Community Preparedness
In 2011, CDC established 15 capabilities that serve as national standards for public health preparedness planning. Since then, these capability standards have served as a vital framework for state, local, tribal, and territorial preparedness programs as they plan, operationalize, and evaluate their ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from public health emergencies.
What We Do
- Promote awareness and access to public health, healthcare, human services, mental/behavioral health, and environmental health resources that help protect community health and address the access and functional needs of at-risk individuals.
- Engage in preparedness activities that address the access of functional needs of the whole community as well as cultural, socioeconomic, and demographic factors
- Plan to address the health needs of populations that have been displaced because of incidents that have occurred in their own or distant communities such as after a radiological, nuclear, or natural disaster.
- Support the development of public health, healthcare, human services, mental/behavioral health, and environmental health systems that support community preparedness.
What You Can Do
- Maintain Go-Packs (72-hour kits) for each individual in your home
- Maintain water storage for your family, the recommended amount is one gallon of water, per person, per day. We recommend to have at least 3 days worth.
- Keep important documents (Birth Certificates, Bank information, Social Security Cards) in a safe and easily accessible location
- Have a meeting point for your family where everybody can easily find
- Check your smoke & carbon monoxide alarms twice a year
- Volunteer with CERT & MRC
- See more ways to plan at https://www.ready.gov/plan
- Download the FEMA app to receive local emergency announcements https://www.fema.gov/mobile-app
