Safety & Security w/Che Johnson-Long

The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions to take back to your teams.

In this episode we talk about Safety and Security with our guest, Che Johnson-Long, Community Safety Director at Vision Change Win.

Resources from this episode:

Vision Change Win offers many resources on community safety, including:

Get in Formation Training Series is an intro level training for basic community safety skills around verbal deescalation, event safety and organizational safety.

Organizational Safety Planning Risk Assessment Tool will guide your group through building a risk assessment, the first step in organizational safety planning.

Fascism Barometer podcast by Ejeris Dixon, helps us understand the current political moment which can inform our assessments.

Power and Protect Safety Resource Library - prevention and preparedness resources, and recommendations to help build organizational practices and resilience

Discussion questions to take to your team:

To get a sense of how to make a fear assessment rather than a risk assessment, you can start by asking yourself and your group these two questions:

What is the likelihood of this happening?

What is the impact it might have?