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Local Emergency Contacts
Local Government/City Web Sites
Emergency Services Businesses
Pandemic Flu Sites
School Safety Sites
Web sites to help assist children and adults through trauma
General Emergency
Weather Radios
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Local Government/City Web Sites

Government:
Contra Costa County Home Page

Contra Costa Health Services Dept.

Contra Costa Office of Emergency Services

City of Antioch Home Page (link to Office of Emergency Services)

City of Concord Home Page

City of El Cerrito Home Page

City of Hercules Home Page

City of Martinez Home Page

City of Pleasant Hill Home Page

City of Pittsburg Home Page (link to Office of Emergency Preparedness)

City of Richmond Office of Emergency Services

City of Walnut Creek Home Page

Emergency Services Businesses:

Hormann America (weather radios, CWS siren system)

Pandemic Flu Sites :

www.pandemicflu.gov

www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic/checklists.htm

www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/dcdc/dcdcindex.htm

www.who.int/en/

www.cchealth.org/topics/pandemic_flu/pdf/business_checklists.pdf

School Safety sites:

Center for Study and Prevention of Violence

Drug Strategies
A nonprofit group that promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and public efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education, treatment, law enforcement and community initiatives.

Early Warning, Timely Response
A Guide to Safe Schools from the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. Offers a summary of research on violence prevention, intervention, and crisis response in schools.

Indicators of School Crime and Safety

Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) Information Exchange
Offers a variety of helpful links to emergency and shelter-in-place links

Partnerships Against Violence Network

Student Pledge Against Gun Violence

US Department of Education’s Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program

US Department of Education Crisis Planning Resources

US Department of Education and US Department of Justice (includes a recent report on the use of after-school programs to keep children safe).

Wally Wise's Web Site

Web sites to help assist children and adults through trauma

U.S. Department of Education
Helping Children Understand the Terrorist Attacks

California Department of Education
Resources for Coping with Tragedy and Bio-Terrorism

PrepareRespondRecover
Working in collaboration with North Carolina Sate University, this site has published an extensive piece aimed at helping parents and teachers who are working with children after disaster.

Network for Good
An easy-to-use one-stop online resource designed to help people find volunteer and giving opportunities in their own communities and beyond.

Tolerance.org: Fighting Hate and Promoting Tolerance

National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Terrorism and Children

Facing History and Ourselves
Examining History and Human Behavior

General Emergency Links:

Department of Homeland Security

www.incident.com
Now you can receive emergency alerts by email, forwarded from the State of California's "Emergency Digital Information Service" (EDIS) as a free public service from incident.com.

Office of Emergency Services
The Governor's Office of Emergency Services coordinates overall state agency response to major disasters in support of local government.

Emergency Digital Information Service (EDIS)
The Emergency Digital Information Service (EDIS) delivers official information about emergencies and disasters to the public and the news media in California.

Partnership for Public Warning
The Partnership for Public Warning brings top experts to a single table to agree on standards, procedures, and systems for warning people at risk so that they can take actions to save lives, reduce losses and speed recovery

Beach Cities CAER
The mission of Beach Cities CAER is to improve the ability to protect public health and safety in the Beach Cities area and to inform the community about chemical hazards.

Weather Radio Related Links:
What is a Weather Radio?

National Weather Service radio Internet site

Hormann America weather radio Internet site

Radio Shack Internet site

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