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Educational Emergency Preparedness Wiki
http://www.edready.com/
Educational Emergency Preparedness Wiki ... lots of info (& growing) to help schools prepare for emergencies ... and in particular 'Pandemics'
Partularly useful for examples of what schools and authorities have already drafted.

Emergency Preparedness for Edu Communities (USA-centric)
http://readyclassroom.discoveryeducation.com
Emergency Preparedness for Education Communities (USA-centric)
Create an emergency plan in your area in case a natural disaster strikes.
- create a plan online
- download an emergency plan worksheet
- download an emergency supply checklist
- school emergencu checklist

MySchoolAlerts
http://mashable.com/2008/09/09/myschoolalerts/
MySchoolAlerts Keeps Faculty, Parents, and Students Connected in Emergencies
A free messaging and notification system called MySchoolAlerts that will allow schools to communicate instantly with teachers, parents and students.
The school simply creates an account and the faculty members, parents and students just subscribe to the service. Everyone has the option to receive the messages any way they prefer because they can be delivered via e-mail, SMS, voice, widget or through a desktop application. Other types of alerts can be added as well, such as child safety alerts, severe weather warnings, gas price alerts and more.
http://www.alerts.com/myschoolalerts/

Prepare For Your Death Online
http://mashable.com/2008/01/29/prepare-for-your-death-online-20-helpful-tools/
Prepare For Your Death Online: 20+ Helpful Tools
No one likes to think about it, but death is inevitable. After it happens, you won’t have to care about paying the electricity bill anymore, but what’ll happen to your blog, e-mail, online profiles? The fact that you’re, well, dead, is no excuse for slouching online; therefore we bring you over 20 tools that will take care of your online stuff after you’re gone.
Wills

Emergency Planning
http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/emergencyplan/index.html
LEAD & MANAGE MY SCHOOL .. Emergency Planning
This page provides information that can help school leaders plan for any emergency, including natural disasters, violent incidents and terrorist acts.
For more information about what families and communities can do to be ready for an emergency, please visit www.ready.gov.

School Emergency Supplies and
http://www.ercm.org/index.cfm?event=resources#goKits
School Emergency Supplies and "Go Kits
Every school, before and after care center, and day care center should store emergency supplies in preparation for either an evacuation or an emergency that requires students and staff to shelter in place.
The safety team should select supplies that address the needs of the specific school, its population, climate, facilities, and resources. Because emergency supplies are so important, the school safety plan should reference both the supplies to be stockpiled and staff role responsible for stocking and replenishing.

Working with Students with Disabilities in a Disaster
http://www.ercm.org/index.cfm?event=resources#wsd
Working with Students with Disabilities in a Disaster
Chris Dayian, Psy. D., Senior Project Director at the Safe Schools Center, Los Angeles County Office of Education, has generously shared his presentation on integrating students with disabilities into emergency management efforts with the ERCM TA Center.
Dr. Dayian provides information on students with disabilities, the prevalence of people with disabilities, the variety of needs presented and methods for supporting students with disabilities. He also offered strategies for working with students with disabilities during a disaster and for providing emotional support during a disaster.

What to Expect After Trauma
http://www.apa.org/practice/ptguidelines.html
What to Expect After Trauma Possible Reactions in Elementary School Students
What Can I Do To Help?
Guidelines for Teachers of High School Students

Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM)
http://www.ercm.org/
Welcome to the Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance Center! The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) began administering the ERCM discretionary grant program in October 2003 to help school districts develop comprehensive plans for any emergency or crisis, including natural disasters, violent incidents, and terrorist acts.

Lessons Learnt from Katrina
http://nolarisk.usace.army.mil/
Lessons Learnt from Katrina

Alerting Parents
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/alerting/
Alerting Parents ... an area on Shambles that lists solutions to alert parents in the case of an emergency .... solutions using sms, email,voice.

Lausanne Collegiate School : Action Plan 2006-2007
http://www.lausanneschool.com/technology/actionplan.doc
Lausanne Collegiate School : Action Plan 2006-2007
The Lausanne Action Plan is designed to provide a policy to protect students, faculty, and school staff, as well as define the communications steps and procedures necessary to handle a wide range of emergency and disaster situations.
Although this is specific to the school it is an excellent template for others to learn from.

