Emergency Preparedness Education

Learn how you and your family can prepare yourselves for an emergency or disaster: Emergency preparedness | Alberta.ca.

The Alberta Emergency Management Agency (AEMA) is the coordinating agency across the GoA for emergency management and is responsible for working to improve community and individual-level disaster resilience. They have lots of preparedness materials to help you prepare for emergencies of all varieties.                   :

1. Hazard preparedness - includes multiple pages dedicated to hazards in Alberta with preparedness tips and 60-second video clips that are sharable on social media including:
   • What to do before, during and after an emergency
   • Wildfires
   • Tornadoes and extreme winds
   • Floods
   • Power and water outages
   • Thunderstorms, lightning, heavy rain and hail
   • Blizzards, freezing rain, ice storms and extreme cold
2. Build an emergency kit – is our most popular page and includes printable brochures and checklists for family, pet, farm animal and vehicle preparedness 
3. Pet Preparedness – includes tools and materials to help keep pets safe and comfortable, before, during and after an emergency
4. Farm animals and livestock – includes tools and materials to help keep farm animals and livestock safe if you need to shelter in place or evacuate
5. Raise awareness in your community – includes tools and materials for communities to raise awareness, including info on emergency preparedness week, #PrepareYourSelfie campaign, and 60-second videos that are sharable on social media
6. Make an emergency plan – includes an emergency preparedness guide, tips on how to communicate during an emergency and information relating to pets, children and a guide for people with disabilities
7. Emergency preparedness – includes hazard info and general emergency preparedness information including shelter-in-place and evacuation fact sheets

Features of the website: https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-emergency-management-agency.aspx

• Translated material. Most of our web pages have been translated into multiple languages (Arabic, Chinese, Punjabi, and Spanish). You can see the translation links at the top right-hand corner of each webpage. The emergency kit brochure is our only material translated in French at this time, but we hope to have more French translations in the future.  
• Sharable content for social media. Get Prepared: 60-second emergency tips is a video series aimed to provide preparedness information in simple to follow steps. The videos are available on our webpages and can be found on YourAlberta’s youtube channel.
• Printable fact sheets and brochures. While social distancing is in effect, printable material will likely not be a part of your communications plan. However, it’s important to note that our website includes printable material that will be available for you to use when social isolation is no longer a requirement.
• Smartphone and tablet-friendly content. The content on our website is in HTML format creating a user-friendly experience no matter what device you are using.