E – Educate

E – Educate: The HH6 must motivate and communicate the narrative of each specified scenario, but sometimes when an emergency cues it may not be totally evident what is happening at first. HH6 must describe the intended desired end-state. The concept to “educate” should be ingrained throughout the entire centralized planning and decentralized processes. But, most critically the number one success factor to a well prepared family is the development of their knowledge and experience base providing your family the tools for H2T through a problem. 

Do you ever remember the anxiety felt from the fear of the unknown and how that effects everything? For example a piece of furniture which you have to assemble with a ¼ inch thick manual and some tools. Did it help when you read the instructions thoroughly, conducted an inventory of the pieces and staged the pieces correctly, and thought through the process by looking at the pieces, understood how each bracket, screw and fastener would operate and interrelate? 

If you ended up with a wracked set of nerves and crooked shelf, you probably didn’t take the necessary educational approach to the task. Similarly as mentioned before, you probably might have experienced it already while sorting through the huge array of resources from disaster, emergency, survival, and prepper resources.  

I found most resources had very good content about what to do after a disaster hits. I did however, find it frustrating on certain gaps of knowledge and information on front-end planning. There were varying degrees of completeness on front-end phases of planning. Hence the FERPS is here to help you fill and bridge that gap. This will be a single-source place to properly prepare through education in front-end centralized planning and bridging that to decentralized execution. I will guide to alternative external expert resources.  

The GGG FERPS is best in planning and educating for preparedness planning. I will guide you to other tools and publications that will have the more in-depth information things such as water supply and disinfection and other more advanced topics.