In 2024, SF CARD received exclusive funding from Bay Area UASI to develop and offer a 90-minute, interactive workshop for youth to learn about personal emergency preparedness utilizing FEMA's STEP curriculum. We worked in all 14 UASI Jurisdiction (12 Bay Area counties) and delivered 140 workshops. The impact of this program was impressive, reaching over 1,600 students with personal emergency preparedness curriculum and providing them with youth-centered emergency go-bag starter kits! 

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Student Tools for Emergency Planning, or STEP, is a modular emergency preparedness curriculum that can be used in many different settings -- school classrooms, technology education and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) classes, summer camps, afterschool programs, school safety programs, child care centers, and other community-based programs.

Students learn about disasters, emergencies, severe weather, hazards, and health using fun activities that help to build skills, such as how to create an Emergency Supply Kit and Family Emergency Communication Plan.