With nearly all Illinoisan college students heading again to high school this week and school college students going again this month, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency is reminding all households to evaluation their very own emergency preparedness plans and college security plans.  Whether your youngsters are in class, on a bus, at music apply, or with their youth sports activities groups, planning and sharing data with one another may be crucial.

 

IEMA Deputy Director Scott Swinford says that extreme climate and different emergencies can strike at any time.  Knowing the place to go and what to do for each you and your youngsters can go a good distance in direction of protecting them alive. 

 

With the upcoming faculty 12 months, IEMA has some tips for your loved ones.  Teach youngsters with cell telephones about “text first, talk later.” Sending an “Im OK” textual content message will get by way of manner simpler than a cellphone name. Explain the fundamentals of climate preparedness for tornadoes, thunderstorms, hearth, floods, and different disasters. Make a household communications plan. Update your emergency contact data at college. Consider including a relative to the varsity’s data file for selecting up your youngsters in case of an emergency.  

 

Other tips embrace filling out a backpack emergency card. Learn extra about faculty plans for disaster reunification. Encourage younger college students to take drills severely. Encourage school college students to make disaster preparedness kits. Speak to varsity college students about signing up for climate alerts. There is a free Safe2Help Illinois helpline and app which you will discover by way of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency at www.prepared.illinois.gov. 

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