September is here and that means the annual #PrepareKansas challenge and National Preparedness Month. Details of this year’s Prepare Kansas weekly challenge tasks will be posted here each week starting September 3rd.
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- Save for the Unexpected About 52% of Kansans have a rainy day fund that could cover expenses for three months. K-State Research and Extension specialist Elizabeth Kiss on Sound Living, a weekly public affairs program hosted by Jeff Wichman, talking about America Saves Week.
2018 #PrepareKansas Videos
Helpful links
- Caring for Animals Prepare. Plan. Stay informed.
- Emergency Supply Kit FEMA recommended supply list
- Family Communication Plan for Parents and Kids
- Food Safey – Disasters and Power Outages Salvaging and handling food after power outages, floods and other disasters may raise questions and present challenges. Refer to these resources to help recover food from a disaster.
- Kansas Saves Across Kansas, people just like you are proving you can start small, and think big. Kansas Savers are setting financial goals, tracking their spending and taking control of their financial future.
- Know Your Hazards Part of being prepared is knowing your risk for various hazards
- KSReady.gov State of Kansas portal to information and resources on emergency planning and preparedness for the public, businesses, schools, children, elected officials and first responders
- Ready.gov Prepare. Plan. Stay informed.
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- Desastres: Las Respuestas de los Niños y Ayudándoles a Recuperarse Los niños a menudo experimentan desastres de manera diferente que los adultos y tienen que tener explicaciones de los mismos que sean apropiadas de acuerdo a su nivel de desarrollo.
- Disasters: Children’s Responses and Helping Them Recover Children often experience disasters differently than adults and they need to have developmentally appropriate explanations of them.
- Food Safety After a Flood After a flood has devastated your home or business, food safety is one of the many things to be considered.
- Get Financially Prepared: Take Steps Ahead of Disaster A fact sheet from the K-State Resource and Extension Family Resource Management Program Focus Team
- Prepárese Financieramente: Tome Pasos Antes de un Desastre
Weather Wonders
- Weather Wonders Kansas State Climatologist Mary Knapp’s weekly series of short programs on weather phenomena and recent meteorological events in Kansas
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