Washington

Seattle-Tacoma

98346

Executive Director

Empact Northwest

This ain’t your grandma’s doughnut wagon: The changing role of nonprofits in disaster preparedness and response – Non profits have changed in big ways over the years and now bring amazing, diverse, and unique skill sets to disaster preparedness and response. And they’re GOING to show up to your next major event. Are you leveraging these often free resources effectively? Are you ready for them? Let’s talk about it.

Engaging with nonprofits to enhance your response
The forgotten partner: Nonprofits role in fire training, disaster preparedness, and response

Preparing your organization for its worst day - A conversation on making sure your public safety organization is operationally prepared for a large scale event.

Building an effective technical rescue program - You've decided to venture into the technical rescue and urban search & rescue response world. Now what? Let's talk about training, policy, leadership, and team formation.

This ain’t your grandma’s doughnut wagon: The changing role of nonprofits in disaster preparedness and response – Non profits have changed in big ways over the years and now bring amazing, diverse, and unique skill sets to disaster preparedness and response. And they’re GOING to show up to your next major event. Are you leveraging these often free resources effectively? Are you ready for them? Let’s talk about it.

Preparing your organization for its worst day - A conversation on making sure your public safety organization is operationally prepared for a large scale event.

Building an effective technical rescue program - You've decided to venture into the technical rescue and urban search & rescue response world. Now what? Let's talk about training, policy, leadership, and team formation.

This ain’t your grandma’s doughnut wagon: The changing role of nonprofits in disaster preparedness and response – Non profits have changed in big ways over the years and now bring amazing, diverse, and unique skill sets to disaster preparedness and response. And they’re GOING to show up to your next major event. Are you leveraging these often free resources effectively? Are you ready for them? Let’s talk about it.

Engaging with volunteers and nonprofits to enhance your response – They showed up, they want to help, but who the heck are they??? Let’s talk about the challenges and pitfalls that come with engaging the nonprofit sector in disaster response.

Clinical lessons learned from the field: EMS just became primary care? - Until you've seen a disaster, you haven't seen a disaster. We'll discuss some of the most common clinical injury and illness patterns found in the acute post disaster phase; particularly in light of healthcare system breakdown and EMS's role in managing these patients when there's no hospital to take them to.

Managing the incident: Lessons learned from large scale disasters - Large scale disasters bring a unique challenge to the in-field incident commander. We'll discuss what your first due leaders need to do to set your up operation up for success.

Lessons learned: Incident Management, Hurricane Dorian - In 2019, Empact responded to the Bahamas for Hurricane Dorian and found itself the only rescue team for the north end of Abacoe island, the area hardest hit by the hurricane. We'll look at some valuable lessons learned in developing an effective incident management system from the ground up .

Leading with passion: Lessons for the nonprofit world – The nonprofit sector is full of passion, but passion only gets you so far. We’ll spend some time going over essential leadership concepts that can help you translate your passion into leadership and success.

What can the Marines teach us about leadership? – The United States Marine Corps is a storied organization with a long, unbroken chain of effective leadership that has directly led to their successes on the battlefield and in garrison. How do we translate these battlefield lessons into the civilian world?

Leading with passion: Lessons for the nonprofit world – The nonprofit sector is full of passion, but passion only gets you so far. We’ll spend some time going over essential leadership concepts that can help you translate your passion into leadership and success.

What can the Marines teach us about leadership? – The United States Marine Corps is a storied organization with a long, unbroken chain of effective leadership that has directly led to their successes on the battlefield and in garrison. How do we translate these battlefield lessons into the civilian world?

Yes, you do have to do what they tell you. – Many nonprofit and volunteer organizations respond to disasters to “do good” and quickly run into the roadblock of government rules and processes. While these rules can seem arcane, bureaucratic, and senseless; they exist for a reason. We’ll talk about what nonprofits and volunteer organizations can expect from governmental organizations in response, how to be prepared for the tough conversations, how to build bridges before a disaster, and how to live and work in the government response world.

Jake Gillanders is a speaker with a unique perspective. A 20-year firefighter currently serving as a captain, medical officer, and Urban Search & Rescue Task Force leader, Jake is also the executive director of Empact Northwest, a nonprofit dedicated to disaster preparedness and response. This perspective lends valuable insight to the government-nonprofit relationship as well as to disaster preparedness and response. Jake has deployed well over 20 times to locales impacted by disaster around the world, from Oso, Washington to Kathmandu, and all points between!

-Experienced nonprofit manager with past roles in communications, operations, and executive leadership
-20 years of real-world fire, rescue, and EMS experience, currently serving as a captain with a medium-sized combination fire department in Western Washington
-Experienced international disaster responder with past roles in rescue, logistics, medical, and command.
-Currently serving as Task Force Leader for two US&R teams, one domestic and one international
-Extensive teaching, training, and lecturing experience in a broad range of topics from the nonprofit, rescue, fire service, and EMS industries
-Proven leader of people with volunteer and staff management responsibilities in both administrative and operational settings

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Moderate: Full refund up until 14 days prior to event, except fees (travel and service)