Researchers have identified children and youth as particularly vulnerable to the effects of disasters due to their dependence on adults to make choices that impact their recovery. Supporting the disaster-caused needs of children services providers — caring for the caregivers — can enable adults to support the children in their care to work through a disaster’s impacts and return to a sense of normalcy.
The Early Childhood Disaster-Related Resources for Children and Families page has fact sheets, guides, family tools, and activities for young children below that can help you and your entire family prepare, respond to, and recover from disasters.