About PHSKC APC

The Seattle-King County APC is actively working to help all local health departments nationwide prepare for, respond to and recover from Public Health Emergencies. Toolkits have been developed that address a number of public health emergency preparedness issue including: isolation and quarantine response, techniques for engaging the business community, blueprints for building healthcare coalitions, trainings on crisis and risk communication, and strategies for connecting with organizations that serve vulnerable populations

The Planning and Managing Isolation & Quarantine Web Toolkit includes tools for putting a plan together, an I&Q response center model, and tabletop exercises for testing your I&Q plan.

An Emergency Risk Communication Course for Public Health Professionals was developed in collaboration with the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. This course was designed to provide an introduction to emergency risk communication concepts and principles.

Speak First: Communicating Effectively in Times of Crisis and Uncertainty is a proven, practical training for building the skills to delivering first messages in the early hours of a crisis. Learn what you need to know, to sharpen your skills and to teach others how to master these best practices.

Hello, how may I help you?: Creating and operating a Public Information Call Center is a toolkit to assist public health departments in building capacity to handle a surge in phone calls during an emergency.

Preparing for Pandmic Flu: It's Not Business as Usual offers business engagement outreach template and resources for developing partnerships with the business community around public heath preparedness, specifically pandemic influenza.

The Managing Surge Response and Public Health Workforce Activation Toolkit is a web-based toolkit to guide local public health agencies in development of a response-ready workforce by defining surge functions and matching staff resources to emergent response needs. The purpose of the Toolkit is to help your jurisdiction save time during your planning process by suggesting a planning framework.

Equity in Emergency Response: Public Health Planning for Vulnerable Populations is a web-based toolkit that provides time saving information about assessing, engaging and building relationships with key community based organizations that serve vulnerable populations. It will help local health jurisdictions embark in customizing their own coordinated planning efforts for all of the communities they serve.

For more information about the Public Health-Seattle and King County APC please contact the APC Program Manager, Carina Elsenboss .