Download or read book A Safer Future written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.
Download or read book Disaster Education written by Rajib Shaw and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an informative introduction to the subject of disaster risk reduction education and highlights key places of education such as family, community, school, and higher education. This book describes and demonstrates different aspects of education in an easy-to-understand form with academic research and practical field experiences.
Download or read book Disaster risk reduction in school curricula case studies from thirty countries written by and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disaster Education Communication and Engagement written by Neil Dufty and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed guide to the design and evaluation of effective disaster learning programs Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement provides a much-needed evidence-based guide for designing effective disaster learning plans and programs that are tailored to local communities and their particular hazard risks. Drawing on the most recent research from disaster psychology, disaster sociology, and education psychology, as well as evaluations of disaster learning programs, the book contains practical guidance for putting in place a proven design framework. The book outlines the steps to take in order to tailor a disaster education, communication and engagement program and highlights illustrative examples of effective programs and activities from around the world. The author includes information on how to identify potential community learners and presents a methodology for understanding the at-risk community, its hazard risks, disaster risk reduction, and emergency management arrangements. Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement describes both country-wide campaigns and local disaster programs that involve community participation. This important resource: Presents a detailed framework to guide the design and evaluation of tailored disaster learning programs Includes information that links disaster resilience with sustainability and climate change learning Describes the ‘disaster cycle’ and reviews learning content and methods related to the cycle Explains effective ways to combine disaster education, disaster communications, and disaster-related engagement Contains material on using new technologies such as gamification, virtual reality, and social media Written for emergency managers, students of emergency management, and humanitarian courses, Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement is a hands-on guide filled with ideas and templates for designing and evaluating targeted disaster learning programs.
Download or read book Teaching Preparedness to Better Prepare Children in the Event of Disaster written by Brian Kendall and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research was to determine if teaching preparedness to children will better prepare them in the event of a disaster. Children have been the target audience for several campaigns in the past. By introducing disaster awareness into the schools, it is hoped, like in other campaigns, that children will take the knowledge obtained and share that information to family and friends. This study was significant to the field of emergency management due to the need of providing the general public with the necessary information and resources that could potentially save lives. As a result of this study, it has been found that children who were introduced to disaster preparedness did in fact increase their overall knowledge pertaining to disaster preparedness. This was evident by comparing the participants? pre- and post-test scores. Although there are multiple organizations trying to reach as many children as possible through various programs, disaster preparedness is not currently found in every school across the United States. By introducing disaster preparedness in the schools, children are ensured exposure to this life saving information. In addition, the children are potentially the link between the information and the rest of the family by being the best resource for reaching as many people as possible.
Download or read book Stay safe and be prepared a teacher s guide to disaster risk reduction written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public School Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management Plan written by Don Philpott and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in accordance with the President's 2003 homeland security directive and the Department of Education's guidelines, and in response to the ever-present threats facing our school systems, this book helps schools and institutions develop a comprehensive emergency response plan. This book outlines programs and procedures that can be applied to any school system to address hazard mitigation and prevention, emergency preparedness and response, and recovery and restoration of school functions to an effective learning environment. It describes specific actions and assigns responsibilities and response roles to district and individual school staff emergency teams, cooperating agencies, and community response partners that have agreed to share responsibilities and resources as defined in this plan. This book also outlines, in the event of an emergency involving response by fire and/or law enforcement, the district/school site personnel who should establish an Incident Command System-based response organization in accordance with procedures outlined in the National Incident Management System. In addition, the authors predetermine, to the extent possible, operational procedures across any U.S. school system and cooperating governmental, private, and volunteer agencies for responding to and recovering from any and all types of natural, human, or technology-based emergencies that may occur within school system operations or outside the jurisdiction of the school system but nonetheless cause/could cause collateral impact to school system operations. Contents examine emergency notification and immediate actions; concept of operations, including first key actions, partnering with community agencies, and the initial briefing; crisis management team action checklists; response resources, including personnel, response team partners, emergency evacuation/receiving facilities, and emergency equipment and supplies; emergency response flip charts for principals, teachers, secretaries, and custodians; district incident-specific response protocols, covering 29 scenarios from accidents to weapons situations; and general response procedures for clean up, communications, cost accounting, tracking students and personnel. Appendices include training and exercises, forms, sample communications and letters, examples of status boards, and a stakeholder management plan.
