background of CERT and some CERT FAQ’s can be found on FEMA’s website.

The full training manual is available for review and download online. Binders with all course materials will be provided to participants.

This training material was developed by FEMA and it takes 20 hours to complete.  The training covers the following segments:

One – Disaster Preparedness

Two – Fire Safety

Three – Disaster Medical Operations 1

Four – Disaster Medical Operations 2

Five – Search and Rescue

Six – CERT Organization and Disaster Psychology

Seven – Terrorism and CERT

Eight – Course Review and Exercise

Sponsor(s): Security and Emergency Management Office
Contact: Andrea Finnin, N52-413, 617 258-7366, ANDREAF@MIT.EDU

---

Disaster Preparedness

Jan/05

Mon

11:00AM-01:30PM

N52-419D

 

• Roles and Responsibilities for Community Preparedness
• Elements of Disasters and Their Impact on the Infrastructure
• Personal and Organizational Preparedness:  How you can prepare in advance to improve the quality of your survival and to reduce the damage from hazards.
• Role of CERTs:  CERT organization, disaster and non-disaster roles, and laws that protect disaster workers from liability.

Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager

---

Disaster Medical Operations 1

Jan/07

Wed

11:00AM-01:30PM

N52-419D

• Life-Threatening Conditions: How to recognize and treat an airway
  obstruction, bleeding, and shock.
• Triage: Principles of triage and how to conduct triage evaluations.

David Barber - Emergency & Business Continuity Planner

---

Disaster Medical Operations 2

Jan/12

Mon

11:00AM-01:30PM

N52-419D

• Public Health Considerations
• Functions of Disaster Medical Operations
• Disaster Medical Treatment Areas
• Patient Evaluation: How to perform a head-to-toe assessment to identify and treat injuries.

David Barber - Emergency & Business Continuity Planner

---

Fire Safety

Jan/16

Fri

11:00AM-01:30PM

N52-419D, wear pants and bring safety glasses if owned

• Fire Chemistry: How fire occurs, classes of fire, and choosing the correct means to extinguish each type of fire.
• Fire and Utility Hazards
• CERT Sizeup
• Fire Sizeup Considerations
• Portable Fire Extinguishers
• Fire Suppression Safety: How to decide if you should attempt to extinguish a fire; how to approach and extinguish a fire safely
• Hazardous Materials

Bill VanSchalkwyk - Managing Director, EHS Programs

---

Disaster Medical Operations 3

Jan/21

Wed

11:00AM-01:30PM

N52-419D

• Basic Treatment - How to:
       Treat burns
       Dress and bandage wounds
       Treat fractures, dislocations, sprains, and strains
       Treat hypothermia
       Treat heat-related injuries
       Control nasal bleeding
       Treat bites and stings

David Barber - Emergency & Business Continuity Planner

---

Light Search/Rescue & CERT Organization

Jan/23

Fri

11:00AM-01:30PM

N52-419D

• Light Search and Rescue Operations:
     Search and Rescue Sizeup
     Conducting Interior and Exterior Search Operations
     Conducting Rescue Operations:
        Lifting
        Leveraging
        Cribbing
        Victim removal
  
  CERT Organization:
     Rescuer Safety
     Documentation
     Team Organization

Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager

---

Disaster Psychology

Jan/26

Mon

11:00AM-01:30PM

N52-419D

• Disaster Psychology: The psychological impact of a disaster on rescuers and victims and how to provide ¿psychological first aid.¿
• Caring for Yourself, Your Buddy, and Victims: Steps one can take individually and as part of a CERT before, immediately following, and after a disaster.

Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager

---

Final Exercise

Jan/30

Fri

11:00AM-01:30PM

N52-419D

This session is our culminating exercise.

Andrea Finnin - CERT Program Manager

Addison Witzel, Communty Engagement Graduate Assistant

Jan/20

Tue

Time TBD

Location TBD, Various times and locations, see registration form

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 100 participants

Celebrate MLK Day by volunteering in Cambridge or Boston with CityDays!

CityDays is a great fit for those who would like to give back and learn about the community, but who may not have time for a long-term volunteer commitment. The Public Service Center handles all of the logistics for the day, including a meal, travel, and service placements. All you have to do is sign up and show up with an ethic for service. Participants may sign up as individuals or as groups. We encourage student groups to utilize CityDays as a pre-planned day of service.

