THE PREPAREDNESS PASSPORT
Build Your Disaster Ready Capabilities
Disasters can disrupt power, water, transportation, sanitation, communications and other household lifelines. Learn how to prepare your household, respond to changing conditions and maintain essential capabilities through the first hours and days of an emergency.
Knowledge first. Skills second. Gear third.
Prepare the Household
Build the plans, supplies and household systems that give you options before an emergency begins.
HOUSEHOLD PLANNING & RISK APPLICATION
Identify the risks that matter to your household, understand how they could affect essential lifelines and develop practical plans for responding to those consequences.
EMERGENCY SUPPLIES & PREPAREDNESS KITS
Build practical emergency supplies and kits around real household needs, likely disruptions and the situations in which you may need to use them.
EMERGENCY POWER, LIGHTING, HEATING & FUEL
Prepare safe backup options for essential power, lighting, temperature control and fuel while understanding capacity, duration and critical safety limitations.
Respond to the Emergency
Know what to do when conditions change quickly. Make sound decisions, move safely and take the right immediate actions for the hazard in front of you.
EVACUATION, REUNIFICATION & GET-HOME PLANNING
Know when and how to leave, where household members will reconnect and how to return home safely when normal transportation or communication is disrupted.
HAZARD-SPECIFIC EMERGENCY ACTIONS
Understand the correct immediate actions for common hazards and know when official instructions, sheltering or evacuation should take priority.
THE FIRST HOURS & DAYS AFTER DISASTER
Prioritize safety, stabilize essential household needs, protect critical lifelines and make deliberate decisions as the situation develops.
Sustain & Recover
Maintain essential household functions, solve practical problems and bring your capabilities together as the emergency continues.
SANITATION, HYGIENE & WASTE
Prepare safe backup sanitation and hygiene options for situations where normal water, sewer or waste systems are disrupted.
TOOLS, FIELDCRAFT & EMERGENCY REPAIR
Develop practical tool use, shutoff knowledge and temporary repair skills while recognizing when a problem requires qualified help.
INTEGRATED DISASTER READY OPERATIONS
Bring household planning, sustainment, evacuation, hazard response and first-hours decision-making together in a realistic emergency scenario.
Your Path to Disaster Readiness
Build the knowledge, practical skills and household systems needed to prepare, respond and adapt when a disaster disrupts normal life.
LEVEL I
PREPARED
I know it.
Understand household risks, emergency planning, backup power, sanitation, preparedness kits, evacuation, hazard actions and first-hours priorities.
LEVEL II
CAPABLE
I can do it.
Demonstrate practical household planning, evacuation and reunification procedures, emergency supply use, sanitation, repair and first-hours response skills.
LEVEL III
FIELD READY
I’ve proven it.
Complete the Integrated Disaster Ready Challenge by applying household plans, managing disrupted lifelines, responding to changing conditions and identifying the next improvement after the exercise.
Your Preparedness Journey Starts Here
Build knowledge, practice essential skills and work toward demonstrated capability.