It’s been a great start to 2025 for RF-DASH: our Community of Practice is up and running, the RF-DASH Online Course is making progress, and we’ve hired a full-time trainer. Most importantly, though, we’ve heard about a ton of excellent work being done by our RF-DASH trainers. This includes presenting and networking at the Grain Elevator and Processing Society Exchange conference in Kansas City, outreach work at the Utah Hay Symposium, teaching elements of RF-DASH as a part of a Maryland farm safety and rescue first responder training, delivering a presentation on FarmMAPPER in New York, working with RF-DASH staff and fellow trainers to brainstorm demo ideas for an open house event, and many other happenings! Despite all the items listed above, we are sure we missed some. After all, our RF-DASH trainers tend to be enthusiastic self-starters. All of this work is helping disseminate and grow the RF-DASH program, helping improve agricultural emergency prevention, preparedness, and response in rural communities.
With the flurry of recent RF-DASH activities, we thought it would be good to have a way for folks to let us know about their latest RF-DASH work. The RF-DASH Activity Log was developed to serve this purpose. If you completed an activity related to RF-DASH, we’d love to hear about it (for example: you used RF-DASH materials, covered RF-DASH topics, or did a training informed by RF-DASH, etc.). The RF-DASH Activity Log is a very short survey form that asks basic questions about RF-DASH activities, including: What? When? Where? Who? Did you get any support? Did you form any connections? It should take only a few minutes to complete.
You should complete a new RF-DASH Activity Log entry each time you do an RF-DASH related activity. We know that this is more work for you, our RF-DASH trainers, so we tried to make the form as short and sweet as possible. The information included is very valuable for us to understand how the total impact that the program is having on rural communities. We can then use this information to gain further support for RF-DASH activities across the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, we’d love to feature recent work by RF-DASH trainers on the website and listserv, sharing success stories with the broader RF-DASH community. The goal is that another RF-DASH trainer might read the success story and get an idea for an activity in their local area.
To complete an RF-DASH Activity Log entry, please scan the QR code or use the following link: https://redcap.link/rfdashactivitylog