Build a Disaster Kit

on a Budget

Gina PeekBarbara Brown

Safety Issue Team

Action: Behavior adopted

Increase number of Oklahomans practicing safety and injury prevention

Increase number of Oklahomans prepared for emergencies

Long term change

Oklahomans will reduce risks that could harm their health, well being, and safety in their homes and communities

Why do we care? FEMA Disaster Declarations

Helping our clients and ourselves

What we do

http://eden.lsu.edu/EDENCourses/FamilyPreparedness/Pages/default.aspx

EDEN Counties

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/oklahoma_map.html

•Noble Co: Lindsey Miner and Chad Webb•Logan Co: Cathy James

NW Recia Garcia

•Ottawa Co: Kathy Enyart and Jeff Parmley

•Lincoln Co: Jessica Riggin and Cody Linker

NE Brenda Miller

•Cleveland Co: Brenda Hill and Heath Herje

•Caddo Co: Ranel LasleySW Gloria King

•Choctaw Co: Tracey Watts & Marty Montague

•Atoka Co: Lynne Beam and Harold Stephens

SE Lani Vasconcell

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EMERGING themes

Kitchen sink photo

Oklahomans

Oklahomans are independent.

Instead of instructing consumers, we will focus on the concept of self-reliance, a concept that Oklahomans value.

Hopefully, appealing to them in this context will warrant behavior change that reduces risk due to disaster.

Strategies:

* Build a kit on a

budget; Shop in your

own home

* Identify your safe

place

Let’s get ready!

Get something to store your supplies in…An old suitcase will work just fine

A sample kit

Lincoln County: Jessica Riggin and the start of her kit

Logan County: Cathy James

“I gathered things from my house and only purchased $16.00 worth of items for my kit.  I purchased some things only because I did not want to have them in my safe place in case I needed them for other purposes.”

KEY ITEM: FOOD

Overcoming barriers when putting food in your kit• Buy on sale, over time• Buy 2, store 1• Make food in the kit off limits• Check occasionally to ensure

the kit is still intact• Old out and fresh in at least

every 6 months• Use the older food• Most dates are for quality, not

safety

KEY ITEM: RADIO

Have a list of items you can only add when a watch is declared

Now…

Let’s take the “Take

the Get Prepared for

Emergency” challenge!

Thank you!