Survey: How Can We Culturally Center Disaster Preparedness and Response?

September is Disaster Preparedness Month, and the ‘Ohana Center of Excellence is conducting a community survey to help guide policy and protocols to help organizations better understand how to be culturally centered for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in disaster preparedness and response.

If you identify as Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and/or Pacific Islander, your input via this survey is tremendously valuable! Please take 10-15 minutes to complete the survey below. You may choose to answer as many or few questions as you would like.

Learning Resources

Disaster preparedness among Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American communities (Study)

Anchoring Our Health Through Cultural Wisdom (Webinar)

National Preparedness Month 2024: Talk About It (Article)

SAMHSA: Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (Resource)

SAMHSA’s Disaster Distress Helpline (Resource)

MAUI RISING: The Fight for Hawai’i’s Future (Documentary)

How are Asian-Americans different from other races in disaster preparedness in the context of caregiving responsibilities and preparation information access? (Study)

Perceived Disaster Preparedness between Asian Americans and Other Races: Mediating Roles of Information Seeking and Self-Efficacy (Study)

Examining the Use of Photovoice to Explore Disaster Risk Perception Among Native Hawaiians Living on O‘ahu: A Feasibility Study (Study)

Perspectives on Emergency Preparedness Among Indigenous Pacific People in Hawaii: A Qualitative Study (Study)

Traditional Coping Strategies and Disaster Response: Examples from the South Pacific Region (Study)

I will not go, I cannot go: cultural and social limitations of disaster preparedness in Asia, Africa, and Oceania (Study)