Locations: Greater Boston Food Bank, Cradles to Crayons, and other local community organizations.

Register at http://goo.gl/forms/HdAOyxZWFp by noon on January 13th.

Sponsor(s): Public Service Center
Contact: Addison Witzel, awitzel@mit.edu

Dave Slesinger, MIT Alum

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none

We will view two movies, made from Architects&Engineers for 911Truth (ae911Truth.org), one each night, about  what really happened on 9/11, and then discuss them.

Learn about the evidence behind this tragedy as presented by professional architects and engineers who will demonstrate that it could not possibly have happened in the way that we've been told.  The films avoid speculation and discuss evidence of what has become the most significant event of our era.

 

Contact: Dave Slesinger, dslesinger@alum.mit.edu

---

Blueprint for Truth Documentary

Jan/07

Wed

07:00PM-09:00PM

34-302

Highly praised multimedia presentation by San Francisco Bay Area architect Richard Gage, AIA.  Presents evidence of explosive controlled demolition of the three World Trade Center high-rise buildings on 9/11.  114 minutes with discussion following.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isTGuaaln9A

 

---

Explosive Evidence -- Experts Speak Out

Jan/08

Thu

07:00PM-09:00PM

34-302

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth documentary. High-rise architects, structural engineers, metallurgists, chemists, physicists, explosive/controlled demolitionists share expertise on 9/11. It's not conspiracy, it's forensics.   This documentary was the most viewed and shared program on PBS.org nationally for several weeks. 58 minutes with discussion following.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIOC1J44RYw

Josh Gordonson, Bilal Ghalib

	Jan/06	Tue	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/08	Thu	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/13	Tue	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/15	Thu	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/20	Tue	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/22	Thu	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/27	Tue	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome
	Jan/29	Thu	10:00AM-02:00PM	Danger!Awesome

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none

30 days - 4 teams - one dream: A planet a little cleaner and a future a little brighter. The world of open source and DIY engineering has the opportunity to make a big difference on sustainability issues. This IAP create something that matters with us by co-designing solutions to real world sustainability challenges with stakeholders within our own communities.

 Fabrication and design support will be offered by educators from Danger!Awesome makerspace who will provide design services to aid your learning. The one month class meets mandatorily once a week with optional design sessions to aid your learning. Students are expected to create open source physical prototypes working together in teams and will come out of the class with a better understanding of sustainability challenges in their backyard and the knowledge that they can do something about it.

 Things you will practice:

- The design thinking methodology

- Rapid manufacturing

- Needs assessment gathering

- Idea propagation

 Things you will gain:

Friends

Portfolio work

Purpose 

There will be a one-hour break from 12-1 pm.

 

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Josh Gordonson, jomg@mit.edu

Nse Umoh Esema, Director of Community Media Projects, MIT CoLab, Lawrence Barriner II, Interaction Institute For Social Change

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Interested in exploring the intersection of storytelling, urban planning and community engagement? Then join us for this 8-day evening workshop over IAP!

This workshop will provide an opportunity for students to produce a multimedia story related to a new (and first of its kind) City of Boston effort focused on envisioning the city’s long-term transportation future. As part of the visioning process, known as GoBoston2030 (www.goboston2030.org), the Interaction Institute for Social Change is launching a citywide question campaign, a process designed to gather the voice of everyone in the city. The Campaign is focused on inviting everyone in the city to contribute his or her question(s) about transportation in Boston. Students will participate in question collection and will work closely with someone who has contributed a question to construct an authentic and compelling multimedia story. The purpose of this story is to make visible the knowledge, concerns, hopes, and aspirations behind the question that contributor has offered to the transportation visioning process. Through this hands-on workshop students will learn about the media production process as well as about the Question Campaign as a method for community engagement.

Please fill out this survey if you plan to join the workshop: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K5EqDLtm8YfUUBywVHdZYFR_ljOepx6Dav3N3TeTzDA/viewform?usp=send_form

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Nse Umoh Esema, 240 688-8799, nseabasi@mit.edu

---

	Jan/05	Mon	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/06	Tue	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/07	Wed	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/08	Thu	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/12	Mon	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/13	Tue	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/14	Wed	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/15	Thu	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451

Nse Umoh Esema - Director of Community Media Projects, MIT CoLab, Lawrence Barriner II - Interaction Institute For Social Change