Extreme weather events increasingly disrupt schools, displacing students and staff and creating lasting trauma. This webinar featured Brian Kasher, a widely respected expert in school environmental health and emergency preparedness, and international experts Leslie Rubin and Joel Scheraga.
Webinar Resources
- Webinar flyer and panelist bios
- “Countdown” video with exclusive footage and interviews with local responders and school officials in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene
- Webinar recording
- Leslie Rubin presentation (slides)
- Brian Kasher presentation (slides)
Additional Resources
- Recorded webinars on climate and keeping schools open safely, National Healthy Schools Day 2025
- Resources page (climate, IAQ, asthma, more), National Healthy Schools Day
- Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units
- Video: Keep Kids Healthy by Preparing for Natural Disasters
- Video: How Can Families/Communities Prepare Before a Weather-Related Event or Disaster?
- Fact sheet: Extreme Weather (for Families and Communities)
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- National Climate Resilience Framework (September 2023), Biden administration National Climate Resilience Framework identifying key values, priorities, and objectives for locally tailored and community-driven resilience strategies.
- Fiscal Year 2024 EPA Annual Performance Report summarizing progress made with investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act
- Video: Climate Change: The Cost of Inaction, produced by EPA, depicting the risks posed by climate change to human health and the environment and highlighting the opportunity the nation has to slow the rate of climate change and make it more manageable.
- Climate Change Adaptation Resource Center (ARC-X)
- Planning for Natural Disaster Debris (June 2025), guidance to help communities prepare for disasters and take steps to recover.
- Office of Children’s Health Protection
- Office of Policy
- Information about climate adaptation
- US Department of Education
