Links

• West Nile Virus - Fight the Bite
  West Nile virus (WNV) is transmitted to people, birds and other animals by the bite of an infected mosquito. This virus can cause serious illness in people of any age, but especially in people over the age of 50 or those with other underlying medical conditions. You can protect yourself by avoiding mosquito-bites.

• Managing Spontaneous Volunteers
  This publication includes the principles and concepts of operations surrounding a successful program of utilizing unaffiliated volunteer relief workers during a community's response to a disaster event.

• Design for Success
  This document emerged from NVOAD's long range plan as a tool for defining progress toward the goals of building a stronger VOAD movement.

• Idaho Citizen Corps
  The mission of Citizen Corps is to harness the power of every individual through education, training, and volunteer service to make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to the threats of terrorism, crime, public health issues, and disasters of all kinds.

• Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security
  To save life, limit injury, reduce human suffering, prevent or limit damage to property, wildlife, natural resources, the environment and the economy from the affects of natural and man-caused disasters including terrorism and the use of weapons of mass destruction; to coordinate and administer mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery programs and operations in support of local governments; to coordinate local, state and federal assistance programs to help restore damaged communities to pre-disaster condition.

• Department of Homeland Security's Ready.gov Web Site
  Ready.gov is a common sense framework designed to launch a process of learning about citizen preparedness. One of the primary mandates of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is to educate the public, on a continuing basis, about how to be prepared in case of a national emergency – including a possible terrorist attack.

• Idaho Emergency Operations Plan
  The Idaho Emergency Operations Plan (IDEOP) is the combined effort of many state agencies and the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security.

• PandemicFlu.gov
  One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

• Idaho Disaster Preparedness Act of 1975
  Short title. This act shall be cited as the "Idaho Disaster Preparedness Act of 1975, amended by the Idaho Homeland Security Act of 2004."

• Emergency Preparedness and Response 

• FEMA is now located within the Department of Homeland Security.  It has a new name - Emergency Preparedness and Response but will keep its name FEMA for the sake of familiarity when responding to disasters.

• Are You Ready? A Guide to Citizen Preparedness
  Are You Ready? A Guide to Citizen Preparedness brings together facts on disaster survival techniques, disaster-specific information, and how to prepare for and respond to both natural and man-made disasters.

• Disaster News Network
  Disaster News Network (DNN) is a news service that tells the story of disaster response and suggests appropriate ways the public can help survivors. It also facilitates information sharing among disaster responders.

• Center for International Disaster Information
  The Center for International Disaster Information provides critical information services to other information and the general public about international disasters and about those organizations responding.

• International Association of Emergency Managers
  The International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting the goals of saving lives and protecting property during emergencies and disasters.

• Small Business Administration Disaster Assistance
  Small Business Administration assistance for businesses struck by disaster.

• AlertNet from Reuters
  The Reuter Foundation is acting as a specialist news supplier and neutral information broker to the international disaster relief community, via the Internet.
  Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security

• National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD)
  Members of NVOAD include national nonprofit organizations whose mission includes programs either in disaster preparedness, response and/or recovery.