Emergency Preparedness & Disaster Recovery Resources
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NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit
- NN/LM Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit - The primary mission for this toolkit is to promote disaster planning in health sciences library and to serve as a disaster planning resource for local communities and the nation.
Federal Government Resources
- Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality-
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has a
section of its web site dedicated to bioterrorism planning and response.
- Tool for Evaluating
Core Elements of Hospital Disaster Drills - Hospitals can now identify
the most important strengths and weaknesses in their disaster response
plans using this tool.
- Tool for Evaluating
Core Elements of Hospital Disaster Drills - Hospitals can now identify
the most important strengths and weaknesses in their disaster response
plans using this tool.
- Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention-
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes
an Emergency Preparedness & Response section on its web site.
- Help for People with Diabetes Affected by Natural Disasters - prepared by the National Center for Chronic Disease and Prevention and Health Promotion
- What
You Should Know During and After an Emergency -
prepared by the CDC
- Department of Veterans Affairs - The PILOTS Database - PILOTS is the largest interdisciplinary electronic resource to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. PILOTS also provides information on many assessment instruments used to measure trauma exposure and PTSD. It is produced by the National Center for PTSD and contains over 31,000 references to PTSD literature. PILOTS can be used to find information on the following topics: post-traumatic stress disorder, the assessment and treatment of psychiatric conditions, mental health services after traumatic events and ethical and policy issues for traumatized populations.
- DisasterHelp.gov - The DisasterHelp web site was developed as part of President Bush's Disaster Management E-gov initiative, which aims to enhance disaster management on an interagency and intergovernmental basis.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA)
1-800-621-FEMA (3362) TTY: 1-800-462-7585 - FEMA's site contains information about disasters, emergency personnel, education, and training. The site contains information about the types of hazards, where to obtain assistance, and preparedness. - Heritage Emergency National Task Force - The Heritage Emergency National Task Force is co-sponsored by Heritage Preservation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
- Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPDs) and the National Security Presidential Directives (NSPDs)
- USASearch.gov
- Disaster Preparedness-
Search whatever you want or need from the U.S. government,
it's here on USA.gov. You'll find a rich treasure of online information,
services, and resources.
- The
Library of Congress - Emergency Preparedness
- MedlinePlus - MedlinePlus contains disaster preparation and recovery information under the heading Health Topics.
- National Cancer Institute- Information for displaced cancer patients, etc.
- National Library of Medicine - Disaster Information Management Research Center - Improving access to the nation's disaster information.
- NIH Response to Hurricane Katrina Disaster- Includes medical consultation services, NIH Resources, related links and information from other institutes.
- NLM's Enviro-Health
Links-
Environmental health information links including toxicology and
WISER (Wireless Information System for First Responders)
- Biological Warfare - provides links to information about biological warfare pathogens
- Disaster Recovery and Environmental Health - Information about recovering from natural and man-made disasters.
- NLM Web Resources for California Fires - The California Wildfires web page includes information on the health effects from fires and exposure to smoke; links to air quality resources, environmental clean-up following fires, and animals in disasters.
- Special Populations: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness - provides links to selected web sites featuring emergency preparedness for special population. This includes people with disabilities, people with visual or hearing impairments, senior citizens, people with disabilities, people with visual or hearing impairments, senior citizens, children, and women. Links to information in languages other than English are also provided.
- Ready.America - The Ready Campaign asks individuals to do three key things to prepare for the unexpected: get an emergency supply kit, make a family emergency plan, and be informed about the different types of emergencies that could occur and their appropriate responses.
- U.S. Department of Education- The U.S. Department of Education Ed.gov site has emergency planning web resource for school leaders and managers that was created by the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. The information was created to help schools and communities prepare and develop plans for responding to emergency situation (e.g., natural disasters, violent incidents, and terrorist attacks).
State Resources
Each of our state pages has specific information about emergency resources in that state.
- Alabama, District of Columbia ,Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina,Tennessee, U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, West Virginia
Library, School and Medical Association Resources
- American
Academy of Pediatrics-
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) an organization dedicated
to health, safety, and well-being of children, has a section
of its web site devoted to disaster preparedness that meets children's
unique needs.
- American
Library Association-
Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
- American
Medical Association-
The American Medical Association's (AMA) Center for Public
Health Preparedness and Disaster Responses serves as an "educational
resource for enhancing the disaster preparedness and response
capabilities of both civilian and military providers".
- Academic Medicine Responds to Recent Hurricanes- Central information resource for medical schools, students, teaching hospitals, and residents in the disaster region. Provided by the American Association of Medical Colleges.
- Association
of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
- At-risk populations and influenza pandemic: Planning Guidance
for State, Territorial, Tribal and Local Health Departments. - Conservation OnLine - Resources for Conservation Professionals - CoOL, a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials.
