with Rick Narad
an online workshop

Saturday, March 14th, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Recently, some insurance companies have requested that religious groups, including Quakers, develop safety and emergency plans to maintain their insurance coverage. Join us for an online workshop with Rick Narad, an emergency management specialist, where we’ll review the basics of disaster preparedness and emergency planning, and learn how Quaker Meetings can develop their own plans.

This is a free, online program. Registration is required.

This program will provide some basic skills to help meetings begin their preparedness process. Participants will learn how to identify hazards and risks that a meeting might face and how these might be mitigated.  Then, we’ll look at planning and preparing for risks that cannot be prevented or mitigated.  Finally, we’ll discuss how individuals can improve their own preparedness for emergencies.

In addition to mini-exercises where participants will get to immediately apply these concepts and consider the needs of their meetings, we’ll do an exercise that will pull together the entire process. Finally, some resources will be provided to help participants improve the safety of their meetings.

About the facilitator.

Rick Narad is a professor of health services administration at California State University, Chico where he teaches a course on emergency management for public health and health services.  He was a firefighter and an emergency medical services administrator, and he is a member of CAL-MAT, California’s state disaster medical team.  Rick is a member of Chico Friends Meeting.