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Managing Family Finances: When You’re Unemployed

Offers tips for managing finances after losing a job.

Hail Know

A social media campaign for hail damage recover Severe storms that produce damaging winds and hail are all too common in Nebraska, and their effects on agriculture can be devastating. Nebraska Extens…

Sample Wildfire Hazard Zoning

Certain areas of Michigan are prone to forest fires. Some communities have zoning provisions concerning various measures to protect homes and other buildings from being as likely to burn down during …

Wildfire-resistant Landscape Plants for Michigan

Selecting the correct landscape plants to place next to or near your home could save it from catching fire. When wildfires occur, the fire moves along the ground or through brush or forests by igniti…

Home Emergency Management Guide

Guide to help people prepare for emergencies and provide information to help them during and after the emergency.

Home Emergency Preparedness Checklist

Checklist for items to include in a grab-and-go kit when evacuating one’s home during an emergency.

Disaster Planning Integration Toolkit

The Disaster Planning Integration Toolkit enables rural communities to use an asset-based approach to developing their Community Development Resilience Plan (CDRP) by integrating disaster resilience,…

Disaster Planning Integration Toolkit

The Disaster Planning Integration Toolkit (DPIT) is a web-based application and resource library search engine with a suggested planning process that enables rural communities to use an asset-based a…

Cascadia Action Steps: It’s Time to Get Ready

Cascadia Action Steps checklist shows how Oregon residents and guests can prepare to survive and rebuild after the expected Cascadia earthquake and resulting tsunami.

No Power? No Problem: Tips to Help You Thrive in the Face of Disaster

This publication focuses on how residents can cope with the loss of power to their homes. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses are likely to lose power during a disaster, but there are many …

Survival Basics: Stress Less

Survival Basics: Stress Less is a 6-page handout that explores mindfulness techniques to help you prepare to respond with resiliency before, during and throughout stressful times.

Survival Basics: Emergency Kits

In a natural disaster or other emergency, the key to survival is being prepared. Be ready with an emergency kit for your family. Emergency kits contain the basic needs for life: food, water, warmth, …

103 Ways to Save Money

Alabama A&M University

While this resource is old, the tips are still quite good. It’s useful for helping people re-think pre-disaster spending habits after a disaster, especially if they are now living on a reduced budget.

The Hub for Biosecurity to Protect the Herd or Flock

Farm biosecurity is the practice of preventing or greatly reducing the introduction of diseases and pests, and is a whole farm approach for assessing, prioritizing and addressing the risks to herd/fl…

Cascadia Earthquake Preparedness

Be aware. Be prepared. The last Cascadia Subduction Zone event Magnitude 8.0 to 9.1 was on January 26, 1700 (more than 320 years ago), and they happen about every 280 to 350 years. It is time to get …

Cascadia Earthquake Preparedness

A major earthquake can occur at any time. In the Pacific Northwest that earthquake will be accompanied by a disastrous tsunami. This free, interactive, on-line, 4-module course covers preparedness, s…

High Speed Hand Washing resources

With the High Speed Hand Washing technique and some practice, washing your hands properly helps save time, water, energy and prevent the spread of disease. Absences due to illness are reduced. Groups…

Improve indoor air quality from wildfire smoke during COVID-19

Educational Article: Officials warn us to stay indoors when air quality is poor due to heavy smoke from wildfires. Reduced exposure to smoke helps protect our lungs, heart, eyes, nose, throat and imm…

Federal Disaster Funding Streams & Post-Disaster Community Best Practices

The purpose of this publication is to help communities and individuals address issues that arise during the disaster cycle. Special emphasis is placed on federal funding opportunities and best practi…

Federal Disaster Funding Streams & Post-Disaster Community Best Practices

The purpose of this publication is to help communities and individuals address issues that arise during the disaster cycle. Special emphasis is placed on federal funding opportunities and best practi…

Resilient Farms, Families, Businesses & Communities: Responding to Stress

Chronic stress impacts mental and physical well-being, relationships, and decision-making. Extension helps farmers, families, businesses, and communities remain resilient by learning how to manage st…

Surviving a Disaster Course

A classroom program to teach people how they can have water and food, warmth, light, sanitation, health and communication. About this resource This Surviving a Disaster educational program will help …

Developing Community Organizations that are Active in Disaster (COADs)

How to Develop Community Organizations that are Active in Disaster (COADs) Does your community have a COAD? Bev Maltsberger, University of Missouri Extension, Carrie McKillip, University of Illinois …

Community Organizations Active in Disaster

No two disasters are alike. The impact on each individual is different. The needs of each are unique and often unmet. However, a community and its citizens are unquestionably better served if a Commu…