Learn how to keep your family and community safe. Home fires are the most common disaster, year-round. Flood season is here.

Let the American Red Cross help you get prepared! 

• Make a plan - Together, We Prepare

• Build a kit click here 

• Get trained  click here to view course information and schedule for 2010. Online registration is not currently available. To register call 707-257-2900

The Red Cross has many resources to help you get prepared.

• Disaster Preparedness Training: How to make a disaster plan, build a disaster kit

  • Community Disaster Education presentations to schools, businesses, community organizations, places of faith, mobile home parks, apartment complexes, on how to make a disaster plan and build or purchase a disaster kit. Presentations run approximately 30-45 minutes and are offered during the days and evenings.

  • Prepare your non-profit for the next disaster

  • Prepare your family or community organization for the next disaster
    

• Community Emergency Response Training (CERT)

  • Get trained and work as a team to increase the safety of your family and community. Learn disaster fire suppression, basic disaster medical operations, light search and rescue, and team operations
    

• Become a Trained Disaster Response Specialist (ARC)

  • Train to work in a shelter, provide client casework and financial assistance to disaster victims, serve as a Red Cross nurse or mental health specialist, provide logistics and public relations during a local disaster or a major event anywhere in the United States. Click here for more information
    
    

• First Aid/CPR (adult, infant and children)

  • Increase the safety and security of your home, family, business and community by learning how to provide First Aid and CPR

Disaster Preparedness supplies and equipment are also available

• First Aid kits for the family, car, community organization or business

• Safety tubes that fit under your desk at home or office

• Disaster Preparedness kits for one, two or four people

• Automated External Defibrillators (AED's): lifesaving devices for use by trained lay people immediately after someone has suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.