Communicating with Diverse Populations- Presentation from the 2005 Michigan Public Health Media Summit:
Slide show discusses effective methods, including the use of ethnic media, for
communicating with culturally isolated and non-English speaking populations in crisis situations.
Diversity Preparedness
web page focuses on advancing emergency preparedness for culturally diverse communities. It is sponsored by the National Resource
Center, a central clearinghouse of resources and an information exchange portal to facilitate communication, networking and
collaboration to improve preparedness, build resilience and eliminate disparities for culturally diverse communities across all
phases of an emergency.
Disaster Preparedness in Urban Immigrant Communities
is a 2008 report on lessons learned from recent catastrophic events and their relevance
to Southern CA Latino and Asian populations. Focus on whether Limited English Proficient (LEP) immigrants, particularly the poor,
with low levels of education had the information necessary to prepare for and survive a disaster, and whether the social networks,
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formats, and language in which they can successfully receive and respond to emergency information were in place.
Healthy Roads Media
provides health information in a wide vary variety of languages and formats. Emergency preparedness and response information is
available in Arabic, Bosnian, English, Kurdish, Somali and Spanish. In addition to printable brochures and handouts,
Healthy Roads Media provides information in the form of web-based and mobile videos, multimedia presentations, and audio recordings.
Immigrantinfo.org -
Emergency Preparation and Response Resources for Immigrants contains a resource page with links to information
and organizations specifically focused on helping immigrants and their advocates prepare for and respond to emergencies.
Multilingual materials as well as information on working with culturally diverse communities.
Integrating Immigrant Families in Emergency Response, Relief, and Rebuilding Efforts:
This report offers a framework for how local governments can incorporate residents with
limited English proficiency into the emergency planning process and provides a number of examples and recommendations of how ethnic
media can be used to achieve this goal.
New America Media (NAM)
Founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996, is the country's first and largest national collaboration and advocate of
2000 ethnic news organizations. Over 51 million ethnic adults connect to each other, to home countries and to America through 3000+
ethnic media, the fastest growing sector of American journalism. NAM is dedicated to bringing the voices of the marginalized -
ethnic minorities, immigrants, young people, elderly - into the national discourse. The communities of the New America will then
be better informed, better connected to one another, and better able to influence policy makers.
Ethnic Media as Emergency Responders:
This audio feature consists of an interview between a New America Media and representatives
from ethnic media news organizations regarding their efforts to reach ethnically diverse populations in the hours and days following
a disaster.
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