Project Impact is a program initiated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) that encourages communities to assess their risks from natural hazards before disasters strike and to implement strategies and actions that will limit damage and save lives.
Project Impact encourages forming partnerships between government, private enterprise and non-profit organizations in order to accomplish the activities to prevent or reduce the impact of disasters.
Some examples of activities Project Impact are planning to undertake in Sedgwick County include:
- Hosting Extreme Weather Fair 2002 to better educate citizens about severe weather and how to protect themselves.
- Installing or improving safe rooms in residences, businesses, public
buildings and more.
- Improving systems that warn or hazards throughout the county.
- Projects to prevent or lessen the impact of flooding.
- Promote better education among the public and the construction industry about the need to use "hurricane strapping" to improve the wind resistance
of single-family dwellings.
- Project Impact will also encourage all school districts in Sedgwick County to work with the national partner 3M in installing special window film to
reduce the chance of injury from shattered glass during a disaster.
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