Responding to Disasters
Enhancing Community Capacity for Long-Term Rebuilding After Disasters
Core activities focus on assisting in designing and implementing a comprehensive rural development strategy that can help revitalize rural areas that have been impacted by major natural disasters (such as hurricanes) or economic disasters. The focus is on planting the seeds to guide the long-term rebuilding strategies in these localities.
Enhancing Community Capacity for Long-Term Rebuilding After Disasters
Core activities focus on assisting in designing and implementing a comprehensive rural development strategy that can help revitalize rural areas that have been impacted by major natural disasters (such as hurricanes) or economic disasters. The focus is on planting the seeds to guide the long-term rebuilding strategies in these localities.
Educational Resources
- Creating your "to go" box
- Center for Disease Control's Disaster Preparation Home Page
- Dealing with the Threat of Asbestos Exposure in a Natural Disaster
- Disaster Relief: Preparing your Evacuation "to go" Box
- Disaster Relief:
Preparing Food during a Power Failure
- Hurricane Katrina and Asbestos Overview
- Preventing Dehydration
- Preparing for the Future: Evacuation Pre-Registration
- Storm Preparations
- USDA Consumer Alert: Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency
