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Prepare for Emergencies Now: Information for People with Disabilities
This brochure includes information on emergency preparation for people with disabilities. From the brochure: "Be prepared to adapt this information to your personal circumstances and make every effort to follow instructions received from authorities on the scene. Above all, stay calm, be patient and think before you act. With these simple preparations, you can be ready for the unexpected. […] A disaster can interfere with your ability to communicate with your family, friends and coworkers. It is vital to have backup plans for staying in touch with your support network, and for your network to be aware of where you will shelter or evacuate."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Resources for Teen CERT: Connecting School Emergency Management and Youth Preparedness
This document provides information on website resources, links to publications and additional resources from the Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance (TA), and links to additional federal resources concerning Youth Emergency Management and Preparedness.
United States. Department of Education. Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools; Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (U.S.)
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Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP)
"The Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) provides leadership and funding through grants and cooperative agreements to States, territories, and eligible municipalities to improve surge capacity and enhance community and hospital preparedness for public health emergencies. In July 2010, states, territories, and large metropolitan areas received HPP grants totaling $390.5 million to help hospitals and other health care organizations strengthen the medical surge capability across the nation. HPP Program funding supports: [1] Enhanced Planning: HPP funding is used to enhance hospital and healthcare system planning and response at the State, local, and territorial levels. [2] Increasing Integration: HPP facilitates the integration of public and private sector medical planning and assets to increase the preparedness, response, and surge capacity of hospitals and other healthcare facilities. [3] Improving Infrastructure: Awardees have used HPP Grants and Special Initiative Grant funding to improve the State, local, and territorial infrastructures that help hospitals and healthcare systems prepare for public health emergencies. The program is managed the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, (ASPR) which provides programmatic oversight and works with its partners in State, territorial, and municipal government to ensure that the program's goals are met or exceeded."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
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Prepare Your Organization for a Flood: Playbook
From the Introduction: "America's PrepareAthon! is a grassroots campaign for action to increase community preparedness and resilience for disasters. The campaign offers free resources for households and organizations to discuss and practice plans and safety measures to improve resilience for specific disasters. Planning and preparing can make a big difference in being safe and continuing operations after a disaster. The ability to maintain or quickly reestablish business operations or organization missions requires a focus on preparedness, advance planning, and relationships with external partners and community leaders. This 'Prepare Your Organization for a Flood Playbook' provides you, as a community leader or employer, with tools and resources to support your preparedness efforts and to help you conduct an America's PrepareAthon! Day of Action."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Cybersecurity Considerations for K-12 Schools and School Districts
From the Document: "Cyber threats can impact either the human (students, teachers, and staff) or the physical or virtual (e.g., information technology [IT] networks and systems) elements of schools and school districts. While there may be some overlap in addressing human versus physical/virtual threats, preparing for each type can require input from different individuals with experience or expertise on that topic and unique actions before, during, and after an incident. Schools may therefore choose to plan for these threats separately, but still under a broader umbrella of cyber threats. This fact sheet focuses on addressing threats to a school's or school district's network and systems also called 'cybersecurity' considerations."
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (U.S.)
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Evacuation Resource Guide
This document from the Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center contains a list of web resources for schools on preparing for evacuations.
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (U.S.); United States. Department of Education
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Food Safety and Emergencies: Preparedness Activities for Schools
This document from the Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center contains a list of web resources for schools on maintaining food safety during emergencies.
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (U.S.); United States. Department of Education
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School Culture and Climate Assessments
From the Background: "The 'Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans' ('School Guide') defines school climate as 'a range of campus conditions, including safety, relationships and engagement, and the environment, that may influence student learning and well-being' (p. 53). School climate is important because its effects are far-reaching. Studies reveal that a supportive and prosocial school climate is positively correlated with a number of traits, including student motivation, feelings of connectedness and engagement with school, student self-esteem, decreased absenteeism, and reduced bullying and harassment. School climate has also been shown to have positive impacts on academic performance, going so far as to mitigate the negative impact of a socioeconomic environment. In schools with positive climates, students are more likely to feel connected to adults and their peers. Such a connection fosters a nurturing environment where students are more likely to succeed, feel safe, and report threats. School climate is determined by a number of factors, including staff and student relationships, perceptions of physical and emotional safety by students, the learning environment, and disciplinary policies."
