YOUTH SUPPORT NETWORK
Serving all Santa Clara County
The Youth Network engages schools, childcare facilities, youth organizations, and community-based organizations to enhance communication and collaboration in order to meet the unique needs of children and families throughout the disaster cycle.
During an active disaster important information, announcements, and links will appear here.
Current Status:
Disaster status and important links will added here during active emergencies
Report Disaster Impacts
Note: This page is password protected, contact the CADRE duty officer below to receive access.
Find or Share Any Resource
Note: Nonprofits can sign their organizations up by clicking the “register your organization” link at the top right of the website.
Watch the Recovers Training Video for more information or contact the CADRE duty officer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Connect to CADRE 24/7 During Emergencies:
Duty Officer Phone: (408) 622-0822
Duty Officer Email: [email protected]
OVERVIEW OF CADRE’S SUPPORT NETWORKS:
The Youth Network is one of 20 networks CADRE is developing to facilitate communication for nongovernmental organizations in Santa Clara County throughout the disaster cycle. These networks are broken up by different community services and functions to allow for more focused communication. The networks are designed to give organizations a way to quickly find and share information, collaborate, and communicate, before, during, and after disaster. Fill out the short Network Sign Up Form to ensure that you are included in updates about the networks you are interested in joining.
NETWORK UPDATES:
The Youth Network is in the early stages of development. Any updates to the network will be noted here.
COMMUNICATION TOOLS:
1.) Web page – This web page and the forms, lists, and map within it will be updated regularly and used for continuous network coordination and information sharing during disasters.
2.) Live Chat – As the network develops, they will decide upon a live chat platform for communication during disaster. This live chat platform will provide major disaster announcements, urgent updates and requests, and welfare checks on organizations to quickly understand disaster impacts and immediate needs.
3.) Meetings – The network is still developing their regular meeting schedule; it will be posted here as soon as it is decided upon. During disasters, meetings will be expanded at the network leadership’s discretion and by request.
4.) Back up methods of communication may include emails, phone and in person meetings, and utilization of Ham Radio and/or information centers in the case of technological challenges during an emergency. These backups are still being developed and decided upon.
GET INVOLVED:
- Contact the Youth Support Network Rep. – Cindy Stewart – [email protected]
PREPAREDNESS RESOURCES:
Child Readiness
Resources for Children
First 5 for Kids Website
Santa Clara County Office of Education Website
Parents Helping Parents
Community Care Licensing COVID Questions
CCLD has established a dedicated email address to receive public inquiries related to CCLD-licensed facilities and COVID-19.
When sending an email to this address, please specify the facility type in the subject line and/or the body of the email:
For example: Residential Care Facility for the Elderly, Adult Residential, Child Care, Children’s Residential, Continuing Care Contracts, etc.
Check for updates
Child Care Regional Offices
Children's Residential Regional Offices
Home Care Services Bureau
Emergency Planning for Children
U.S. Fire Administration Kids Fire Safety
Helping Children Prepare for Earthquake
Online Meditation for Children and Parents
Free
The American Red Cross has resources that you can use to teach your kids about emergency preparedness.
You can also use their Prepare with Pedro: A Wildfire Story PSA video.
When it’s too hot to play, sleep or learn in a warming world
School Readiness
Compiled List of Resource Links
List of games, videos, songs, activity books, worksheets and curriculum to help children prepare.
Engaging students in emergency preparedness can empower youth to understand risks and know how to protect themselves during potential emergency events. Curriculum, lesson plans, and activities can help teachers and school staff bring disaster readiness into the classroom. Helpful preparedness and safety resources for teachers include:
• Classroom Activities and Youth Preparedness Programs – These multidisciplinary lessons, activities, and programs teach students what to do before, during, and after an emergency.
• Student Tools for Emergency Planning – This classroom-based curriculum for fourth and fifth graders teaches students how to prepare for disasters. The program includes core lessons as well as additional hazard-specific lessons that educators can use to customize their curriculum.
• Youth Emergency Preparedness Curriculum – This program for grades 1-12 teaches students about emergency preparedness, while also fostering critical skills such as problem solving, teamwork, creativity, leadership, and communication.
Classroom Activities and Youth Preparedness Programs
Student Tools for Emergency Planning
Youth Emergency Preparedness Curriculum
Being prepared for disasters starts at home. Educating students outside of school on what to do before, during, and after an emergency event will help them be prepared when it comes time to return to the classroom. Resources and information for families include:
• Prepare Your Family – This webpage provides materials to help you build your family emergency plan, information for how you can help children cope if they’ve experienced a disaster, and tips to help your children be ready when disaster strikes.
