Community Emergency Planning Tabletop Exercise
This tabletop exercise focuses on preparing communities for communicable disease emergencies by understanding the nature of communicable diseases, emergencies, and tabletop exercises. Participants will discuss how communicable diseases spread, the characteristics of a communicable disease emergency, and the goals of the exercise. Through scenarios and discussions, the exercise aims to build community capacity, identify response protocols, enhance partnerships, and improve emergency preparedness.
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Communicable Disease Emergency Planning Tabletop Exercise Insert community name here Insert community/tribal council logo here
What well be discussing today What is a Communicable Disease? What is a Communicable Disease Emergency? What is a Tabletop Exercise? What are the goals of this exercise? What will we do during this exercise? Participant guidelines Suggested Tabletop Exercise Agenda Suggested Review Meeting agenda Wrap-up & Questions Insert community/tribal council logo here Insert community / tribal council logo 2
What is a Communicable Disease? Communicable diseases spread from one person to another. They can also spread from an animal to a human. Small germs cause communicable disease. Communicable diseases can spread many ways. They may spread by: Contact with: Coughing, sneezing, and saliva (for example, flu, chicken pox, TB) Body fluids like blood, semen, vomit, and diarrhea (for example, food poisoning, HIV) Indirectly by: Unwashed hands Unclean surfaces Unclean food or water Bites from insects or animals Insert community / tribal council logo 3
What is a Communicable Disease Emergency? Some communicable diseases spread easily between people. This can become an emergency when many people get the disease. A Communicable Disease Emergency is a current and serious situation. It affects a community for a short time. They may not have the resources to care for everyone. A community may need to ask for help from other levels of government. 4
What is a Tabletop Exercise? A tabletop exercise is a safe place to practice an emergency plan. It can help you create or update your plan. It helps you see if you are prepared for a communicable disease emergency. The Facilitator shares a scenario. The scenario describes a pretend emergency from start to end. Participants discuss how they would respond to the scenario. The exercise helps participants understand how to respond to an event. It builds capacity to respond to emergencies. It helps identify key partners in a response. It identifies gaps in existing plans and a plan to fix the gaps. Insert community / tribal council logo 5
What are the goals of this exercise? Build community capacity and leadership for emergencies. Point out the most important activities to manage emergency response. Explain roles and duties. Make clear what internal and external resources exist. Build connections with partners. To be better prepared to review, update, or create the communicable disease emergency plan. Insert community / tribal council logo 6
What will we do during this exercise? Day 1 Review the scenario, scenario changes and answer the questions. Day 2 Review answers from the exercise. Identify strengths and areas to improve in the existing plan. If there is no plan, use the CDE Plan template to draft one. Insert community / tribal council logo 7
Suggested CDE Tabletop Exercise Agenda Day 1 Time Activity Who 08:30 Participants gather All 08:45 Welcoming remarks Facilitator/Organiser 09:00 Opening protocol Elder 09:15 Roundtable introductions All PowerPoint presentation Exercise to Assess or Draft your Communicable Disease Emergency Plan 09:30 Facilitator 10:00 Presentation and discussion of Scenario and Questions All 12:00 Lunch Continue presentation and discussion of Scenario and Questions 13:00 All 15:00 Roundtable All 15:30 Fill in Participant Feedback Form All 15:45 Closing protocol Elder 16:00 End of tabletop exercise Insert community / tribal council logo 8
Suggested Review Meeting Agenda Day 2 Time 08:30 08:45 09:00 09:30 Activity Participants gather Welcoming remarks Opening Protocol Review Responses Review Response Sheet Review flipchart notes Identify main points of discussion Decide on actions to improve or draft communicable disease emergency plan Lunch Continue: Review Response Sheet Review flipchart notes Identify main points of discussion Decide on actions to improve or draft communicable disease emergency plan Who All Facilitator/Organiser Elder All 12:00 13:00 All 15:00 15:30 15:45 16:00 Roundtable Fill in Participant Feedback Form Closing protocol End of review All All Elder Insert community / tribal council logo 9
Participant guidelines Participants may disagree with each other. There are no wrong answers. We encourage different opinions. Participants cannot change the scenario. Focus on how to solve the problems and finding solutions. Respect the person who is speaking. Turn off your cell phone. Look forward, not backward. We will use the Parking Lot for items that don t relate to the discussion. 16 June 2020 10
