John Richardson
jfrichardson@redcross.org.au
Melbourne, Australia
I am the National Resilience Adviser for Red Cross in Australia, responsible for policy and practice advice relating to disaster resilience. I also contribute to strategy development and government engagement at the national level. I am also an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne as part of the Beyond Bushfires Research Team. (www.beyondbushfires.org.au)
I have extensive policy and operational experience in preparedness and recovery over the past 17 years, both nationally and internationally, being involved in, amongst other things, the Bali Bombings 2002, Alpine Fires in Victoria 2003 and 2006, Hurricane Katrina 2005, Black Saturday 2009, and the Queensland Floods 2011.
I blog at http://sastrugi64.wordpress.com/ on disaster related stuff
Awareness material
Four Steps to prepare your household for people with a disability their families and carers is an information and guided activity booklet is for people living with disability, their carers and families. The booklet is all hazards in focus and aims to...
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Household Preparedness for Seniors is an information and guided activity booklet for frail older people. The all hazards hard copy 34 page publication helps people prepare for recover. It is also available in an audio file.
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Easy English version of the disability booklet. Developed in conjunction with Scope Communications
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Workbook for the Easy English Booklet
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Get Ready! is a 16 page guided activity book for kids to help them prepare for emergencies.
Report
The report of the first Red Cross National Resilience Roundtable examining the application of social capital to disaster resilience
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Psychological preparedness for disasters is a 12 page booklet that helps people prepare psychologically for disaster, and was developed in conjunction with the Australian Psychological Society.