Faculty Collaboration
The PCC Women’s Resource Center, PCC Community-Based Learning, and the PCC Ready Bag and Community Resilience Project co-host Earthquake Preparedness Events on our campuses! PCC students are invited to attend the events and put together their own free Ready Bag, a disaster preparedness starter kit.
We are looking for faculty who want to collaborate on a community-based learning project based on these events!
Examples of Community-Based Learning: Student Participation
“My overall experience was fantastic! I specifically enjoyed working with something that would directly impact my community, and when the day of the event came I was excited to see students flood in and take the bags. This made the effort very worth it, knowing that something I contributed to had a positive impact on people. I would absolutely do it
again or something similar, given the opportunity.”
– an ESR 173 student who worked on the Ready Bag Project
Research
Students decided what should go into the bags and came up with a list of items that we purchased with the grant funds. The materials that were selected for the Ready Bags include:
- Reflective bags: hold the materials and act as a safety vest if needed.
- Emergency Water Filter: in case potable water is not available
- Emergency thermal blankets: for warmth
- Gauze: first aid
- Latex-free bandages: first aid
- Pocket mirror: for signaling
- Whistle: for signaling
- Hand-crank flashlight: nighttime visibility without needing batteries
- Nitrile gloves: protection, first aid
- Lighter: to start fires
- Ziploc Bags: to store important documents, medications, and more.
Informational Flyers & Materials
Students developed materials with a creative commons license that can be used and adapted by anyone! You can see (and download) all of the resources they created on the PCC Ready Bag Library Guide.
- Checklist
- Emergency plan
- Background information on our local subduction zone
- List of additional resources
Bag Assembly & Distribution
Students from multiple classes assembled the bags and helped pass them out at the events.
Event and Project Promotion
Students were involved in tabling at the event and creating advertising and media.