Emergency Preparedness

Serving Bleckley, Dodge, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Pulaski, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler, and Wilcox Counties.

The Emergency Preparedness Office is tasked with the following capabilities:

Community Resilience thru various education efforts regarding Preparedness and Recovery

Countermeasures and Mitigation via Medical Material Management and Distribution, Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions, Responder Safety and Health, and Medical Countermeasure Dispensing

Surge Management via planning for Medical Surge, Mass Care, Fatality Management, and Volunteer Management

Information Management thru Emergency Public Information and Alerts as well as Information Sharing

Incident Management via training, coordination, cooperation with Emergency Management, the Medical Community, and First Responder Agencies

Additional Resources:

Georgia Department of Public Health

Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response

http://health.state.ga.us/programs/emerprep/

Ready Georgia

http://www.ready.ga.gov/ 

Georgia Emergency Management Agency

http://www.gema.state.ga.us/

Georgia Hospital Association

https://www.gha.org/index.asp

ServGA

https://www.servga.gov/

Disaster Mental Health

http://www.georgiadisaster.info/

American Red Cross Central Georgia Chapter

http://www.centralga-redcross.org/Home_Page.php

Child-Friendly Sites

NOTE:  Parents, while the material in the links below has been approved as child-safe and appropriate, please preview the site to be certain the content is in line with your family’s needs.

FEMA for Kids website

 www.fema.gov/kids

FirstGov for Kids

www.kids.gov

The American Museum of Natural History’s Infection, Detection www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/infection