{"id":17139,"date":"2022-09-16T19:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/?p=17139"},"modified":"2022-09-16T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:25:47","slug":"resources-you-can-use-preparedness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2022\/09\/16\/resources-you-can-use-preparedness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources You Can Use: Preparedness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17140 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ready-gov_npm_legacy_square-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"National Preparedness Month graphic from ready.gov. &quot;A Lasting Legacy: The life you\u2019ve built is worth protecting. Prepare for disasters to create a lasting legacy for you and your family.&quot; Over a picture of three generations of Black women, the oldest standing behind the mother and daughter. On the bottom, &quot;visit ready.gov\/plan&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ready-gov_npm_legacy_square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ready-gov_npm_legacy_square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ready-gov_npm_legacy_square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ready-gov_npm_legacy_square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ready-gov_npm_legacy_square.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/september\">September is National Preparedness Month<\/a>. The 2022 theme is \u201cA Lasting Legacy\u201d. From ready.gov \u201cThe life you\u2019ve built is worth protecting. Prepare for disasters to create a lasting legacy for you and your family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Lasting Legacy :60 | Emergency Preparedness\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zsy2ENCM3N0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Emergency Preparedness and Mental and Physical Health<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Mental Health<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/copingwithdisasters.html\">Resources from MedlinePlus on coping<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/find-help\/disaster-distress-helpline\">SAMHSA Disaster Distress helpline<\/a>-24\/7 support for people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/find-help\/disaster-distress-helpline\/espanol\">L\u00ednea de Ayuda para los Afectados por Cat\u00e1strofes<\/a> ofrece asesoramiento y apoyo gratis a las personas afectadas emocionalmente luego de un desastre natural o provocado por el ser humano.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Physical Health<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/disasters\/alldisasters.html\">Health and Safety concerns for all disasters<\/a> information from the CDC including safe clean up, safe generator use and more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/drugs\/emergency-preparedness-drugs\/safe-drug-use-after-natural-disaster\">Safe medication use after natural disasters<\/a> information from the FDA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Get the word out<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/disasterpreparationandrecovery.html\">Start here with information from MedlinePlus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/ready-your-language\">Multilingual resources\u00a0<\/a>from ready.gov.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/videos#protect\">Videos and PSAs<\/a> from ready.gov.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Climate Change, Emergencies, and Health<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/climatechange.html\">Climate change information from MedlinePlus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/climateandhealth\/effects\/default.htm\">Climate\u2019s effect on health<\/a> information from the CDC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/climateandhealth\/effects\/vectors.htm\">Climate Change and Diseases Carried by Vectors<\/a> information from the CDC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2021\/07\/18\/resources-you-can-use-climate-change-and-extreme-heat\/\">Resources You Can Use: Climate Change and Extreme Heat<\/a>-From the NNLM R7 blog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More Resources from Past NNLM R7 Blog Posts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2021\/09\/20\/resources-you-can-use-low-cost-no-cost-preparedness\/\">Resources You Can Use: Low Cost, No Cost Preparedness<\/a>-Last year\u2019s Preparedness Month blog post<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2020\/09\/21\/graphic-medicine-and-emergency-preparedness\/\">Graphic Medicine and Emergency Preparedness<\/a> and request our <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/guides\/region-7-graphic-medicine-0\">emergency preparedness and recovery kit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And more from the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/tag\/emergency-preparedness-epp\/\">\u201cemergency preparedness-epp\u201d tag archive<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget to check out the great activities happening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecrew.org\/climate_prep_week_2022\">online and in person September 24-30 for Climate Prep Week<\/a>. Explore the theme of \u201cTHE PLANET&#8217;S HEALTH &amp; YOURS: FACING THE INVISIBLE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE\u201d through community-oriented speakers, activities and activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is National Preparedness Month. The 2022 theme is \u201cA Lasting Legacy\u201d. From ready.gov \u201cThe life you\u2019ve built is worth protecting. Prepare for disasters to create a lasting legacy for you and your family.\u201d September may be more than half over, but preparedness is a year-round project. Use the resources below to brush up on&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2022\/09\/16\/resources-you-can-use-preparedness-month\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[48,84],"class_list":["post-17139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-climate-change","tag-emergency-preparedness-epp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17143,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions\/17143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}