Public Health is for Everyone An inclusive planning toolkit for public health professionals

With their high levels of energy, remarkable ability to bounce back from stumbles and falls, and endless curiosity, children often put themselves at risk for injury. This can be especially true when they're exploring the great outdoors. Here are some basic safety guidelines for children.

Babies and small children can get from one place to another in the blink of an eye, and in seconds could be exposed to dangers that could have very harmful consequences. It takes years for children to become self aware to the point where they can recognize potential hazards; therefore, ensuring your home is safe and secure is of paramount importance.

Are your students prepared for all types of disasters and emergencies, including: hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, floods, school violence, bomb threats, lockdowns, and evacuations? 

Remember, your school and students are only as prepared as you equip them to be! Consider including emergency preparedness curricula in your classrooms today! A prepared school is a safe school! 

This website includes emergency preparedness curriculum for grades 1-12, and teaches kids what todo before, during and after an emergency while fostering critical 21st-century skills such as problem solving, teamwork, creativity, leadership and communication. Your students will benefit greatly from this valuable information. There is also additional information available for teachers, students, and parents/guardians at kidsgetaplan.com.

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This document has been specially developed by a team of emergency management and health professionals to help assist those with special needs to be better prepared for a disaster or emergency. Your ability to successfully respond to a disaster is directly related to your preparedness prior
to the disaster. You should review this document with your family and any persons who may provide care for you. This document includes tips for:

- Cognitive Impairments Disaster Tips
- Deaf or Hard of Hearing Disaster Tips
- Life Support Systems Disaster Tips
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse Problems Disaster Tips
- Mobility Impairments Disaster Tips
- Senior Disaster Tips
- Service Animals and Pets Disaster Tips
- Visual Impairments Disaster Tips
- Parents or Caregivers of Children Disaster Tips
- A Disaster Kit
- A Health Card

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Are you ready to leave your home on short notice and travel to a relative's home or a public shelter? Do you have medicines you would need for several days away from home? If you provide supports for a person with disabilities, have you helped them prepare for a time when daily routines cannot be maintained at home? Evacuation will be much easier and safer if you and those you care for prepare now for what might happen tomorrow. When weather causes power outages, for example, it is hard for anyone to keep to daily routines. But a person who needs electricity for an oxygen supply or other medical services must take action, before an emergency strikes, to prepare for loss of power.

People with disabilities have been impacted harshly by hurricanes, floods, or even a bad snow storm. Emergencies can disrupt your daily routines and interrupt services that you rely on.This tutorial will help you think through your personal needs in an emergency and plan how to respond. It will suggest action steps for your personal preparedness plan.

The Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) is a practice-tested policy-level intervention designed to increase access to affordable, quality healthful foods in underserved areas of the state. The program provides critical one-time loans and grants for the development, expansion or renovation of fresh food retail establishments, such as supermarkets or grocery stores. The FFFI also creates steady jobs for community members living in economically distressed areas. FFFI is a community-level policy and environmental-change intervention.

The Center for Training and Research Translation

Baltimore Healthy Stores (BHS) is a research-tested intervention that uses a store's existing facilities to improve access to healthy food and to increase consumers' knowledge, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions about healthy food choices and food preparation through health education and point-of-purchase marketing strategies. BHS targets two levels of the socio-ecologic model:

1) the individual level by seeking to change consumer behaviors

2) the organizational level by seeking to change corner stores practices, in particular by increasing the availability of healthy options.

The Center for Training and Research Translation

Healthy Food Environments is a practice-tested policy intervention developed by NC Prevention Partners to increase availability, visibility, and affordability of healthy foods and beverages for employees, volunteers, and visitors on hospital campuses. The intervention includes a pricing policy incentive to encourage purchase of healthier items (through a price decrease) and discourage purchase of less healthier items (through a price increase). This is an organizational policy and environmental change intervention that targets individual behavior

The Center for Training and Research Translation

Food can be sold at a variety of retail venues in a community. To increase fruit and vegetable consumption by community members, it is important to improve access to these venues and to increase the availability of high-quality, affordable fruits and vegetables sold at these locations. This document highlights a few states' work in this area.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Health professionals must commit to advocating for improved health literacy in our respective organizations. We must embed health literacy in our programs, policies, strategic plans, and research activities.

You can advocate for health literacy in your organization.

-Make the case for health literacy

-Incorporate health literacy into mission and planning

-Establish accountability for health literacy activities