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (U.S.); United States. Department of Education
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Preparing for Opioid-Related Emergencies for K-12 Schools and Institutions of Higher Education
From the Document: "In October 2017, the President and acting U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary determined that a public health emergency exists nationwide. [...] Schools, school districts, and institutions of higher education (IHE) may find the threat of opioid misuse and abuse affects their population in several possible ways: [1] Students may use or abuse opioids themselves, leading to issues with drug dependence, addiction, and even the potential for overdose. [2] Parents, guardians, family members, or roommates of students may be dealing with addiction issues at home, with members of their household using or abusing opioids themselves (and parents and guardians may be unaware that opioids they have in the home are being taken by their children). [3] Teachers, faculty, and staff may have opioid use or abuse issues. [4] Use by any member of the educational community might bring drugs physically to the campus grounds (and in some cases, lead to drug dealing on or around the property). [5] Corollary issues that result from drug use and abuse might affect school/IHE members or the community as a whole, such as increased property crimes, fighting, vandalism, and the presence of weapons, other drugs or alcohol, or discarded drug paraphernalia that affects the overall safety of the environment and students' sense of safety."
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (U.S.); United States. Department of Education
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CFATS Outreach Implementation Plan, Fiscal Year 2019
From the Introduction: "Established in 2007, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program has helped make the Nation more secure by identifying and regulating high-risk chemical facilities.1 On December 18, 2014, President Obama signed into law the 'Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 2014' (the CFATS Act of 2014), Public Law 113-254 (6 U.S.C. 621 et seq.). The CFATS Act of 2014 reauthorizes the CFATS program and adds new provisions while preserving most of the existing CFATS regulations. The CFATS Act of 2014 directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS or the Department) Secretary, among other provisions, to establish an outreach implementation plan (Plan) in coordination with the heads of appropriate Federal and State agencies, relevant business associations, and public and private stakeholders' labor organizations in order to identify chemical facilities of interest (CFOI) that may be subject to regulations under CFATS and to make available compliance assistance materials and information on CFATS-related education and training."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
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Security and Resiliency Guide: Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Annex for Healthcare and Public Health Facility Stakeholders
From the Purpose: "Bombings using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are a common security concern related to terrorism and violence in the United States (U.S.). Multiple high-profile, domestic incidents have occurred over the last several decades, and international attacks are frequently in the news. Healthcare facilities are not immune from IED incidents, including bomb threats, suspicious items or behavior, and attacks using IEDs. Between May 2016 and May 2019, media reports indicated that there were 243 healthcare-related IED incidents in the U.S. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), from 2016 to 2018, there was an annual average of 337 attacks on healthcare targets across 19 overseas countries that reported data. During that time span, those attacks resulted in an average of 325 deaths and 415 injuries per year. On average, 60% of attacks were bombings. This guide defines actions that management and staff at healthcare facilities can take to understand and improve their ability to perform counter-IED (C-IED) activities and make security decisions."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
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Preparing Makes Sense for People with Disabilities and Special Needs: Get Ready Now
This resource is also available in Spanish [https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1391801023805-0a5f90f55e2c3b9bafae1d3a692f50e6/2014_disabilites_es.pdf]. "The likelihood that you and your family will recover from an emergency tomorrow often depends on the planning and preparation done today. While each person's abilities and needs are unique, every individual can take steps to prepare for all kinds of emergencies from fires and floods to potential terrorist attacks. By evaluating your own personal needs and making an emergency plan that fits those needs, you and your loved ones can be better prepared. This guide outlines commonsense measures individuals with disabilities, special needs, and their caregivers can take to start preparing for emergencies before they happen. Preparing makes sense for people with disabilities and special needs."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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What is Mitigation?
"Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. This is achieved through risk analysis, which results in information that provides a foundation for mitigation activities that reduce risk, and flood insurance that protects financial investment. FEMA's Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and implements a variety of programs authorized by Congress to reduce losses that may result from natural disasters. Effective Mitigation efforts can break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated damage."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Building Science
From the webpage: "The FEMA Building Science Branch provides technical services for the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA). The branch develops and produces multi-hazard mitigation guidance that focuses on creating disaster-resilient communities to reduce loss of life and property. Building Science Branch activities include deploying Mitigation Assessment Teams to conduct post-disaster engineering investigations for both man-made and natural hazard events. Building Science takes a lead role in developing publications, guidance materials, tools, technical bulletins, and recovery advisories that incorporate the most up-to-date building codes, floodproofing requirements, seismic design standards, and wind design requirements for new construction and the repair of existing buildings. In addition to providing technical support for the development and adoption of model building codes and standards, Building Science Branch provides technical support for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for public and private sector stakeholders, the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP), and pursuing outreach strategies for communicating Building Science issues."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA Mitigation Best Practices Portfolio
The FEMA Mitigation Best Practices Portfolio webpage offers the following links: "Learn from Other's Success"; "Share Your Success"; and "Additional Resources." Users can also sign up for best practices e-mail updates.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Mitigation Assessment Team Program
From the webpage: "Two important components of hazard mitigation are: (1) Assessing the vulnerability of buildings, and (2) Increasing building resistance to damage caused by hazard events. This increased damage resistance is achieved through improvements in codes and standards, designs, methods, and materials used for new construction and post-disaster repair and recovery. The Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) Program is an integral part of this process."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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State Homeland Security Assessment and Strategy Program: Urban Area Jurisdiction Handbook
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) has refined the State Homeland Security Assessment and Strategy (SHSAS) process that was originally established in Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 to assess threats, vulnerabilities, capabilities, and needs related to preparedness for weapons of mass destruction terrorism incidents at the state and local level. The FY 2003 ODP SHSAS process will allow state and local urban area jurisdictions to update their assessment data to reflect post-September 11, 2001, realities, as well as to identify progress on the priorities outlined in their initial homeland security strategies. As identified in the National Strategy for Homeland Security, the challenge in securing the nation from terrorist attacks is 'to develop interconnected and complementary systems that are reinforcing rather than duplicative and that ensure essential requirements are met.'"
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office for Domestic Preparedness
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FluAid 2.0
"FluAid is a test version of software created by programmers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is designed to assist state and local level planners in preparing for the next influenza pandemic by providing estimates of potential impact specific to their locality. FluAid provides only a range of estimates of impact in terms of deaths, hospitalizations, and outpatients visits due to pandemic influenza. The software cannot describe when or how people will become ill, nor how a pandemic may spread through a society over time."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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FluLabSurge 1.0
"FluLabSurge is a spreadsheet-based program designed to assist laboratory directors forecast demand for specimen testing during the next influenza pandemic (i.e., the surge in demand), and develop response plans. [...] FluLabSurge produces estimates of: a) the daily number of specimens that may be delivered to a laboratory for testing; and b) the testing capacity of that laboratory (e.g., how many samples can be tested per day or work shift) per pandemic transitional day found in each of the pandemic stages. FluLabSurge also helps the user produce a one-page plan showing how capacity will be used to meet user-defined testing goals (e.g., surveillance, strain identification, clinical diagnostics)."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Public Information and Risk Communication for Pandemic Influenza
This slideshow presents an overview of public information and risk communication responsibilities recognized by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Emergency Preparedness and Response Section. Topics discussed include: pandemic flu and avian flu, pandemic flu response planning, guidelines for releasing information about outbreaks, the importance of joint information systems/centers, and risk communication guidelines.
Colorado. Department of Public Health and Environment
Beiser, Barbara J.
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Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data [website]
From the Website: "The GISAID [Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data] Initiative promotes the international sharing of all influenza virus sequences, related clinical and epidemiological data associated with human viruses, and geographical as well as species-specific data associated with avian and other animal viruses, to help researchers understand how the viruses evolve, spread and potentially become pandemics. GISAID does so by overcoming disincentives/hurdles or restrictions, which discourage or prevented sharing of influenza data prior to formal publication."
GISAID (Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data)
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Alternate Care Site Operations Guide
From the Executive Summary: "Over the past 10 to 15 years, the U.S. has experienced disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, the H1N1 pandemic, and other large-scale emergencies. It has become clear that medical surge is a major issue that must be addressed during such emergencies. The Florida Department of Health, therefore, has taken a number of steps to help local communities prepare for the operation of one medical surge solution, alternate care sites (ACS). Included are planning tools, online training modules, exercises, response resources, and guidelines such as this Alternate Care Site Operations Guide. This guide has been designed to serve as a planning and operational resource. Guides such as this are often hundreds of pages long; however, in order to make this guide most useful, it has been limited to the key concepts and practices for ACS operations. Additionally, to provide even more concise guidance, a 'Quick Start' guide has been added to the Appendix section to facilitate rapid implementation of an alternate care site."