• Caring for Children in a Disaster – This guidance outlines the steps you can take before, during, and after an emergency to help keep your family safe and healthy.
Planning Resources for School Emergencies
School Administrators and School Safety Personnel
Administrators at the district and school level and school safety personnel play an important role in establishing and implementing emergency operations plans (EOPs) and other preparedness measures. Creating a safe learning environment requires collaboration between school officials and community partners to prepare for and respond to threats and hazards. Helpful resources for administrators and school safety personnel include:
• Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans – This interagency guidance provides information to school administrators on emergency management planning, and includes a process for developing, implementing, and refining a school’s EOP with community partners.
• The Role of Districts in Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans – Developed to serve as a complement to the School Guide, this report recommends specific roles and responsibilities for district-level administrators and staff in the emergency planning process.
• EOP Interactive Tools – This site offers a suite of emergency planning tools for K-12 administrators, law enforcement personnel, and community partners related to developing and refining EOPs, enhancing capacity, and aligning emergency planning practices with those at the national, state, and local levels.
• K-12 Exercise Starter Kits – These self-conducted tabletop exercises are tailored for the academic community and include a set of scalable tools aimed to test existing emergency plans, protocols, and procedures.
Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans
The Role of Districts in Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans
EOP Interactive Tools
K-12 Exercise Starter Kits
Youth should be empowered to learn the hazards that affect their community, understand how to stay safe in an emergency, practice critical emergency response skills, and lead preparedness-building activities in their communities. Emergency preparedness games, materials, and programs for students include:
• Ready Kids: Games – These games will test kids’ know-how in a wide range of emergencies as well as teach students how to build an emergency kit.
• Teen CERT – This program teaches teens about the potential disasters that could affect their area and how to safely and responsibly respond to them.
• Prepare with Pedro – This activity book teaches students how to be prepared for emergency events through fun activities such as crosswords, coloring pages, and matching games.
• Children in Disasters: Games and Activities – These interactive games and activities teach children how to stay safe during emergencies.
Visit SchoolSafety.gov for additional resources, tools, and products school communities can use to support emergency planning initiatives, as well as broader school safety-related information to prepare for a safe school year.
Ready Kids: Games
Teen CERT
Prepare with Pedro
Children in Disasters: Games and Activities
SchoolSafety.gov
Active Shooter
Active Shooter Awareness 11/20/22
NewResource 3/15/24: Inside the Uvalde Response
Active Shooter Awareness Discussion Outline
CalOES Active Shooter Awareness Guide 2016
Violence Prevention Actions
Active Shooter PPT
Red Cross Family Assistance Center has closed. Other resources available, below.
Blood Drive The Stanford Blood Center is seeking blood donations to help the injured victims and to replenish their blood supply in the coming days. To donate blood, visit one of the center’s three donor locations.
Donate to Families through the VTA Labor Council fund
Stanford Blood Drive
Information Hotline: 408-209-8356
If you or anyone you know was impacted by this shooting, please call: 408-809-2122
VTA Employees/Family-only support line: 408-321-7550
American Red Cross Support: 877-727-6771
Drawing on real-time, firsthand accounts, FRONTLINE, @ProPublica and @texastribune reconstruct law enforcement’s chaotic response to the May 2022 Uvalde school shooting and examine the missteps and lessons learned.
Using official bodycam, audio and investigative interviews with responding officers, the documentary reconstructs how events unfolded at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, giving a detailed analysis of one of the most criticized mass shooting responses in recent history, and providing real-time insight into law enforcement’s thoughts and actions. The documentary and in-depth story co-published by the news organizations provide powerful accountability reporting about what went wrong in the response to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. “Inside the Uvalde Response” is a FRONTLINE production with The Documentary Group in association with ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.
Mental Health Phone and In-Person Services
Santa Clara County Behavioral Health
Please know that no one in Santa Clara County has to bear the weight of life’s hardships alone. Our Suicide and Crisis Hotline is accessible 24/7 with multiple language services available for those who need it.
Anyone can text RENEW to 741741 to access our Crisis Text Line.
For more information on our services, please visit our website.
Crisis Hotline: 1-855-278-4204
Surviving an Active Shooter Event
Active Shooter - How to Respond
Active Shooter Pamphlet
Church Safety and Safety Basics
Active Shooter Safety Presentation
Active Shooter Outline
Surviving an Active Shooter Event:
Last Resort Active Shooter Survival Measures:
