Provides disaster preparedness training. Also provides long-term recovery case management and may provide limited financial support for disaster survivors.

Lutheran Social Services Disaster Preparedness & Response | Lutheran Social Services Disaster Preparedness & Response

Programs that provide a single point of contact for disaster assistance applicants who need a wide variety of services that may be provided by many different organizations. The objective is to create a coordinated system that enables an individual or family who has survived a disaster to provide information about their situation to one organization that serves as their advocate and helps them organize and access disaster related resources and implement a recovery plan that will help them achieve pre-disaster levels of functioning and equilibrium. Disaster-related case managers assess the individual's needs, coordinate the delivery of needed services, ensure that services are obtained in accordance with the recovery plan, and follow up and monitor progress to ensure that services are having a beneficial impact on the problem. The service is particularly critical in situations where large-scale deaths and injuries have occurred.

Disaster Related Case Management

Programs that provide training for community based organizations which helps them prepare for assuming a responsible role in a major disaster or large-scale emergency that disrupts the normal functioning of a community.  Included are programs that provide training which helps organizations develop and test internal emergency plans for minimizing the loss of life and property during and immediately following an incident as well as those that focus on helping information and referral programs and other community-based organizations define their mission in a disaster situation and develop the relationships they need to become a formal part of the disaster planning, relief and recovery efforts in their community.

Organizational Disaster Training

Programs that increase public awareness of the measures that people can take before, during and after a major disaster or wide-scale emergency to reduce loss of life and property and improve their chances for survival. Included are programs that inspect the homes of individual residents and give them a report which suggests ways to enhance their safety and reduce the risk of property damage or loss, as well as those that deal with disaster preparedness in a more general way. Also included are programs that provide fact sheets, hazard maps and other types of technical information about natural disasters that individuals and communities can review and evaluate to see if their area is at risk.