What is CADH's Role in Emergency Preparedness?
CADH works to enhance the readiness of local health departments in Connecticut to respond to public health emergencies through regional planning activities, assisting individual local health departments with planning processes, and providing guidance to local public officials on the National Association of County and City Health Official’s (NACCHO’s) Project Public Health Ready Initiative.
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How Does CADH Assist with Regional and Individual Local Health Department Emergency Preparedness Planning?
CADH provides technical support, training, and evaluation for numerous local and regional drills designed to test emergency response activities. CADH also develops exercise templates and provides them to local health directors so that they may use and modify them to meet their needs. To ensure availability of information and best practice guidelines throughout the state, CADH identifies and shares model emergency preparedness resources with local health directors.
What is CADH’s Role in Project Public Health Ready?
CADH provides guidance on the Project Public Health Ready initiative for multiple regions in the state. Specifically, CADH is preparing regional applications for PPHR recognition that detail the regional collaboration between local municipal and district health departments in the event of a public health emergency.
