6. Follow up task
Based on your earlier reflection about who may be vulnerable to a disaster in your area of work, and the additional learning provided in this module, use whatever resources and contacts that are available to you to find out whether there is a plan in place to support them within your organization should there be a disaster of any kind. If there is a plan, find out what this is, and if necessary suggest some improvements, or take the initiative to publicise this within your team. If there is no plan, propose that one is developed, and use your learning here and from the other modules to lead or feed into this process.
Some ideas for developing this plan can be found here.
Write a brief reflection on your experience of undertaking this follow up task: (complete in workbook)
References and Further Reading
Dominelli, L. (2015) ‘The opportunities and challenges of social work interventions in disaster situations’, International Social Work, 58(5), pp.659-672.
Bell, H. (2008) ‘Case Management with Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina: A Case Study of One Host Community Holly Bell’ Journal of social service research, 34(3), pp.15-27.
Pyles, L. (2017) ‘Decolonising disaster social work: environmental justice and community participation’, British journal of social work, 47(3), pp.630-647.
Section links
- What is a disaster?
- The role of social workers in a disaster
- Skills for disaster working
- The communities we support
- Culturally appropriate support
- Follow up task (current page)