El Sealey, MPH brings their experience in public health, education, training and exercise*, and emergency preparedness to help communities build resilience.

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"I am an educator and public health professional who is passionate about community health and emergency preparedness. I have over six years of experience teaching in various settings - everything from adult education to classroom teaching to training and exercise. After spending three years in public health emergency preparedness and response, I saw a persistent need for accessible, family and community-oriented emergency preparedness tools. So many people want to build their personal preparedness, but don't know where to start.

 

"My goal was to design a curriculum that incorporated best practices for preparedness and allowed people to design their own emergency plans without being prescriptive. I also want to shift how people think about personal preparedness. I want to break the stigma of “prepping”. Building a bunker and stocking up on TP and ammo is not the way to go. That flavor of “preparedness” is expensive, isolating, and not practical.

 

"Holistic, healthy preparedness means building community, forming lifelong habits, being intentional about purchases, and practicing skills that you can apply in your daily life as well as higher stress scenarios.”

 

*Training and exercise is a facet of emergency preparedness. Training and exercise professionals are responsible for training emergency response personnel in policies, plans, and procedures for response. Training activities use lecture and classroom settings to teach those policies, plans, and procedures. Exercises are controlled scenarios where emergency response personnel can practice those plans. The training and exercise cycle includes a mixture of trainings and exercises in order to test and improve emergency response plans.