Name: "That's not how we'd say it": Stress-Testing an Emerging Mass Care Framework
Start: 2026-05-14T12:00:00-0600
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2026 CRHNet Symposium

"That's not how we'd say it": Stress-Testing an Emerging Mass Care Framework

Thursday May 14, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm MDT

PIC 120/122 - Full Conference Hall

This interactive session invites emergency management practitioners to contribute theirexpertise to an ongoing national research project on Mass Care planning in Canada, conducted by JIBC, Emergency Management and Climate Readiness BC, and community partners. With its focus on shared language, operational clarity, and community relevance, the session directly supports the conference theme “Community-Led Resilience and Inclusion” and complements the 2026 Symposium theme “Living the Lessons: From Impact to Insight.”

The session’s primary objectives are to (1) present emerging project findings, including preliminary terminology, models, and conceptual frameworks; (2) gather practitioner, community, and researcher feedback; and (3) collaboratively refine elements that will inform the project’s major outputs.

Participants will engage with three focused activities: a Terms and Concepts Stress Test, exploring how well core terms and concepts emerging from the research hold up— or don't — in participants' own organizational and community contexts; a Playbook Design activity, where participants react to and shape the concept of a non-prescriptive, resource-based community “Playbook” for mass care planning; and a Gap Spotting activity, where participants review and annotate a concept map presenting the project's current understanding of key players, roles, and interdependencies across core masscare functions — identifying what's missing, misrepresented, or context-dependent inways the research has not yet captured.

Speakers

Ron Bowles

Director, Academic Affairs, Justice Institute of British Columbia

Dr. Ron Bowles is Research Chair in Public Safety with Justice Institute of British Columbia and recently retired as Dean of the Office of Applied Research & Graduate Studies. Ron has an extensive background in applied research and has led and participated in research projects exploring... Read More →

Dawn Ursuliak

Dawn Ursuliak is a Research Operations Manager at JIBC. Dawn has over 15 years' experience in supporting and managing large scale research projects in emergency management, paramedicine, and public safety. Her research project have developed resources for rural, remote, and Indigenous... Read More →

Thursday May 14, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm MDT
PIC 120/122 - Full Conference Hall NAIT Productivity and Innovation Centre

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