Addressing the needs of at-risk individuals and/or serve areas impacted by more frequent and/or more severe disasters related to climate change in underserved areas/populations. - the goal of the…

Addressing the needs of at-risk individuals and/or serve areas impacted by more frequent and/or more severe disasters related to climate change in underserved areas/populations. - the goal of the MRC-sttrong project is to conduct a variety of activities to address the needs of at-risk individuals and/or serve areas impacted by more frequent and/or more severe disasters related to climate change in underserved areas/populations. The approach is to equip existing okmrc units and create a new unit to further this goal. The objectives are: 1) strengthen and equip the statewide capabilities okmrc units to further MRC-sttrong goals of supporting activities in underserved area/ populations with activities to address the needs of at-risk individuals and/or serve areas impacted by more frequent and/or more severe disasters related to climate change; 2) develop sub-recipient contracts with other organizations to carry out MRC-sttrong goals of supporting activities in underserved area/ populations with activities to address the needs of at-risk individuals and/or serve areas impacted by more frequent and/or more severe disasters related to climate change; 3) objective 3: develop a functional and access support team (fast) MRC unit to provide support to the at-risk and underserved population across the state of oklahoma. The expected outcomes of this project are: 1) okmrc units will be equipped with necessary supplies, training and technology to safely and effectively deploy; 2) okmrc volunteers will improve their capability to assist at-rink individuals and under-served populations and 3) a new okmrc unit will be dedicated to supporting functional and access needs. The products from this project are: 1) an asset management inventory of okmrc supplies 2) an improved okmrc website database 3) training sign-in sheets 4) additional leaders in SRT MRC and sart MRC 5) the creation of the fast MRC unit. Sub-recipient and subgrant contracts will be renewed in year two to continue MRC-sttrong activities, based on findings from the previous year.