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Collaboration with and Engagement of At-Risk Populations

Building partnerships with at-risk populations and groups serving them. Identifying and participating in existing networks or creating networks to conduct pandemic and all-hazards planning. Developing activities to teach individuals and organizations about an influenza pandemic, including how to prepare, as well as making efforts to ensure that at-risk individuals shape the pandemic influenza planning and policies that affect their lives.

New Item Public-Private Partnership Increased H1N1 Vaccinations (WA)
The Snohomish Health District (SHD) in northwest Washington State successfully organized mass vaccination clinics (MVC) in October and November 2009, as its "central strategy to...   >> More
New Item Emergency and Community Health Outreach (MN)
ECHO provides health and safety information by fax, phone, television, Internet, and e-mail during emergency and non-emergency times. The program is noteworthy, because it is...   >> More
New Item Illinois Faith-Based Preparedness Initiative
This partnership between the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Broadcast Ministers' Alliance and Health Care Consortium provides a web site where faith-based organizations...   >> More
New Item Agency Emergency Plan - COOP planning for CBOs (CA)
CARD ? Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters ? is based in Oakland, California. They develop clear, practical preparedness resources specifically for community organizations....   >> More
New Item Emergency Preparedness and Special Populations - Community Planning Guide
This three-page guide, created by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, provides municipalities with useful tips to begin enhancing community emergency management plans by...   >> More
New Item Community Connectors (OR)
The Community Connectors program is a model for how emergency response planners can develop relationships and open lines of communication with diverse members of their community prior...   >> More
New Item Pandemic Influenza Planning Guide for CBOs (MN)
The Emergency Preparedness for Community Based Organizations (CBOs) Workgroup created a planning guide to facilitate preparedness activities for community-based organizations providing...   >> More
New Item Special Needs Task Force and Registry (NC)
New Hanover County, North Carolina, built and maintained a voluntary special needs emergency registry through their Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). The registry was...   >> More
New Item Oklahoma Push Partner Program
The Oklahoma Department of Health developed a Push Partner Program in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21, which asked all communities to be prepared to provide...   >> More
New Item Cambridge Public Participation Project (MA)
The Cambridge Advanced Practice Center partnered with local service providers to meet with at-risk groups as part of regularly scheduled gatherings. These town hall sessions were...   >> More
New Item School Respiratory Illness Surveillance Project (TX)
Tarrant County Public Health and the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice have developed a Web-based communications portal that attempts to strengthen the relationship...   >> More
New Item Community Action Partnership/Area Agency on Aging MOA (ID)
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is a sample agreement for collaboration during an emergency between a public health department and a community-based organization (CBO) that...   >> More
New Item FBO/CBO Outreach and Coordination (CA)
A campaign to integrate community-based organizations (CBOs) and faith-based organizations (FBOs) into pandemic preparedness considers the ways in which these organizations have the...   >> More
New Item Equity in Emergency Response Communications Toolkit (WA)
An expansive web site created by the Public Health-Seattle & King County Advanced Practice Center describes a collaboration between the health department and community-based...   >> More
New Item The Prepared Community Initiative
The Prepared Community Initiative is a training and technical assistance program for local Community Health Councils. The Initiative is intended to prepare Community Health Councils to...   >> More
New Item Disaster Preparedness and the Deaf Community (NY)
The "Disaster Preparedness and the Deaf Community" guidebook was written by a group of deaf/hard-of-hearing American Red Cross volunteers who had received Community Emergency Response...   >> More
New Item Emergency Preparedness Training Curriculum for Latino Promoters (MD)
The Montgomery County Advanced Practice Center (APC) in collaboration with the County's Latino Health Initiative (LHI), reached out to the county's growing Latino/Hispanic community by...   >> More
New Item Congregation Emergency Plan
The Congregational Emergency Plan is an all-hazards workbook and guide to helping congregations of all faiths prepare for a major emergency. The guide directs congregations through the...   >> More
New Item Deaf Smart Disaster Planning Workshop
