PREPAREDNESS

Leveraging Preparedness Partner Expertise

 

Boston is at the forefront of emergency management, disaster planning and preparedness expertise. However, it takes multi-stakeholder collaboration and coalition-building to help build knowledge and capacity at the community level to foster local resiliency and help neighborhoods prepare.  The Harborkeepers helps leverage existing local knowledge, creates spaces of social connectedness, provides free and accessible preparedness training and helps link preparedness resources to the people to build on-the-ground resiliency.

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Get Prepared!

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• For information on how the City of Boston is preparing, click on City of Boston Ready Boston.  

• For information on how the State of Massachusetts is preparing, go to Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.

• For preparedness resources from the U.S. government and FEMA, explore Ready.gov.

• To learn more about the Boston Neighborhood Trauma Team, click on BPHC Boston Trauma Team.

• Staying abreast of weather forecasts is important to being prepared everyday as well as ahead of storm events. Check out the latest forecast on National Weather Service Boston.  For tides & currents from NOAA's official Boston Tide Gauge, click here. ​The Harborkeepers is a NOAA Weather-Ready Nation ambassador. 

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Emergencies can happen at any time. Sign up for City of Boston Emergency Alerts now:

 

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Partners in Preparedness and Resiliency

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Fostering equitable resiliency requires building partnerships. Harborkeepers is committed to supporting stakeholders at all levels to build coordination, capacity and knock down siloes in preparedness. 

These partnerships help strengthen the readiness and resiliency of the community. 

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• The Harborkeepers is a NOAA Weather-Ready Nation ambassador. This means we use our outreach expertise and capacity to assure that local residents get up-to-date information on accurate weather forecasts and alerts to be better prepared for emergencies and climate disasters. 

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• The Harborkeepers also partners with BostonEMS and the Office of Public Health Preparedness/Boston Public Health Commission to provide preparedness training and workshops to the community with the Get Ready, Be Safe, Stay Healthy and other programs. We also use a FEMA-based training module called Until Help Arrives to help community members learn basic life-saving skills that could be critical in emergencies before the paramedics arrive. 

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• The Harborkeepers is proud to have a special partnership with the United States Coast Guard, Sector Boston through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that helps improve coordination on marine and environmental response, foster environmental stewardship at the local level and enhance protection of the coastal environment. Learn more here. Our partnership with the USCG Auxiliary also helps build water-based preparedness skills in the community.

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• Also, as a partner of the Barr Foundation's Waterfront Initiative, The Harborkeepers works in conjunction with other waterfront stakeholders to create a welcoming, fun, productive and resilient waterfront, aWaterfront for All. 

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• As a local organization working on coastal and climate education, we are proud to be part of the CASL (Communities Advancing Science Literacy) project through the New England Aquarium with partner organizations from East Boston and Long Beach, California.

 

• Cross-sector partnership-building in East Boston on climate preparedness is at the core of our work. Whether it's through a partnership with a local school, the City of Boston or a state agency, building coastal community resilience to prepare for climate emergencies is always the goal.