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Share and Practice Life Saving Skills

Learn more about low and no-cost preparedness actions with our new Life Saving Skills resources.

The Life Saving Skills Social Media Toolkit contains messages to help protect individuals, families, and homes. You can reach your audience by using and customizing these messages on your social media channels.

Share the social media content and graphics to promote life saving skills like:

• Knowing basic home maintenance to protect your family and home;
• Talking to your landlord or building manager about evacuation routes and fire safety;
• Reducing common electrical and fire hazards around your house and property;
• Placing smoke, carbon monoxide, and natural gas alarms on every level of your home;
• Developing a plan and discussing it with your family;
• Having supplies in place at home, at work, and in the car; and
• Teaching children what to do when they hear a smoke alarm.

For more information, visit the

CPR and AED Awareness Week

From June 1-7, find some time to learn how to save a life. Those seven days make up
The American Heart Association (AHA) says that Hands-Only CPR can work as well as CPR. It can double or even triple a person’s chance of survival.

Visit Heart.org/handsonlycpr to watch the video for detailed instructions. Use the hashtag #CPRsaveslives throughout the week.

Please note the AHA still recommends CPR with compressions and breathsfor infants and children. They also recommend it for victims of drowning, drug overdose, or people who collapse due to breathing problems.

Visit the American Red Cross or the AHA websites to find a CPR class near you.

You are the Help Until Help Arrives Reaches Milestone with 100K Participants

When accidents and injuries happen, the actions of people nearby can make all the difference. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and partners developed the
You can also explore more pages on www.ready.gov to learn about FEMA’s other programs, like Prepareathon, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), and Youth Preparedness.

You are the Help Until Help Arrives is a partnership between FEMA’s Individual and Community Preparedness Division (ICPD), the U.S. Department of Health and Hu­man Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), and the Uniformed Services University's (USU) National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH).

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