Disaster Planning and Preparedness Resources

Posted by on October 6, 2006

[posted from Corporation for National Service Resource Alerts]

Disaster Planning and Preparedness: News for Your Program

This fall marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast and the five-year anniversary of the events of 9/11. Is your service program ready to respond to the next disaster? Greg Chun, the director of disaster and emergency management for the California Service Corps, part of the Office of the Governor, is this month’s featured expert for The Resource Center. Read the Ask the Expert article to help guide your disaster planning.

http://nationalserviceresources.org/resources/online_pubs/disaster/expert.php

Get more information on disaster planning from The Resource Center’s Disaster Response and Recovery page, which includes over a hundred links to documents, toolkits, and organizations, in topic areas including:

* Disaster response and recovery
* Human needs
* Volunteer management
* Donations
* Volunteers
* Collaboration
* Effective practices
* Health, safety, and illness prevention

http://nationalserviceresources.org/resources/online_pubs/disaster/disaster_resources.php

Did you know that The Resource Center features a new expert in the field of national and community service on the homepage every other month? Read archived Ask the Expert articles to gain knowledge and insights about running a successful program.