Provider: FEMA

Course Description: This course has been designed to help the citizens of this nation learn how to protect themselves and their families against all types of hazards. It can be used as a reference source or as a step-by-step manual. The focus of the content is on how to develop, practice, and maintain emergency plans that reflect what must be done before, during, and after a disaster to protect people and their property. Also included is information on how to assemble a disaster supplies kit that contains the food, water, and other supplies in sufficient quantity for individuals and their families to survive.

Time to complete: 10 hours

Target audience: Everyone

How to access:  IS-22: Are You Ready? An In-Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness [1]

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Provider: Upper Midwest Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center

Course Description: This course provides general emergency preparedness training for families, focusing on protective actions your family can take prior to a disaster. The course is set up as an interactive scenario. Users direct themselves through a scenario by answering various questions. A “More Info” button is available to provide help with answering a given question.

Time to complete: 1 hour

Learning objectives:

After completion of the course, learners should be able to:

• recognize the need for family preparedness planning.
• assemble all-hazard emergency supply kits.
• create all-hazard emergency plans.
• demonstrate appropriate responses to known or potential disasters and emergencies in the Upper Midwest.
• identify resources for emergency preparedness planning and apply lessons learned.

Target audience: General public

How to access:  Prepare Your Family: A General Preparedness Scenario [3]

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Provider: New York Academy of Medicine’s Redefining Readiness

Course Description: To enable people and organizations around the country to strengthen their shelter-in-place preparedness efforts, the SGD findings have been used to create sets of specific issues for households, work places, schools and early childhood/youth programs, and governments to consider. Available in English and Spanish, these issue sets are designed to make people in each group aware of important issues that are within their purview to address and to stimulate their thinking about contextually appropriate solutions.
 
Access at Preparing to Shelter in Place - Practical Tools for Households, Work Places, Schools and Early Childhood/Youth Programs, and Governments [5]

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