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Coping With Disasters and Strengthening Systems: Disaster Impact Planning Matrix

This useful matrix and tool can help agency disaster planning teams respond to common disaster impacts and plan for them going forward.

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Coping With Disasters and Strengthening Systems: Resource Roadmap

Provides concise information on the organization of the Coping With Disasters and Strengthening Systems series resources and offers suggestions for using the resources alone or together to help agencies develop, refine, and implement effective disaster plans.

Podcast

Data Sharing for Planning and Decision-Making: Episode 5

Listen to child welfare agency leaders in the District of Columbia talk about how they work with partners to use their different data lenses to understand the needs of families and to structure a set of services to best meet the full spectrum of needs. In Kentucky, child welfare agency leaders describe the process of finding the story behind the numbers to transform their system.