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Training Toolkit Design
 Promote an all-hazards approach.
 Identify incidents specific to child care and Los Angeles County.
 Emphasize partnerships with first responders, schools, churches, businesses, nonprofits, and R&Rs before, during, and after an emergency.
 Encourage ongoing events, drills, and training workshops.
 Emphasize the importance of psychological first aid for children, families, and early
care and education providers.
Using this information CCRC began designing the training toolkit, which includes both the informational toolkit and the supply toolkit. The research review described in the previous chapter along with the provider focus groups (described in a later chapter) guided the development of the informational toolkit. In addition, CCRC created three different emergency preparedness supply kits, designed to address the diverse needs, sizes, and capacities of the different child care environments. The supply toolkits were presented at early care and education provider focus groups to solicit their feedback on usability. When preparing the supply toolkits for the focus groups, CCRC considered the following factors:
 Size of the environment: classroom, apartment, house, or center
 Portability for easy storage and quick evacuation
 Short-term self-sufficiency
 Brief instruction for different types of disasters/emergencies
 Basic relief items for natural disasters, hazardous materials, lockdown s situations, student injury, etc.
 Child-specific items, including diapers, activities, snacks, and moist towelettes
Most available emergency kits are intended for one person or an individual family and are, therefore, not practical for child care environments. Ideally, early care and education providers would be able to choose the items and carrier that best suit their individual needs. Taking these things into consideration, the following three kits were presented to early care and education providers at the focus groups:
 Waterproof Fanny Pack: Easiest to store and locate; most portable; items include a hand-cranked flashlight, AM/FM radio, help sign, survival blanket, face mask, very basic first aid kit, drinking water, food rations, moist towelettes, and waterproof matches
 Heavy Duty Backpack: Easy to store and locate; portable; useful for bigger emergencies; items include basic first aid kit, hard hat, work gloves, flashlight, safety goggles, batteries, AM/FM radio, face mask, duct tape, caution tape, food rations,
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