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<p>Engaging children and youth in disaster risk reduction is critical for resilience building and cultivating future resilient citizens. The Youth Preparedness Program, offered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is one of the disaster education programs designed to engage children and youth. This paper investigates the linkages between children’s preparedness awareness and parents’ awareness of FEMA’s youth preparedness programs, their perceived efficacies of disaster preparedness, and their actual adoption of preparedness actions. The FEMA’s National Household Survey (NHS) data from 2021 and 2023 were analyzed using multiple regression models. The results demonstrate that there are significant linkages from children’s preparedness conversation initiation to parents’ awareness of FEMA’s youth preparedness programs, leading to higher self-efficacy and response efficacy, and ultimately to a higher degree of household preparedness activities adoption. Moreover, the association between children’s conversation initiation and parents’ awareness is moderated by their children’s affiliation status-the ones with children at school have the largest coefficient. This analysis suggests a positive association consistent with the purpose of transferring disaster awareness and skills from children and youth to households and communities, which is one of FEMA’s youth preparedness program’s missions. The authors suggest further evaluation of disaster preparedness programs and policies.</p>

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An evaluation of disaster preparedness policy: linking youth preparedness to household preparedness through the paths of efficacy

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    2026年4月10日

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  • Ziqiang Han,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Jeffrey Schlegelmilch,
  • Ziyi Wang

摘要

Engaging children and youth in disaster risk reduction is critical for resilience building and cultivating future resilient citizens. The Youth Preparedness Program, offered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is one of the disaster education programs designed to engage children and youth. This paper investigates the linkages between children’s preparedness awareness and parents’ awareness of FEMA’s youth preparedness programs, their perceived efficacies of disaster preparedness, and their actual adoption of preparedness actions. The FEMA’s National Household Survey (NHS) data from 2021 and 2023 were analyzed using multiple regression models. The results demonstrate that there are significant linkages from children’s preparedness conversation initiation to parents’ awareness of FEMA’s youth preparedness programs, leading to higher self-efficacy and response efficacy, and ultimately to a higher degree of household preparedness activities adoption. Moreover, the association between children’s conversation initiation and parents’ awareness is moderated by their children’s affiliation status-the ones with children at school have the largest coefficient. This analysis suggests a positive association consistent with the purpose of transferring disaster awareness and skills from children and youth to households and communities, which is one of FEMA’s youth preparedness program’s missions. The authors suggest further evaluation of disaster preparedness programs and policies.