Multi-hazard Planning for Child Care

Posted by on April 09, 2012

FEMA offers free course on emergency preparedness for childcare centers

The Federal Emergency Management Agency offers free on-line independent study courses relating to disaster management. The course, Multihazard Planning for Child Care, is designed to help child care providers better prepare for emergency situations that may occur in their community.

This course covers the steps to help childcare providers prepare for incidents to ensure the safety of the children at their site. This course is free and is available to child care providers.

Although child care providers are not required to take this course, it may be used to meet the staff training required by the child care regulations and is acceptable for Keystone STARS facilities and 0.2 CEUs are awarded for successful completion of the training.

The course can be accessed by visiting here.

http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is36.asp


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