Provides a wide range of disaster/emergency preparedness tools and information for individuals and families, including: information on biological, chemical, radiological, and weather-related threats; emergency response plans; and how to become a volunteer emergency responder. Also provides information about the measures individuals can take before, during, and after a localized flooding incident and/or wide scale flooding event.

Provides a disaster assistance website and Disaster Assistance Helpline that allows visitors to get information about location of disasters, how to meet their immediate needs, as well as to apply for and check the status of assistance applications.

Provides a downloadable app that allows individuals to quickly access resources for any traumatic event in an effort to help them provide the best possible support to survivors. Provides a directory of behavioral health service providers in the area impacted by a disaster.

Serves all of Vermont with leadership, coordination, and support during the four phases of emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Offers training and education conferences, a forum for discussion and information exchange, and access to policy research. Also encourages collaboration and mutual assistance networks, advocates for legislative initiatives and other measures that enhance emergency planning and effectiveness, and provides leadership to ensure that there is an integrated approach to the management of emergency programs and activities.

Provides a wide range of disaster/emergency preparedness tools and information for individuals and families, including: information on biological, chemical, radiological, and weather-related threats; emergency response plans; and how to become a volunteer emergency responder. Also provides information about the measures individuals can take before, during, and after a localized flooding incident and/or wide scale flooding event.

Provides guidance about disaster preparedness for a range of situations. Offers a website that provides the key steps to creating an emergency preparedness kit and plan, including places to evacuate to and communications information.

Provides disaster related services, including providing ongoing, updated information to the public during disasters, fielding non-emergency calls, offering information about relief services, collecting information about individual property damages, and researching and confirming or denying rumors.

Provides ongoing, up-to-date information about national and international public health occurrences such as extreme weather events, contagious disease outbreaks, and natural disaster information.

Coordinates evacuation of pets, provides safe shelters, and establishes a system to track and reunite pets with their owners in the event of a disaster. Provides resources and advice to pet owners, animal-related businesses and non-profits, local communities, and state agencies to strengthen and support Franklin County's capacity to respond to animal needs in the event of a disaster. Guardian Angel Disaster Animal Response Team (GADART) provides support and training for team members and provides guidance to local emergency managers on including the communities' pet population in local response plans.

Provides free assistance during disasters, which includes emergency evacuation center equipped with cots and blankets, as well as food and Health and Mental Health services. Also offers temporary housing to victims of house fires. In addition, provides post-disaster relief to victims, specific to the type of disastrous occurrence. Responders assist in local, regional and national disasters.

Offers disaster preparedness information, and emergency assistance and recovery information for farmers in the recovery phase of natural disasters, and farm-related information regarding water contamination and pesticide exposure. Hotlines may be set up during specific disaster situations and links would be posted in this program. Also provides business disaster loan information for farmers and other agricultural business operators.

Provides the Studio Protector, an Internet guide that is an emergency preparedness and response toolkit for artists. Offers in-depth information including articles, interviews with artists and experts, tips, and annotated resource lists.

Provides resources, advice, and training for responding to animal needs in the event of a disaster.

Provides an online tool that enables people to fill out and print a personalized wallet-sized medication card that documents prescriptions, dosages and other important medical information. This program makes it easier to refill prescriptions if individuals have to leave their homes after a disaster.