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DEPARTMENT
HIGHLIGHTS
SF72 Community
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SF72 Community is DEM’s grassroots
emergency preparedness outreach in
San Francisco’s neighborhoods. With
every opportunity to engage and share
emergency preparedness information
and to promote opting into AlertSF, the
City’s emergency notification system,
San Francisco becomes more prepared
and resilient. This year SF72 Community
participated in many community events
and celebrations including:
SF72 Community Preparedness
The SF72 community preparedness program provides emergency preparedness education to San
Franciscans in a manner that is inspiring, empowering, and simple. The goals of the program
are to ensure all who live in, work in, and visit San Francisco know what to do before, during, and
after an emergency; to take simple steps to get connected to emergency resources; and, to share
SF72 emergency preparedness information with friends and loved ones so San Francisco can be
prepared and resilient. The program is available digitally on www.sf72.org; scholastically through
SF72 Youth, which targets San Francisco children through school curriculum and after school
programming; and, interactively through SF72 Community, which engages San Franciscans
through community gatherings and specials events.
SF72 Youth
The SF72 Youth program celebrates youth as the next generation of emergency preparedness
champions and engages students to adopt and share emergency preparedness knowledge within
San Francisco youth’s social and family networks. The SF72 Youth 2017 key accomplishments
include partnering with the San Francisco Unified School District to integrate emergency
preparedness education within subject-matter relevant curriculum for our middle school
students. Additionally, SF72 Youth broadcast tsunami and earthquake preparedness education
through special events that garnered the attention and coverage on traditional and social media.
These events included:
ShakeOut with Glen Park Elementary School
Every third Thursday of October is the Great ShakeOut,
California’s drop, cover, and hold-on drill that promotes
earthquake preparedness. While many organizations
(including members of the general public) participate in
the annual ShakeOut, DEM partners with the San Francisco
Unified School District to ensure the drill is practiced in
all SFUSD schools, and highlights one school in which the
Mayor joins the students in the drill. This year Glen Park
Elementary School’s T-1 kindergarten class was joined
by Mayor Lee, District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, DEM
Executive Director Anne Kronenberg, SFFD Chief Hayes-
White, and SFPD Deputy Chief Mikail Ali to experience an
interactive SF72 Youth emergency preparedness lesson before practicing the life-saving drop,
cover, and hold-on earthquake safety move. The Great Shakeout marked another example of how
SF72 Youth is contributi ng to a prepared and resilient San Francisco.
Marina Middle School
Tsunami Walk and
Earthquake and
Tsunami Preparedness
Education Fair
During
National
Tsunami Preparedness
Week,
DEM
joined
hundreds of Marina
Middle School students
for the annual San Francisco Tsunami Walk.
The walk began at the Marina Green at Fillmore
Street and Marina Boulevard and involved more
than 120 students alongside city, school district,
and emergency officials. As they would in a real
event, the students demonstrated how the public
should move inland and to higher ground when
a tsunami is on the way. The walk concluded at
the area’s designated Tsunami Evacuation Site:
Marina Middle School. The day also integrated
an emergency preparedness expo for the entire
student body that featured DEM’s SF72 Youth
program, the San Francisco Department of
Emergency Management, San Francisco Fire
Department, San Francisco Police Department,
the San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency
Response Team (NERT), Earthquake Country
Alliance Bay Area, and the Salvation Army.
• OMI Community Action Organization
Preparedness Presentation
• 9-1-1 Community Sit-alongs that
took place throughout Dispatcher
Week
• Mercy Terrace Senior Center
Preparedness Presentation
• Willie “Woo Woo” Wong Preparedness
Fair, Chinatown
• Neighborhood Emergency Response
Team (NERT) Drill
• Richmond Community Health Fair
• Cayuga Community Connectors
Preparedness Presentation
• Bayview Neighborfest
• OMI Neighborfest
• Marina Middle School Tsunami Walk
and Preparedness Fair
• San Francisco Humanitarian
Assistance Disaster Response Village
• AT&T Giant’s Public Safety Day and
Fair at AT&T Ball Park
• DBI Earthquake & Safety Fair at Bill
Graham Auditorium
• Federal Reserve Public Safety Fair
• National Civic Day of Hacking at Code
for America
• Miraloma Park Neighborfest
• SFPD’s National Night Out
• Diamond Heights Neighborfest
• Bark at the Park Duboce Park
• Carnaval San Francisco