History & Evolution
This major worldwide event helped free up time for dedicated program development.
What is COVID-19?
Name a recent example of a program language
change.
What is heat event
This cycle is used to frame preparedness behaviours
What is before, during, and after an emergency?
This AEMA app is promoted by Be Prepared to help Albertans get and stay informed
What is the Alberta Emergency Alert app?
Two main annual deliverables for this team prior to the COVID-19 event in 2020
What is EP Week and the AEMA Stakeholder Summit?
Be Prepared's overarching aim is to
What is contribute to a culture shift towards preparedness in Alberta?
In all things programming, we strive to ensure messaging is
What is inclusive or one of the following answers:
Alberta Scope, Inclusive, Diverse, Accessible, Common Terminology, Grade 6 Reading Level, Relevant, Wise Practice, Equitable,
These behaviours, when adopted, help reduce the impacts of emergencies.
What are disaster risk reduction behaviours?
The 2019 wildfires led to content being translated into two dialects
What are high and low German?
This Be Prepared public initiative commenced in 2021 and created a guiding foundation for program materials
What is the PSofA?
The programs goal is to help Albertans increase two competencies
What is "Risk literacy" and "Self-reliance"?
This common topic often gets confused with emergency preparedness
What is safety?
These types of emergencies are not currently part of Be Prepared due to alignment with other ministry responsibilities and mandates.
What is cyber threats, psycho-social/mental health, and occupational health and safety?
A 2022 global event led to program resources being translated into this language
What is Ukrainian
The Be Prepared term "disruption" is pending integration approval into which AEMA training course
What is AEMA’s Basic Emergency Management course?
This year marks the official launch (aka branding) of the Be Prepared program, by name.
What is the year 2021?
This program term was introduced to address the preparedness barrier of “It will never happen to me"
What is disruption?
The Be Prepared program takes this broad approach to cover various hazard types
What is an all-hazards approach?
This group’s low representation in the Resilience Builders Network sparked concerns about awareness and access to preparedness information
What is northern Indigenous communities?
Two terms are now being used in place of the incorrect and very common term “natural disaster”
What is “natural hazard” or “human-induced hazard”?
These hazard fact sheets were a copy and paste from federal sources.
What are earthquakes, landslides, and avalanches?
These two risk reduction behaviours are NOT mentioned on the PSofA explicitly
What is Build Emotional Preparedness and Stay informed?
This type of hazard was deemed out of scope for the Be Prepared program in 2023 despite growing concern
What is drought?
This disaster post incident assessment report heavily influenced the direction of the Be Prepared program’s strategies and priorities
What is the 2016 Wood Buffalo wildfire?
Name two factors that validate Be Prepared’s position as a “source of truth” for preparedness information.
What is backed by research and SME validation?