Download or read book Disaster Preparedness Education in Schools written by Victoria A. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sesame Street Fire Safety Program Family Guide written by and published by Homeland Security Dept., Federal Emergency Management Agency, and U.S. Fire Administration . This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a parent or caregiver, you do things to keep your child safe each day, like buckling their seatbelt or holding hands when you cross the street. The preschool years are an important time to teach your child about fire safety. You can empower children at this young age with essential fire safety messages and skills that can make a big difference in an emergency. You can show your child what to do if there’s a fire and ways to prevent fires from starting. By getting the whole family involved, and making your child a part of this process, you are teaching lifelong fire safety habits! This guide will help you make fire safety easy for the whole family, and help children feel safe. Here’s what you’ll find: information and tools to help your family practice fire safety at home catchy phrases you can use to help your child remember important fire safety messages activities and ideas to help you practice fire safety skills together as a family NOTE: This publication is shown in color, however, it is a black and white coloring book to allow child to pick color(s) of choice.
Download or read book Examining School Personnel Perceptions of Disaster Preparedness and Meeting Students Mental Health Needs written by Cynthia Renfrow and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the perceptions of school personnel regarding emergency preparedness at schools and the mental health needs of students. More specifically, this study examines school personnel’s awareness of emergency preparedness plans at their sites and the mental health services that are available at their schools. A survey was administered to 40 school personnel at three campuses located in various geographical areas within Stanislaus County. The findings reveal that almost all participants had some awareness of their school emergency preparedness plan. In addition, the majority of participants acknowledged understanding procedures related to their sites’ emergency preparedness plans. Although most participants were aware that their sites had emergency preparedness plans, the results revealed that disparities of knowledge existed between administrators and teachers and that knowledge differed based on school grade level. Overall, administrators were more familiar with emergency plans than teachers and participants from elementary schools were more familiar with emergency preparedness plans than those at higher grade levels. Differences in perceptions regarding risk and the presence of law enforcement on campuses also differed based on school grade level. Participants from junior high and high school campuses were more supportive of law enforcement on campus than those from elementary campuses. The findings also revealed differences in awareness of the availability of mental health services for students based on the geographical location of the schools. Participants in urban areas had more knowledge than those in non-urban or rural areas. Further examination of inconsistencies in knowledge and perceptions about emergency preparedness plans among school personnel and further attention to availability of mental health services for students irrespective of the geographical location of the school are needed.
Download or read book Safer Stronger Smarter written by Federal Emergency Management Agency and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Recovery in School Libraries written by Christie Kaaland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When disaster strikes, school librarians can play a key role in keeping kids safe. This is the only book written specifically to provide school librarians with emergency preparedness and recovery tools as well as curricular tie-ins. No school is immune to disaster, whether in the form of a natural event like a tornado or a tragedy like the violence that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The key to minimizing injury or death in an emergency is preparednesssomething the school librarian is uniquely positioned to lead. This must-have book will show you how to be proactive in getting your school ready for the worst. It provides comprehensive preparedness and recovery plans, check lists, and curricular recommendations on preparedness that can be tailored to your individual library and community. Covering natural disasters, human-made disasters, and school violence, the book shows you how to conduct drills, assess vulnerabilities and risk, communicate preparedness plans, and use bibliotherapy for disaster recovery. It also describes how your library can be a safe haven for students who feel disconnected, bullied, or otherwise disenfranchised. Although the book is primarily intended for school librarians, classroom teachers will also find many ideas here for helping students be better prepared for disasters, whatever their cause or severity.
