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Is the CDC "Ready"? While CDC encourages the public to be aware of personal and family preparedness, not all CDC staff practice what they preach. In an effort to increase personal preparedness as part of workforce culture, CDC created the Ready CDC initiative. Targeting the CDC workforce living in metropolitan Atlanta, this program recently completed a pilot within the organization...

The Ready Campaign established four universal building blocks of emergency preparedness: Be informed, Make a Plan, Build a Kit and Get Involved. America’s PrepareAthon! builds on this foundation by encouraging millions of Americans to focus on a simple, specific activity that will increase preparedness. America’s PrepareAthon! is a national community-based campaign for action that focuses on increasing emergency preparedness through...

Getting Prepared at Any Age During National Preparedness Month, Remember that Preparedness - from the Boy Scout Motto to the National Campaign - starts at any age, it is a conscious plan and also a way of being... prepare your kids young, Visit Ready.gov/Kids & have Children's Preparedness Items at Home.

No matter how severe a natural disaster, once you have made it through the event and the immediate aftermath, inevitably it will be time to return home.