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Health education available on a variety of topics, including:

• Emergency preparedness education and planning

• Environmental health-related education available, including topics of lead, clean water, wells, etc.

• Free blood pressure clinics

• Foot care

• SHIP (Statewide Health Improvement Partnership): Works with community members and groups to make positive health and environmental policy changes

• Radon test kits for purchase

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Provides advanced planning for potential disasters to facilitate a rapid and effective response and recovery when a disaster occurs. Services may include:

• Addressing health and medical needs during a disaster

• Assist with post-disaster recovery services

• Plan development for response and recovery

• Training and practice drills

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training. Provides:

• Community planning for disaster response

• Home safety and emergency plans

• Volunteer recruitment and training for Medical Reserve Corps to be used if there is a health emergency

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training. Services for the community:

• Community Emergency Response Training (CERT): 20 hour class to help prepare for emergencies and disasters in the home or community. Practice first aid and triage, using fire extinguishers, and basic search and rescue in a casual atmosphere. Build your own evacuation and shelter kits.

• Firewise: Resource to for homeowners to reduce the risk of a fire damage to their home by taking some simple preventive actions. Homeowners can become a recognized Firewise USA site.

• Volunteer Opportunities:

• CERT team supports emergency response to natural and man-made emergencies and disasters through education, training, response and recovery

• Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services / Amateur Radio Emergency Services (RACES/ARES) serves as a back-up for public safety communications during emergencies and disasters, when traditional methods of communication are overwhelmed or fail

• Emergency Services Chaplains provide emotional and spiritual support to all emergency responders and their families, as well as victims of crime or crisis served by our responders

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Coordinates, plans, and communicates with local organizations and the community about potential environmental and public health threats

Provides emergency disaster management and planning, rescue, prevention, and public education

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, disaster prevention planning, public education, and training. Volunteer opportunities are available to help respond to disasters, provide public education, and offer recovery services.

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Also responsible to increase the capabilities of the LLBO to respond to public health threats and emergencies such as:

• Natural disasters - Severe weather - Bioterrorism - Disease outbreaks - Mass casualties - Chemical or radiation emergencies - Assists in the development of plans and policies The program provides:

• Education and training to community members on family emergency preparedness.

• Risk communications and health information dissemination and monitors information to assure the most current and accurate information is available.

• Monitors state health alerts.

• Coordinates LLBO preparedness and response to public health emergencies.

• Participates in the development, review, and management of policies for preparedness to mitigate possible events that could jeopardize public safety, health, and the environment.

• Develops training materials to educate the public.

Community information for a rapid and effective response in the event of a public health emergency or natural disaster. Services include:

• Emergency and disaster preparation information

• Emergency notification services

• Resources for businesses to develop a plan in case of a disaster

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Emergency preparedness and disaster management:

• Coordination of county government emergency services and resources during a natural or man-made disaster

• Coordination of assistance available at the municipal level during a natural or man-made disaster

• Information for self-help before, during, and after disaster-related incidents

Provides law enforcement and public safety services:

• 911 emergency dispatch

• County emergency management services

• Crime prevention and education

• Emergency Response Team (SWAT)

• Investigation

• Process services

• Road patrol

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Offers health trainings including: CPR trainings, first aid classes, and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training. In addition, this department provides public health emergency preparedness and response services for natural and man-made emergencies.

• Administers and maintains the Minnesota system for Tracking Resources, Alerts, and Communications (MNTrac), a database-driven web application designed to track bed, pharmaceutical, and resource availability from hospitals and provide for allocation of resources to support surge capacity needs

• Administers grants funding emergency preparedness, including work plans, technical and administrative guidance, and other federal and state requirements

• Assists local public health departments, hospitals, and other partners with their preparedness education and training activities

• Coordinates the Department of Health's preparedness activities and assists MDH staff, local public health agencies, hospitals, health care organizations, tribes, and public health officials in planning for, responding to, and recovering from public health emergencies and other community disasters

• Coordinates Minnesota Responds Medical Reserve Corps, a partnership of local and regional health volunteer programs that assist health agencies during an emergency

• Coordinates response to public health emergencies such as floods, widespread disease outbreaks, bioterrorism events, natural disasters, or other events that have a public health impact. Manages the Department Operations Center and supports the State Emergency Operations Center for health effects.

• Leads the planning for and coordination of Minnesota's Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) which allows for the rapid distribution of vaccines and other health care supplies during a public health emergency; manages a state stockpile of resources

?- Operates Health Alert Network, which alerts local public health agencies, clinicians, hospitals, and other partners in Minnesota's health care system to events that may threaten the health of Minnesotans

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, planning, public education, and training.

Public Health Emergency Preparedness is the capability of the public health and human care systems, communities, and individuals to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from health emergencies. Public Health Emergency Preparedness includes:

• Dispensing/vaccination clinics

• Essential services such as isolation and quarantine

• Mass care shelters and evacuation points coordination

• Medical countermeasures

• Volunteer management

Human Service Emergency Preparedness includes:

• Behavioral health services

• Disaster food stamps to replace food destroyed by a disaster

• Disease prevention

• Environmental Health: Provides licensing and inspection for all food, pools, and lodging establishments, including temporary events

• Healthy Smiles: Dental services including assessment, cleaning, education, fluoride varnish, sealants, and referrals

• Medication Disposal: Accepts disposal of unneeded prescription and over-the-counter medications

• Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP)

• Sharps Disposal: Accepts disposal of needles, lancets, and syringes (sharps)

• Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP)