Why have emergency/disaster plans?
Having a plan can help you be more prepared before an emergency/disaster. Your child care setting must have written plans that are updated, practiced, and/or trained for routinely. The more overall experience you have with your plans, the more effectively you will respond in an emergency/disaster. The Head Start Disaster Preparedness Workbook says that disaster plans “define the policies, procedures, and resources put in place by your program to prepare for, respond to and recover from any type of disaster that may occur”. You can also use the above definition to define an emergency plan by putting the word emergency in place of disaster.
