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Children and Disasters
With nearly 12 million children under the age of 5 in some kind of child care setting every week, ensuring children’s safety while they are not with their parents is critical. In the aftermath of a disaster, children need to be safe and cared for and the community depends on child care facilities reopening as soon as possible.
NACCRRA is proud to work with partners on these nationwide efforts:
- train providers and inform parents, and partner with local, state, and federal agencies to ensure that child care providers have a plan
- raise awareness and ensure good policies for ensuring children are safe before, during and after a disaster and child care can be available as a critical part of the rebuild efforts
Disaster Planning Materials for CCR&Rs and Child Care Providers
Is Child Care Ready?: A Disaster-Planning Guide for Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies
This guide is a practical toolkit for Child Care Resource & Referral agencies to help child care programs–-both in child care centers and providers’ homes–-keep children safe and their businesses open during and after natural disasters, terrorist attacks, chemical emergencies, and other catastrophes.
Disaster Preparation: A Training for Child Care Centers
A supplement to Is Child Care Ready?, this guide is designed to assist CCR&Rs and others in training child care centers on disaster preparedness. It includes specific activities for training individuals who direct and work in child care centers.
Disaster Preparation: A Training for Family Child Care Providers
A second supplement to Is Child Care Ready?, this guide is intended to assist CCR&Rs and others in training family child care providers on disaster preparedness. It includes activities for training individuals who care for children in their homes.
Emergency Planning Forms
Excerpted from Is Child Care Ready?, the following user-friendly forms offer templates for child care providers and others to use to fully prepare for disasters.
Find Your Local CCR&R
If you’re a provider, contact your local CCR&R to learn if they will be offering trainings on disaster planning, or for additional resources to prepare your program.
Resources for Families
What’s the Plan?: Ask Your Child Care Provider Before A Disaster
One of the most important questions for all parents to consider and ask their child care program is, "What kind of emergency preparedness plan do you have in place?" To help parents ensure the safety and well-being of their children, this colorful brochure walks them through 10 questions they should ask about the what, when, where, and how of their provider’s disaster plan.
Helping Children and Families Cope with Traumatic Events
Preparing for Disaster- The Parent View
NACCRRA’s For Parents section
For the media
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