Region 2 Emergency Preparedness and Response Award Grant

The Region 2 Emergency Preparedness and Response Award aims to enhance community resilience against natural disasters and emergencies. It encourages projects focused on preparedness, mitigation, and recovery, addressing issues from weather disasters to local violence. Eligible applicants include organizations from Alabama, Florida, and other states in Region 2, prioritizing initiatives that support underserved communities and promote effective use of National Library of Medicine resources for health information access.

Purpose
The Emergency Preparedness and Response Award supports projects that address natural disasters and local emergencies in the community, using the phases of preparedness, mitigation, recovery, and response. Natural disasters include weather-related emergencies, drought, flood, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Examples of local emergencies include hate crimes, intimate partner violence, and gun violence/shooting. Applicants are encouraged to design their projects using a community-centered model to promote awareness, preparedness, education, training, and safety coordination to improve responses to natural disasters and local emergencies.
Potential Project Ideas
Proposals directed at planning, mitigating, responding, and recovering from disaster and emergency events or reducing and preventing harm from hate, discrimination, and violence, such as:
Integrating and promoting NLM’s disaster-related resources, services, and tools into educational program or continuity plans.Evaluating and improving preparedness plans, programs, or policies.Developing audits or evaluation process to determine readiness to respond to a disaster.Preparing organizations to effectively prepare for and/or respond to disasters.Hosting a summit to unite emergency planners and librarians to improve disaster preparedness and response capabilities.Training individuals, professionals, and communities to find disaster health, emergency preparedness and response information resources.Developing response tools that contribute to the continuity of health information-based services and operations.Providing education and professional development on disaster preparedness and response topics.Collaborating with external partner(s) such as the libraries, community, faith-based, and volunteer organizations, hospitals, and first responders to develop programs or engage in joint exercises that enhance coordination of resources in response, to develop community response in creative ways.Initiating a “blessing box” and/or community fridge program to support community members.

Eligibility

Network member organizations in Region 2 are eligible to apply: (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee)Organizations, in most cases, are only eligible to apply for awards from the Regional Medical Library that serves the state in which they operate in.Please contact the RML for further clarification. All projects must:Incorporate one or more National Library of Medicine resources. You can refer to the NLM list of Databases, Resources, and APIs for a complete overview of resources by topic.  Increase access to high quality biomedical and health information  Improve the use of technology for health information access, especially to underserved and underrepresented populations  Improve access to libraries and information services
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Ineligibility

Food, promotional items, and furniture are not allowable expenses.