{"id":21438,"date":"2024-09-03T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=21438"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:17:37","slug":"consumer-health-minute-disaster-and-emergency-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-disaster-and-emergency-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health Minute: Disaster and Emergency Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Consumer Health Minute blog column, National Health Observances have been featured as a way to bring awareness and information to your communities. One of the September observances is National Preparedness Month.<\/p>\n<p>Region 5 communities experience flooding, wildfires, snow storms, droughts, tsunamis, earthquakes, and other disasters. Some of these are happening a lot more frequently causing displacement, injuries, death, and long-term health issues. Many of these disasters cause an additional burden to those already affected by social determinants of health.<\/p>\n<p>Libraries and similar community organizations have been instrumental and integral during disasters such as Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast and the Camp Fire in California. But libraries can also offer information and programs to prepare and recover after similar events.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.ala.org\/disaster\/preparedness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Library Association<\/a>, here are some links to resources you might find helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Webinars: 2024 Virtual Disaster Preparedness Forum, NNLM is offering 2 free webinars this month that you can register and attend for free. They will also be recorded. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21440 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/2024_DisasterPrepForum-300x156.png\" alt=\"NNLM Virtual Disaster Preparedness Forum on blue background with emergency tools behind that\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/2024_DisasterPrepForum-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/2024_DisasterPrepForum-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/08\/2024_DisasterPrepForum.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/training\/class\/cybersecurity-rural-heath-landscape-september-18-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cybersecurity in the Rural Health Landscape<\/a>, webinar Sept. 18<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/training\/class\/climate-resilience-resources-office-assistant-secretary-health-september-25-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate Resilience Resources from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, United States Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>, webinar Sept. 25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/guides\/emergency-and-disaster-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency and Disaster Resources<\/a>, this NNLM guide that also includes training opportunities, state and federal resources<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/disasterpreparationandrecovery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disaster Preparation and Recovery<\/a>, this health topic webpage from MedlinePlus offers resources from a variety of agencies and associations<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ready.gov<\/a>, includes information for specific disasters, information for businesses, and ways to involve the kids<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org\/get-help\/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies\/make-a-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Red Cross<\/a>, helps you prepare for emergencies including how to reconnect if separated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Consumer Health Minute blog column, National Health Observances have been featured as a way to bring awareness and information to your communities. One of the September observances is National Preparedness Month. Region 5 communities experience flooding, wildfires, snow storms, droughts, tsunamis, earthquakes, and other disasters. Some of these are happening a lot more&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-disaster-and-emergency-planning\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,457,43,314,5],"tags":[45,226],"class_list":["post-21438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-consumer-health-minute","category-emergency-preparedness","category-news-from-nnlm-region-5","category-training-education","tag-disaster-preparedness","tag-emergency-preparedness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21448,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21438\/revisions\/21448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}