Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP)

Tuscarawas County Health Department receives grant money from the Ohio Department of Health to aid in County emergency preparedness. Funding goes towards the following initiatives:
- Public health surveillance
- Emergency operation coordination
- Emergency public information and warnings
- Community preparedness
- Responder safety
- Volunteer management
- Community recovery
- Mass care
- Fatality management

TCHD chairs the Community Partners meetings which are held monthly to ensure all agencies in the County are prepared for public health emergencies and/or natural disasters.  If you are interested in attending these meetings please contact Paul Westlake at (330) 343-5555 x178 or email westlakepaultchd@gmail.com
 
Please utilize the link below to connect you to the Tuscarawas County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.  There you will be able to locate the following:
- Emergency notification sign-up
- County emergency plans
- Checklists and preparedness lists for common disaster types

2017 NECO Drill

October 2016 Closed Point of Dispensing (POD) Site Throughput Drill

2015 and 2016 NECO REGIONAL DISASTER PREPARDNESS DRILL

Resources