King County Office of Emergency Management 3511 NE 2nd Street Renton, WA 98056 Main Phone: 206-296-3830 Toll Free: 800-523-5044 Fax: 206-205-4056 ecc.kc@kingcounty.gov
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Preparedness motivations
Over the past several years surveys were conducted examining local emergency and disaster preparedness attitudes, motivations and perceptions in our region. The surveys were conducted by two national survey research organizations and funded by a homeland security grant, this marks the first time King County has had the ability to assess the preparedness motivations of the Puget Sound region, making these results all the more valuable for the insight they lend to our public education programs.
These surveys were accomplished in three phases: the first utilizing three locally held focus groups, the second using a telephone survey of 500 randomly selected King County residents, and the third utilizing a second telephone survey of 500 randomly selected adults from King, Pierce and Snohomish counties.
The King County Office of Emergency Management plans to utilize the survey results in working with the regional partners to help measure the effectiveness of emergency and disaster preparedness public education programs, as well as to help define the direction of future survey efforts.
