Plan ahead - Make a plan
Make a plan today. Your family may not be together if a disaster strikes, so it is important to know which types of disasters could affect your area. Know how you’ll contact one another and reconnect if separated. Establish a family meeting place that’s familiar and easy to find.
Family Emergency Preparedness Plan
Your family may not be together if a disaster strikes, so it is important to know how you’ll contact one another and reconnect if separated. Establish a family meeting place that’s familiar and easy to find.
Build A Kit
Emergency Financial Preparedness
Financial Preparedness Tips:
Americans at all income levels have experienced the challenges of rebuilding their lives after a disaster or other emergency. In these stressful times, having access to personal financial, insurance, medical and other records is crucial for starting the recovery process quickly and efficiently.
- Gather financial and critical personal, household and medical information.
- Consider saving money in an emergency savings account that could be used in any crisis. Keep a small amount of cash at home in a safe place. It is important to have small bills on hand because ATMs and credit cards may not work during a disaster when you need to purchase necessary supplies, fuel or food.
- Obtain property (homeowners or renters), health and life insurance if you do not have them. Not all insurance policies are the same. Review your policy to make sure the amount and types of coverage you have meets the requirements for all possible hazards. Homeowners insurance does not typically cover flooding, so you may need to purchase flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program.
- For more helpful financial preparedness tips, download the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit (EFFAK) to get started planning today.
Emergency response planning
10 STEPS FOR DEVELOPING THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN
- Review performance objectives for the program.
- Review hazard or threat scenarios identified during the risk assessment.
- Assess the availability and capabilities of resources for incident stabilization including people, systems and equipment available within your business and from external sources.
- Talk with public emergency services (e.g., fire, police and emergency medical services) to determine their response time to your facility, knowledge of your facility and its hazards and their capabilities to stabilize an emergency at your facility.
- Determine if there are any regulations pertaining to emergency planning at your facility; address applicable regulations in the plan.
- Develop protective actions for life safety (evacuation, shelter, shelter-in-place, lockdown).
- Develop hazard and threat-specific emergency procedures using the Emergency Response Plan Template for Businesses.
- Coordinate emergency planning with public emergency services to stabilize incidents involving the hazards at your facility.
- Train personnel so they can fulfill their roles and responsibilities.
- Facilitate exercises to practice your plan.
Community Preparedness: Simply Activities for Everyone. The purpose of this initiative is to promote personal and community preparedness through engaging activities for individuals, neighbors, or households. These activities are a set of building blocks. You can mix and match the activities based on the needs of your community.
Individiviual, Family and Community Preparedness Resources
Implementing Simple Activities for Everyone
Community members are the key to our Nation’s preparedness and resilience. As such, we need to:
- Support the development of prepared, vigilant, and engaged communities.
- Foster strategic partnerships among:
- The private sector.
- Nongovernmental organizations.
- Foundations.
- Community-based organizations.
The purpose of this course is to present a model program for community preparedness. In addition, resources materials are available to help organizations conduct simple preparedness activities for everyone.
You Are the Help Until Help Arrives training.
Life-threatening emergencies can happen fast and emergency responders aren’t always nearby. You may be able to save a life by taking simple actions immediately. You Are the Help Until Help Arrives.
Complete a family communications plan
Know how you’ll contact one another and reconnect if separated.
Make a Plan
Make a plan today. Your family may not be together if a disaster strikes, so it is important to know which types of disasters could affect your area. Establish a family meeting place that’s familiar and easy to find.
Continuity Resource Toolkit
FEMA National Continuity Programs has developed this toolkit to provide partners at all levels of government, private and nonprofit sectors with tools, templates and resources to help implement concepts found in the Continuity Guidance Circular (CGC). These resources are intended to help your organization develop and maintain a successful continuity program and plan. The CGC provides guidance to the whole community efforts in developing and maintaining the capability to ensure continuity of operations, continuity of government, and enduring constitutional government during an emergency that disrupts normal operations.
Financial Preparedness Resources:
Americans at all income levels have experienced the challenges of rebuilding their lives after a disaster or other emergency. In these stressful times, having access to personal financial, insurance, medical and other records is crucial for starting the recovery process quickly and efficiently.
Resources for Youth in Preparedness:
Disasters happen everywhere, and every member of the family can prepare. Preparedness for the future starts today. Whether you’re a kid or teen yourself, a parent or loved one, or work with youth, Ready Kids has tools and information to help before, during and after disasters.
ARC Ready Rating
Ready Rating: A FREE Service from the American Red Cross (ARC) - Ready Rating is a program that helps businesses, schools and organizations become prepared for disasters and other emergencies. All in one place, Ready Rating members have access to one-of-a-kind tools, resources and information for evaluating and improving their ability to withstand disaster, maintain operations, and protect lives and property. Whether you are taking your first steps or have a fully-functioning emergency management program, the Ready Rating program can help you achieve a higher level of preparedness.
Organizational Planning Resources:
Complete IS-1300: Introduction to Continuity of Operations
Organizational Planning Resources:
Complete IS-360: Preparing for Mass Casualty Incidents: A Guide for Schools, Higher Education, and Houses of Worship.
Organizational Planning Resources:
Complete IS-906: Workplace Security Awareness.
Increasing an Organization’s Role in Emergency Response and Recovery Training Resources:
- Complete IS-660: Introduction to Public-Private Partnerships. https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-660
- Complete IS-244.b: Developing and Managing Volunteers. https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-244.b
- Complete IS-26: Guide to Points of Distribution. https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-26