National Preparedness Month encourages citizens to prepare for disasters and emergencies. The document discusses tools available to communicators to help spread messages about being ready, such as those created by FEMA and state emergency management agencies. It encourages sharing information with citizens to help them prepare for and recover from disasters.

1. National Preparedness Month – Are you ready?
(OR have you helped your citizens to be ready?)
Prepared by: Mary Lou Peter, Kansas State University
Association for Communication Excellence
June 11-14, 2012
Annapolis, Md.

2. www.eden.lsu.edu

9. • Many thanks for your interest in learning about tools to
help your state’s citizens prepare for and recover from
disasters.
• We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Many tools are
already available to us as communicators to help get
messages out.
• Go forth and spread the word!
• Mary Lou Peter, Communications Specialist – Kansas State
University – mlpeter@ksu.edu