Recovering Oklahomans After Disaster

Road administrative services include acting as a centralization agent for alldisaster surivors who have home repair needs they can not meet on their own. Road maintains a database of all Disaster surivors who have need during response for immediate assistance with roof tarping, muckout, and/or debris clean up and following during recovery for all Disaster survivors who have need for a home damage assessment, as well as full home repairs. Road tracks the status of each project and the volunteer teams that serve to ensure each Disaster surivor reaches full recovery. Road also maintains an online project map to help recruit volunteers. Road works across all agencies that work in Disaster thorugh membership in the Oklahoma voluntary organizations active in Disaster (okvoad).

Roads in-house vocational training program in partnership with carreer tech and workfoce is an educational based Disaster recovery program that began in november 2020 and has been an ongoing labor resource helping to make homes home again. Participants have learned construction disciplines to put them on their way to a new vocation.

Roads focus was on providing home damage assessments and response efforts from the spring storms in march and may (fema-dr-4657) due to tornadoes and flooding. Roads project management services included hosting teams for clean up and muck out services across 10 counties. Roads project managers served 103 volunteers from 9 teams who provided $69,957 in volunteer labor value. These teams provided Disaster services to include roof tarping as well as full home repairs for Disaster surviving families across Oklahoma. Road collaborated with 4 different Disaster case management agencies and multiple funding agencies to serve the needs of the Disaster survivors.