September is National Preparedness Month....Join the community.

September is National Preparedness Month and FEMA invites you to join the National Preparedness Community and download the 2013 National Preparedness Month Toolkit.

The National Preparedness Community is where more than 29,000 people connect and collaborate on emergency preparedness. You can use the community and the Toolkit to empower yourself to prepare and coordinate preparedness activities with your family, neighbors, and those with whom you worship during National Preparedness Month.
Here are the top 5 reasons to join:

·         Download the 2013 National Preparedness Month Toolkit

·         Get access to preparedness resources

·         Promote your national preparedness event on the calendar

·         Connect and build relationships with emergency management personnel

·         Share and compare preparedness plans

Join the National Preparedness Community Now!

Training Opportunity: RAND Corporation. BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES: AN ONLINE TRAINING

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August 2013 Periodic updates on community resilience work at RAND Building Resilient Communities: An Online Training Emergency preparedness can get a community through the first few days following a disaster. But how does a community bounce back over the long term? With disasters becoming more common and costly, and with some areas enduring overlapping disasters, the importance of building community resilience has never been greater. As a business, nonprofit, faith-based organization, or other community organization, you bring valuable assets to supporting overall community recovery. RAND's new easy-to-use, self-guided online training can help your community strengthen its resilience. Your organization can use the training to build its own resilience, too. Resilience means: ·         mitigating and withstanding the stress of manmade and natural disasters ·         recovering in a way that restores normal functioning ·         applying lessons learned from past responses to better withstand future incidents. When your organization or community completes this training, you will have a real action plan that will help build resilience, bolstering capacity to respond to and recover from disaster. The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.