We Prepare. Here in California we are aware of the different natural disasters that can happen just within the state! California's First Lady, Maria Shriver, has worked with others in designing a great web page to help guide you to lists, self evaluations, special needs links, guides, government agencies, and other preparedness sites!
This web site was designed for California, but it is useful to anyone, anywhere!
I'm going to walk through a couple of these with you. The first page is a ten point questionnaire (a great way to get you thinking), followed by a fact sheet about the site volunteers, and at the bottom of the page is one more link to a PDF emergency checklist (which is really cool also, but later...later!).
One of the first links takes you to California Volunteers (I love this page! Sooo many goodies!) After the click, open the page that says Get Ready! Holy Cow! That page will open up to even more pages!
Two of my favourite things on that page is the Determine Your Family's Risk and Customize Your Family Plan and Children's Book.
It would be a great idea for mom and dad to go to both of these pages, take the assessment, and then make a customized plan and download and print a personalized book for your children (for FREE!). Seriously, this is a great idea! They have a basic outline for the book with blank spaces for you to add your own information and names. Wouldn't this be a fun FHE?
Mom and dad could design a lesson activity to go over the assessment with the kids and then afterwards reinforce the new plan by reading a book with all the kids' names and important info! I love this idea.
I will explore some more pages next week and we'll continue to tackle that Elephant!
In the meantime, I was directed to this site and invited to review it. The folks back at headquarters are going to be peeking in on the blog and checking the comments, so comment away. There are only 50 blogs that are being selected to do this -so lucky us! Let them -and us- know what is effective, what could be improved, and if they have left anything pertinent out.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Awesome Information at "We Prepare"
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2 comments:
The site doesn't do a very good job of separating out categories. Well, I guess maybe there is just too much info on the page. Less busy would be helpful for me, and possibly give me the idea I'd want to peruse more. I didn't even click on the get ready page as I thought it was just a page to make a kids book. (duh for me, but I bet I'm not the only one who has done that.)
keywords is funny!: drramax (yes it is)
hehe, that is funny! I totally understand what you say; I had that same experience when I went there the first few times. Good to know it wasn't just me! I'll pass it along to 'head quarters'! Thanks!
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