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This FEMA web page contains a wealth of information and resources on developing disaster response plans, from planning considerations to comprehensive preparedness and emergency operation planning guides. It also features pre-disaster recovery planning guides tailored to different levels of government.
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This resource is designed to help pediatricians, emergency planners, disaster responders, and volunteers meet children’s needs during disasters. It contains chapters on disaster planning for pediatricians, pediatric preparedness exercises, and various kinds of disaster events, among others.
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This guide provides general information about disaster behavioral health and describes activities involved in various stages of the planning process, from plan development to testing to activation to deactivation and evaluation and improvement over time. The guide identifies resources that may be helpful in planning and features a checklist with key elements of a disaster behavioral health plan.
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As noted in this resource, “During response operations, timely, efficient, and coordinated delivery of necessary federal public health, medical, and human services assistance is an essential function of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).” This plan is HHS’s emergency operations plan structuring how the department and its divisions manage and support response to and recovery from disasters and public health emergencies.
ADA Emergency Preparedness Webinar: Why Effective Communications is Critical in Emergency Management
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This webinar explores the importance of effective communication in emergency management and ways emergency managers can communicate effectively with people with disabilities. The webinar draws from real-life scenarios to define effective communication and describe how emergency managers can build upon their communications approach.
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This article, which begins on page 11 of an edition of the Disaster Technical Assistance Center’s quarterly newsletter, provides step-by-step guidance to states on updating all-hazards disaster behavioral health plans. Each step is detailed to help states move from testing their current plans to finalizing and distributing their updated plans.
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This web page lists information about the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, provides a 988 partner toolkit, and includes data on suicide and prevention resources. It also features links to partner organizations.
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Presented by the Pacific ADA Center, this webinar highlights the importance for emergency management directors of enhancing accessibility and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when developing emergency management programs. The webinar aims to aid emergency managers’ understanding of the challenges they may face when ensuring compliance within their programs, as well as ways to address these challenges.
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This guide provides an overview of the fundamentals of planning and developing emergency operations plans. It details the steps needed to develop a plan, different plan structures, and plan components.
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This framework was created to improve the capacity of the Pan American Health Organization member states to manage their public health emergency and disaster response processes. Designed for health sector leaders and emergency managers, the guide describes the process for adapting tools to the framework, developing the operational model for implementing health emergency response functions, and the operational model framework, among other topics.
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The Nuclear Energy Agency issued this report to highlight the need for robust all-hazards approaches to emergency management that include nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness among its member countries. The report provides, among other topics, lessons learned from major accidents and disasters and how to integrate those lessons into emergency response plans.
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This course is designed to help communities develop plans for managing animal care during an emergency. The course covers how the Incident Command System can be used in responding to a disaster involving animals, resources communities can use to help with disaster recovery, and how communities can increase support for a disaster plan that included and accounts for animals.
This resource is designed for veterinarians interested in all-hazards/all-species veterinary and animal emergency issues. It contains a wealth of information and links to resources about disaster planning and the needs of animals. Some resources are available free of charge, while other require AVMA membership for access.
This website provides information and resources about emergency management to help individual schools, school districts, and institutions of higher education learn more about developing, implementing, and evaluating emergency plans. Resources include guides and other publications, webinars and trainings, and templates and sample materials.
NASAAEP is a collaborative alliance that supports communication, collaboration, and networking among state, territory, and tribal agricultural and veterinary disaster response organizations to build capacity to enact effective responses to disasters involving animals. NASAAEP’s website provides best practices and a listing of partner organizations, as well as information about NASAAEP membership.
This tip sheet provides guidance on communicating with the media for responders serving communities affected by disasters that involved the death of many people. The tip sheet emphasizes the importance of preparation and of identifying a set number of people who will provide information to the media. It also offers tips specifically for media interviews.
In collaboration with Drexel University, the Pennsylvania Department of Health produced a series of videos on risk and crisis communication. The videos are accompanied by materials including checklists, manuals, and guidance that can help in risk and crisis communication planning and implementation.
This workshop, designed for senior elected, appointed, and community leaders in a specific jurisdiction, is intended to increase understanding of the all-hazards disaster preparedness roles and responsibilities of various community leaders, share strategies and best practices, and enhance coordination. It is fully funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and delivered at a time and place requested by a particular jurisdiction.
This resource highlights the importance of continuous disaster risk evaluation in communities as part of hazard mitigation and comprehensive planning. It provides tips for addressing future disasters and explores how comprehensive plans and other types of plans and strategies can help to keep communities safe.
This web page provides disaster planners and leaders with steps for creating a hazard mitigation plan that addresses the possible impacts of disasters. From exploring best practices to learning about current laws and policies, the web page is designed to help state, territory, tribal, and local governments build effective mitigation plans.
This Federal Emergency Management Agency toolkit provides a compilation of emergency preparedness resources and tools for emergency response agencies to use to help their personnel and personnel’s families prepare for emergencies. The toolkit offers several preparedness checklists, plan templates, and assessments tailored for organizational and first responder individual and family disaster preparedness.