Here is your guide:

As a champion, your job is to promote neighborhood preparation. You might call yourself a lead, captain, director, coordinator or organizer. You might have a whole team of folks helping you with the organizing. We call you a champion because you are advocating and encouraging – in other words championing – the wisdom of preparing ourselves to survive and thrive after natural disasters and to be resilient to the impacts of weirding weather.

We recommend neighborhoods be defined as 20 or fewer households. If you are in a water district or HOA the good news is you have an automatic affiliation of multiple neighborhoods.

Plan to attend our monthly meetings and be inspired by other champions and problem solve as a community. Email southwhidbeyprepares@whidbey.com  to receive those meeting announcements. We will also advise you of new resources and information you will want to share with your neighborhood.

Once you have your neighbors’ enthusiastic support for getting prepared, please be sure to register your neighborhood with the county. This enables us to track how much of South Whidbey is working to be prepared and resilient and where we need to conduct some outreach.

Resources that will help you get started include:

 Map Your Neighborhood – this is an excellent way to begin the conversation with your neighbors about skills and sharable resources. Go to the Resource Library page for all the details.