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Author:
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Seattle & King County Advanced Practice Center
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Year of Most Recent Update:
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2011
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Related Topics:
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Environmental Health Emergency Preparedness
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Suggested Audiences:
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Business/Community/Civic leaders, Communication Specialists, Health officials, Students
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Product PHEP Capabilities:
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Capability 1: Community Preparedness
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Goals and Objectives:
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Product Description:
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Target Audience: Local Health Departments in suburban or rural settings who want to increase personal preparedness messages to a wide variety of clients, including youth and limited-English proficient audiences.
Contents: The product is three comic books with stories told by real-life disaster survivors. In Deep Water (flood), Aftershocks (earthquake), Eye over Houston (hurricane), are all designed around the theme of personal preparedness and community resilience. These stories showcase how neighbors and communities can pull together and provide practical tips from actual survivors.
Outcome Objectives:
• Engage adults and youth in emergency preparedness through a compelling visual style and narrative that highlight positive messages of resilience, community support, and the benefits of preparedness.
• Provide basic information about emergency preparedness and specific hazards in a pictorial format that is more accessible and appealing to lower literacy and immigrant populations.
• Illustrate real-life disasters to help readers anticipate how a disaster might play out and determine what they need to be ready.
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