http://www.citizencorps.gov/ There is a Citizen Corps in Santa Paula. Citizen Corps is an organization of members from the private and public sector that asks citizens to embrace the goal of being personally responsible to be prepared; to get training in first aid and emergency skills; and to volunteer to support local emergency responders, disaster relief, and community safety.
The components of Citizen Corps are: CERT, Neighborhood Watch, Volunteers in Police Services and The Medical Reserve Corps.
http://www.santapaulacert.com Santa Paula's CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) website. Happily always under construction! Still very operational.
http://www.citizencorps.gov/programs/watch.shtm Neighborhood Watch incorporates terrorism awareness education into its existing crime prevention mission, while also serving as a way to bring residents together to focus on emergency preparedness and emergency response training.
http://www.citizencorps.gov/programs/medical.shtm The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) Program coordinates the skills of practicing physicians, retired physicians, nurses and other health professionals.
http://www.citizencorps.gov/programs/vips.shtm Volunteers in Police Services and this works to enhance the capacity of state and local law enforcement and to utilize much needed volunteers.
http://www.fema.gov/business/bc.shtm Business recovery and restoration, or business resumption, goes right to a facility's bottom line: keeping people employed and the business running.
Websites created by Susan Lazenby (c) 2007, Captain Steve Lazenby's wife. Thank you CERT teams everywhere for all the help. To add information or redo the web page my email address is: slazenby@roadrunner.com
http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/index.shtm Are you Ready? An In-depth guide to Citizen Preparedness (IS-22) is FEMA's most comprehensive source on individual, family and community prepardness.