Security Tips for Schools
http://www.nais.org/resources/article.cfm?ItemNumber=145506
Security Tips for Schools .. list

Sample Source: Crisis Management Plans
http://www.nais.org/resources/seriesdoc.cfm?ItemNumber=147532
Sample Source: Crisis Management Plans
The NAIS Sample Source is a series of "how to" monographs providing guidelines and samples on topics of interest to independent schools. This monograph is Part I of a two-part series focusing on crisis management plans. (NAIS strongly encourages schools to work with legal counsel in creating their management plans as each school's situation requires special consideration).

FEMA (USA)
http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (USA)
Are You Ready? provides a step-by-step approach to disaster preparedness by walking the reader through how to get informed about local emergency plans, how to identify hazards that affect their local area, and how to develop and maintain an emergency communications plan and disaster supplies kit.
Other topics covered include evacuation, emergency public shelters, animals in disaster, and information specific to people with disabilities.
The Facilitator Guide is a tool for those interested in delivering Are You Ready? content in a small group or classroom setting. The Facilitator Guide is an easy to use manual that has instruction modules for adults, older children, and younger children. A resource CD is packaged with the Facilitator Guide that contains customizable presentation materials, sample training plans, and other disaster preparedness education resources.
There are several online videos that are useful for training or teaching and learning

FEMA for Kids
http://www.fema.gov/kids/
Welcome to FEMA for Kids! I'm Herman, the spokescrab for the site.
This site teaches you how to be prepared for disasters and prevent disaster damage.
You can also learn what causes disasters, play games, read stories and become a Disaster Action Kid. And don't forget to learn about FEMA.
A story about my search for a disaster-proof shell is great reading, too!

Disaster planning for computers and networks
http://www.ala.org/ala/pla/plapubs/technotes/disasterplanning.htm
Disaster planning for computers and networks in libraries
Disaster planning for computers and networks is important because these technologies are essential to patron service and staff productivity. Not only is the patron access catalog the only way for patrons to identify holdings and current availability of titles in their library, but also titles in other libraries and electronic resources to which their library subscribes. For many, their only access to the Internet is through their library. Library staff are dependent on these technologies for ordering, claiming and receiving library materials, charging and discharging of library materials to patrons; and the provision of reference service.

Disaster/Emergency Plan for School Libraries
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/disasterprep/prep.html
Disaster/Emergency Plan for School Libraries .. what should be in the plan?

Guidebook for planning education in emergencies
http://www.unesco.org/iiep/eng/focus/emergency/guidebook.htm
Guidebook for planning education in emergencies and reconstruction
The Guidebook benefited from the collaboration of a high-level team of recognized specialists brough together by IIEP, representing researchers and practitioners from institutions, agencies and ministries across the world.
Published by UNESCO: IIEP International Institute for Educational Planning

Virtual Exercise System (VES)
http://citysafe.org/ves
Virtual Exercise System
VES is a secure web based service allowing organisations to plan and practise their response to disruptive events from their desktop minimising the cost and absence from the workplace. The scenarios will help organisations plan for events such as a fire, power failure, flu pandemic or terrorist attack.
In addition to the scenario exercises, a web-based learning management system will provide free courses from the emergency services to help improve staff awareness and emergency services response. The learning management system can also be used to fulfil internal training needs.

Anti-Terrorist Branch (UK)
http://www.met.police.uk/terrorism/
Anti-Terrorist Branch (UK)
Advice and information on Terrorism

DisasterHelp: Emergency Managers
http://tinyurl.com/kqd6w
DisasterHelp: Emergency Managers
Emergency Managers community page
This web site is part of the (USA) President's Disaster Management Egov Initiative - a larger initiative aimed at greatly enhancing Disaster Management on an interagency and intergovernmental basis.
The Disaster Management initiative will use cutting-edge information technology to improve the delivery of disaster assistance information and services by creating a single Internet-based portal to serve the public? requirement for assistance, and the government? requirement to provide disaster information and services.
The public side of the portal will be a single location where the public and private businesses can easily access disaster information and services provided by government agencies and non-governmental organizations.

p2pAid
http://www.p2paid.org/
p2pAid.org is a website that aims to connect people in situations of extreme need, with people who can and wish to contribute to alleviate, even just once, human suffering.
The site encourages the creation of direct connection between field workers and potential donors either in their geographical proximity, or even worldwide, with a view to promote sustainable microeconomies.

Education in Emergency, Crisis and Reconstruction
http://tinyurl.com/m9req
Education in Emergency, Crisis and Reconstruction
Education in Emergency, Crisis and Reconstruction ... UNESCO Publication and website

Sahana Disaster Management System (Open Source)
http://www.sahana.lk/
Sahana Disaster Management System
As the name itself implies, Sahana is a free and open source Disaster Management System.
It mainly facilitates management of Missing people, disaster victims, Managing and administrating various organizations, managing camps and managing requests and assistance in the proper distribution of resources.
The Sahana Disaster Management System was one of the 3 award winners of the Sand Hill Good Samaritans Award. The Award was presented at the first annual SHG Foundation awards for software industry Good Samaritans, Social Entrepreneurship and Luminary, held at Santa Clara, California, on April 5th 2006.
Sahana is an integrated set of pluggable, web based disaster management applications that provide solutions to large-scale humanitarian problems in the aftermath of a disaster.
Open Source Software | Free Download |

Flood and Fire Restoration and Disaster Recovery
http://www.disasterjim.com
Since 1978 Jim Thompson has been building one of the USA's largest operations specializing in commercial fire and water damage restoration.
Free tips for you to follow the next time you have an emergency:
Flood and Water Loss Tips | Odor Control Tips |

Disaster Planning for the School Library
http://www.webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=11540
Disaster Planning for the Library : Resources to help your library plan for and recover from disasters.
A Risk Management Philosophy | Disaster Prevention | WebJunction's Focus on Disaster Planning and Recovery for Libraries | Communications, Protection, Readiness (CPR) | Elements of a Disaster Response Plan | Planning for the Worst | Disaster Planning and Response |

Emergency Management -- Database
http://www.fema.gov/gems/index.jsp
Emergency Management -- Database
The Global Emergency Management System is an online, searchable database containing links to Websites in a variety of categories that are related in some way to emergency management. In most cases there is also a brief description of what the Website offers.

Emergency Planning Policy Archives
http://www.schoolpolicy.co.uk/
Emergency Planning Policy Archives

Disaster Prevention Manual at HIS Japan
http://tinyurl.com/b52zc
This publication details the overall school emergency procedures which are implemented in the event of a major disaster or closure of school due to weather conditions, or for reasons deemed necessary to assure the safety of the students and staff.
Hiroshima International School, Japan
http://www.hiroshima-is.ac.jp/

Review of Safety and Security Measures
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/emergencyplan/measures.htm
Review of Safety and Security Measures at Fairfax County Public Schools
Fairfax County Public Schools continues to refine its crisis response planning and to be vigilant about the safety of its students and employees. Over recent years, the school division has spent considerable time and effort in planning and practicing safety and security measures appropriate for addressing a major critical incident. Among these measures are .....

Making Schools Safe for Students
http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=7391
Making Schools Safe for Students : Creating a Proactive School Safety Plan
This comprehensive guide covers everything from violence prevention to crisis management, and the author combines practical suggestions, techniques, and strategies for creating a systematic approach.
This active plan engages the staff and faculty on a daily basis and prepares everyone to handle the myriad of safety challenges?rom everyday issues of fights, name calling, and bullies, to crises like drugs, guns, and sexual offenses.
Publication - book for purchase ... an interactive CD-ROM is also available for purchase separately, or as a kit with the binder

Emergency Preparedness Issues for those with Disabilities
http://www.at508.com/articles/jw_020.cfm
Emergency Preparedness Issues for People with Disabilities
During a crisis, what are the problems challenging first responders in rescuing people with disabilities?

