Family Emergency Plan Resources

Preparedness starts with your own family, but also involves special needs populations and all of our children!
ABAG has prepared several resources to help you plan for traffic disruptions after disasters.
Community Preparedness Website Project is a site supporting special needs and vulnerable populations.
We Shake in a Quake is a innovative and reassuring book to help 4-8 year old children learn about earthquakes from Tricycle Press. (The illustrator has worked for ABAG, and designed the "police car" button!)
To Be Safe created a "Funbook" - "To Be Safe in an Earthquake" for school children to learn to be safe in earthquakes.
Many cities offer training for neighborhood groups to prepare together for emergencies. Some of them in the Bay Area are listed below. For other areas, contact your FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Berkeley Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Cupertino Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Corte Madera Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NEAT)
El Cerrito Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NEAT)
Foster City Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT)
Fremont Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Larkspur Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT)
Mt. View Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)

Citizens of Oakland Respond to Emergencies (CORE)

Palo Alto Neighborhood Disaster Activity (PANDA)
San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT)
San Jose Prepared!
San Mateo Neighborhood Emergency Service Team (NEST)
San Rafael Disaster Area Response Team (DART)
Santa Clara (city) Home Emergency Assistance Team (HEAT)
Southern Marin Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Sunnyvale Neighborhoods Actively Prepare (SNAP)

ABAG, the Association of Bay Area Governments, is the regional planning and services agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.

This page was last updated 8/21/06 by jbp