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Growth in leadership competency and capacity
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Family Preparedness

Families can–and do–cope with disaster by preparing in advance and working together as a team. Follow the steps listed in this brochure to create your family’s disaster plan. Knowing what to do is your best protection and your responsibility.

Special Needs Guides

You should decide what you will be able to do for yourself and what assistance you may need before, during, and after a disa This will be based on the environment after the disaster, your capabilities, and your limitations. To complete a personal asses make a list of your personal needs and your resources for meeting them in a disaster environment. Consider the following information as you make your personal assessment.

Types of Disasters

Learn about the hazards that may strike your community, the risks you face from these hazards, and your community’s plans for warning and evacuation. You can obtain this information from your local emergency management offi ce or your local chapter of the American Red Cross. Space has been provided here to record your answers.

Supply Kits

You may need to survive on your own after a disaster. This means having your own food, water, and other supplies in suffi cient quantity to last for at least three days. Local offi cials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone immediately. You could get help in hours, or it might take days.

Tips

Welcome to the second edition of Tips for First Responders. Two new disabilities - autism and multiple chemical sensitivities - have been added and the existing tips have been updated. Whether you are responding to an emergency caused by natural forces such as a fire, flood or tornado, or one caused by a terrorist attack, you will likely encounter persons with some type of disability who will require special assistance. Some disabilities will be obvious. Other disabilities, including some cognitive disabilities, mental illness or multiple chemical sensitivities, are difficult or impossible to detect.

Communication

Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so plan how you will contact one another and review what you will do in different situations.

First Aid

The first steps that you will take when working with a victim will be to conduct a triage and rapid treatment. After all victims in an area have been triaged CERT members will begin a thorough head-to-toe assessment of the victim’s condition.

Homeland Security

This system provides warnings in the form of a set of graduated “threat conditions” that increase as the risk of the threat increases. Risk includes both the probability of an attack occurring and its potential gravity. Threat conditions may be assigned for the entire nation, or they may be set for a particular geographic area or industrial sector. At each threat condition, government entities and the private sector, including businesses and schools, would implement a corresponding set of “protective measures” to further reduce vulnerability or increase response capability during a period of heightened alert.