Disaster Preparedness, A Guide .....
http://www.qualitymall.org/products/prod1.asp?prodid=654
Disaster Preparedness, A Guide for Human Service Providers in Emergency Situations gives providers a step by step framework to develop plans specific to their structure, location and consumers served. In addition to plans for natural disasters related to severe weather, earthquakes, volcanos, structural and forest fires, and landslides etc., the guide covers civil disturbances, bomb threats, riots, hazardous materials and radiation release and resource shortages.

Disaster Resources for People with Disabilities
http://www.jik.com/disaster.html
Disaster Resources for People with Disabilities and Emergency Managers
Disabled People and Disaster Planning
This page is FULL of relevant links.

Library Disaster Plan Template
http://cpc.stanford.edu/disasters/generic/plan_toc.html
Library Disaster Plan Template
The Library Disaster Plan template is to be used in conjunction with the Disaster Planning and Preparedness Guidelines to prepare institutional emergency plans that include collections priorities and disaster response procedures.
California Preservation Program

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
http://www.unisdr.org
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
The ISDR aims at building disaster resilient communities by promoting increased awareness of the importance of disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable development, with the goal of reducing human, social, economic and environmental losses due to natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters.

RANET
http://www.ranetproject.net/
International protection project against natural hazards for the poor
The consortium that comprises RANET is a varied list of organizations who believe that environmental information, while not a panacea to the numerous challenges that face many communities, is nonetheless a vital component of any sustainable development strategy.

Disaster Dynamics
http://swiki.ucar.edu/dd/
Disaster Dynamics
The goal of the Disaster Dynamics project is to create an effective learning environment for the unique challenges surrounding natural disasters. Our product is a suite of educational games targeted at undergraduates in emergency management programs. We hope that some of the games will be adaptable to other undergraduate disciplines and possibly to K-12 education as well.

Trauma Area on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/Trauma/
"Trauma" Area on Shambles .. with links to resources.
Stress, Conflict, and Self Help | A Practical Guide to Crisis Response in Our Schools | Crisis Response in Our Schools | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | The ChildTrauma Academy |

Online government safety information
http://www.helpisathand.gov.uk/news/themes/e-gov/safety/
Below are several government sites (both British and overseas) that deal with the issue of safety during an emergency as well as links to articles elsewhere on the Help is at Hand website.
Online government safety information | British Home Office | MI5 | UK Resilience | Preparing for Emergencies | U.S. Food and Drug Administration | Safety and Terrorism |

Preparing for Emergencies
http://www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk/
Preparing for Emergencies
This website includes the common sense advice found in the Preparing for Emergencies booklet, and information on what the government is doing to protect the country as a whole. National editions of the booklet are on the Scottish Executive website, and the Northern Ireland Office site. (The Northern Ireland link goes directly to a .pdf and may download very slowly.)
English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish versions are available on this website.
Coping with specific emergencies | What to do if you're not at home | Basic First Aid | Preparing for an emergency | Helping to prevent a terrorist attack |

ICT Disaster Recover
http://www.becta.org.uk/tsas/
ICT Disaster Recover
FITS (Framework for ICT Technical Support) is a best practice standard for supporting and managing ICT in schools. There are 10 processes in FITS, one of which is Service Continuity Management. Service Continuity Management is both a proactive and reactive process:
- Reactive - contingency planning for recovery if an unforeseen disaster or event were to seriously affect or destroy ICT service
- Proactive - risk analysis and the implementation of countermeasures to minimise the likelihood of such an event happening in the first place

Emergency planning toolkit
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/emergencies/resources/index.html
Emergency and disaster planning toolkit.

Emergency planning
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/emergencies/
Emergency planning
When things go wrong, it's easy to say 'if only I'd been better prepared... '. Time set aside to plan for how your school would cope in an emergency could make a huge difference to how effectively one is handled.
If your school does not have an emergency plan and you?e been set the daunting task of creating an emergency plan, how do you get started? This area of TeacherNet is here to help you think through the process and provide tools to use in writing your plan and then communicating it effectively to those who will have roles to play.