Planning

Two companion resources tools, a Field Guide and a Religious Literacy Primer for Crises, Disasters, and Public Health Emergencies are a must for all emergency managers, disaster mental and public health providers and disaster human services personnel or volunteers.

This resource outlines the six-step process for successfully engaging faith communities in creating a strategy for disaster response.

Financial and material donations are part of the fabric of disaster recovery—and a traditional function of faith communities and their houses of worship.

Volunteering is an important part of individual and community response to a disaster. It creates solidarity within and between communities as it taps the enormous reservoir of gifts and skills of individuals who desire to serve their neighbors near

NDIN Tip Sheet: National Faith-Based Disaster Service Organizations

A list of most of the national organizations that every LTRO and religious leader should have.

NDIN Tip Sheet: The Disaster Lifecycle: Where Do Religious Leaders Fit In?

This checklist is designed to provide guidance as you develop your own disaster plans.

NDIN Tip Sheet: Disaster Basics for Faith Communities

This tip sheet presents the basic concepts and terms, as well as the structure of the disaster lifecycle.

NYDIS Planning Program Profile

NYDIS provides mitigation education and preparedness training to clergy, religious leaders, and houses of worship, as well as member faith communities and faith-based disaster human services agencies to build their capacity to respond to all hazards with skilled spiritual care,