Source: UNIV OF MINNESOTA submitted to NRP
RECOVERY AFTER DISASTER: THE FAMILY FINANCIAL TOOLKIT ON-DEMAND VIDEO
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
OTHER GRANTS
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0230898
Grant No.
2012-41210-20068
Cumulative Award Amt.
$69,840.00
Proposal No.
2012-03458
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Sep 1, 2012
Project End Date
Feb 28, 2015
Grant Year
2012
Program Code
[MB]- ESNP Special Needs
Recipient Organization
UNIV OF MINNESOTA
(N/A)
ST PAUL,MN 55108
Performing Department
Extension
Non Technical Summary
Situation: United States households and individuals are experiencing natural disasters in growing numbers while simultaneously their ability to financially handle them has been made more difficult by the past recession. In 2010 alone, FEMA declared 81 disasters (ex. wildfires, flooding, severe storms, mudslides, tornadoes, or tsunamis) and by August, 2011 the number was already up to 64. The recent recession indicates there are a number of reasons that people are unable to handle the financial stress a disaster places on a household. Many people are already underwater with their mortgage, prior to being literally underwater due to a flood. In March 2011 it was reported, about 11.1 million households, or 23.1 percent of all mortgaged homes, were financially underwater in the October-December quarter 2010, according housing data firm CoreLogic (http://www.corelogic.com). Unemployment, reduced work hours, decrease in benefits offered to employees (insurance, overtime, higher co-pays) all impact the amount of money people have to prepare or weather a disaster after it has occurred. It is vital for disaster survivors and those who help them to understand the financial issues related to a natural disaster and to have the tools and resources to assist families throughout their recovery process.The production of six videos that will be available on-demand to the individuals and families recovering from a disaster, adds value to the existing written resource Recovery After Disaster: The Family Financial Toolkit and increases its ability to reach the individuals and families impacted by disaster in a timely manner with essential information they need to make informed decisions. The goal of this project is Individuals and families impacted by disaster will be able to make informed decisions about the financial implications of a range of financial resources available to fund home rebuilding, rehabilitation, or renovations after a natural disaster through the use of just-in-time videos. Objectives are: 1) Develop and disseminate videos on financial resources available after a disaster to increase the capability of the Recovery After Disaster: The Family Financial Toolkit to provide disaster survivors essential information when they want it; 2) Conduct training for Extension staff and community agency disaster response professionals to incorporate the use of videos into their work. Videos will be disseminated through both traditional (e.g. DVD) and social media (e.g. UTube) channels to provide the wide range of individuals who are recovering from disasters with access to the information in a format that they can use with ease. The University of Minnesota and North Dakota State University have worked together on responses to many disasters and bring their joint experience in responding to floods and tornadoes to this project.
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
80160203010100%
Knowledge Area
801 - Individual and Family Resource Management;

Subject Of Investigation
6020 - The family and its members;

Field Of Science
3010 - Economics;
Goals / Objectives
Project Objectives 1. Develop and disseminate videos on financial resources available after a disaster to increase the capability of the Recovery After Disaster: The Family Financial Toolkit to provide disaster survivors essential information. 2. Conduct training for extension staff and community agency disaster response professionals to incorporate the use of videos into their work.
Project Methods
Evaluation will be conducted at each stage of the project to ensure the project meets the overall goal: Individuals and families impacted by disaster will be able to make informed decisions about the financial implications of a range of financial resources available to fund home rebuilding, rehabilitation, or renovations after a natural disaster through the use of just-in-time, on-demand videos. Including those impacted by disaster and individuals from the agencies that assist those impacted by disaster on our Advisory Board, sets the project up for success in meeting the overall goal. A multi-method, multi-pronged approach to evaluation will ensure that the just-in-time videos are high quality, relevant and useful. The core components of the evaluation include the following: 1) Project Leadership Process Evaluation: The project leadership will use the logic model and timeline, along with feedback from the advisory board, as the basis of a process evaluation to ensure the project is operating in a timely and effective manner and to make adjustments as required to fulfill the project goal. 2) Ongoing feedback from the advisory board: The Advisory Board will be systematically asked through individual and group interviews regarding: a) validation that the advisory process was inclusive, respectful, and discussions focused on overall project goals; and, b) that the content and format of the videos reflect the discussions and input forwarded by the Advisory Board. Videos and formats will be modified based on feedback. 3) Feedback from Disaster Survivors: The developed videos will be piloted with disaster survivors as well as those who aid disaster survivors to determine: a) accuracy of information in the video; b) that situations faced by both survivors and those who help them are respectfully portrayed; and, c) engagement value, are the videos interesting enough to maintain a viewers attention while being informative. These evaluation questions will be assessed through observed video viewing with disaster survivors and those who aid disaster survivors. After video viewing the observer, evaluator will ask questions to determine if goals were met. Videos and formats will be modified based on feedback. 4) Train the trainer feedback through surveys: After the webinar participants will be asked to assess the following via an on-line survey: a) video content; b) video format; c) perceived value of the videos; d) use of the videos in their work; e) how they would use the videos in training; and, f) other professionals with whom they would share the videos. A report will be written based on the evaluation of the national training. The findings from these evaluation efforts will be compiled and disseminated. Dissemination will occur, as appropriate, eXtension, EDEN or through submission for publication in professional journals. Final program reports, including evaluation results, and financial reports will be submitted to USDA and through the CRIS reporting system within 90 days of project completion.

