Building a resilient community
The Charles County Department of Health Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response serves the community by ensuring Charles County can prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from all-hazards, which negatively impact the health of the public. We collaborate with Maryland Department of Health Office of Preparedness and Response staff, local and regional Federal Emergency Management Agency partners, and area Healthcare Preparedness Program coalition partners, to strengthen preparedness and response capabilities.
We do this by functioning within the scope of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Response Readiness Framework.
Our key strategies are as follows:
- Prioritize a risk-based approach for all-hazards planning to improve readiness, response, and recovery capacity for existing and emerging public health threats
- Improve whole-community readiness, response, and recovery through enhanced partnerships and improved communication systems for timely situational awareness and risk communication
- Improve capacity to meet jurisdictional health equity, at-risk and public health surge management needs, as well as public health emergency administrative and budget needs.
To request a presentation on community health resilience and emergency preparedness or to request our participation in your health fair/community event, email us at ccdh.epr@maryland.gov.
How can you help? volunteer
Disaster can strike at a moment’s notice and your knowledge, skills and abilities can help save lives. The scope of volunteer roles ranges from preparedness and response exercises to assisting in real-world disasters, such as mass medical countermeasure dispensing operations. If you are willing to help your community prepare for and respond to public health emergencies, please click on the buttons below to learn more.
MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH VOLUNTEERING
STATE AND LOCAL PREPAREDNESS
NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS
- Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
- National Disaster Medical System
- Hospital Preparedness Program
- Regional Disaster Health Response System
- National Special Pathogen System
- Disaster Behavioral Health
- Health Partner Ordering Portal
- ASPR TRACIE
- Emergency Prescription Assistance Program
- USGS for Earthquake Preparedness
- Department of Homeland Security Disasters
- Department of Labor Emergency Preparedness
- FDA Emergency Preparedness and Response
- CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response
- OSHA Emergency Preparedness and Response
- EPA Emergency Response
- National Safety Council Emergency Preparedness
- National Weather Service
- American Red Cross
- Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Disaster Preparedness, Response Recovery, and Mitigation
- School Preparedness
- School Safety Emergency Planning
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Preparedness
- Travel Advisories
- Department of Defense Preparedness Guide
- Administration for Community Living Emergency Preparedness
- Healthy People 2030 Preparedness Objectives
- Small Business Association Prepare for Emergencies
- NACCHO Public Health Preparedness
ADDITIONAL PREPAREDNESS
Ready Preparedness Calendar
We can follow the Ready calendar together each month by clicking on the calendar links and participating in the #Hashtag campaigns. See this site and our social media sites for highlights.
Flood Safety
National Tsunami Awareness Week – March 24-30
April is Financial Capability Month – Stay prepared financially
