Meet Your Neighbors
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
GHAC, acknowledging that everyone shares responsibility for improving the health, safety and well-being of west county, is working with the City of Sebastopol and Sebastopol Fire Department with the Meet Your Neighbors (MYN) Program.
The MYN Program focuses on helping area residents to better understand how to take care of themselves before, during and after emergencies by working together in their neighborhoods.
Sebastopol Ready is a website explaining the Meet Your Neighbor program.
To get your neighborhood ready:
Participate in an MYN Class: www.sebastopolready.org/calendar
Participate in an MYN monthly meeting within 60 days of attending the MYN Class to more specifically plan MYN in your neighborhood.
Organize and hold an MYN meeting in your neighborhood
Participate in a second MYN monthly meeting where ideas, insights and opinions on implementing MYN in your neighborhood are shared.
MYN Monthly Meetings:
Provide support from experienced MYN leaders to new MYN leaders in implementing the MYN process in their neighborhood.
Provide information about both urban and rural area MYN efforts.
Provide more in-depth education regarding working together during disasters.
Identify isolated and vulnerable individuals in the neighborhoods and get help on how to work with them.
Provide access to frequently used forms and educational documents to use in implementing your MYN neighborhood plan.
Help plan for special educational events.
Create a safe place for leaders to communicate about their concerns, barriers and any other issues they have.
Support the implementation of radio communications during a disaster.
Would you like to have More information about the MEET Your Neighbors Program?
Please send us this form to ask questions, sign up for MYN classes and to receive MYN filtered updates and alerts when available.
The Meet Your Neighbors Program focuses on helping area residents to better understand how to prepare and respond during and after emergencies such as earthquake and fire by working together in neighborhoods.
MYN Contact Source
Need more information? Contact Skip Jirrels,
email: sjirrels@cityofsebastopol.org