Evaluate the impact of disaster preparedness and community preparation in the health of a community. Describe how you have prepared and planned of a disaster would happen.
Ans) Community preparedness refers to community-wide efforts to give citizens the training, education, and resources they need to prepare in advance against the threat of a possible local disaster at an individual and collective level.
- Important Reasons to Prepare for a Disaster
to protect yourself and your loved ones. Being prepared by knowing
what to do reduces uncertainty. Helps Cope with Stress – Disasters
are stressful events over which we have little or no control.
10 Ways to Increase Awareness of Preparedness:
• Partner with local community emergency response teams (CERTs).
These teams are comprised of citizens in your area who already are
aware that being prepared is an important step to take. These teams
can help you organize the other suggestions on this list.
Hold a build-an-emergency-kit party. Invite citizens who do not
have an emergency kit come to an informational meeting. Have
handouts about emergency kit contents and bring a few kits to
display as examples. Set up the kits in a row, ranging from a basic
(one-person kit) all the way up to large, advanced kits for bigger
families.
• Host workshops on designing a financial first aid kit. Some
people have a basic kit full of supplies, but they rarely have all
their financial and insurance information written down in a place
they can take with them if they need to evacuate. There are a
number of free online kits that guide you through organizing all
the information you need.
• Involve the local media in the planning process. Partner with
local media to inform citizens of evacuation routes and make the
maps accessible online. Ask local media outlets to post links to
the evacuation maps on their Web sites.
• Host evacuation workshops. Partner with local churches and other
mass-care facilities to involve more citizens in the operations of
a mass-care facility. Encourage facilities to conduct a drill and
“activate the shelter.” Use the opportunity to invite local
citizens to prepare. • Have police and fire vehicles on static
display. Provide demonstrations and have emergency responders on
hand to to answer questions. If your jurisdiction is identified as
host jurisdiction for a sister city, establish exchange programs so
that emergency planners and facility managers can meet to discuss
issues.
• Provide relevant disaster preparedness information on your
department/agency Web site. Ensure that this information is up to
date and relevant by updating the Web site at least once a year.
Develop a citizen advisory board to help you review the content and
make recommendations for improvements.
• Partner with schools to have discussions with students about
disaster preparedness. One of the reasons the “Turn Around – Don’t
Drown” program has been successful is that it’s targeted towards
adults and children. Obviously, the children do not drive, but they
relay this information to parents. Follow the model of the
“Stranger Danger” program and send emergency responders to
classrooms to promote emergency preparedness.
• Develop PSAs for radio and TV. In order to make the PSA
interesting to citizens, use local celebrities and/or media
personalities in your efforts. What will make the most effective
public service announcements? Think of the recent thetruth.com PSAs
dedicated to encourage people to stop smoking. The advertisements
are gritty and in your face, and people take notice because of the
shock value.
• Partner with local merchants to set up an emergency kit display
area in their store. Work with the merchants to create a list of
emergency kit items and display all those items in the same place.
It works much like the shopping lists that schools provide to local
stores at the beginning of the school year.
• Set up awareness booths at local festivals/fairs/community
events. Partner with local school districts to encourage poster
design competitions. Display CERT information, display sample
emergency kits and provide handouts for creating kits at home.
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