Customize Your Family Plan with California Volunteers

WE Prepare: Customize Your Family Plan

CaliforniaVolunteers educates Californians about the need to prepare for disasters that may strike our state. Whether they are natural floods, fires and earthquakes or man-made disasters, we all must have a disaster plan that includes our family, friends and neighbors.

Since 1950, 255 states of emergency have been proclaimed in California. And since 1989, there have been 27 major declared disasters. Although these numbers are staggering, statistics show that less than half of Californians have a disaster plan.

CaliforniaVolunteers created a disaster preparedness pilot program in the greater Los Angeles area to encourage moms to prepare their families for disaster. CaliforniaVolunteers received a federal grant from the Office of Homeland Security for this pilot program. The initiative encourages moms to go online, identify their risk, develop a family disaster plan, practice their plan and prepare their children for disaster.