Several organizations in northeast Minnesota held a day-long workshop to encourage preparedness among members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities. The health department and its...   >> More
New Item Vulnerable Populations Action Team (WA)
Public Health-Seattle and King County (WA) developed the Vulnerable Populations Action Team (VPAT) to ensure that vulnerable populations have access to public health information and...   >> More
New Item Strengthening the Strengtheners (MD)
Strengthening the Strengtheners: A Toolkit in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response for Congregations is a very useful collection of resources, checklists, and assessment...   >> More
New Item Workbook for Healthcare Providers in Rural Communities (TX)
A workbook developed by the USA Center for Rural Public Health Preparedness and the Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health promotes strategies for engaging rural healthcare providers...   >> More
New Item Women and Infants Service Package (WISP) (National)
The Women and Infants Service Package (WISP) was developed in 2007 by the National Working Group for Women and Infant Needs in Emergencies in the United States. It addresses the...   >> More
New Item Pandemic Flu Citizen Engagement Project (MO)
A citizen engagement project sought to bring a public voice into the crafting of pandemic plans in the Kansas City metropolitan area. One KC Voice, a metro-wide alliance of civic...   >> More
New Item Kansas Vulnerable Populations Outreach
A Special Needs Populations Assessment Toolkit represents part of a pandemic influenza mapping and outreach project conducted by the Kansas Association of Local Health Departments. The...   >> More
New Item Light Our Way (National)
Light Our Way provides spiritual health tools to assist disaster relief workers while they are performing and recovering from their response efforts. The document is noteworthy,...   >> More
New Item Emergency Preparedness Bag Project (IL)
A simple and straightforward practice shows how a modest grant and local volunteers can have significant preparedness benefits for vulnerable residents in a community. The health...   >> More
New Item Community Tool Kit: Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic (MN)
The Community Tool Kit is intended to educate community groups about seasonal, avian, and pandemic influenza. The materials place these influenza-related risks in the context of other...   >> More
New Item Pandemic Influenza Disparities Prevention Initiative (NC)
The Disparities Prevention Initiative represents a thoughtful, deliberate approach to anticipating and minimizing racial and ethnic disparities that may occur as the result of a...   >> More
New Item Hamilton County Preparation Project (OH)
The Hamilton County Preparation Project uses a variety of community health education tools to encourage pandemic influenza education and preparedness within the county. This was an...   >> More
New Item Tribal outreach in New Mexico (NM)
This practice contains materials that formed the basis of a community outreach project among 22 American Indian tribes in New Mexico. These materials include a PowerPoint presentation...   >> More
New Item Promotores for Pandemic Influenza (TX)
El Paso is training promotores and community health workers to provide pandemic influenza education for the Hispanic/Latino community in El Paso, Texas. The practice includes both an...   >> More
New Item Ready in 3 Pandemic Flu Guide (MO)
The Ready in 3 Pandemic Flu Guide is a good example of an all-hazards personal preparedness campaign. The 3-in-1 overall emergency preparedness message is simple (Create a Plan,...   >> More
New Item Pandemic Flu and You: Information to Help You Prepare (OR)
Pandemic Flu and You is a comprehensive and well-organized web site that provides public education on pandemic influenza. The information emphasizes personal preparedness and the...   >> More
New Item Community Readiness Challenge (MO)
The Community Readiness Challenge encourages individuals and families to build a pandemic preparedness kit by providing detailed lists of weekly items to buy and ways to prepare for 26...   >> More
New Item Neighbor to Neighbor Network (MO)
The Neighbor to Neighbor Network is a local, grassroots project that designates community hierarchies to establish communication about vulnerabilities between neighbors and offer...   >> More
New Item Kentucky Outreach and Information Network (KOIN) (KY)
KOIN constitutes a partnership between government and an organized network of community-based organizations that serve as conduits of preparedness and emergency information to special...   >> More
New Item Churches, ARC, Volunteer Neighborhood Network (MS)
The brief, local American Red Cross plan involves a concept of operations to develop neighborhood support networks with local fire departments and churches during a pandemic. The...   >> More
New Item Leaving No One Behind: Communicating with Special Populations (CA)
A partnership was developed between the San Mateo County Health Department and community-based organizations (CBOs) that have existing relationships with special populations. The...   >> More

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