efficient in responding and taking appropriate action: They types of crisis encountered, the effects that it has on children and youth, and what ways we can accurately respond to children and youth who might be experiencing a crisis. It is imperative to respond promptly to crisis because it can have a deep impact on a child or youth. To examine how a crisis can impact children or youth, a deeper look at the levels of crisis must be explored first. Crisis can range in type and severity from minor occurrences
Throughout human history there have been many disasters that have plagued humanity. These disasters have caused an untold amount of damages and an untold number of lives lost. Each disaster is different from each other and each can leave their own impact on human civilization. Many of these disasters are of the nature variety, these typically include your hurricanes, tornados, tsunamis, and many others that can impact humanity. We can’t control these types of disasters, any many of them can strike at any time
In fact, the disaster could have been prevented through proper training, education, and exercises (Haddow et al, 2014). Here we can see that the BP oil spill could have been prevented if the right precautions were put in place and had the people running the oil rig had proper training on how to handle an emergency if it were to occur on their watch. The disaster could also have been prevented through a series of preparedness. Preparedness is the capacity to respond to a disaster, crisis, or any
Disaster preparedness: As most of the disasters are due to climate related the Red Cross society must substantially reduce the impact of disasters and to make risk reduction an essential component of development policies and programs. To implement Hyogo Framework there are three strategic goals: 1. To integrate disaster risk reduction into sustainable development policies and planning 2. To develop and strengthen Institutions 3. Mechanisms and capacities to build resilience to hazards and to systematically
especially after living through Hurricane Andrew that hit Miami, Fla years ago. So, when this learner reads the article it was exactly what she expected from the media after such a major disaster like hurricane Katrina. When there’s a disaster like this, the media expect a lot of looting, lack of response to the disaster, victims in need of rescue, and even death. But if the media does not believe it is sensational enough, they will create or as this learner likes to call it lie about the facts to gain
to strike mankind in this day and age is a natural disaster, in particular, a hurricane. In October 2012 Hurricane Sandy made landfall in the United States causing more than $60 billion in damage and killing around 200 people. There are a few companies that deal with natural disasters and help out as many affected people as possible, one of the largest being the American Red Cross. Founded in 1881, the American Red Cross assists not only disasters in the United States, but all around the world. The
expected from the media after such a major disaster like a hurricane Katrina. When there is a disaster like this, the media expects a lot of looting, lack of response to the disaster, victims in need of rescue, and even death. But if the media
Believe it or not, there are certain parts of the country where natural disasters are just apart of the day-to-day activity. In other words, it’s something residents are familiar with. On the contrary, natural disasters are events that can cause other residents to experience traumatic stress according to the Ohio University. Throughout the West Coast, for example, there are earthquakes. The East and Gulf coast, on the other hand, experience hurricanes. Then throughout the heartland of our country
responsibility of everyone to protect the environment. As a human being we are responsible of how we treat our environment because after all, we are the ones living in this environment. Let’s not forget that nature is a part of the environment, so if are not taking care of our environment, then we won’t have such beauty. Nature is very important. Nature includes trees, wildlife, the ocean. Trees give us oxygen to live. If there are no trees then there are no humans and no animals. Nature is used for peace, creativity
risk of an injury, different types of diseases, and even in some cases death. These hazards are called human environmental hazards. There are four categories to human environmental hazards which we will discover and discuss further in detail and they consist of cultural hazards, biological hazards, physical hazards, and chemical hazards (Wright & Boorse, 2011). We first begin with Cultural Hazards. Cultural hazards can result