• A Family Preparedness Guide
An emergency can occur quickly and without warning. The most important thing you can do to keep yourself and your family safe from an emergency is to prepare, stay calm, and follow instructions from emergency personnel.

• Preparedness Fast Facts - Make a Plan
Tips on how to make a plan from the American Red Cross

• Ready America Emergency Plan
Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so plan how you will contact one another and review what you will do in different situations.

• Disaster Preparedness Health Education Information
This website offers information in various languages including Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese and Vietnamese. Topics include biological emergencies, bombing or explosive emergencies, chemical emergencies, pandemic flu, nuclear or radiation emergencies, planning for emergencies and preventing illness. Audio translations are available in addition to forty-nine signs and fact sheets in twelve languages.

• "Plan to Be Safe" Campaign
The "Plan to Be Safe" campaign and training, providing simple, clear personal preparedness tools in multiple languages. The educational toolkit includes a poster with a take-away brochure, which emphasizes preparing a disaster kit with at least nine items, and a tri-fold brochure. All three items are available in multiple languages.

• Vulnerable Populations Action Team
The Vulnerable Populations Action Team website shares specific planning initiatives and tools in the areas of resource management, technical assistance/ trainings, MOU development, communications coordination, and partner/stakeholder engagement that can be used at the local level to improve any community's level of preparedness. The materials are available in multiple languages.

• Home and Family Preparedness 
We must have the tools and plans in place to make it on our own, at least for a period of time, no matter where we are when disaster strikes. Just like having a working smoke detector, preparing for the unexpected makes sense. This guide from Family and Community Emergency Safety (Michigan) will help you and your family be prepared for an emergency.

• Emergency Email and Wireless Network
Get breaking emergency information via email or your handheld wireless device. This free service provide notification to citizens of local, regional, national, and international emergencies.

• Tips for Communicating Before, During, and After Disasters 
From the Federal Communications Commission and FEMA

• Peace of Mind 
Some decisions we would rather put off indefinitely. Making a will and designating what kind of medical care we want in an emergency are two of those decisions. This booklet provides basic information about our Michigan statutory wills, advance directives for health care, and a form for recording personal and legal information.

• Assemble a Disaster Supply Kit
You may need to survive on your own after a disaster. This means having your own food, water, and other supplies in sufficient quantity to last for at least three days. See this website from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for more information about making a disaster supplies kit.

• American Red Cross Preparedness Resource Library
The American Red Cross disaster preparedness materials are available in multiple foreign languages.

• Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist for Individuals and Families 
You can prepare for an influenza pandemic now. You should know both the magnitude of what can happen during a pandemic outbreak and what actions you can take to help lessen the impact of an influenza pandemic on you and your family. This checklist from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will help you gather the information and resources you may need in case of a flu pandemic.

• Disaster Recovery - A Guide to Financial Issues
When a natural or other disaster strikes, life suddenly changes. Routines are shattered, jobs disrupted, and property destroyed. Disasters also take a financial toll. This booklet is written to help you regain a sense of financial balance following a disaster by offering suggestions on steps to take immediately, what to do in the initial weeks and months, and how to begin planning again for the future.