Family Emergency Prep Tips

Family Emergency Prep: Different steps you can take to help your family be prepared for emergencies, how to create an emergency plan, survival items for home, and how to help kids through disasters. Create your own family emergency preparedness kit with these tips!

1. Get the entire family involved in prepping for emergencies.
2. Use special children’s books and disaster preparation lesson plans to help kids through difficult topics.
3. List any special needs that your family may have that may be hard during an emergency (special medications, dietary needs, special equipment that needs power, pet needs, baby needs, etc.).
4. Print a family PDF disaster plan and complete it.
5. Create an emergency go bag for each member of the family and an emergency kit for each car.
6. Make copies of all important identification and papers (insurance, etc.) and keep them in waterproof containers in everyone’s emergency bag.

*Don’t miss the full family emergency preparedness plan example activities and more tips for creating a home emergency plan below!

It’s important to have an emergency prep plan so that everyone in the family knows what to do before and emergency, during and emergency, and after an emergency. Laying out a preparedness plan can help keep everyone safe during an emergency or disaster.

1. All family names and photos of each family member.
2. Contact information of each family member.
3. What to do for each type of emergency (weather, fire, chemical spill, civil unrest, especially if you live in the city, etc.).
4. What to do before, during, and after each type of emergency.
5. A meetup destination point if the family gets separated during an emergency event.
6. Where the emergency backpacks will be stored and when to use them.

Guide To Emergency Prep For Parents

Helping Kids Cope with Emergencies, Tragedies and Disasters

• Talking To Your Kids About Scary Weather and Natural Disasters
• How To School At Home During Emergencies
• How To Create 72-Hour Emergency Go Bags (full list)
• Social Distancing and Safety
• Stuck At Home Activities for Kids
• BONUS BUNDLE: HELPING KIDS TALK ABOUT FEELINGS DURING EMERGENCIES AND STRESSFUL SITUATIONS

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How to get your family prepared for an emergency with 72-hour bags (or kids survival kit / children’s emergency backpack / baby emergency kit / toddler emergency kit / student kit.

How to talk with children’s feelings in mind about things going on in the news and world or when kids are struggling with current events, world news questions, and current events.

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