Call for Kids Prepare America Contest Entries – Deadline Friday, November 30th

The deadline is quickly approaching! Get your Student Contest and Ideas that Worked! entries in by Friday, November 30th! The Home Safety Council wants to know how you helped families and communities prepare for disasters! YOU can win prizes as an educator or as a student! Be sure to enter this week and you could be one of the ten Grand Prize Student Winners from across the nation who will be selected to travel to Washington, DC for an awards dinner on June 5, 2008!

Click here for Contest Information and Educational materials!

Click here to submit your Ideas that Worked!

Play the New Get Ready with Freddie! Interactive Game!

Are you ready for an emergency? Play the new Get Ready with Freddie! interactive game, which helps kids learn how to prepare for emergencies at home! The game debuted itself on the Kids Prepare America Web site this September. Each level allows kids help Freddie shine his light around the room to find all the items needed for a “Ready-to-Go” kit or a “Ready-to-Stay” kit before time runs out.

Click here to play!

Kids Prepare America Contest: In the News

The word continues to spread about the Kids Prepare America Contest - encouraging communities and schools to get their children involved in preparing for disasters. See the latest news story from the Orange County Register below:

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Check Out Other Weekly Reader Education Programs!

If you enjoyed the Get Ready with Freddie! Program, check out other programs offered by the Home Safety Council and Weekly Reader! Each program helps teach children how to spot and prevent home dangers – some focus specifically on fire safety so children know the importance of preventing and planning for a home fire. Additional programs include:

• Safety Rangers Stay Away from Fire Dangers – Grade: Preschool
• Safety Rangers Spot Dangers – Grade: K-3rd
• Safety Rangers Say No to Dangers – Grade: K-3rd
• Fire Safety Rangers Know the Drill – Grade: 2nd
• Fire Science – Grade: Middle School

Click here to find all of the Home Safety Council and Weekly Reader’s Educational Programs!

Join the Home Safety Council’s Expert Network – It’s Free!

Firefighters, public health educators and other fire and life safety advocates from around the country are joining the Expert Network to benefit from high quality home injury prevention education tools and services. Downloadable, customizable teaching tools for people of every age are available to members, on demand, at no cost.

Members of the Expert Network have access to selected hard copy educational materials sent through the mail. The majority of these materials are free -- you just pre-pay the shipping and handling costs. Quantities of materials are also available to members for a modest production fee.

• Click here for more information and to sign-up!

Disaster Preparedness and the Home Safety Council’s Get Ready with Freddie! Program Webinar

In August, the Home Safety Council (HSC) hosted a Webinar on disaster preparedness and HSC’s educational preparedness program – Get Ready with Freddie!. The Webinar covered the latest disaster preparedness research, tips on engaging diverse audiences and the most effective methods to get community members involved in being prepared.

The presentation also highlighted HSC’s innovative disaster preparedness program for kids – Get Ready with Freddie! and offered ideas on how to implement it in schools and communities nationwide.

• Click here to view the Webinar and download the discussed resources.