Community Planning

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• Overview
• H1N1 (Swine) Flu
  • Guide and Communication Toolkit
  • Guidance
  • Vaccine
• Community Planning General Information
  • Checklist
  • Planning Guides
  • Guidance

Overview

To help keep communities healthy during the upcoming flu season, it will take all of us- community and faith-based organizations, government, businesses, and schools-working together. The federal government alone cannot prepare for or respond to the challenge of the 2009-2010 flu season. Your community can develop strategies that reduce the impact and spread of flu.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed a document—H1N1 Flu: a Guide for Community and Faith-based Organizations--that highlights specific action steps that CFBOs can take to support flu response efforts.  In addition, CDC has developed guidance on specific actions that local governments and CFBOs can take to help limit the spread of flu.

H1N1 (Swine) Flu

Guide and Communication Toolkit

Guide For Community and Faith-Based Organizations The Guide For Community and Faith-Based Organizations provides specific action steps community and faith-based organizations can take to help keep communities healthy during flu season, including: communicating important information about flu,supporting vaccination efforts, linking vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations to vital information and resources, and expanding and adjusting organizational activities to help people stay healthy.

Preparing for the Flu: A Communication Toolkit for Community and Faith-based Organizations
Find fact sheets, easy-to-use template letters or e-mails, and other materials to assist community and faith-based organizations (CFBOs) communicate about the flu, including seasonal and 2009 H1N1 flu, with their staff, members, and those served in their communities.

Guidance

• CDC: Guidance for Public Gatherings in Response to Human Infections with Novel Influenza A (H1N1)
• CDC Recommendations for the Amount of Time Persons with Influenza-Like Illness Should be Away from Others
• CDC: Interim Guidance on Day and Residential Camps in Response to Human Infections with the Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus
• CDC Guidance for Emergency Shelters for the 2009-2010 Flu Season
• Facemasks and Respirators
• WHO: Interim Planning Considerations for Mass Gatherings in the Context of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza (PDF - 160 KB)
  Get risk assessment, planning and coordination, detection, monitoring, and transmission reduction of event-related flu, medical management, and public health messages guidance.

Vaccine

H1N1 Vaccine Tort Liability Immunity
The H1N1 vaccine declaration provides tort liability immunity to a group named “program planners.”  Program planners can include private sector individuals and organizations, community groups, schools, or businesses.

Community Planning General Information