Resources for Crisis Planning

Books from ACA

• Management of Risks and Emergencies
• Leaving Nothing to Chance: Board Accountability through Risk Management
• Mission Accomplished: A Practical Guide to Risk Management for Nonprofits
• Mission Accomplished Workbook

ACA Resource Pack Tools

Sample forms, outlines, and work plans as either Word or WordPerfect files (provided on a floppy disk) that can be customized for your camp. Included in Resource Pack or Resource Pack II:

• Emergency Checklist
• Emergency Procedures (includes information on intruders, kidnapping, missing persons, waterfront emergencies)
• Evacuation Plan
• Insurance Checklist
• Risk Exposure Chart
• Risk Management Planning

Articles from Camping Magazine and The CampLine

• http://www.acacamps.org/knowledge/risk/index.htm

Resources from Other Organizations and Agencies

• Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence
• International Association of Chiefs of Police, http://www.theiacp.org/index.cfm

Resources and links on emergency planning

• Federal Emergency Management Agency, http://www.fema.gov/

Pamphlets and Publications

• What Happened to the World? Helping Children Cope in Turbulent Times
  by Jim Greenman
• National Association for the Education of Young Children, http://www.NAEYC.org
• Children, Bioterrorism, and Disasters, American Academy of Pediatrics, http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/cad.htm
• Helping Children and Adolescents after a Disaster (information gathered by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to assist parents and children in dealing with the September 11, 2001 events),
  http://www.aacap.org/publications/DisasterResponse/index.htm
• Information about Anthrax and Bioterrorism, Centers for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov
• After the Emergency Is Over: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Youth, Emergency Medical Services for Children, http://www.ems-c.org/downloads/pdf/ptstress.pdf
• Crisis Communications Guide and Toolkit, National Education Association, http://www.nea.org/crisis/intro.html
• Helping Children Handle Disaster-Related Anxiety
  National Mental Health Association, 800-969-NMHA (6642) http://www.nmha.org/reassurance/children.cfm
• From the American Red Cross — many resources, including http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/beprepared/

Originally published in the 2002 Winter issue of The CampLine.