Financial Emergency Preparedness

The Community Preparedness Webinar Series

Recorded Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 2 p.m. EDT

Overview

Our partners at Operation HOPE joined us for a discussion about community-based best practices in promoting financial emergency preparedness. This webinar explains how emergency managers, faith-based organizations, Citizen Corps Councils, CERTs, the general public, and other organizations can leverage community resources in partnership with Operation HOPE before, during and after disasters.

Presenter's biography

Jason Yancey, Operations Manager for HOPE Coalition America

Operation HOPE is America's leading nonprofit social investment banking and financial literacy empowerment organization, has developed a number of initiatives to provide financial literacy, financial preparedness, and financial emergency support. HOPE Coalition America provides free pre-disaster financial preparedness seminars and foreclosure prevention workshops for both individuals and organizations, and provides financial experts to assist communities after a disaster strikes.

Downloads, Links and Resources

Additional information about this webinar

This webinar is free to the public. The webinar recording lasts approximately 40 minutes. The live webinar offered Closed Captioning and a transcript of the webinar has been posted with the recorded version of the webinar.

How to view our webinars

The Community Preparedness Webinar Series is conducted via DHS's HSIN Connect system. You do not need to register in advance, nor do you need a HSIN account in order to view our webinars. Audio for this webinar will be broadcast within HSIN Connect; there will not be a concurrent, phone-based teleconference. Questions and answers will be moderated via text-based chat inside the webinar. In order to ensure that your computer is capable of viewing our webinars and webcasts, we highly recommend that you read the below documents and perform the compatibility test prior to the start of the event. In addition, please ensure your computer's speakers are working prior to the webinar. If for any reason you have trouble accessing the system, please send an email to citizencorps@dhs.gov.

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