Ten educated unemployed youth from quake affected villages in Kashmir were given hands on training with field exposure by ADEPT in the first week of April 2006. They were trained in disaster health and psychosocial response, and community based disaster preparedness (CBDP) and charged with training 50 villagers each on returning home. Within one month these dynamic and commited youth have trained more than one thousand men and women (744 men and 291 women) covering 27 villages in the districts of Uri, Baramulla, Kuppwara, and Doda. The youth harnessed local resources and trained the villagers in psychological first aid, physical first aid, community health and sanitation, and community based disaster preparedness. In addition, they educated around 300 school children in CBDP.