Assignment 1: Personal Emergency Preparedness Plan and Kit
HSC 460 Emergency Preparedness and Response
Assignment 1: Personal Emergency Preparedness Plan and Kit
In order to develop a personal emergency preparedness plan, you will review emergency preparedness planning recommendations and resources. You will use these sources to create a personal emergency preparedness plan and to build an emergency kit.
Part 1: Create an Emergency Preparedness Plan
Go to https://www.ready.gov/plan
Review Make A Plan Steps 1-3.
Find at least one additional resource on preparing a personal emergency preparedness plan and post the resource to the #assignments channel under the corresponding prompt.
After reviewing these resources, come up with your own personal emergency preparedness plan. You can borrow from provided templates, but your plan should be original and tailored to you and your household.
Review your plan with your family/household. Get their feedback and make adjustments! This plan should reflect the careful consideration of your and your family’s needs. There is no required page limit for your plan, but, it should reflect completeness based on the resources you consulted.
Part 2: Create an Emergency Preparedness Kit
Go to https://www.ready.gov/kit
Review the Basic Disaster Supplies Kit and Additional Emergency Supplies List.
Put together your emergency kit!
Make a list of the kit supplies you decided to include in your kit and submit this list as part of your write-up of Assignment 1.
Take a photo of your kit and upload it with your summary (Part 3)
Note: If you aren’t able to include an item for any reason, that’s ok! Keep it on your kit item list as a reminder that you might want to add it when you’re able.
Part 3: Submit the full write-up of Assignment 1 to Blackboard
Write a 2-page summary (12 point font, double spaced, Times New Roman, 1’’ margins) of your experience creating your emergency preparedness plan.
Include how you tailored your preparedness plan for yourself and your family (if applicable). For example, include how feedback from family or friends helped you to adjust your preparedness plan. Discuss any items you added or removed and why.
Include which sources you utilized to create your plan (include Bibliographic citations in APA format at the end of your summary).
After your written summary, include your completed Emergency Preparedness Plan
Include your list of Emergency Preparedness Kit Items.
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