The K-12 Mitigation Workshop was designed to combine the forces of the educational community. University professors, k-12 teachers, as well as local and state representatives from emergency management organizations attended the event on September 16th, 2002 in Miami.
The workshop was an overview on the pilot program's success and an invitation for the renewal of participants it needs to continue in the future. The purpose of the workshop was to encourage teachers to join the project team in this mitigation venture. As an introduction, the concept of vulnerability was discussed along with other key mitigation terms. Case studies from the Spring semester of 2002 were also presented to illustrate the practicality of the project and how it can be applied to other schools.
Other sources of knowledge such as FEMA and the Miami-Dade County Emergency Management were also present to give their support for the project. Two representatives, Brock Long from FEMA and Frank Reddish from the MDCEM, discussed their efforts in the struggle of educating society on preventing hazard damage. FEMA's Brock Long introduced the novel idea of using computer software as a tool for mitigation instruction in the schools. These new mitigation methods paved the way for a question & answer session.
