Citizen Corps News: Citizen Corps Announces New Social Media Tools

Citizen Corps News: Citizen Corps Announces New Social Media Tools: "

Citizen Corps Widgets: www.citizencorps.gov/widgets/

Widgets are web tools that can be put on your webpage, blog, and social media sites. Citizen Corps' widgets are free and display information provided by FEMA's Community Preparedness Division through continually updated data feeds. Citizen Corps widgets are easily placed on your web page by copying the code of the widget and placing it within the html code of your web site's editor. CitizenCorps.gov currently offers three widgets in several sizes:

• Citizen Corps Logo Widget

• This widget provides quick links to Citizencorps.gov and FEMA's email updates during disasters webpage.

• Community Preparedness News Widget

• This widget provides regularly updated community preparedness news from FEMA's Community Preparedness Division.

• Are You Ready? Widget

• This widget enables users to search for Citizen Corps Councils and partners close to them.

Citizen Corps Web Banners: www.citizencorps.gov/councils/banners.shtm

Web banners are graphic files that can be used by individuals to link from their website to CitizenCorps.gov. These banners are free and are available in several styles and sizes.

Citizen Corps RSS Feeds: www.citizencorps.gov/rss/

RSS feeds provide subscribers with automated updated information through user-defined applications without having to continually visit CitizenCorps.gov. These RSS feeds can be imported into self-made widgets and many other social media sites. CitizenCorps.gov currently offers two RSS feeds:

• National Community Preparedness News Feed

• This RSS feed provides users with the latest Community Preparedness news and events from various departments of the Federal Government and our National Citizen Corps Partners and Affiliates. The goal of this feed is to provide our users with one National-level feed to receive up-to-date information on individual and community preparedness issues, events, and best practices.

• Local Citizen Corps in the News Feed

• This RSS feed provides users with information on activities and events of Citizen Corps Councils, Partners, and Affiliates from across the nation. The goal of this feed is to share community preparedness and Citizen Corps best practices and lessons learned.

Citizen Corps Twitter: www.twitter.com/citizen_corps

Twitter is a Microblog that gives FEMA's Community Preparedness Division the opportunity to provide users with specific community preparedness information in a timely manner. Current followers of the Citizen Corps account include Citizen Corps Councils and partners, the emergency management community, and the general public.

Citizen Corps News Emails: www.citizencorps.gov/subscribe.shtm

Citizen Corps also promotes transparent communication and collaboration through using an email subscription service that allows any visitor to the CitizenCorps.gov website to register to receive Citizen Corps News updates and to receive updates during disasters in their local area.

FEMA FaceBook: www.facebook.com/fema

Citizen Corps regularly contributes to the FEMA Facebook page to provide disaster preparedness information to the general public and information on how citizens can get involved in preparing their communities.

Sincerely,

The National Office of Citizen Corps
FEMA Community Preparedness Division

Disposable soft Go Stretcher for just $19 - that's right under twenty dollars!

The GO Stretcher can be used in the following ways:

As a Disposable Emergency Stretcher for everyday use.

As a Disposable Emergency Stretcher for Mass Causality and Disaster Preparedness.

As a Disposable Backboard cover and Strapping Support System

As a Disposable Patient Transfer System to move the patient from the backboard to the hospital gurney.

As a Disposable Gurney Sheet.

As a Search and Rescue Gurney.

As a Disposable Patient Transfer System to move the patient from the bed to a chair and back.

As a Seated Patient Evacuation System


Product Specifications:

Will hold over 500-lb load capacity.

Features (10) large hand holds which allow for easy patient handling and ease of product use.

Lowest cost Emergency Stretcher available today.

Water resistant coated woven polyethylene provides strength and durability.

Latex free.

Stretcher size with handles is 35" x71 "

Individually packaged and labeled, comes (50) units per case or sold individually.

Here's a link to the webpage. http://www.lifemedicalsupplier.com/disposable-soft-go-stretcher-ref-305100ds-p-366.html

CERT National Newsletter is now available

The CERT National Program Office is pleased to announce that Volume 2, Issue 3 of the CERT National Newsletter is now posted on the CERT National website. Click on the following link to access the new edition: http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/newsletter.shtm {editor's note: this issue includes the Palomar Mountain, AMGEN Tour of California bike race where our San Diego County CERT's helped out}.


We hope you enjoy this issue of the newsletter and the stories about how CERT programs around the country are engaging in drills and exercises to maintain and enhance CERT members’ skills. From regional CERT Olympics in Texas and a regional CERT rodeo in Oregon and Washington State, to the AMGEN Tour of California bicycle race, to search and rescue exercises in Ohio and Virginia, and more, CERTs around the country are finding innovative and interesting ways to train.

The issue also features a request for CERT programs to submit their own drills and exercises for inclusion in upcoming publications from the CERT National Program Office.

If you know of others who would be interested in receiving CERT news and updates, please have them subscribe at the following website: http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/subscribe.shtm. Thank you.



Sincerely,
CERT National Program Office
Community Preparedness Division
Federal Emergency Management Agency