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Regulations and Guidance for Disaster Recovery

Learn about regulations and guidance designed to help grantees recover from a disaster. Identify resources parents and families can use to help children feel safe and cope with a crisis. Review a broad range of programs and agencies that can help families and programs prepare for an emergency and recover from a disaster.

Regulations and Guidance

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General Disaster Recovery Flexibilities

Review ACF-IM-HS-19-01 to find ongoing program and fiscal flexibilities that grantees impacted by disasters in areas subject to a national, state, or local emergency or disaster declaration can use to serve children and families in affected communities.
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Disaster Recovery Funding for 2018 and 2019 Disasters

Explore ACF-PI-HS-19-01 to learn how to request disaster recovery funds for Head Start program recovery, including program service modifications, and enhanced health and mental health services. Discover how to request funds for a replacement of damaged or destroyed property and facilities following hurricanes, typhoons, wildfires, and earthquakes occurring in calendar year 2018 and tornadoes and floods occurring in calendar year 2019.
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Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria Disaster Assistance Funds

Review ACF-PI-HS-18-02 to find out how to request disaster assistance funds to restore Head Start program services following Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, including replacement of damaged or destroyed property and facilities.
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Disaster Recovery from 2017 Hurricanes

ACF-IM-HS-17-02 removes barriers to make it easier for Head Start agencies to meet the needs of those children and families affected by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, especially children and families newly experiencing homelessness.

Program Resources

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Strategic Maintenance Planning Tool

Use this tool to strategically budget the cost, maintenance expenses, and ongoing upkeep of an agency's facility and other key assets.

Additional Support

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Disaster Recovery: A Guide to Recovery

Learn how to emotionally support children, senior citizens, people with disabilities, and people for whom English is not their first language as they recover from a disaster.
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National Hurricane Survival Initiative (NHSI)

Find out how to get yourself, your family, and your home prepared as hurricane season approaches.
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The Response to Superstorm Sandy Highlights the Importance of Recovery Planning for Child Care Nationwide

Use this report to build on the lessons from Superstorm Sandy to develop disaster plans for child care.
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Disaster Relief

Find out how the Small Business Administration works through its Office of Disaster Assistance to provide financial assistance following a disaster. Discover how they support businesses of all sizes, private nonprofit organizations, homeowners, and renters.
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The National Flood Insurance Program

Learn how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program reduces the impact of flooding on private and public structures. The program provides affordable insurance to property owners. It also encourages communities to adopt floodplain management regulations.
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Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS)

Discover how the IBHS helps to identify and promote ways to strengthen communities against natural and human disasters.
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National Incident Management System (NIMS)

Explore how the Emergency Management Institute works with communities to offer preparedness training. It is in support of the NIMS Training Program.
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Child Care Center Design Guide

Use this guide from the U.S. General Services Administration to develop centers that are child-oriented, developmentally appropriate, beautiful, environmentally sensitive, health-promoting, and functional.
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Prescription for Healthier Building Materials: A Design and Implementation Protocol

Programs can use this step-by-step guide to select safer materials for humans and the environment. Find ways to design and build with healthier materials and understand the differences between material transparency and chemical avoidance.

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