- Disaster Mitigation Planning Assistance- A joint project of the Michigan State University Libraries, the Center for Great Lakes Culture and the California Preservation Program
- Joint Commission Online - Revised emergency management standards - Effective January 1, 2008, the emergency management standards (EC.4.10 and EC.4.20) for hospitals, critical access hospitals and long term care facilities have been revised to reflect an “all-hazards” approach to emergency preparedness that permits appropriately flexible and effective responses. The revised standards emphasize a “scalable” approach that can help manage the variety, intensity and duration of the disasters that can affect a single organization, multiple organizations or an entire community.
- Librarians' Internet Index - Two years on, Hurricane Katrina is still being reckoned with. This Katrina topic page has over 200 sites.
- Medical Library Association- Information for members in the disaster regions, links to hospitals and schools impacted by the hurricanes, donations
- New York Academy of Medicine - The New York Academy of Medicine has released a report and tools that will enable households, work places, schools and early childhood/youth programs, and governments to anticipate and address problems they would face in emergencies. The Academy's main report documents that the emergency preparedness instructions being given to people and organizations do not address many important sheltering-in-place issues and sometimes make matters worse. The report is available at http://www.redefiningreadiness.net.
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education - Federal, state, and local public health agencies turn to ORISE for help in educating our nation’s citizens on Public Health Preparedness and other hot health topics.
- Society of Georgia Archivists - Shelter from the Stormy Blast: A Guide to Disaster Recovery Services for Georgia and the Southeast.
- SOLINET Disaster Assistance- The SOLINET Preservation Field Service Program offers emergency disaster assistance to individuals and institutions.
Other Web Resources
- American Health Lawyers Association - Health Lawyers Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Checklist
- Center for Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health -Redefining Readiness addresses a fundamental flaw that is undermining efforts in all areas of emergency preparedness. Currently, planners are developing emergency instructions for people to follow without finding out whether it is actually possible for them to do so or whether the instructions are even the most protective action for certain groups of people to take.
- Center
for Biopreparedness Education - Resources - 20 Week Stockpiling
Checklist - Preparation Guide
for Emergencies
- Council of State Archivists (CoSA)- CoSA developed its Framework for Emergency Preparedness during 2006 as a central focus of Phase One of its Emergency Preparedness Initiative.
- Disaster News Network- The Disaster News Network (DNN) is a news service that reports about disaster response and suggests ways for the public to help survivors.
- Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Response Association- The Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association (DERA) was founded in 1962 to help communities with disaster preparedness, hazard mitigation, and emergency response and recovery.
- Healthcare Financial Management Association - Chief Financial
Officer's Checklist for Disaster Recovery
- Healthy Roads Media - This site contains free health education materials in a number of languages and a variety of formats. They are being developed to study the value of these formats in providing health information for diverse populations in a variety of settings.
- International Council of Nurses - Disaster Preparedness Links
- Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) Information Center - The Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) Information Center, located on the grounds of the Oklahoma City Memorial, Oklahoma City, OK, provides access to a unique collection of resources and databases. The Library contains terrorism related information and services not found in other institutions or organizations, including full-text digitized documents, articles, books and reference services.
- National Emergency Management Association- The National Emergency Management Association is a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) association dedicated to enhancing public safety by improving the nations ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from all emergencies, disasters, and threats to our nations security.
- National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD)- NVOAD is a point of communication among voluntary organizations engaged in disaster response.
- Podcasts
- News and Terrorism: Biological Attacks - 2/1/2008 - National Academies Press - Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been more mindful of the potential risks to the security of our nation. This podcast is third in a series of four fact sheets produced to inform the media and public about the different types, potential impact, and how to protect themselves from these risks.
- PrepareNow.org-
The PrepareNow.org site is devoted to supporting the needs of vulnerable
populations in disaster preparedness and response.
Recommended Readings
- Building
a Disaster Plan - Getty Publication,
now out of print but pdf available for downloading. For cultural
collections, but focus on the "exercising" section and ideas you
can use for training, drills and testing your plans.
- Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery - Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems exacerbated the difficulties in carrying out response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. To assist government planning in this area, the Congress, in the E-government Act of 2002, directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to request the NRC to conduct a study on the application of IT to disaster management. This report characterizes disaster management providing a framework for considering the range and nature of information and communication needs; presents a vision of the potential for IT to improve disaster management; provides an analysis of structural, organizational, and other non-technical barriers to the acquisition, adoption, and effective use of IT in disaster; and offers an outline of a research program aimed at strengthening IT-enabled capabilities for disaster management.
- National Academic Press - Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems: A Letter Report - Conclusions and recommendations from the IOM Committee on Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems.
- Pediatrics - Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics - Preparation for Emergencies in the Offices of Pediatricians and Pediatric Care Providers - Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Research
Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public
Health Systems: A Letter Report - Conclusions and recommendations
for the IOM Committee on Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness
and Response for Public Health Systems
Animal Health Resources
- American Veterinary Medical Association- The educational materials to assist veterinarians, animal owners, and others interested in the well-being of animals to prepare for animal safety in the event of a disaster.
- The Humane Society of the United States, Disaster Center- Resources for displaced pets and pet owners.
Additional Emergency Preparedness Materials
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