MEETINGS
The Humboldt COAD has three primary types of recurring meetings:
Quarterly General Meetings - These meetings are open and attended by our member and partner core, working group members and chairs, the general public, local elected officials and outside organizations and agencies. Major project updates are shared along with debriefs from recent major events.
Working Group Meetings - These convenings are held monthly and organized by each individual working group, led by their self elected internal group Chairs. During time of disaster these groups take direction and disseminate information to their members from the COAD leadership, coordinate their resources on the ground, and report back to the larger group. During Blue Sky periods (when disasters are not active) the working groups focus on preparedness projects, share sector/industry updates, and work on chronic-disaster (ie, ongoing food insecurity, etc. that arent related to one singular event) projects.
Time of Disaster Convenings/Huddles/Debriefs - Immediately following a disaster event, the COAD may engage its entire list of contacts to meet and share information and discuss the developing community impacts and unmet needs. Huddles are ongoing meetings that occur at a daily or otherwise frequency following the initial Convening around an event with the intention to share daily updates, provide virtual meeting space for local and outside partners to share resources and data, and coordinate ongoing efforts. Debriefs meetings take place after the relief and response stage has sunset around a disaster event, at these meetings lessons learned are shared and preparations for a documented after action report begins.
Humboldt COAD leverages the power of digital meeting spaces to efficiently coordinate communications, resources and build networks from the local to national levels. If you are seeking information about a specific meeting not shown here, please reach out directly.
MEETING ARCHIVES
September 2021
coad launch MEETING
During this initial launch meeting, preliminary coordinator Alison Sterling walks attending community leaders, potential members and partners through the goals, intentions and benefits that a COAD will bring to the unique rural region of Humboldt County.
AUGUST 2022
BUSINESS MEETING
At this Humbodlt COAD meeting, a comprehensive overview of how the COAD will operate with Member, Partner and Working Group functions is discussed. Regional businesses and organizations were present to learn more about the value of community driven disaster response through collaboration and communication.
DECEMBER 2022
QUARTERLY MEETING
During this Humboldt COAD Quarterly Meeting, Celeste Giunta, Executive Director of the Napa Valley COAD joined the Humboldt COAD Working Group Chairs and many representatives from the Member and Partner pools to give a comprehensive overview of hot Napa Valley COAD came to be, what the obstacles were, successes, and answered questions.
FEBRUARY 2023
EARTHQUAKE DEBRIEF
During this meeting, the Humboldt COAD convened to debrief with local COAD members/partners, government and other organizations to review some of the outcomes of the response to the December 2022 Earthquake in Rio Dell. During this meeting we received testimony from local Rio Dell leaders and discussed the road to recovery and the ongoing unmet needs in the community.
JULY 2023
QUARTERLY MEETING
During this Quarterly Meeting, Nick Bown-Crawford discusses the upcoming changes and trajectory for the Humboldt COAD along with its Executive Committee members. Working Group Chairs gave report outs on the their ongoing areas of focus, and updates were given regarding the progress of the Long Term Recovery Group established to partner with impacted citizens of the December 20th 2022 Rio Dell Earthquake.
APRIL 2024
QUARTERLY MEETING
At this Humboldt COAD Quarterly Meeting, Executive Director Nick Bown-Crawford convened members and partners of Humboldt COAD along with other community and agency leaders. The focus of this meeting was to announce the new 501c3 non-profit designation, the newly formed Board of Directors, report out from select working group chairs, and governmental partner updates including Cal OES. Project updates were also given by the North Coast Emergency Food System Partnership and Nuestra Comunidad.
Meeting presentation slides can be found HERE.