Progress 09/01/12 to 02/28/15

Outputs
Target Audience: Extension Professionals - National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences - NEAFCS national webinar, "Using Video in Financial Recovery After Disaster," held on February 24, 2015. 15 attended via national webinar from throughout the country. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The videos developed from the Smith Lever Funding has provided a number of opportunities that never would have been offered used without the development of these videos. There is great demand for education in video formate due to reading skills, ability to read and process during a crisis and engaging delivery that written matterials do not provide. National Webinar on How to Use Financial Recovery After Disaster Video Series - On-line Training will occur May 12, 2015 May 20, 2015 we will be presenting at the "Under One Roof Conference" in Duluth, MN - conference focusing on state-wide disaster recovery. September 21 & 22, 2015 we will be presenting at the AMEM - Association of Minnesotat Emergency Managers Conference - Breezy Point, MN - requested to do 2 sessions because of anticipated demand for the information. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our team attended the Minnesota Emergency Managers Conference (AMEM) in September, 2014, and presented sessions at the 2014 Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) Conference; 2014 Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE) Conference, and a webinar for eXtension introducing the videos as a resource for disaster recovery. The videos have been shared with our disaster professionals and survivors on the advisory board and those professionals and survivors appearing in the videos. Many of these individuals represent organizations that have requested access to the videos upon completion. T (new from last report) Conducted webinar on February 24, 2015 to etension professionals who belong to National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS). Videos are available at this University of Minnesota Extension Website: 1) Moving Towards Recovery:Financial Recovery After Disaster Video Series http://www.extension.umn.edu/family/disaster-recovery/moving-towards-recovery/financial-recovery-after-disasters-videos/ 2) The videos are promoted at this EDEN website: http://public.eden.lsuagcenter.com/ResourceCatalog/Resource/806 What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Previous reports focused on the completion of tasks as our accomplishements (like completion of the videos). In this report we will share a sampling of evaluation results from sharing about the videos and their use. Accomplishments from the eXtension and the NEAFCS webinar: 100 % of those completing the evaluation agreed or strongly agreed : The content of the session was appropriate and informative. The information I learned will positively impact my work. I am familiar with the video content to assist disaster survivors with financial recovery I understand the value of utilizing videos in delivering financial recovery information. I am familiar with strategies to provide local training and promote video use with survivors and recovery professionals. In summary, we are proud to share we completed all we said we would do (input to what should be in videos, development of videos, piloting of videos, curricula materials to support videos, putting videos in DVD format, and multiple dissemination activities conducted) and a bit more. Thank you so much for this opportunity.

Publications


    Progress 09/01/13 to 08/31/14

    Outputs
    Target Audience: Recovery after Disaster: The Family Financial Toolkit has three target audiences: professionals from disaster recovery and family-serving organizations, extension family development educators, and families in the recovery stage of a disaster. During this period we reached these target audiences as representatives of each target audience comprised our advisory board. Our advisory board included: including the following agencies: Minnesota State Emergency Management/FEMA, Small Business Development Center, Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN), Salvation Army, Lutheran Social Services/ Lutheran Diaster Services, and three families who represented disaster survivors. Changes/Problems: Video project took a bit longer than planned. We asked for, and received, a 6 month extension and we are on course to complete grant objectives by end of January 2015. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Presented at Association of Minnesota Emergeny Managers Conference (AMEM) September 15-16, 2014 Presented at 2014 Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) Conference to 15 Extension Professionals Presented at 2014 Association of Financial Counseling Planning and Education Symposium for 20 financial education professionals We have a national webinar planned with eXtension for December 16, 2014 titled "Financial Recovery After Disaster: Family Financial Toolkit Videos" Proposed webinar with National Association of Family & Consumer Science (NEAFCS) for 2015 How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Our team attended the Minnesota Emergency Managers Conference (AMEM) in September, 2014, and presented sessions at the 2014 Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) Conference; 2014 Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE) Conference, and a webinar for eXtension introducing the videos as a resource for disaster recovery. The team has also submitted a request to provide a webinar through the National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS). The videos have been shared with our disaster professionals and survivors on the advisory board and those professionals and survivors appearing in the videos. Many of these individuals represent organizations that have requested access to the videos upon completion. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? All 6 videos will be posted to website: Family Development YouTube channel DVD’s will have been burned and shared with partner agencies/organizations Final videos will have been shared with advisory board, as well as partner agencies and organizations

