• Disaster Preparedness Health Education Information
This website offers information in various languages including Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese and Vietnamese. Topics include biological emergencies, bombing or explosive emergencies, chemical emergencies, pandemic flu, nuclear or radiation emergencies, planning for emergencies and preventing illness. Audio translations are available in addition to forty-nine signs and fact sheets in twelve languages.

• "Plan to Be Safe" Campaign
The "Plan to Be Safe" campaign and training, providing simple, clear personal preparedness tools in multiple languages. The educational toolkit includes a poster with a take-away brochure, which emphasizes preparing a disaster kit with at least nine items, and a tri-fold brochure. All three items are available in multiple languages.

• Vulnerable Populations Action Team
The Vulnerable Populations Action Team website shares specific planning initiatives and tools in the areas of resource management, technical assistance/ trainings, MOU development, communications coordination, and partner/stakeholder engagement that can be used at the local level to improve any community's level of preparedness. The materials are available in multiple languages.

• Will You Know What to Do When a Disaster Occurs? 
This brochure, produced by the Region 2 South Medical Bio-Defense Network and published here with their permission, outlines the Modular Emergency Medical System (MEMS). This system will ensure medical care and emergency response are as effective and efficient as possible. Check with your region's emergency managers to see if they are using MEMS!

• Family Safety Planning Guide
This guide, made available by the American Red Cross, working in partnership with Target, includes activities for children and parents to help plan for a disaster.

• Home and Family Preparedness 
We must have the tools and plans in place to make it on our own, at least for a period of time, no matter where we are when disaster strikes. Just like having a working smoke detector, preparing for the unexpected makes sense. This guide from Family and Community Emergency Safety (Michigan) will help you and your family be prepared for an emergency.

• Home and Family Preparedness 
We must have the tools and plans in place to make it on our own, at least for a period of time, no matter where we are when disaster strikes. Just like having a working smoke detector, preparing for the unexpected makes sense. This guide from Family and Community Emergency Safety (Michigan) will help you and your family be prepared for an emergency.

• Emergency Email and Wireless Network
Get breaking emergency information via email or your handheld wireless device. This free service provide notification to citizens of local, regional, national, and international emergencies.

• Preparing for a Public Health Emergency Booklet
This booklet from the Michigan Department of Community Health provides a place to gather essential information you will need during an emergency. This booklet is available in multiple languages.

• Peace of Mind 
Some decisions we would rather put off indefinitely. Making a will and designating what kind of medical care we want in an emergency are two of those decisions. This booklet provides basic information about our Michigan statutory wills, advance directives for health care, and a form for recording personal and legal information.

• Emergency Planning and Checklists
You can begin the preparedness process by gathering family members and making sure each person is well-informed on potential hazards and community plans. Discuss with them what you would do if family members are not home when a warning is issued. This information from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will help you get started!

• Assemble a Disaster Supply Kit
You may need to survive on your own after a disaster. This means having your own food, water, and other supplies in sufficient quantity to last for at least three days. See this website from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for more information about making a disaster supplies kit.

• Ready America Emergency Plan
Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so plan how you will contact one another and review what you will do in different situations.

• Family Disaster Preparedness - Multilingual
The American Red Cross disaster preparedness materials are available in many foreign languages: Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

• Preparedness Information
Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood or confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services - water, gas, electricity or telephones - were cut off? The best way to make your family and your home safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes. Visit this website from the American Red Cross for more information.