New York’s popular, free Citizen Preparedness Corps training course is now available online with subtitles in Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Yiddish. The 24-minute online training course covers a wide range of important safety and preparedness topics, as well as provides New Yorkers with the guidance they need to prepare for natural or human-caused disasters.

The course covers three main areas: preparing your plan, you are a first responder, and recovery is a process. For example, citizens will learn about the four types of hazards in New York State – natural, human-caused, technological and biological – that could affect them, how to develop a family emergency plan, and how to recover from a catastrophic event.

All citizens who complete the online course receive a certificate upon completion. More information is available at https://prepare.ny.gov/online-citizen-preparedness-training