Do-It-Yourself
72hr Emergency Kit
Emergency preparedness for beginners
- it's quick, easy, and you can start for free!
In just 2 hours, you’ll start building a personalized emergency kit that reflects your unique needs - using what you already have at home. No fear tactics. No $300 kits. Just care-centered, culturally relevant, and trauma-informed preparation.
As a nonprofit leader, community builder, teacher, or frontline worker you care for others, it's in everything you do - but it can be hard to know how to start preparing when the crises are compiling.
This is especially true if your community is racialized, disabled, undocumented, or under-resourced - the typical advice to “go buy a $300 kit” is financially inaccessible, and not relevant to many lived experiences or cultural needs.
And the fear-based messaging? It just shuts people down.
I support care-centered changemakers - like YOU - prepare yourselves and your communities.
Most preparedness advice wasn’t made for people like us. Here’s what it assumes - and what it overlooks:
Most emergency checklists assume:
- You have disposable income
- You have a well stocked store nearby
- You are able to create plans and follow through easily
- Your body moves without barriers
- Your family structure is nuclear and your culture is “mainstream”
- That the emergency is singular and is meant to be overcome
They often ignore
- Intergenerational households
- Community responsibilities
- Financial constraints
- Cultural practices + spiritual beliefs
- Historical trauma + immigration status
- Disability, cognitive ability, mobility needs, etc.
- Collective care, joy, + community connection
- That emergencies are compiling and are shaping our global context
I created this workshop because I’ve watched too many care-centered changemakers feel overwhelmed, shut down, or left out by preparedness frameworks that weren’t designed for us.
You want your people to be ready.
In an emergency, your community will turn to you - but without a plan, you may not have the capacity to support them all.
Preparedness, isn't just practical in times of uncertainty.
Preparedness is a care practice.
And it starts here.
Does this sound like you?
➤ You’re the one people turn to in a crisis - but no one’s ever shown you how to prepare yourself if you find yourself in a crisis, and how to help them prepare in case you are not available.
➤ You don't feel prepared - even though you’ve downloaded the checklists. You’ve bought the office kit. You’ve done the drills.
Because those tools weren’t made with your community in mind and so they can feel irrelevant.
➤ You’ve tried not to think about preparedness- because the fear is too overwhelming, the prices of kits is too much, and it seems unrealistic to get your community prepared when essentials are already difficult to meet.
What you will learn:
How to start a kit using what you already have at home
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Make the best choices for YOU about what goes in your kit
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No tactical gear required
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No overwhelming lists to tackle alone
How to address what generic checklists miss
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Items that reflect culture, values, and beliefs
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Mental & emotional wellness supports
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Prepping as a collective act, not a solo task
How to keep building your kit over time
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Source items creatively and affordably
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Problem-solve when tools or supplies are unavailable
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See community connection as a form of resilience
This is the workshop you have been looking for!
Don’t just take my word for it - here’s how past participants felt:
"I expected to leave this workshop feeling overwhelmed, like I had so much to catch up on. Instead, I realized I was already more prepared than I gave myself credit for. Now I feel excited to keep upgrading my kit through my neighbourhood Buy Nothing group."
- Clare
"I did not think about emergency preparedness before because it felt too scary. Daniela helped me move through grief and think about it in a new way. She made it easy to begin and showed me that I already give care in many ways - this is just one more way to care."
- Paola
“I appreciated the collective approach. A group of friends and I joined the online workshop together, and as Daniela guided us through the process, we started sharing supplies in real time - messaging each other about items we had extras of and what we were missing. By the end, we each had a strong starter kit, and we built it together.”
- Alejandra
Participants will leave the workshop with:
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A kit you’ve already started - rooted in your unique needs
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Insights into how your household or community can better prepare
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A new perspective on preparedness as care, not fear
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Tools to prepare in ways that support justice, not replicate harm
"Do-It-Yourself 72hr Emergency Kit"
is a 2hr, online workshop
Ideal for nonprofit leaders, teachers, community builders, and front line workers - and their communities.
Sliding scale available, see rates HERE
