Step 1: Assemble Your Team Your team should include: Staff: Minister and Religious Educator A member of the board A member of the safe congregations team or a congregant with background in emergency management or first response Someone who brings awareness and sensitivity to the particular needs ...

Congregational Emergency Operations Planning Step 1: Assemble your team Step 2: Establish contact with local partners Step 3: Questions Step 4: Determining Roles and Responsibilities Step 5: Approval Step 6: Share Step 7: Train Step 8: Practice Step 9: Congregational Drills Step 10: Review Resour...

Unitarian Universalist congregations have found the following guides helpful in developing safety plans for active shooter and lockdown situations. Please note that several of these resources originate with various branches of the Federal Government....

In the aftermath of a disaster, people turn to their local communities for support. For our congregations, this means that you can choose how you want to be a resource to your local community. Do you have the ability to provide shelter, food, water, and other amenities? What else might your local...

Intentional preparation for disaster requires attention to many details: keeping insurance policies updated (personal and congregational), creating communication plans (personal and congregational, encouraging members to stock emergency supplies at home, keeping the congregation’s building and...

Helping our congregants develop their own emergency plans for home, providing resources and carving out time and space to create their plan is actually the first step in congregational emergency preparedness....

It happens more often than you think it should. The congregation seems to be vital, even growing, but the money in the collection plate doesn’t keep up with the growth, or there seems to be a shortfall every month. There might be grumbling about how the new folks aren’t pulling their weight...

YES N/A ACTION ITEM Are keys to the building marked “Do Not Copy?” Are the keys or security codes given out in limited numbers? Do you keep a record of everyone who has a key or security code to the building? Is a record kept of individuals who have access to safe combinations? Are locks,...

The UUA’s attractive newly renovated state of the art facility is conveniently located in the historic Boston Seaport Innovation District. Our facility has a variety of large, medium, and smaller spaces available to accommodate your organization’s meetings, corporate retreats, presentations, and...

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YES N/A ACTION ITEM Do we have a fire prevention plan? Has the local fire inspector gone through the building with us? Does the local fire department have an updated copy of church floor plans? Have evacuation plans been reviewed with our staff and volunteers?...

Our Religious Education programs for children and youth entail a high degree of responsibility for the adults working directly and peripherally with the young people....