    Impacts
    What was accomplished under these goals? Objective 1: Filmed video segments Rough cut videos presented to advisory board Pilot study - videos provided to disaster professionals and survivors for review Developed report from pilot data for review, discussion, analysis for video development and sharing during presentations. Feedback from advisory board and pilot study incorporated into final videos Final videos developed Start of closed captioning for videos Promotional videos developed Educational materials developed including: social media messages, promotional poster, flyer, bookmark Objective 2: Presented atAssociation of Minnesota Emergency Managers Conference (AMEM)Sepember 15-16, 2014 Presented at 2014 Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) Conference to 15 Extension Professionals Presented at 2014 Association of Financial Counseling Planning and Education Symposium for 20 financial education professionals

    Publications

    • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Accepted Year Published: 2014 Citation: Hendrickson, L., Croymans, S., Scharmer, L. and Olson, P. (2014, October). Recovery after disaster: The family financial toolkit on-demand video. Presentation given at the 2014 EDEN Annual Meeting Florence, Alabama. Hendrickson, L., Croymans, S., Scharmer, L. and Olson, P. (2014, November). Recovery after disaster: The family financial toolkit on-demand video. Presentation given at the 2014 AFCPE Symposium Annual Meeting Bellevue, Washington.


    Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/13

    Outputs
    Target Audience: Recovery after Disaster: The Family Financial Toolkit has three target audiences: professionals from disaster recovery and family-serving organizations, extension family development educators, and families in the recovery stage of a disaster. During this period we reached these target audiences as representatives of each target audience comprised our advisory board. Our advisory board included: including the following agencies: Minnesota State Emergency Management/FEMA, Small Business Development Center, Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN), Salvation Army, Lutheran Social Services/ Lutheran Diaster Services, and three families who represented disaster survivors. Changes/Problems: As recommended by the advisory board, video topics have been adapted to the following titles: Series Title: Financial Recovery After Disaster: Putting The Pieces Together Video 1: Financial Recovery After Disaster: Bouncing Back and Adapting Video 2: Financial Recovery After Disaster: Finding Help Video 3: Financial Recovery After Disaster: My Finances Video 4: Financial Recovery After Disaster: Insurance Coverage Video 5: Financial Recovery After Disaster: FEMA and SBA Video 6: Financial Recovery After Disaster: Exploring My Options What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? We have proposed a confererence presentation at the national Extension pre-conference at the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education on this NIFA funded project. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Our advisory board is comprised of those individuals and organization who represent the eventual target audience. The advisory board is keeping their constituents informed of the progress of this video project. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Video taping Video edited to rough cut Videos modified for multiple formats – apps, online learning, and CD duplication Educational material for trainers developed to support the videos Videos piloted and evaluated by disaster survivors Advisory Board meets to review videos. Feedback/evaluation compiled Feedback from pilots will be incorporated into video final cut Feedback/evaluation incorporated into trainer materials National webinar via eXtension/EDEN launch of videos Advisory committee meets to review final videos and evaluate project. Videos duplicated and distributed via DVDs, social media, web-sites, EDEN and other outlets determined as appropriate by project Evaluation results compiled Information for final project report compiled.

    Impacts
    What was accomplished under these goals? Conduct an Advisory Board meeting of local and national experts, disaster response professionals, extension educators, and individuals impacted by a disaster to advise on topics for videos, most useful content for videos, and best format for delivery to those who most need this information. Research video topics though written materials, interviews with topic experts, and consultation with Advisory Board. Determine final topics for six videos. Write scripts/talking points based on research Advisory Board meets to review scripts. Disaster survivors review scripts Secure people/presenters for videos: subject matter experts, individuals and families impacted by a disaster

    Publications

    • Type: Other Status: Other Year Published: 2013 Citation: Hendrickson, L., Croymans, S., Scharmer, L., & Olson, P. ( TBD). Financial Recovery After Disaster Just In Time Videos. Web address TBD after development