Helping Children and Caregivers Cope with Disasters
Children cope differently to crises than adults and they need support from caregivers and the community-at-large. Getting children back to routine is an important element in promoting their healthy recovery. In...
Emergency Planning for Child-Serving Programs: An Intro to Planning Best Practices
Join Save the Children’s National Preparedness team in this interactive training for a short introduction to the 9 best practices for facility level emergency planning, including evacuation, emergency supplie...
Prep Rally: Teaching Children the Basics of Preparedness
This interactive training is an introduction to Save the Children’s Prep Rally program which, through games and activities, is aimed at engaging and educating children about preparedness.
Creating Resilient Communities for Children: The RCRC Initiative
Through the Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Initiative (RCRC), coalitions in Arkansas and New York worked to meet the unique needs of children in a disaster. See how these coalitions engaged their comm...
Functional Exercise Templates
Community-wide functional exercise templates which include: A Functional Exercise Player Handbook Template (Word) and a CRC Functional Exercise Player Briefing Template (PowerPoint) A Functional Exercise MSEL ...
Child Safety Guidance for Emergency Evacuation Shelters
Save the Children has learned that simple, low-cost and no-cost improvements to the design and location of emergency evacuation shelters, local assistance centers and other locations where children and families...