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Prairie Women Prepared for Disaster. An Emergency Planning Guide For Women's Community Organizations

   

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The Gender and Disaster Network

 

E. Enarson, PhD

Notes to users

Many emergency preparedness guides are complex, detailed and complexly written. Our aim is different: keep it short, simple and to the point, highlighting just the core tasks and providing planning tools for these. You can always build on a strong foundation.

We also take a 'whole organization' approach, offering tips and resources for increasing the resilience of everyone--certainly your staff but also others--who makes your group or organization what it is.

What's here?

The Guide has four major sections. Taken as a whole, it will explain why planning ahead is so important for women's organizations, move you through the vital preliminary planning steps, introduce you to tools and resources for writing your tailor-made emergency plan through the entire disaster cycle. It then moves you on to the all-important issue of keeping an emergency plan alive through regular updating, practice, outreach to emergency managers, and networking for neighborhood preparedness. The Guide ends with a brief introduction to the global movement of women for social change to reduce avoidable harm. It may not be obvious yet, but emergency planning is part of this and by doing this work you are part of it, too.

Each section begins with an overview that answers three critical questions.

What? What should be done to address these concerns?
Why? Why is it important?
How? What considerations are most important? What resources will help?

 

Prairie Women Prepared for Disaster. An Emergency Planning Guide For Women's Community Organizations

By Elaine Enarson, PhD

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Templates  Download

Additional Resources  Download

Additional Reading  Download

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Canada Wide Resources
  • Basic Emergency Management - CFIB  Download
  • Be Prepared, Not Scared - Canadian Red Cross  Download
  • Communications, Protection, Readiness (CPR) - NPower  Download
  • Floods. What to do before and after - Government of Canada  Download
  • Getting Back to Business - Institute for Business and Home Safety  Download
  • Hurricaine Katrina Helping Handbook - FEMA  Download
  • Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness. Program Guide - Justice Institute of BC / Greater Vancouver Regional Emergency Planning Committee 1999  Download
  • Open for Business - Institute for Business and Home Safety  Download
  • Your Personal Preparedness Guide - City of Toronto  Download
  • Preparing Your Family For An Emergency - Health Canada  Download
  • Protecting Our Kids from Disasters: Nonstructural Mitigation for Childcare Centres - The Institute for Business and Home Safety  Download
  • Responding to Stressful Events - Helping Children Cope - PHAC  Download
  • Responding to Stressful Events - Helping Teens Cope - PHAC  Download
  • Responding to Stressful Events - Self-Care for Caregivers - PHAC  Download
ManitobaTailored Resources
  • Canadian Red Cross Disaster Management: What is registration and inquiry? - Canadian Red Cross  Download
  • Emergency Preparedness for Everyone, 2009 Calendar - City of Winnipeg  Download
  • Application for Disaster Financial Assistance - Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization  Download
  • Disaster Financial Assistance - Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization  Download
  • Family Emergency Handbook. Think Safety - Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization  Download
  • Disaster Signs "Help" and "OK" - City of Winnipeg  Download
  • The Manitoba Partners in Disaster Help Book - (Various Organizations)  Download
  • Course Offerings - Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization  Download
  • Emergency Preparedness for Persons with Special Needs - Manitoba Government  Download
  • Your Pets and Emergency Preparedness - The Winnipeg Humane Society, the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association and Manitoba  Download
  • Time To Prepare. Your Role in Dealing with an Emergency - City of Winnipeg  Download




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