The Federal Emergency Management Agency ( Fema ) Of The...

One dominant agency is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of the United States Department of Homeland Security. FEMA was created on 1979 by the late President Jimmy Carter that signed the executive order to support the citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation, people work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards. Another program called National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) was developed to lead the federal government’s effort to reduce the fatalities, injuries, and property losses caused by earthquakes. This program was established in 1977 to coordinate their complementary activities with FEMA, the†¦show more content†¦Preparedness Programs As mentioned earlier children is one of many vulnerable group of people when an earthquake occur. They do not concern themselves with training and conducting safety drills compared to adults wh o wants to and needs to prepare for such disasters. Children are more interested in making friends, playing with friends, learning, and, of course, having fun at home and school. Most of the time, children are at school doing what they need to do, which is to learn from what the school has to offer. They do not fully understand that they may be separated from their family, loss their parents or brothers and sisters, and experience a horrific destruction of seeing severely injured people or even dead bodies. This is something that should not happen and experience by child. It will be extremely difficult and traumatizing for that child if they do experience it. However, there are many programs that are developed to mitigate such experience from a child. In California, there are school programs that will help prepare the children for the disaster. Not just that, the program are placed to help them gain knowledge on the mechanism of natural disaster, to be specific an earthquake disaste r. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Service (Cal OES) (2008), developed a program that