Alertar y Preparar
Alertar y Preparar LISTOS was developed by Aware & Prepare to provide Spanish-language disaster preparedness education, both locally and nationally. The core of the Alertar y Preparar LISTOS design is based on building sustainable relationships and partnerships with local businesses, community leaders, and non-profit organizations.
The Alertar y Preparar LISTOS curriculum emphasizes targeted recruitment and Spanish-language presentations tailored to the specific cultural and linguistic needs of Latino communities. The Alertar y Preparar LISTOS methodology draws from lessons learned through a variety of widely-distributed disaster preparedness education tools and best practices of other non-English speaking public education initiatives.
Listos is a grass-roots disaster preparedness program that can be tailored to meet the individual needs of Spanish-speaking communities. The program is delivered in a format that is both culturally and linguistically appropriate for the target population.
Listos partners with community leaders, jurisdictions, non-profits, faith-based organizations, schools, and other community institutions. By partnering with these organizations, Listos provides disaster preparedness information to the Spanish-speaking community. Listos instructs the participants in the command structure of First Responders ensuring communication between Listos graduates and firefighters and police in the event of an emergency.
Our experience in working with First Responders and non-profit groups makes us uniquely able to facilitate and cement the relationships between First Responders and the communities they serve, relationships which are often fragile due to language barriers and imbedded fears on both sides.
The Listos staff is available to support government agencies in reaching their targeted audiences in a professional, culturally appropriate, and safe manner, creating stronger communities, better prepared residents, and solid relationships between citizens and government officials.
Fire Services Training Institute
It is the intent of FSTI to promote and facilitate the National Response Framework by providing quality training for public safety so as to improve the overall emergency and disaster-response readiness of all first responders. All training programs, regardless of content, will stress the principals of the plan as well as compliance with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS).
FSTI is a California non-profit, tax exempt, public benefit corporation based in Santa Barbara, California. FSTI is part of the California State Firefighters’ Association corporate family.
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Web Accessibility
Alertar y Preparar LISTOS (AyPL) recognizes the importance of ensuring our websites are accessible to those with disabilities. We are committed to making our information accessible to visitors with disabilities and are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines.
Our complete Web Accessibility and ADA Compliance Statement can be found here.
