Family Emergency Plan

Family Emergency Plan Goals

The goals for our family emergency plan goals are to:

Stay safe,

Limit losses to family and property,

Be quickly reunited, and

Resume normal life as soon as possible.

Your goals will likely be similar to mine, but make sure that you take the time to establish exactly what your goals are to ensure that the plan you design makes accomplishing those goals possible. Review your completed plan and ask yourself if the plan needs to be tweaked to ensure these goals are achieved.

Personal Risk Evaluation

Conducting a personal and family risk evaluation of the most likely dangers you may face is first on the list.

Two Essential Family Emergency Plans

Unfortunately, we do not know what challenges or disasters you will face. That makes it critical for you to create two versions of a family emergency plan. One in the happy event that you get to face the challenges from the home front and another in case you are forced to evacuate your family to safety.

Home Family Emergency Plan

Your home family emergency plan will help you to strengthen your fortress, building a stash of critical tools and supplies. It will include important skill acquisition for every member of your family. Staying at home gives us the best chance of survival in the majority of scenarios. Additionally, we need to be able to protect or defend our home, so we need to develop plans for those scenarios as well.

Family Emergency Evacuation Plan

As prepared as your home may be, there are situations where your only hope of survival is to evacuate to a safer location. Leaving home is a dangerous option because you immediately become a refugee with limited supplies and resources. Having a quality family emergency evacuation plan will significantly increase your chance of survival.

This template is a great example to help you formulate and share your personal family emergency plan.