Resources You Can Use: Preparedness Month

Posted by Sarah Levin-Lederer on September 16th, 2022 Posted in: Blog
Tags: climate change, Emergency Preparedness (EPP)

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September is National Preparedness Month. The 2022 theme is “A Lasting Legacy”. From ready.gov “The life you’ve built is worth protecting. Prepare for disasters to create a lasting legacy for you and your family.”

September may be more than half over, but preparedness is a year-round project. Use the resources below to brush up on information about health and emergencies, resources for sharing information with your community, climate change and preparedness and more.

Emergency Preparedness and Mental and Physical Health

Mental Health

• Resources from MedlinePlus on coping
• SAMHSA Disaster Distress helpline-24/7 support for people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters.
• Línea de Ayuda para los Afectados por Catástrofes ofrece asesoramiento y apoyo gratis a las personas afectadas emocionalmente luego de un desastre natural o provocado por el ser humano.

Physical Health

• Health and Safety concerns for all disasters information from the CDC including safe clean up, safe generator use and more.
• Safe medication use after natural disasters information from the FDA.

Get the word out

• Start here with information from MedlinePlus
• Multilingual resources from ready.gov.
• Videos and PSAs from ready.gov.

Climate Change, Emergencies, and Health

• Climate change information from MedlinePlus
• Climate’s effect on health information from the CDC
• Climate Change and Diseases Carried by Vectors information from the CDC
• Resources You Can Use: Climate Change and Extreme Heat-From the NNLM R7 blog

More Resources from Past NNLM R7 Blog Posts

• Resources You Can Use: Low Cost, No Cost Preparedness-Last year’s Preparedness Month blog post
• Graphic Medicine and Emergency Preparedness and request our emergency preparedness and recovery kit
• And more from the “emergency preparedness-epp” tag archive

And don’t forget to check out the great activities happening online and in person September 24-30 for Climate Prep Week. Explore the theme of “THE PLANET’S HEALTH & YOURS: FACING THE INVISIBLE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE” through community-oriented speakers, activities and activism.