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Teaching Preparedness To Better Prepare Children In The Event Of Disaster, Brian Kendall
Teaching Preparedness To Better Prepare Children In The Event Of Disaster, Brian Kendall
Theses and Dissertations from 2016
The purpose of this research was to determine if teaching preparedness to children will better prepare them in the event of a disaster. Children have been the target audience for several campaigns in the past. By introducing disaster awareness into the schools, it is hoped, like in other campaigns, that children will take the knowledge obtained and share that information to family and friends. This study was significant to the field of emergency management due to the need of providing the general public with the necessary information and resources that could potentially save lives. As a result of this study, …