LSU Katrina Survey To Volunteers Thank You For Helping

lsu katrina survey to volunteers thank you for helping new orleans’ recovery! and thank you for helping with this survey. it will hel

LSU Katrina Survey
To Volunteers
Thank you for helping New Orleans’ recovery! And thank you for helping
with this survey. It will help New Orleans churches and community
organizations help their members, and it will aid research that helps
us all understand how to respond to disasters better. It will also
help you make personal contact with the residents you're working with
and understand what they’ve gone through and how they feel.
You can do the interviews in three different settings –
1.
Before you come to New Orleans. We suggest you organize a team
afternoon/evening in your own hometown, when you becomes familiar
with the questionnaire and do an interview with a New Orleans
resident on the phone. This will give you a preview of conditions
and good feel for the people you’ll work with, before you arrive.
2.
While you’re in New Orleans, as part of your volunteer work. Doing
the interviews will put you in direct contact with residents and
help you learn about their experiences and needs, while helping
their organizations.
3.
When you go back home, after your volunteer time in New Orleans,
if you’d like to stay active, stay in touch with the residents,
and keep helping their churches and organizations.
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This document is for Setting # 1
Instructions for doing the LSU Katrina Survey
Please read the following instructions before you begin.
1.
You’ll find all the materials you need on the web at
www.lsu.edu/katrinasurvey/Volunteers
2.
Read through the materials, including the survey, to familiarize
yourself with them, before you begin interviewing. Please practice
the survey with another volunteer first.
3.
Read through the introductory text on the next pages before you
begin. You’ll read this to a New Orleans community member when you
do an interview.
Note: Edit parts in red on following pages, according to circumstance.
For Volunteers doing Survey Interviews Before Coming to New Orleans
(Setting 1)
Read this Introduction to the community member on the phone –
[Note: Modify parts in red below, according to your circumstances.]
Hi, my name is [First Name]. I’m a student volunteer with the XYZ
Church in Akron, Ohio. We are coming to New Orleans next week to help
with recovery. We’re partnering with Your Organization in New Orleans.
We’re going to gut houses, clean yards and work with community
members. Before we come, we’re calling community members to educate
ourselves a little more about people’s experiences and needs. Your
Organization gave us your number to talk with.
We’re also partnering with LSU to do a survey. They will make the
results available to community churches and community organizations to
help with their members’ recovery.
Can I do the survey with you?
1.
[If no] Okay, I understand. We’re still coming to New Orleans next
week, and we hope it will do some good! [End Interview]
2.
[If yes] Great! I’m supposed to tell you a couple things before we
start. All your answers are completely confidential, and you are
free to skip any question or to end the survey at any point. LSU
will not release personally identifying information; and they will
report results only in aggregate, percentaged form.
If you have questions about the survey or respondents’ rights, I can
tell you who to contact.
[Do not volunteer this information, but continue on with the survey.
If they want to know, give them only the contact information they ask
for:]
[Questions about the survey:] You can contact the LSU Sociology
Department at 126 Stubbs Hall, tel. 225-578-1645. Tell them you have a
question about the LSU Katrina Survey.
[Questions about respondents’ rights:] You can contact Robert C.
Mathews, Chairman of the Institutional Review Board at LSU, at 203 B-1
David Boyd Hall, tel. 225-578-8692.
After Reading the Introduction –
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If you are doing the survey on paper, ask –
My first question is, did you live in Orleans Parish when Hurricane
Katrina struck? [If no:] Which Parish did you live in?
1.
[For Orleans, Jefferson, or Plaquemines Parishes, begin the survey
with question 1]
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Note: Do not read the introduction to the survey on the paper
version, but start with Question 1.
2.
[If another Parish:] We’re not doing interviews for people who
lived in [Parish named], but thank you very much! [End Interview]
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If you are doing the survey on the internet –
1.
Go to the bottom of the web page:
http://www.lsu.edu/katrinasurvey/Volunteers1.htm
2.
Ask the question on that page: “My first question is, did you live
in Orleans Parish when Hurricane Katrina struck? [If no:] Which
Parish did you live in?”
3.
Click on the Parish they say, and begin the survey.
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Note: Do not read the introduction to the survey on the next web
page, but go right to the first question.
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Note: Near the end of the survey, where it asks “how did you
answer this survey,” write in “Your Organization.”
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