Your Starting Point for Preparedness
Our free Readiness Quick-Start Plan helps you review basic preparedness needs, identify gaps, and choose your next step.
Use it to start a conversation at home, with your ministry, or within your organization.
Ready for guidance specific to your situation? Let's talk.
Families: Start a Conversation
Ask your household: "If we couldn't reach one another, would everyone know what to do?"
Use the answers to identify what needs more discussion.
Small Business: Identify What Matters Most
Which tasks, records, systems, and supplies are essential to your work?
Knowing your priorities is a starting point for continuity planning.
Preparedness Tips
Churches & Ministries: Clarify Responsibilities
Would staff and volunteers know who is coordinating the response during a service or event?Â
Review how those responsibilities are communicated.
Community Organizations:
Consider Who Needs Support
Think about the communication, transportation, and accessibility needs of the people your programs serve.
Include those needs in planning discussions.
What Would You Do?
A few questions can reveal where your plan needs more attention.
The Power Goes Out
Who takes charge, and how will you share instructions?
Your Location Is Unavailable
What must continue, and where could you relocate?
You Cannot Reach Your People
How will you connect if your usual methods fail?
Practice the Conversation Before a Disruption
A guided workshop or tabletop exercise gives your group space to discuss decisions, responsibilities, and gaps.
Ask Fortify
Where should we start if we don't have a plan?
Start by identifying who you are preparing for and what concerns you most. The Readiness Quick-Start Plan can help organize that first conversation.
We already have supplies. Do we still need a plan?
Supplies are one part of preparedness. A plan also helps people understand how to communicate, what their responsibilities are, and how to respond together.
Can a workshop be tailored to our group?
Fortify can discuss workshop topics and activities based on your audience, setting, and preparedness goals. Share your needs through our contact page.
Can you help us review and existing plan?
Contact us to discuss what you have in place and the type of review or guidance you need. We’ll agree on the scope before work begins.