Building Trust

This video contains excerpts from a number of interviews with community members and first responders that explore cultural considerations and lessons learned in emergency response.

This report presents the findings of three case studies which set out to examine the relationship between firefighters and multicultural communities.

This resource reflects current approaches and priorities for improving our Nation's ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a major health incident. 

This editorial describes some of the perceived short falling of recent evacuation efforts in New Orleans and contains a number of quotes from evacuees.

This article discusses health-related, social, and economic factors that contribute the increased risk of immigrants and refugees in an influenza pandemic and strategies.

This audio presentation discusses the efforts of Project PREP (Programa Para Responder a Emergencias con Preparación), which is community-based, participatory research project that seeks to reduce disparities in disaster preparedness among immigrant Latinos.
 

This video documents a program initiated by InnerLink to promote community based emergency preparedness amongst children in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

This resource provides information on the efforts of the El Paso City-County Health and Environmental District using promotores and community health workers to provide information on pandemic influenza to the Hispanic/Latino population of El Paso.
 

Four Schools of Public Health conducted focus groups across the country with different ethnic groups to inform development of public messages and strategies in the event of an emergency.

This newspaper article discusses the accusations that the American Red Cross was culturally insensitive to many minority victims following Hurricane Katrina.

This report discusses the Latino population which was adversely affected during Hurricane Katrina because public and private disaster relief institutions did not respond to a significant demographic change.

This qualitative study examines African Americans’ trust in public health officials to effectively respond to a bioterrorist attack.

This resource consists of the presentation slides.  The goals of the presentation are: to show which communities are at higher risk of being the targets of acts of terrorism, to demonstrate that community trust is not homogenous, and to explain the importance of including diverse communities in diversity preparedness.

This paper reports on the use of the Native American Talking Circle format as a culturally appropriate method to teach the Incident Command System (ICS).

This study describes variations in perceptions that the public health system will respond fairly to one's needs in a bioterrorist event, regardless of race/ethnicity, income, or other characteristics.