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Project Overview
Project Goals: Expansion Grant
Goal 1: Improve the emergency preparedness and response capabilities of R&R agencies and early care and education providers throughout Los Angeles County.d
Objective 1: Assess the Child Care Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit and Training Curriculum.
Objective 2: Strengthen and improve utilization, perceived benefit, and understanding of the content of the revised Emergency Preparedness and Response Curriculum and Toolkit.
Objective 3: Strengthen R&R agencies’ leadership, engagement, and participation in emergency preparedness, response, and recovery issues and related activities.
Table 3. Project Timeline: Original Grant
July–October 2012
July–October 2012
April 2013
Assess current level of perceived risk, need, and overall preparedness and response readiness of R&Rs and the range of early care and education provider types and settings through focus groups (Objective 2)
Increase the utilization, perceived benefit, and understanding of the content within the Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit through trainings for the Resource and Referral Agency Specialists (train-the-trainer) and early care and education provider trainings (Objective 4)
Table 4. Project Timeline: Expansion Grant
May–July 2013 Strengthen and improve utilization, perceived benefit, and understanding of the content of the revised Emergency Preparedness and Response Curriculum and Toolkit through
trainings (Objective 2)
d The term R&R agencies is used in the remainder of the report because these agencies have the main contact with the majority of child care providers in Los Angeles, with a small number of referrals of providers from the AP agencies.
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Determine current emergency preparedness requirements, policies, and best practices through thorough literature research (Objective 1)
November 2012– March 2013
Develop emergency response and preparedness toolkit (Objective 3)
June–July 2013
Establish recommendations and best practices to improve Emergency Preparedness and Response capabilities of R&R and AP agencies and the range of early care and education providers in Los Angeles County through this report (Objective 5)
June 2013
Assess the Child Care Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit and Training Curriculum (Objective 1)
June 2013
Strengthen R&R agencies’ leadership, engagement, and participation in emergency preparedness, response, and recovery issues and related activities through working sessions facilitated by Save the Children (Objective 3)