When I joined VECTOR, I could only imagine helping my community by preparing for using my radio to send messages for our Emergency Social Services (ESS). To help my community react and recover. After a few years as a director on the VECTOR board, I started extending my imagination into working with our city staff to prepare our organization to send messages for ESS and City staff. I was wrong.

Imagine instead what people inside the VECTOR organization need so that our members are able to deliver messages for ESS volunteers and City staff.

At the 2018 Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia annual conference, Glenn Regehr raised our awareness of important myths we all carry about how good we are at what we do. This echoes my own observations about volunteers in emergency communications.

After five years, I have begun to push hard for members to come forward and practise together more often. The amount of work to assemble our traditional activities forced us to practice quite infrequently before. So, with the help of a few VECTOR members who also want to gain stronger abilities, we have assembled several practice sessions which involve peer teaching and active learning.