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Public Health Preparedness

General Family Preparedness

  • General Family Preparedness
    This website provides universal information on the importance of being prepared for emergency situations by including useful, general information on family preparedness plans, assembling a disaster supply kit, evacuation procedures, and returning home after a disaster.
  • “Family Emergency Plan”
    It is essential that your family has a plan for emergency situations. This website provides preparation information and forms to be completed by the family in case of an emergency. It includes emergency preparedness cards for important information regarding who to contact and where to meet in the event that an emergency occurs.
  • “Are you Ready?”
    This is an in-depth website that includes a guide to individual, family, and community preparedness. It provides a step-by-step approach to disaster preparedness by walking the reader through how to get informed about local emergency plans, how to identify hazards that affect their local area, and how to develop and maintain an emergency communications plan and disaster supply kit. Also available in Spanish.
  • Preparing for Disaster
    The American Red Cross provides valuable disaster preparedness information on this website. They include four detailed steps to safety that are useful in an emergency situation.