Map Your Neighborhood Beaverton

Map Your Neighborhood is a simple idea. Neighbors gather at a home in the neighborhood for a 90-minute meeting where you learn the 9-steps to take immediately following a disaster. Together you develop a neighborhood skills and equipment inventory. You learn where the gas meters are in case of a landslide or earthquake where gas lines may break.

Most importantly, during the Map Your Neighborhood gathering, you meet your neighbors and together you think through what you might need to do in a large-scale disaster when 911 might not be able to send help. You learn to be self-reliant as a neighborhood, to organize effectively and to help neighbors in need, so the community's emergency responders can attend to the large rescues and the ongoing restoration of services.

Knowing our neighbors has a multiplying effect. In a disaster, the first person to help will likely be a neighbor. Our daily sense of security is enhanced when we know our neighbors and we are looking out for one another.