Talk with your family about any impending disaster. Family support and preparation can be key to successful readiness and future recovery.

These publications are designed to help Louisiana residents recover from floods, storms, extended power outages and other stressful, dangerous events.

Aftera Disaster - Lesson Plan for youth Educators sometimes feel unprepared when new students arrive as a result of disaster they experience, and current students sometimes have difficulty feeling empathy for the new transfer students. This lesson plan can be used with groups of youth in junior high and high school who need guidance in dealing with a change in their social environment, i.e., their school, following a disaster or even after positive changes in their life situation.

AgCenter employees pitch in at the Baton Rouge River Center, which is housing 6,000 refugees from Hurricane Katrina.

Disasters can produce lots of stress in peoples' lives. This information provides steps supported by research that individuals can take to manage their stress.

Parents can help their children to cope with disasters. There are actions parents can take that will help. This information features tips that parents can use during and following a disaster.

All families in Louisiana should have a family disaster plan. This article provides information about developing a disaster plan for your family.

Flood cleanup bucket service projects by organizations, churches and other faith-based groups can help families in cleaning up their home after a flood disaster. This article provides information about what should be included in a flood cleanup bucket.

Parents and children can work together and prepare for a disaster. Developing and having a Family Disaster Supply Kit ready in the event of a disaster is a proactive way to teach your children about family safety and may give your child some sense of comfort and control.

Information about preparing a child's evacuation to-go kit in anticipation of a disaster and possible family evacuation. Parents can help their child be a part of the preparation to evacuate prior to an approaching disaster and assemble this critically important material.