National Preparedness Month: get your community ready with PHapp®

September is National Preparedness Month, and for most public health and emergency management teams it's the busiest outreach stretch of the year. It's a practical moment to give residents one reliable place for local health and safety information, before the next heat wave or outbreak rather than during it.

PHapp® is a free public information network agencies use to do that. It delivers your community's alerts and guidance from official sources — CDC, the National Weather Service, USDA, FDA, and local agencies — in 50+ human-reviewed languages, by app, web, and text. There are no ads, no tracking, and no data sales, so you can point residents to it without reservation. It works alongside the channels you already use to reach residents — your alert tools, website, or social. PHapp® is the destination behind those messages, where residents get the full guidance in their language, and the place they check year-round between emergencies.

During National Preparedness Month, agencies are using PHapp® to:

• Put the season's messaging in one place residents can check, instead of scattering it across social posts and PDFs.
• Reach households that don't speak English in their own language, without running a separate translation workflow.
• Keep preparedness guidance up year-round, so the September push doesn't vanish on October 1.

If your agency already uses PHapp®, the National Preparedness Campaign gives you ready-made multilingual materials for NPM and the rest of the year's hazards. If you're new to it, PHapp® is free for agencies, with no contract or setup cost to start. See how it works.