Emergency Preparedness Resources for Persons from Diverse Cultural Origins

HHS Resources 

• HHS, DHS, HUD, DOJ, and DOT Issued Joint Guidance to Help Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Providers Comply with Title VI - August 16, 2016 | Read the Guidance, opens in a new tab

  • En Español (Spanish) - (PDF, links to an external website)
  • Trong Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) - (PDF, links to an external website)
  • Nan Kreyòl Ayisyen (Haitian Creole) - (PDF, links to an external website)

• CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response – An index of emergency preparedness and response to public health emergencies, with information available in multiple languages (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

• Cultural Competency Curriculum for Disaster Preparedness & Crisis Response – Online learning course (Office of Minority Health).

• Public Health Workbook: to Define, Locate, & Reach Vulnerable At-Risk Populations in an Emergency (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

• Effective Planning, Response & Recovery for Special Needs Populations, Consistent with Federal Civil Rights Laws, opens in a new tab – Training PowerPoint (Office for Civil Rights).

Other Federal Resources

• National Response Framework, links to an external website – Guide for response partners to prepare for and provide a unified national response to disasters and emergencies, January 2008. (Federal Emergency Management Agency) 

• Joint Guidance to State, Local Governments, Other Federally Assisted Recipients Engaged in Emergency Preparedness, opens in a new tab, August 2016 (Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security and Transportation)

Other Organizational Resources 

Please note: External links to other sites are intended to be informational only and do not have the endorsement of HHS and OCR.

• Ready.gov, links to an external website: Considerations for emergency preparedness for specific populations including children, persons with disabilities, and pet owners.

• National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities, links to an external website, opens in a new tab (Drexel University School of Public Health, with support from the HHS Office of Minority Health).

• Toolkit, opens in a new tab: Guidance for Integrating Culturally Diverse Communities into Planning for & Responding to Emergencies (PDF, February 2011) (National Consensus Panel on Emergency Preparedness & Cultural Diversity, with support from the HHS Office of Minority Health).