Florida. Department of Health
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All-Hazards Preparedness for Rural Communities: A Guide to Help Rural Agriculture Communities Prepare for Threats to Their Families, Farms, Animals and Businesses
"This All-Hazard booklet was developed as a resource for citizens of rural agricultural communities - individuals, farmers and producers, businesses - with the hope of raising awareness of the natural and man-made threats to these communities and their commodities. These threats can include natural disaster situations (e.g., floods, tornadoes); biological emergencies (e.g., pandemic flu, food safety recalls) and man-made or technological threats (e.g., bio- or agro-terrorism, agrochemical situations). The booklet is divided into 4 sections: 1) general preparedness measures, 2) natural disasters hazards, 3) biological emergencies, 4) manmade or technological threats. Sections containing National and State contacts as well as sources for additional information are also provided. Each section contains an overview of the particular hazard and several informational handouts. The handouts are presented in a check list format to help guide individuals in rural communities in preparing for a particular hazard before it occurs, during the event, and recovering from the situation."
Center for Food Security and Public Health
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Addressing Communication Challenges During an Infectious Disease Emergency Response: State Experiences from the H1N1 Pandemic
From the Introduction: "Communication overload can be a major challenge during an emergency response as large amounts of information are directed at federal, state, and local health agencies from multiple sources. Risk communication principles dictate that one must be first, be right, and be credible, but it may be difficult to balance these principles in a time when information is rapidly changing. During the 2009 H1N1 [swine flu] pandemic, data and guidance changed quickly. States found it difficult to keep up with and take action on all of the information they were receiving. After the pandemic, they were able to reflect on what worked well during the response and what areas could be improved. This document draws from state experiences during the H1N1 pandemic response and discusses potential ways to address communication challenges that state health agencies (SHAs) may face when responding to an infectious disease outbreak, including tools available for more effective and efficient communications. These suggestions were compiled from evaluations of communications during the H1N1 pandemic, including three state after-action reports (New Jersey, Kentucky, and Iowa) funded by ASTHO [Association of State and Territorial Health Officials]."
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (U.S.)
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Clinical Issues and Guidance from the American College of Surgeons [webpage]
This webpage contains a number of resources related to 'Clinical Issues and Guidance' provided by the American College of Surgeons.
American College of Surgeons
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National Vaccine Advisory Committee: Reports, Recommendations, Resolutions
This webpage from the Department of Health and Human Services provides links to reports and other helpful resources about the H1N1 virus, Hepatitis A and B, influenza preparedness, and information on immunizations, from the years 1989 to 2012. From the webpage: "The NVAC [National Vaccine Advisory Committee] serves in an advisory role to the Assistant Secretary for Health, within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Thus, the recommendations listed below have been formally transmitted to the Assistant Secretary for Health for his consideration, which may include communication with various components of the Department and other interested parties."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
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LLIS Proven Practice: Training: Business Shelter-in-Place Video
"This thirty-two minute video reviews actions by businesses to develop a shelter-in-place plan to protect employees and customers from a known hazardous chemical release." This PDF document provides a description and link to the actual video which is on YouTube at the following link [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBY3zh8a2ww]
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Pandemic Preparedness and Response in Fragile, Conflict and Violence (FCV) Situations
From the Summary: "Robust pandemic preparedness and response is an urgent need necessary to address vulnerability and to prevent, detect and respond to an outbreak in FCV [fragile, conflict and violence] situations. It contributes to universal health security, protecting all people from threats to their health, and should be integrated in broader efforts to strengthen health systems and make them more resilient through multistakeholder coordination."
World Bank Group
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Target Capabilities List: Citizen Evacuation and Shelter-In-Place
This document contains the citizen evacuation and shelter-in-place component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's "Target Capabilities List." From the document: "Citizen evacuation and shelter-in-place is the capability to prepare for, ensure communication of, and immediately execute the safe and effective sheltering-in-place of an at-risk population (and companion animals), and/or the organized and managed evacuation of the at-risk population (and companion animals) to areas of safe refuge in response to a potentially or actually dangerous environment. In addition, this capability involves the safe reentry of the population where feasible."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Management of High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) Toolbox for Frontline Health Care Facilities [presentation]
From the Executive Summary: "We live in a world where people travel the globe and pathogens evolve. These forces make health care facilities throughout the state vulnerable to risks posed by High Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCID) infections, such as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and others that are easily transmissible, highly fatal, and not preventable through routine vaccines. Delayed detection and isolation of HCIDs may result in spread to others in health care facilities and the community. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), the Minnesota Chapter of the Association for Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC MN), and the Health Care Coalitions of Minnesota worked collaboratively to develop this toolbox to help frontline facilities prepare for presentation of a person with a High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID)."
Minnesota. Department of Health
