build a disaster kit on a budget gina peek barbara brown
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Build a Disaster Kit
on a Budget
Gina PeekBarbara Brown
Safety Issue Team
Action: Behavior adopted
Increase number of Oklahomans practicing safety and injury prevention
Increase number of Oklahomans prepared for emergencies
Long term change
Oklahomans will reduce risks that could harm their health, well being, and safety in their homes and communities
Why do we care? FEMA Disaster Declarations
Helping our clients and ourselves
What we do
http://eden.lsu.edu/EDENCourses/FamilyPreparedness/Pages/default.aspx
EDEN Counties
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/oklahoma_map.html
•Noble Co: Lindsey Miner and Chad Webb•Logan Co: Cathy James
NW Recia Garcia
•Ottawa Co: Kathy Enyart and Jeff Parmley
•Lincoln Co: Jessica Riggin and Cody Linker
NE Brenda Miller
•Cleveland Co: Brenda Hill and Heath Herje
•Caddo Co: Ranel LasleySW Gloria King
•Choctaw Co: Tracey Watts & Marty Montague
•Atoka Co: Lynne Beam and Harold Stephens
SE Lani Vasconcell
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EMERGING themes
Kitchen sink photo
Oklahomans
Oklahomans are independent.
Instead of instructing consumers, we will focus on the concept of self-reliance, a concept that Oklahomans value.
Hopefully, appealing to them in this context will warrant behavior change that reduces risk due to disaster.
Strategies:
* Build a kit on a
budget; Shop in your
own home
* Identify your safe
place
Let’s get ready!
Get something to store your supplies in…An old suitcase will work just fine
A sample kit
Lincoln County: Jessica Riggin and the start of her kit
Logan County: Cathy James
“I gathered things from my house and only purchased $16.00 worth of items for my kit. I purchased some things only because I did not want to have them in my safe place in case I needed them for other purposes.”
KEY ITEM: FOOD
Overcoming barriers when putting food in your kit• Buy on sale, over time• Buy 2, store 1• Make food in the kit off limits• Check occasionally to ensure
the kit is still intact• Old out and fresh in at least
every 6 months• Use the older food• Most dates are for quality, not
safety
KEY ITEM: RADIO
Have a list of items you can only add when a watch is declared
Now…
Let’s take the “Take
the Get Prepared for
Emergency” challenge!
Thank you!