Emergency Preparedness Is Not “One Size Fits All”

"Emergency preparedness is not "one size fits all." Each of us is different, and emergency plans should be tailored to meet specific needs. People with disabilities, communities, and public health professionals can work together to be prepared.

Here are some general tips for people with disabilities, communities and emergency managers:

• Those who take medications should keep an adequate supply on hand, along with copies of their prescriptions.
• People who need power for medical or other assistive devices should keep extra sets of batteries, and consider a generator for home use if a power outage may jeopardize health or safety.
• People with dietary needs should have an emergency food supply.
• Emergency managers can send emergency alerts and warnings in an accessible form for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• Prepare for service animals. People with service animals should make sure they have an emergency kit for their service animals. Local shelters are required by law to admit service animals during emergencies..."

Emergency preparedness

Be Ready: Make a Kit

"Making a preparedness kit is one important way you can protect yourself and those around you. Remember that there are many types of emergencies – from those caused by illness to natural disasters – and you need different types of kits for a variety of situations.,,"
Emergency preparedness

Measuring America: How Ready Are We?

 
As part of the 2013 American Housing Survey, Americans were asked how prepared they are for disasters.
Emergency preparedness

Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse
Suggested things to do in an emergency: hurricanes, tornaodes, other natural disasters, and health related disasters such as pandemics.

On the Map for Emergency Management
"The Census Bureau released OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 2.0 today, the beginning of the 2011 hurricane season. Version 2.0 adds floods and wildfires to hurricanes which was released last year.

OnTheMap for Emergency Management is a public data tool that provides unique detail on the workforce, for U.S. areas affected by hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, in real time. The web-based tool provides an intuitive interface for viewing the location and extent of current and forecasted emergency events on a map, and allows users to easily retrieve detailed reports containing labor market characteristics for these areas. The reports provide the number and location of jobs, industry type, worker age and earnings. Worker race, ethnicity, and educational attainment levels are under a beta release at this time..."

Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening the Nation’s Emergency Response State by State
"Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening the Nation’s Emergency Response State
by State presents data on preparedness activities taking place at state and local health departments in 50 states, 4 localities (Chicago, the District of Columbia, Los Angeles County, and New York City), and 8 U.S. insular areas located in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.1 All are funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative
agreement.

Reports on public health preparedness are an important part of CDC’s overall focus
on demonstrating results, driving program improvements, and increasing accountability
for the nation’s investment in public health preparedness. CDC has now released
three preparedness reports; this is CDC’s second report with state-by-state data on
preparedness activities. It includes updates (when available) to data presented in CDC’s first state preparedness report, Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State by State (2008),2 as well as new data on state and local preparedness activities. In 2009, Congress expressed its desire for CDC to continue to report state-by-state data..."

ReadyAmerica
"Launched in February 2003, Ready is a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural and man-made disasters. The goal of the campaign is to get the public involved and ultimately to increase the level of basic preparedness across the nation.

Ready and its Spanish language version Listo ask individuals to do three key things: (1) get an emergency supply kit, (2) make a family emergency plan, and (3) be informed about the different types of emergencies that could occur and their appropriate responses.

The campaign’s messages have been distributed through: television, radio, print, outdoor and Web (PSAs) developed and produced by The Advertising Council; brochures; www.Ready.gov and www.Listo.gov Web sites; toll-free phone lines 1-800-BE-Ready and 1-888-SE-Listo; and partnerships with a wide variety of public and private sector organizations."

National Preparedness Month, September 2009
"NPM 2009: Are You Ready Or Are You Ready?

We hope your organization will join the Ready Campaign and our partners Citizen Corps and the Ad Council in spreading the emergency preparedness message this September for the sixth annual National Preparedness Month (NPM).

NPM 2009 will focus on changing perceptions about emergency preparedness and will help Americans understand what it truly means to be Ready. We will illustrate how preparedness goes beyond fire alarms, smoke detectors, dead-bolt locks and extra food in the pantry and help you communicate important preparedness messages to your family, your business and your community with a new series of customizable materials..."