1 Are You Ready? Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities - Part II Service Learning Project September 2006 – May 2007

2 Participates will be provide information and materials to help individuals to: Understand Disasters Create A Personal Support Network Complete A Personal Assessment Make Personal Disaster Preparation Identify needed Disaster Supplies Make your Home or Office Safer Project Goals

3 Workshops and Presentations Workshops: Are from 1 hour to 1 ½ hours provide participants the opportunity to assemble their own Go Bag or Comfort Bag Presentations: Are from 10 to 15 minutes and provide limited information on Disaster Preparedness and resources along with a basic already assembled Go Bag.

4 Go Bags for Presentations

5 Comfort Bags for Special Project (Meals on Wheels)

6 Make Your Own Go Bag Workshop

7 Make Your Own Comfort Bag

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9 Special Go Bags for Children and Our Pets

10 Caregivers Bags and Cooler Bags to Keep Medications on Ice

11 Be Responsible. Be Ready. Put a Kit together. Put a Go-Kit together Buy a battery-powered radio and extra batteries. Have a plan and hold a family meeting. Pick a meeting place Arrange for an out-of-town connection. Print Important Information Cards for all family members. Know how to shut off water, gas, electricity and any other utilities in your home.

12 How Can You Help Make this Service- Learning Project a Success Make Disaster Preparedness a priority in your life and in the lives for your loved ones. Add to your Disaster Supply Kits a little at a time. Put together a Personal Disaster Plan for you and your family members. Don’t forget your pets. Support Disaster Preparedness activities in your local area.

13 Volunteer We need volunteers to help in the assembly and delivery of Comfort Bag. If your group would like to help the time commitment is about two hours to assembly the Comfort Bags. Delivery time commitment and resources ( gas and use of vehicle) may vary based on numbers of volunteers.

14 Community Partners In order to help defray the cost of provide the information and Go Bags we are looking for Community Partners. Donations can be sent to: Goochland Baptist Church 2454 Manakin Road Manakin-Sabot, Virginia Memo: Disaster Preparedness Project - Tim Moore

15 Thank You!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to learn about Disaster Preparedness through this service- learning project. Please feel free to contact us with any question, concerns or if you would like more information on how to sponsor a workshop or presentation in your area. Tim Moore – Project Director Linda Moore- Project Assistant

16 How to Contact Us Tim Moore – Project Director Linda Moore – Project Assistant Dogwood Trail Road P.O. Box 174 Rockville, Virginia Phone: (804) Websites: or