What do you need to train members of your community to get ready for a disaster?

It’s all here. Below you’ll find guidance and scripts for conducting trainings in your community. The trainings outline the five easy and free steps people can take to prepare for an earthquake, wildfire, flood or other emergency.

For additional tools that can be used to help build awareness on preparing for disasters, see our Toolkit.

Everything you need to conduct a training

This script is intended to serve as a guide for brief encounters with community members on the five easy and free emergency preparedness steps.

This gives you the content you need for your presentation with suggestions on how to present the material. The talking points in the training script correlate with the training slide deck.

This is the presentation that is intended to be used in conjunction with the training script. The slides are tied directly to the script.

This guide is a vital reference tool that will help guide your training. The training script and training slide deck refer to various pages of this guide.

This form lets you fill in key information for your community, including emergency contacts, helpful organizations, radio stations, and local and other alert systems.

Toolkit

Here you will find additional disaster readiness resources including emergency fact sheets, maps showing communities prone to hazards, and tools designed specifically for older Californians, immigrants, and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.