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From our friends at Alexandria VA CERT.

Please keep in mind the contact information you see in this newsletter are specific to Alexandria VA unless otherwise noted.

The theme of the October – December issue is emotional aspects of disasters and helping people cope. The second page addresses emergency and disaster preparation for persons with mental health or behavioral health conditions. It also includes tips when someone has autism or dementia.

As always, share the newsletter with family, friends, neighbors, and other colleagues.

All back issues of the newsletter are in the Public folder on the Alexandria CERT document portal.

We hope you will come out and join AAACERT and the Anne Arundel County Office of Emergency Management for the 2023 Emergency Preparedness Expo.

The expo will be held Saturday, September 16 from 10am-2pm at the Anne Arundel Community College Arundel Mills Campus.

This free, family-friendly event has hands-on displays, games, and activities for all ages provided by various County public safety agencies and our partners. This event is sponsored by the Anne Arundel County Office of Emergency Management as part of National Preparedness Month and is intended as a fun-filled way to learn about preparing for emergencies!

Please click HERE for FEMA’s Ready.gov 2023 Calendar.

We want to thank everyone who visited our booth at this year’s Ferndale Festival. It was a perfect weather day, and the turnout was fantastic. We look forward to the next community-based event where we can say hello and introduce you to CERT and our organization, Anne Arundel Annapolis CERT.

Check out our website for more information about CERT and how you
“Can Be The Help Until Help Arrives.”

See our Facebook page for more pictures of AAACERT in action.

From our friends at Alexandria VA CERT.

Please keep in mind the contact information you see in this newsletter are specific to Alexandria VA unless otherwise noted.

This new issue of the Alexandria CERT newsletter focuses on flooding: Flooding is one of the more costly natural disasters that can affect a community. More frequent, more intense storms in the Mid-Atlantic are
bringing heavier rainfall to storm systems that were never designed or outfitted for weather this severe.

Please share the newsletter with family, friends, neighbors, and work colleagues.

CLICK HERE FOR THE NEWSLETTER FOLDER

We are proud to introduce our new logo. After over two years of planning and many rounds of votes and edits, members have chosen this logo and we couldn’t be more excited.

From our friends at Alexandria VA CERT.

Please keep in mind the contact information you see in this newsletter are specific to Alexandria VA unless otherwise noted.

This new issue of the Alexandria CERT newsletter is for your pets: how to prepare yourself and them for disasters and things to do for them during and after disasters. You can also learn about CARTs — Community Animal Response Teams. Please share the newsletter with family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers.

Please share the newsletter with family, friends, neighbors, and work colleagues.

CLICK HERE FOR THE NEWSLETTER FOLDER

From our friends at Alexandria VA CERT.

Please keep in mind the contact information you see in this newsletter are specific to Alexandria VA unless otherwise noted.

Here is the holiday edition of the CERT newsletter, with a focus hazards and safety tips for cooking. The second page of the newsletter covers safety for shopping online, winter travel, and preventing fires during the winter.

Please share the newsletter with family, friends, neighbors, and work colleagues.

CLICK HERE FOR THE NEWSLETTER FOLDER

We hope you will come out and join AAACERT and the Anne Arundel County Office of Emergency Management for the 2022 Emergency Preparedness Expo.

The expo will be held Saturday, September 17 from 10am-2pm at the Anne Arundel Community College Arundel Mills Campus.

This free, family-friendly event has hands-on displays, games, and activities for all ages provided by various County public safety agencies and our partners. This event is sponsored by the Anne Arundel County Office of Emergency Management as part of National Preparedness Month and is intended as a fun-filled way to learn about preparing for emergencies!

The Arc, “…advocate(s) for equity and access for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live self-determined lives and foster opportunities towards self-sufficiency.”

Since June, AAACERT has been proud to set up our community tent next to The Arc Central Chesapeake Region during the First Sunday Arts Festival in Annapolis. AAACERT provided emergency and disaster preparedness material for visitors and answered questions about our mission and how people can better prepare themselves.

The Arc set up a very special tent where visitors, mainly children and young adults, would sit and paint their vision of what First Responders and Preparedness mean to them. They would first sketch out their ideas and once completed, they would paint them on a tile. All paintings will eventually come together in a tapestry-type display.

We look forward to working with The Arc on many more events in the future. We encourage you to check out their website at www.thearc.org

If you’d like to print out a copy of the emergency preparedness forms and checklists, visit our new BE PREPARED page on our website at www.aaacert.org/be-prepared/

We would like to thank everyone who visited our tents during the 2022 National Night Out event held at the Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Company in Severna Park and the Lula G. Scott Community Center in Shady Side. The sun was out, and the temps were high, but AAACERT members came prepared with fans, hats, and sunscreen.

We provided disaster preparedness materials to visitors including flash cards with checklists of items to have on hand during a disaster such as a violent storms like tornados, hurricanes, or major wind. We now offer these FEMA-created materials on our new BE PREPARED page. Check it out and print out your preparedness documents, today.

We are very grateful to our partners at Anne Arundel County OEM for allowing us to share their tent space. Thank you! Thank You! Thank You!

We want to thank everyone who visited our booth at this year’s Linthicum Fair. It was an absolutely beautiful day and the turnout was fantastic. We look forward to the next community-based event where we can say hello and introduce you to CERT and our organization, Anne Arundel Annapolis CERT.

Check out our website for more details and links to our social media pages. www.aaacert.org