Dr. Lori Peek’s PrepTalk, “Children and Disasters: Reducing Vulnerability and Building Capacity,” brings to life the progress, ongoing challenges, and possibilities in reducing the vulnerability of children to disasters. Through her experience working directly with children, including a young survivor of Hurricane Katrina, Peek gives emergency managers five specific ideas to reduce the vulnerability of children to disasters right now.
Peek is director of the Natural Hazards Center and a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies vulnerable populations in disasters and is author of “Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora,” and co-author of “Children of Katrina.”
Related Resources
- PrepTalks Discussion Guide: Youth Preparedness – Dr. Lori Peek and Sarah Thompson
- Save the Children’s Prep Rally
- Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools
- Student Tools for Emergency Planning
- Resilient Children/Resilient Communities
- “Let’s learn to prevent disasters!” Educational Kit and Game
- Ready.gov – Youth Preparedness
- Ready.gov – Youth Preparedness Council
- Teen Community Emegency Response Team
Q & A Session
PrepTalks are given by subject-matter experts and thoughts leaders to spread new ideas, spark conversation, and promote innovative leadership for the issues confronting emergency managers now and over the next 20 years. For more information and more talks, see https://www.fema.gov/preptalks
