This webinar begins with an overview of the features and elements that make an action plan truly actionable and continues with an overview of strategies to evaluate your agency’s readiness to face the risks you can’t avoid. Next, learn how to apply 6 tips and techniques for creating plans that will increase your Community Action Agency's resilience and readiness. The webinar will wrap up with practical tips and takeaways you can put to use immediately.

This webinar explores three critical stages to create and support a crisis response team: 1. Reflect, 2. Plan, and 3. Practice. You’ll learn how and when planning and response teams differ (in composition as well as emphasis), how to ‘bake in’ lessons from previous crisis events into your planning and response strategies, and why and how the substance and style of your planning activities matter. The webinar also explores approaches to ‘practicing’ what you’ve built before your next crisis is at hand, rules of thumb for your crisis team, and takeaways you can apply to create a crisis-ready response team.

Join Melanie Herman, CEO of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, for a fast-paced tour of resilience resources from various credible sources. This session explores federal and state government websites, law firm and CPA firm sites, educational publishers, membership associations, and specialty organizations.

This webinar explores the qualities, traits, and skills of resilient leaders — the very type of leaders that organizations in an uncertain world require. Learn what you can do to become a leader who helps others ‘bounce back’ from downside risks your agency couldn’t avoid and draw potent learning opportunities from failures, mistakes, and near misses.