Region V for Kids Resource Collection
Region V for Kids (RV4K) strengthens pediatric disaster preparedness by providing training, tools, and subject matter expertise to healthcare professionals, hospitals, and community partners. This page includes a searchable index of all RV4K resources.
Prepare with Pedro
2024
· U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
· American Red Cross,
· Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
The program "Prepare with Pedro" offers books, interactive games, and resources to teach children about emergency preparedness. It features Pedro the Penguin as a fun …
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Exercise and Preparedness Tools: Preparedness Toolkit (PrepToolkit)
This toolkit is an online platform allows people from various sectors to prepare for risks in their communities, execute preparedness activities, and easily share their …
ELK0146 Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Training Course
This course helps people plan, manage, and evaluate emergency exercises. It focuses on exercises to improve national preparedness by testing plans and finding areas to …
Youth Preparedness Catalog: Disaster Preparedness Education Programs and Resources
This catalog is a guide to help communities teach kids about being ready for emergencies. It describes programs, resources, and activities that focus on disaster …
Safe Rooms for Tornadoes and Hurricanes: Guidance for Community and Residential Safe Rooms
This document provides guidance for building safe rooms to protect people during tornadoes and hurricanes. It describes the design, construction, and operation of these safe …
PrepTalks: We Succeed or Fail Together
This video discusses the challenges faced by people with access and functional needs during emergencies, like disasters. The speaker shares a story about how California …
PrepTalks: Children and Disasters -- Reducing Vulnerability and Building Capacity
This video focuses on how disasters affect children and ways to help them. It describes the story of Cierra, a child who survived Hurricane Katrina, …
Listen, Protect, and Connect: Psychological First Aid for Children and Parents
This document offers guidance to help children cope after a disaster. It describes three steps: listening to the child's concerns, protecting them from further distress, …
Listen, Protect, and Connect: Family to Family, Neighbor to Neighbor
This document explains how people can help each other during disasters using psychological first aid (PFA). It describes three steps: Listen, Protect, and Connect. Listening …
IS-130.A: How to Be an Exercise Evaluator
This independent study (IS) course introduces the basics of emergency management exercise evaluation and improvement planning as identified in the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation …