Untapped Resources: Engaging Students in Preparation, Response and Recovery. ECS Policy Brief

Untapped Resources: Engaging Students in Preparation, Response and Recovery. ECS Policy Brief

This brief addresses how to engage and mobilize young people in order to prepare them for when disaster strikes. Perhaps more importantly, this brief seeks to do so in sustainable ways to avoid desensitizing youth to the effects of disaster, and prevent wavering attention. There are two ways to serv...

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Veröffentlicht in:Education Commission of the States 2006
Hauptverfasser: Pickeral, Terry, Lennon, Tiffani, Elias, Maurice
Format: Report
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Citizen Participation
Local Issues
Natural Disasters
Partnerships in Education
School Policy
Service Learning
Student Empowerment
Student Participation
Student Volunteers
Terrorism
Violence
Youth
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Zusammenfassung:This brief addresses how to engage and mobilize young people in order to prepare them for when disaster strikes. Perhaps more importantly, this brief seeks to do so in sustainable ways to avoid desensitizing youth to the effects of disaster, and prevent wavering attention. There are two ways to serve students--help them when disaster strikes their community, and empower them to help others in need. The purpose of this brief is to emphasize the latter: involve and prepare students for civic engagement as a means to prepare for and respond to disasters, if or when disaster strikes. A brief list of related Internet resources is also included. (Contains 6 endnotes.)