These links
are provided for informational purposes.
PREPARING CITIZENS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
9/11 Public Discourse Project
The 10 members of the 9/11 Commission, formerly the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, have initiated a nationwide campaign to educate the public on terrorism and on what can be done to make the country safer. This new organization, intended to remain in effect for 1 year, consists of the same leadership as the 9/11 Commission, including its commissioners, who now serve as the Board of Directors of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a 501(c) (3) organization.
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross provides localized relief for victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. The web site offers guidelines and resource materials for dealing with terrorism and unexpected events.
Citizen Corps
Citizen Corps, a component of USA Freedom Corps, was created to help coordinate volunteer activities that make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to emergency situations.
Citizens' Emergency Response Guide
This guide is intended to help you make safe and informed decisions when a natural disaster or terrorist attack occurs. During and after a catastrophic event, it may take days for emergency help to arrive. For that reason, this site has information to help you prepare, well in advance, to protect yourself, your family, and your community.
Community Capacity Development Office
The Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) develops, evaluates, and implements policies that serve as models for other national community capacity development efforts and provides counseling for local, state, and federal government agencies and private sector clients on a variety of justice-related community issues. CCDO also works with bureaus and program offices in the Office of Justice Programs to ensure that the special needs and programs of American Indian and Alaska Native communities are incorporated in products and services.
 Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
CERT promotes both improved emergency response and partnerships between emergency services and the communities they serve by enlisting emergency responders to train community members in basic response skills.
Corporate Crisis Response Officers Association
The Corporate Crisis Response Officers Association (CCROA) believes that local business must play an important role in community preparedness and response. In addition to the civic responsibility and Good Samaritan contributions that underpin private sector contributions to preparedness and response, local commercial vitality after a crisis is determined in part by the same forces and consequences that affect a community's recovery after a crisis. CCROA encourages collaboration between municipalities and their local employers to establish a new standard of participation and remove barriers to private-sector involvement in crisis preparedness and response—all of which could augment the local community capability.
Disaster Help.gov
This web site is a product of The Disaster Management e-Government Initiative, a cross-agency effort to provide information and services related to the four pillars of disaster management: preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation.
Emergency Alert System (EAS)
EAS replaced the Emergency Broadcast System in 1994 as a tool to warn the public about emergency situations. On this web site, the Federal Communications Commission offers EAS handbooks, rules, and other current items of interest.
The Emergency Email and Wireless Network
This free public service notifies citizens of local, regional, national, and international emergencies through the Internet and e-mail in a secure and expedient manner.
Emergency Management: Status of School Districts' Planning and Preparedness (PDF)
U.S. Government Accountability Office, May 17, 2007
This testimony discusses preliminary findings of the Government Accountability Office's review of emergency management in schools, including the roles of state and federal governments in establishing requirements and providing resources for emergency management planning; what school districts have done to plan and prepare for emergencies; and the challenges school districts face in planning for emergencies, taking into account communications and coordination with first responders, parents, and students.
 Exiting Metro in An Emergency
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), August 2003
WMATA created this interactive guide to ensure the safety of passengers using its metrorail transit system. It provides specific steps for passengers to take in the case of an emergency, such as the August 2003 power outage that affected the northeastern United States.
FEMA and American Radio Relay League Partner in Preparedness Through Citizen Corps
Federal Emergency Management Agency, June 2003
The partnership among FEMA, the American Radio Relay League, and Citizen Corps aims to raise awareness about the use of amateur radio as a public safety resource, provide training and accreditation for amateur radio emergency communications, and assist Citizen Corps Councils with public education, training, and volunteer service opportunities that support first responders, disaster relief organizations, and community safety efforts.
Fire Corps
Fire Corps was created to help fire departments use citizen advocates. It works in partnership with the International Association of Fire Chiefs', the International Association of Fire Fighters, the National Volunteer Fire Council, and the USA Freedom Corps. Fire Corps provides individuals with opportunities to support their local fire departments and enhance fire department operations.
Interim Pre-Pandemic Planning Guidance: Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in the United States—Early, Targeted, Layered Use of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (PDF)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, February 2007
This document provides interim planning guidance for local, state, territorial, and tribal communities on several measures other than vaccination and drug treatment that might be useful during an influenza pandemic. This interim guidance introduces a Pandemic Severity Index to characterize the severity of a pandemic, provides planning recommendations for specific interventions that communities may use for a given level of pandemic severity, and suggests when these measures should be started and how long they should be used.
Listo Campaign
On December 8, 2003, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched the Listo Campaign—a Spanish-language version of DHS's Ready Campaign. Through television, radio, print, outdoor, and Internet advertising, the campaign will empower Spanish-speaking Americans and residents to prepare for and respond to potential terrorist attacks.
Medical Reserve Corps
The Medical Reserve Corps gives health professionals the opportunity to volunteer their time and skills to assist their communities before and during a large-scale emergency and with ongoing public health needs.
 National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC)—Homeland Security
NCPC's mission is to help people create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur. This site provides links to homeland security-related issues such as national and religious profiling, emergency preparedness, workplace and building security, community mobilization and volunteerism, and terrorism prevention.
National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD)
NVOAD coordinates planning efforts by many voluntary organizations responding to disaster. Member organizations provide more effective and less duplicative service by coordinating activities before disasters strike.
Ready Instructional Videos
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the Advertising Council, has created instructional videos to help educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to all kinds of emergencies.
TRANSCAER® (Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response)
TRANSCAER® is a voluntary national outreach effort that focuses on helping communities to prepare for and respond to a possible hazardous material transportation incident. Members consist of volunteer representatives from the chemical manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and emergency response industries, as well as the government.
Volunteers in Police Service
Initiated by the Citizen Corps program and implemented by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) works to enhance the presence of volunteers in state and local law enforcement. VIPS meets a volunteer's desire to serve and an agency's need for support.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) research provides evidence-based information on health care outcomes; quality; and cost, use, and access. Information from AHRQ's research helps people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of health care services. AHRQ was formerly known as the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
This Web site contains information
to ensure that pediatricians and other pediatric providers have the information
they need about terrorism and disasters as fast as it becomes available.
And to ensure that children's needs are considered in all terrorism and
disaster planning and response efforts. And ensure functioning linkages
with all national, state and local governmental and private entities
working on issues concerning terrorism and disasters.
Bioterrorism Resources Page with information about various bioterrorism
agents, and bioterrorism response plan information.
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