Children · Safety and protection
Make an emergency plan your household can actually use.
Begin with communication and reunion—not a shopping list. Build around the people, animals, places, health needs, and official local instructions that matter to your household.
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Begin with the family planning guide
Make a plan everyone can use
Cover alerts, communication, reunion, schools, health and accessibility needs, pets, supplies, and important records.
Read the family guide 2 · PracticeRun a calm 20-minute practice
Check alerts, contacts, reunion paths, and household needs without staging a frightening simulation.
Try the family activity 3 · ChooseFind the next preparation gap
Use a gap-first decision aid to choose the next useful step instead of another generic shopping checklist.
Open the decision aidPlanning is different from active-emergency instruction
If an emergency is happening now: follow emergency services, official alerts, and current instructions from your state, tribal, territorial, or local authorities.
This collection is for advance preparation. It does not choose a shelter, evacuation route, medication plan, or hazard response for an individual household.