Download or read book Preparedness Response and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparedness, Response and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families is the summary of a workshop convened in June, 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events to discuss disaster preparedness, response, and resilience relative to the needs of children and families, including children with special health care needs. Traditional and non-traditional medical and public health stakeholders from across federal, state, and local government health care coalitions, community organizations, school districts, child care providers, hospitals, private health care providers, insurers, academia, and other partners in municipal planning met to review existing tools and frameworks that can be modified to include children's needs; identify child-serving partners and organizations that can be leveraged in planning to improve outcomes for children; highlight best practices in resilience and recovery strategies for children; and raise awareness of the need to integrate children's considerations throughout local and state emergency plans. Communities across the United States face the threat of emergencies and disasters almost every day, natural and man-made, urban and rural, large and small. Although children represent nearly 25 percent of the U.S. population, current state and local disaster preparedness plans often do not include specific considerations for children and families. The preparedness and resilience of communities related to children will require a systems framework for disaster preparedness across traditional and non-traditional medical and public health stakeholders, including community organizations, schools, and other partners in municipal planning. This report examines resilience strategies that lead to successful recovery in children after a disaster and discusses current approaches and interventions to improve recovery in children.
Download or read book Community Disaster Education Guide written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help Red Cross units plan and build an overall community disaster education effort that will result in increased public preparedness and appropriate response in times of disaster.
Download or read book Disaster Risk Reduction Management Practices of School Principals written by Edwin Jasojaso and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2029 in the subject Organisation and administration - Disaster control, grade: 93.4, , language: English, abstract: This study determined the level of DRRM practices of school principals in the ten (10) public elementary school of the fifth district of the division of city schools manila for SY 2019-2020. The study with the title "Disaster Risk Reduction Management Practices of School Principals: Towards School Based Policy Guidelines" is especially designed to meet the requirements of the ever-changing needs of the schools in managing disaster. The prevailing situations our nation is facing nowadays is the compelling reason why this study came into existence. Children, most especially in elementary schools are the ones to benefit if practices in DRRM are presented firmly and effectively. As provided by RA 10121 or the Philippine DRRM act of 2010, the concern agencies must deliver or provide a proactive approach in addressing risk in disaster, wherein its main focus is to prepare locals from imminent risk during disaster. It also stipulated the need of integrating DRR to school curricula in all levels and areas. The results and recommendations of this study, though it is everybody’s concern, is pointing to the school principals that they should carry the burden on addressing the need of properly practiced DRR management to create a safe learning environment.
Download or read book THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISASTERS written by Helen James and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Consequences of Disasters: Demographic, Planning and Policy Implications presents innovative multi-disciplinary perspectives on how people and societies respond to, and recover from sudden, unexpected crisis events like natural disasters which impact tragically on the established patterns and structures of their lives. Through detailed empirical analysis which employs both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, the twenty-two chapters in this fine volume explore these critical issues. Chapters have a wide global range across both democratic and transforming governance systems which spotlight the many different ways in which different political jurisdictions respond to the demographic, planning and policy implications of the natural disasters affecting their citizens. The authors collectively provide insights into varying socio-cultural and political disaster frameworks from China, Japan, the USA, New Zealand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Taiwan, Iran, The Philippines and Pakistan. Taking the conceptual and analytical lens of social capital, family formation and migration patterns, the authors employ comparative demographic, anthropological and sociological approaches to present the human security contexts of natural disasters when they unexpectedly wreak havoc on human societies, and the coping and response behaviors they adopt, develop and use as survivors as they set about re-building their lives over periods that can extend over several years. This book provides many innovative insights which will be of value to disaster policy experts, practitioners in the humanitarian field, civil society and government sectors and researchers engaged in disaster recovery and reconstruction practice and research.
Download or read book ECGBL 2020 14th European Conference on Game Based Learning written by Panagiotis Fotaris and published by Academic Conferences limited. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 14th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2020), hosted by The University of Brighton on 24-25 September 2020. The Conference Chair is Panagiotis Fotaris and the Programme Chairs are Dr Katie Piatt and Dr Cate Grundy, all from University of Brighton, UK.
