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 Atlantic hurricane season begins June
1. Based on FEMA’s 2016 National
Household Survey, more than half of families living where hurricanes occur
have a plan to stay in contact. Make sure you create
a family emergency communication plan before the next storm.
Knowing where loved ones are and how to get in touch
in the event of an emergency will give you peace of mind. Visit Ready.gov/Hurricanes for
tips, tools, and resources to help you prepare.
Planning starts with these three steps:
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Collect – Create a paper copy
of the contact information for your family. Collect the contact information of other
important people and places, such as doctors, insurance companies, or schools.
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Share – Make sure everyone
carries a copy. If you complete your plan online at ready.gov/make-a-plan, you can print
it as a wallet-sized card. Also, post a copy in a central location in your
home, such as your refrigerator or family bulletin board.
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Practice – Bring your family
together to review and practice your plan every few months.
Watch this video to learn more about
preparing for a hurricane. Click to download the How to Prepare for a Hurricane Guide.
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 Learn more about low and no-cost preparedness actions
with our new Life Saving Skills resources.
The Life Saving Skills
Social Media Toolkit contains messages to help protect individuals, families,
and homes. You can reach your audience by using and customizing these messages
on your social media channels.
Share the social media content
and graphics to promote life saving skills like:
- Knowing basic home maintenance to
protect your family and home;
- Talking to your landlord or building manager about
evacuation routes and fire safety;
- Reducing common electrical and fire
hazards around your house and property;
- Placing smoke, carbon monoxide, and
natural gas alarms on every level of your home;
- Developing a plan and discussing it
with your family;
- Having supplies in place at home, at
work, and in the car; and
- Teaching children what to do when
they hear a smoke alarm.
For more information,
visit the Life
Saving Skills Toolkit.
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When
accidents and injuries happen, the actions of people nearby can make all the difference.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and partners developed the You are the Help
Until Help Arrives (Until Help Arrives) program
to train people in the skills needed to provide lifesaving care before the
arrival of professional first
responders.
Until
Help Arrives
recently reached an important milestone on the road to building a Culture of
Preparedness. FEMA estimates the 100,000th individual completed the Until
Help Arrives online or classroom training last week. All Until Help
Arrives participants learn the right steps to take in an emergency: call
9-1-1, stay safe, protect the injured from harm, stop bleeding, position the
injured, and provide comfort.
FEMA
aims to empower every American to prepare for, protect against, and respond to
disasters. Partners across the nation can help achieve this goal by offering Until
Help Arrives and other preparedness initiatives to their stakeholders. To
learn more about the steps people should take to help someone with life-threatening
injuries, visit www.ready.gov/untilhelparrives. There you will
find:
- An interactive, animated video
- A 25-minute online, self-guided training
- A downloadable instructor guide and student tools for in-person
trainings
You
can also explore more pages on www.ready.gov to learn about
FEMA’s other programs, like Prepareathon, Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT), and Youth Preparedness.
You
are the Help Until Help Arrives is a partnership between FEMA’s Individual and
Community Preparedness Division (ICPD), the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the
Medical Reserve Corps (MRC),
and the Uniformed Services University's (USU)
National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH).
Join
the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) Customer-Centered Communications
Team to learn about new 2018 hurricane season marketing activities. This
webinar will highlight the outreach campaign, set to launch in June, to
heighten consumers’ awareness about the importance of purchasing flood
insurance to protect homes, businesses, and the lives they have built.
Learn about the innovative marketing activities, gain tools, tactics, including
key messaging, and easy-to-use earned and social media materials, to help
residents understand the importance of preparing for hurricane season now with
flood insurance.
Title: Webinar - NFIP Hurricane Season Campaign Overview for
Regional Stakeholders
Date: Thursday, June 7
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. ET
How to Join the Webinar:
We hope to that you will be able to join us on June 7!
Disclaimer: The reader recognizes
that the federal government provides links and informational data on various
disaster preparedness resources and events and does not endorse any non-federal
events, entities, organizations, services, or products. Please let us know
about other events and services for individual and community preparedness that
could be included in future newsletters by contacting FEMA-prepare@fema.dhs.gov.
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