Time to Promote Emergency Financial Preparedness

Insure Against Earthquakes: What's Your recovery plan? Knowing how you'll rebuild your life and home after an earthquake brings peace of mind. Illustration of a person securing and overhead light fixture and of a person seated in front of a laptop computer. Speech bubbles: Know your earthquake risk and possible impacts. Identify and fix home hazards to lesson damage. Make an emergency financial first-aid kit.

For many people, now is the time for spring cleaning. For most of us, spring is also the time for preparing taxes. Take advantage of the season to encourage people in your network to create or update their emergency financial preparedness kit: It’s an easy project now because they’ll already have their financial documents gathered together.

Get FEMA’s Emergency Financial First Aid Kit workbook, instructions, and checklists.

Visit Insure Against Earthquakes: My Safety Net page for more info, and check out the outreach toolkit for more resources.

Suggest also that people create a home inventory while spring cleaning. Free online tools include:


New Outreach Tools Focus on Financial Preparedness for Earthquakes

A new information hub and outreach toolkit launched by CREW provides easy access to online resources and ready-made outreach tools to help earthquake preparedness educators and other seismic professionals share financial readiness tips that can help speed and strengthen recovery after a damaging earthquake. The hub includes messaging recommendations and examples, as well as information about earthquake insurance.

View the Insure Against Earthquakes hub for educators

Among the tools provided is a companion public site, which presents financial preparedness actions, basic information about earthquake insurance, and links to reliable online content.

View the Insure Against Earthquake public site