Write your Emergency Preparedness Plan | Step-By-Step

8-week interactive workshop with live Zoom sessions — for families and communities.

How it works: Join us today to…

  • Finish a complete emergency preparedness plan tailored for your family and community in eight weeks.
  • Receive downloadable, hands-on templates and expert guidance for each of the weekly activities.
  • Benefit from a live teacher and weekly professional reviews of your disaster preparedness plan.
  • Take this workshop solo, or together with fellow community members as a team.

What you’ll build — In 8 weeks you’ll walk away with:

  • Your most urgent disaster challenges clearly identified.
  • Practical solutions backed by evidence to prepare for a potential natural disaster.
  • Clear, step-by-step actions for each solution that your family can easily launch.
  • Your disaster plan detailing solutions & expected results for your family.

Rural Communities Face Growing Natural Disaster Risks.

From droughts and floods to heat waves and wildfires, climate change threatens rural towns and the people who live there. 

Natural disasters can strike anywhere. With a plan, families and communities are prepared.
Have you suffered from any of these natural disasters?

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Extreme Weather

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Floods

  • injuries and loss of life
  • displaced families
  • high recovery costs
  • erosion & pollution
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Wildfires

  • property destruction
  • smoke & air pollution
  • forest & habitat loss
  • water contamination
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Heat Waves

  • agricultural losses
  • outdoor work disruption
  • human health risks
  • worsening droughts

Learn By Doing:  Identify Natural Disaster Solutions for Your Family Emergency Plan.

This hands-on workshop guides you step-by-step to identify the most urgent disaster risks, choose the most impactful, road-tested solutions.

Families and community members need practical solutions to prepare for a disaster.

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Extreme Weather

  • emergency action plan
  • early warning systems
  • hurricane preparation
  • home disaster kit
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Floods

  • levees & embankments
  • river restoration
  • retention ponds, wetlands
  • flood evacuation plans
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Wildfires

  • clearing brush
  • home hardening
  • fire evacuation
  • emergency go bag
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Heat Waves

  • stay cool indoors
  • hydration & health
  • limit outdoor activity
  • shade tree plantings

In this hands-on workshop, you will complete a ready-to-use disaster plan:

A disaster preparedness plan tailored to your home, family and community.

Workshop Details

In just 8 weeks, we’ll help you build a personalized plan—step by step.

6 step-by-step templates + live guidance = a disaster preparedness plan you can count on.

      • Duration: 8 weeks, online, weekly Zoom sessions.
      • Group Cost: $300 per team of up to four working on the same, shared climate plan.
      • Individual Cost: $150 for a single individual.
      • Instructor: Tim Magee, internationally recognized climate and disaster prep. expert.
      • Outcome: Complete, ready-to-use Emergency Action Plan.
      • Resources: Template downloads, how-to guides, and weekly zoom meetings for each step.
      • Start Date: A new workshop begins the first Monday of each month.

      Faster, easier, and more comprehensive than piercing information together on your own over the Internet.

      Questions? For more information, see the full course details or contact us.

The next interactive climate workshop begins:

November 3, 2025.

We also offer a tailored versions of this course for:

Watch Instructor Tim Magee Introduce the Workshop

In this video, Tim gives a two minute summary on what this online workshop is for and how it works. In this program, working side-by-side with him, you will develop a disaster prep. plan in 8 weeks.

Tim Magee is an internationally recognized climate scientist, researcher, mentor, and trainer who has over 20 years of experience in designing climate change and disaster preparation action plans. Mr. Magee is CSDi’s Executive Director, and the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation, Routledge, Oxford, England.

Who Should Enroll? Groups that will benefit from this climate course.

Individuals & Families

Are you an individual, family, or community member wanting to find solutions for making your home more disaster resilient?

Farmers

Are you a farmer hoping to find ways to make your farm more climate resilient and be prepared for a disaster?

Ranchers

Are you a rancher wanting to make your rangelands safe and productive for your herds in a changing climate?

Farmer, West Virginia

This course was the catalyst for me connecting with my neighbors to look at climate resilience in our community. Without it, I wouldn’t have started the conversations I did and worked to build out a local climate project that everyone was excited about.

I am SO grateful to have started these conversations: wonderful, hopeful conversations with neighbors, community members, and potential partners over the last two 

Participant Awarded $40K

After completing the program, Loraine Sivo received a $40K Grant Award for Climate Action Plan.

“The workshop helped me develop a climate change  adaptation climate change project which was then submitted to a donor–GEF. After a few consultation meetings with GEF, they informed me that they were willing to fund the project by granting me the $40,000 I requested!

Nonprofit Project Manager

“Thank you for all your effort in putting together a great program and all of the program resources.

Thank you for everything – for making this possible, for your guidance, and for your continuous optimism and encouragement.

I look forward to the opportunity to work with you again in the next session.”

Wye Yee Yong

Agricultural Extensionist

“I just want to take this opportunity to complement you on the practical ideas, knowledge and vast experience that you continue to share with us on each assignment.

Many times your examples are the solution of choice for our community. I have been provided with constant support, practical solutions suitable for my project, feedback specific to our project submissions and unwavering encouragement.”

Gillian Primus

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Member of a Rural Small Town? Full Scholarships Are Available.

CSDi is pleased to announce 12 full scholarships for
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How Do We Help?

We don’t just teach—we build your family’s plan together—as a team.

We walk side by side with you and share simple steps. Using our downloadable templates, we will write a disaster plan together.

Our approach fits the unique needs of rural communities and is flexible enough to dovetail with your family goals.
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Side-By-Side

  • meet with your neighbors
  • share disaster concerns
  • talk to us
  • rank your challenges
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Step-By-Step

  • use our templates
  • discover solutions
  • use our guidance
  • share your plan
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Make It Real

  • get family buy-in
  • get community buy-in
  • write a fact sheet
  • meet with a donor