Community: ________________________
Date: ______________________
Table/Group Number: _________
SESSION 1: Community Similarities
1. Now that you have reviewed lists where both community meetings had similar ideas,
use this time to discuss the following topics with your roundtable group. Please
record the main points of your discussion here.
A. What areas of agreement do you feel are most important? Why?
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B. What areas of agreement seem to be less important? Why?
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Notes or other information:
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SESSION 2:
Community Differences
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community meetings had different responses,
please discuss the following questions with your roundtable group. Please record the main
points of your discussion here.
A. Which items do you feel are significant and represent important differences?
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Why?
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B. Why do you believe the two groups have different opinions about these items?
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C. Which of these differences do you feel are most important to address?
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D. What important strategies should the community pursue if they want to tackle
these important differences?
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E. Which individuals and organizations could play valuable roles in helping address
these differences?
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Session 3: EPD Project Responses – EPD Process
We will now take a few moments to discuss how both groups that took part in our
previous roundtable meetings felt about the Emergency Preparedness Demonstration
(EPD) process.
A. What comments on the EPD process does your group mostly agree with?
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B. Which items does your group have disagreements about and why?
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C. Are there any steps in the EPD process that your group remains concerned
about?
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Why?_____________________________________________________________
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D. Are there other issues or concerns about the EPD process that your group wants
to share with us?
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Notes or other information:
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Session 3: EPD Project Responses – Community Coach
A. What do you find most valuable about these responses regarding a community
coach?
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Why?
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B. What comments tend to bother you and why?
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C. What is your final verdict on the pluses and/ or minuses of having a community
coach to help with the EPD process?
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Session 3: EPD Summary Questions
A. Do you think the EPD process should be pursued to assist “at-risk”
communities with disaster preparedness and response? Why?
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B. What is the best way to get communities to buy-in to the EPD process?
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Final Discussion
A. KEY QUESTION: What do you think are the 3-5 most important things a
community can do to help “at-risk” people prepare for and respond to
disasters?
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B. What do you think about the meetings we have held in your community
concerning emergency preparedness?
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C. Did you learn anything new? If so, what did you learn?
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D. Is there anything you would like us to know about in terms of your experiences
being part in these community meetings?
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Thank you on behalf of the Southern Rural Development Center and (Your University),
we would like to thank you for participating in this process. The information you have
shared with us will be combined with reports from four other states. The five-state
report will then be shared with FEMA. Our hope is that the feedback we provide to
FEMA will help this agency to develop the types of programs and information resources
that “at-risk” groups and their communities will find quite valuable as they work to better
prepare for, and respond to, local disasters.
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