Develop a Risk Communication Plan for Texas Winter Storms 2020

Develop a Risk Communication Plan

For this assignment, you will develop a presentation that addresses a risk communication plan for a city of your choice. For this assignment you will select The Texas Winter Storms of 2020 and develop a risk communication plan to address the crisis. The risk communication plan should identify and discuss the characteristics of effective risk communication.

You will create your communication plan in PowerPoint. The PowerPoint presentation should be 12 slides (note including title and reference slide) with speaker notes. The SPEAKER NOTES WILL EXPLAIN YOUR BULLET POINTS more in-depth. DO NOT JUST COPY AND PASTE BULLET POINTS IN THE NOTES below. You should have approximately one or two slides for each of the following main points:

• Overview
• Disaster scenario/details
• Introduction to the plan
  • Purpose
  • Communication challenges
  • Needs and concerns of and impact to stakeholders/partners
  • Processes to enhance two-way communication
  • Processes to build trust and credibility
  • Final STARCC (simple, timely, accurate, relevant, credible, and consistent) key message
• Conclusion
• Summary

Be sure to read informative reports on risk communication that you can use for this Assignment. On pages 61–67 of “Communicating in a Crisis: Risk Communication Guidelines for Public Officials” are details about presenting information at public meetings. This short reading provides you with a presentation template and directions for crafting this type of plan. Use this as apart of your powerpoint.

Note: This assignment will require outside research. Use at least 5 credible sources in addition to the assigned textbook/reading material and discuss how you evaluated the credibility of the resources used.

You may consult the Library, the Internet, the textbook, other course material, and any other outside resources in supporting your task, using proper citations in APA style.

PowerPoint Formatting

The PowerPoint presentation should have the following characteristics:

• Contains a title and references slide.
• Bullets for your main points.
• Designed with a live audience in mind in order to inform your viewers about the topic.
• Must include a transcript of the speaker notes below the slides.
• Research from at least 5 reliable sources in addition to the assigned reading to support the main message.
• Properly cite all sources of information by including in-text citations and a list of references.
• Research and visuals are cited in APA citation format, both in-text and on a References slide. You need to quote material taken directly from a source.
• Avoid using images, graphics, or logos that are copyrighted.
• The same standards for documenting sources that apply to an essay, apply to a presentation. Refer to the APA Style® Central website for a digital library of APA Style quick guides and tutorials to refine your writing. You can access this site under Academic Tools.

Speaker Notes

To learn more about creating speaker notes in PowerPoint, review the website below.

GCF Learn Free (1998-2020). PowerPoint 2010-Slide Basics: Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc. Retrieved from https://www.gcflearnfree.org/powerpoint2010/slide-basics/6/