Involving Youth in Community Emergency Preparedness: Impacts of a Multistate Initiative
| Autor: | Marilyn Smith, Lynette Black, Pamela Powell |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Program evaluation
Medical education education.field_of_study Emergency management business.industry Team building Population Geomatics education Survey result lcsh:LB5-3640 lcsh:Theory and practice of education Hurricane katrina Preparedness Developmental and Educational Psychology Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology business Simulation |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Youth Development, Vol 4, Iss 4 (2009) |
| ISSN: | 2325-4017 |
| Popis: | The National Preparedness Guidelines (2007) state, “as uniformed responders account for less than 1% of the total U.S. population, it is clear that citizens must be better prepared, trained, and practiced on how best to take care of themselves and assist others in those first crucial hours during and after a catastrophic incident.” This is increasingly more evident due to recent disasters such as hurricane Katrina. The Alert, Evacuate and Shelter (AES) program identified and trained youth/adult teams to use geospatial technology to map shelter locations and evacuation routes. Training began with team building activities to strengthen and build youth/adult preparedness partnerships. Program evaluations revealed a major shift in thinking about the positive potential level of involvement of youth in emergencies. Survey results immediately following trainings revealed statistically significant increases in participant knowledge gain regarding emergency preparedness. Follow-up evaluations indicate the success of this project in meeting community preparedness goals. |
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