In doing a recent presentation at the Australian Psychological Society Conference on “Child and Family Resilience to Disasters”, I mentioned there that I would post the presentation at this website.
Please see the attached powerpoint presentation.   We will also be posting some powerpoints from a recent workshop in Melbourne.

APS Workshop Final Draft

This publication arises from work on school safety and the 1992 handbook Emergency Procedures: Guidelines for Schools. It has been prepared by New Zealand’s Ministry of Civil Defence, in consultation with the Ministry of Education, the Early Childhood Development Unit, the New Zealand Fire Service and New Zealand Police.

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If you or your agency is planning a hazards education-related website, we would recommend including material that we have included in Chapters 5-8 in particular.
In terms of what to include at a hazards specific website for schools, youth and families, we recommend in particular looking at material at the Federal Emergency Management Agency website, Disaster Education Coalition website and the New Zealand Civil Defence and Emergency Management websites.  The first two websites are already listed in Appendix 2 of the book.
The New Zealand Civil Defence website is http://www.mcdem.govt.nz/memwebsite.nsf
At that site, …

As discussed in Chapter 4, education and research continues in the Orting area.  A technical report has recently been completed:
Johnston, D.M., Ronan, K.R., Becker, J., Gregg, C., & Davis, M. (2005).  Children’s risk perceptions and preparedness:  Mount Rainier 2005 hazard education assessment  tabulated results.  Science Report (2005/029).  Gracefield (NZ): Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences.

If you would like more information on this program of research, or this publication, please send an email through this website or contact Kevin Ronan at [email protected]

If you are thinking about or planning research in the area of children and family preparedness, response and recovery from hazardous events, we are available for free consultation to help that research get off the ground.
Not only is our advice free, but we can also make available a measure that we have used in previous research that assesses preparedness in children and youth, preparedness at home, knowledge, risk perceptions and other factors that we discuss in the book.
We had originally intended to put this measure here directly at the website …