Plimmerton Community Support Network
Get your family and community ready to deal with emergencies
Street groups can save lives and protect property.
They enable emergency professionals to do their job effectively.
If you’re interested in becoming a street group coordinator, email piphay01@gmail.com today with your contact details + the house numbers that you wish to look after!
How do street groups work?
You share contact details with a group of neighbours. These details are kept totally confidential to your group members.
You also share other information relevant to your safety and wellbeing in any emergency … like people and properties with vulnerabilities … and skills and equipment and experience within your group (like chainsaws that were used to remove fallen trees so people could be rescued in recent flooding events).
As our street coordinators, what do we do?
- You hold the information for your group so front-line professionals can access it in emergencies and help you quickly
- You encourage you group to be prepared for emergencies.
- You share information with your group from emergency professionals
What do we do first?
- Give every household copies of Your Earthquake Planning Guide
- Talk to your neighbours and collate contact details.
- Decide as a group how you want to keep your details private
- Decide as a group how you want to share information and communicate with each other.
- Encourage everyone to get a household plan and water storage started as a first step.
- Have one or two people to back you up as coordinators so it’s a job share!
What happens next?
PRA will send you ideas to share with your group services. Workshops are planned like Build a bog! You will hear all about it on the FB group page or by email.
Click here for more information on the importance of neighbours in an emergency
Click here for discussion starters and immediate actions for street group coordinators
