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Have you developed a plan for communicating with other family members in an emergency?
It is impossible to predict when a disaster will strike. If it happens while your children are at school or otherwise separated from you, how will you communicate with one another? It is important that your family discusses this and comes up with a plan.
It is also important that you think about how you will communicate with medical facilities. Is there a person or facility that can take care of your child?
During an emergency, it may be more difficult than usual for parents to take care of their children on their own. The use of day care or respite services, or ensuring that there are other people or facilities that can take care of one's children can be a great help to parents. Be sure to find out what services and facilities are available before a disaster strikes.
How much do your neighbors know about your child's condition?
Building relationships with neighbors makes it easier to obtain prompt support during emergency situations and provides you with relationships you can rely on when you need help.
Do you have relationships with other families affected by the same disease or that require the same medical care as yours?
The best people for providing the specific support that your family and children might need are associations of other families with children facing the same diseases, or that have children requiring the same kind of care as yours.
Information is rapidly disseminated among the members of family associations when disasters strike. The members of these groups can provide reliable advice based on their own disaster experiences and will understand what you're going through. Maintaining interactions with members of groups like these allows you to build relationships that make it easier to ask for advice and support during emergency situations. |
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