The Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience project is aims to promote community resilience during public health emergencies by engaging community-based organizations as partners with the goal to develop a network of agencies typically involved in providing services during a disaster.

This is a toolkit designed to educate elementary school students in grades K-3 on flu prevention techniques, such as handwashing and social distancing.

This is a train-the-trainer educational toolkit developed for local health departments in rural and agricultural U.S. communities that have limited-English and non-English speaking populations. The goal of the toolkit is to provide strategies for community trainers to educate others on the detection, prevention, and control of influenza in humans and animals.

This campaign provides information and materials to help educate children on healthy habits to raise awareness of, and help prevent contracting, influenza. The campaign offers resources including an information brochure, elementary school and middle school level posters, and a coloring sheet to help kids understand what influenza is, how it is contracted, and what can be done to help prevent the spread.  

The Promising Practices Network on Children, Families and Communities (PPN) has created an interactive online guide to emergency planning for social service organizations that work with children and families, such as child care centers, after-school programs, camps, schools, and health care providers, and who play a critical role in implementing plans during an emergency. Organized around seven steps, the guide includes a risk assessment tool and offers preparedness activities and documents to help organizers create emergency plans. CLICK HERE for more information.

The goal of NIVW is to raise awareness and promote rates of vaccination among the general public and high-risk groups, including children under 2 years old, adults age 65 years or older, pregnant women, and those with chronic health conditions.

There have been a handful of cases of children in Iowa who have contracted a strain of swine flu. This is a report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which highlights cases of children in Iowa who have contracted a strain of swine flu. To learn more, CLICK HERE.

This article, appearing in Emergency Management News, describes strategies developed and employed by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to engage diverse populations in preparedness, response, and recovery planning.  To access the article CLICK HERE. 

This recent report from the United States Government Accountability Office discusses lessons learned from the H1N1 pandemic, including the need to better reach non-English speakers. The report highlights promising practices to meet the needs of LEP communities from local jurisdictions across the country in addition to recommendations for future planning at the federal-level. To access the report CLICK HERE.   

This article, recently appearing in Health Promotion Practice, presents the findings from a series of focus groups that were conducted in Houston, Texas to inform the development of effective emergency communication and service delivery strategies in linguistically isolated communities. To access the full summary and article CLICK HERE.      

This article, recently appearing in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, explores racial/ethnic disparities in H1N1 vaccination rates in Los Angeles County. Rate ratios of vaccination were as follows: White, reference; African American, 0.5; Asian, 3.2; Hispanic, 1.5; Native American, 1.9; and Pacific Islander, 4.3. To access the full summary and article CLICK HERE.