MYN and 2025

The importance of ‘working together’ continues for MYN as financial issues within the City resulted in the City providing responsibility and liability for the MYN Program to a distinctly connected and supportive non-profit, the Gravenstein Health Action Coalition (GHAC). GHAC has been supportive of and working with the MYN Program for several years. Although primarily focused on health issues in west county, GHAC added ‘safety’ to their mission as the reach and intent of MYN and neighborhood preparedness became apparent.

There will be changes to this website as the ‘new’ MYN Program continues to evolve through 2025 and beyond! Please check back regularly!

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Our Sebastopol area experience has shown there are not enough first responders in SoCo to take care of everyone in a disaster. The priority of initially focusing on the most severely impacted locations of any disaster means many areas will not see first responder help right away.

Sebastopol area residents and neighborhoods have been adopting and implementing MYN for several years now.

The feeling of safety fostered from working together within a neighborhood  is well known to those neighbors. Many of those same neighbors come together in the ‘new’ monthly MYN Program Meeting to help nurture and expand that sense of safety to include others in the Sebastopol area. 

The 8 Steps outlined in the MYN Booklet help to ground us during the first few minutes or hours of chaos in an emergency.

Although these and the other details of MYN are very important when considering preparedness and response, we have come to understand what really matters to us is connecting with our neighbors about these details. All aspects of what the MYN details can provide during an emergency can be more easily recalled and more adequately implemented with those connections in place. Neighbors helping neighbors can protect and save lives. 

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