Posted by: Paulette Aniskoff, Director, Individual and Community Preparedness Division
Teaching America's youth the value of preparing before an emergency is a priority at FEMA. A recent story in Emergency Management Magazine highlighted an exciting partnership between the Department of Homeland Security (FEMA is a component agency of DHS) and the Girl Scouts of the USA.
The Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital worked with FEMA's Citizen Corps program to develop the Emergency Preparedness Patch Program, enabling Girl Scouts to earn the patch as they learn the value of emergency preparedness in their local community. And since the program can be customized to discuss your local community’s potential hazards, it is our hope that the patch program will be adopted across the more than 100 Girl Scout Councils across the country.
I encourage you check out the story and leave a comment on the blog, sharing your thoughts on how partnerships like this can help individuals and communities build resiliency across America.
- Paulette
hmm interesting news, thanks
ReplyDeleteDepending on what region of the country they live in, this is probably the most significant patch that they will ever receive. I think this training would be very useful to a lot of parents also. If you are a parent of a girl scout that is a participant in this, you should try and attend the training...
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