Federal Alliance For Safe Homes -Flash Inc

Programs: The stormstruck: a tale of two homes is a consumer education and awareness exhibit located in epcot that promotes property protection and resiliency by educating consumers on the perils of severe weather and the steps that consumers can take to protect themselves and their homes during a natural disaster. Over 273,000 consumers visited the stormstruck exhibit during 2016.

flash in cooperation with the federal emergency management agency (fema) provided mitigation information and solutions for buildings, communities, organizations and individuals through: (1) creative outreach activities; (2) stakeholder and partnership development; and (3) implementation of risk reduction strategies. Throughout 2016, flash continued supporting building codes and mitigation outreach across multiple social media platforms (linkedin, facebook, twitter, & blogs) , continued promotion of a post-secondary, full semester, residential building codes course, reached hundreds of businesses through the quakesmart business summits, released a building code commentary, promoted the shakeout, national preparedness month and the nhc hurricane awareness tour, and trained construction managers from national voads across the nation on residential retrofitting techniques to protect homes from hurricane, flood and wildfire events.

flash entered into an agreement with the fema individual & community preparedness division (icpd) to develop programs, tools and resources that contribute to raising awareness and understanding of risk, protective actions and mitigation measures for individuals, organizations, and whole communities. Specifically, flash organized and held multiple readybusiness workshops. Created a multi-hazard series of ready business toolkits, and developed outreach tactics for the be smart insurance assets.