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Bold Goal: Prepare one in three Franklin County residents to respond to community-wide disasters and individual emergencies

Strategies

  • Response preparation – Individuals are prepared to respond to emergencies and disasters
  • Sustaining infrastructure for community responders – Community-based organizations have the infrastructure in place to respond to emergencies and disasters
  • Response to emergency/disaster – People who experience an individual emergency/disaster have their immediate needs met
  • Response to emergency/disaster for special populations – People with special needs who experience an individual emergency/disaster have their immediate needs met

 

Programs

American Red Cross        
Health & Safety Services                
The intent of the Health and Safety Services program is to prepare citizens to save lives. Citizens who learn First Aid, CPR, and other life-saving skills and demonstrate the confidence to apply these skills save individuals from the destructive consequences of loss of life and disability including grief, loss of income, and social dislocation.  

Disaster Preparedness & Readiness         
Disaster Readiness and Preparedness activities are executed with the intent of making our communities and families better able to prevent, prepare for, and respond to disasters.     

Disaster Response            
This program is designed to meet the emergency disaster-caused needs of individuals and families made victims by disasters ranging from a single-home fire to major disasters affecting whole communities. Emergency response is cost-effective and community-based and includes food, shelter, health related services, and financial assistance for groceries, new clothes, rent, emergency home repairs, transportation, and medicines to help individuals and families resume their normal daily activities independently.  

Central Ohio Poison Center         
COPC Emergency & Disaster Preparedness           
This program’s intent is to have a sustaining community-based infrastructure in place which is prepared to respond to community emergencies or disasters.  This program provides immediate expert information, and have procedures, plans, communication tools, and trained staff in place, which are prepared to support key partners/community based organizations in all types of emergencies and disasters.         

Central Ohio Trauma System       
Central Ohio Trauma System       
The Central Ohio Trauma System addresses barriers to improving trauma, emergency and disaster care in Central Ohio.   The ultimate outcome of this work is better emergency care with reduced morbidity and mortality after life-threatening conditions.             

HandsOn Central Ohio  
Disaster Preparedness & Response          
This program promotes citizen preparedness and supports professional responders by harnessing the power of volunteers during disasters. Programming activities include: preparedness education including special needs groups and preparedness and response training for volunteers and agencies.

Salvation Army 
Emergency Disaster Services - Response                 
The Salvation Army’s Emergency Disaster Service-Response Program assists low-income individuals/ families living in Franklin County who are unable to meet their immediate needs due to experiencing an individual emergency/disaster.