The Montgomery County Advanced Practice Center developed a toolkit to assist health departments in conducting a pandemic influenza preparedness workshop for home care providers. While much of the toolkit focuses on continuity-of-operations planning for home care agencies, it also provides home care agencies with materials to enhance personal preparedness and knowledge about pandemic flu scenarios among their clients. The practice is based on the understanding the public health and home care are both responsible for educating vulnerable populations about personal preparedness so they have the tools to make it through a pandemic. The toolkit may save public health significant planning time and resources, as well as assist home care providers as they integrate pandemic preparedness into their daily client activities.
The toolkit includes all of the materials necessary to replicate the workshop, most of which can be easily adapted to fit the needs of any jurisdiction. Materials include a timeline checklist to keep event planning on track, a budget, ideas on where to find a list of home care agencies and partners in a given jurisdiction, a list of materials to include in a participant packet, event objectives, a flyer, a sample agenda, PowerPoint slides, an evaluation, and a description of lessons learned.
Materials submitted for this project consist of electronic documents and web
links, and combinations of both. If a component part appears to have more than
one link, this is why: CIDRAP saved the documents and reviewed both documents
and links when the practices were submitted for review. The external links
included here may be duplicative to some of the stored files, but they may
also be updated or provide additional useful information.
