The Disaster Response Collaborative is in Progress!
DRC Updates
The DRC session 13 was held on September 2, 2025. Focus area session recordings can be found on the webpages below.
The next DRC event on October 7, 2025, includes all four focus area sessions. Registration links are on the focus area webpages:
Fireside Chats
October 15, 2025, 11 am – 12 pm (CT)
Why Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs (CYSHCN) and Children with Medical Complexity (CMC)?
Register here
November 18, 2025, 1 – 2 pm (CT)
Management of Pediatric PTSD and Co-Morbid Symptoms within the Framework of Disaster Response
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November 19, 2025, 11 am – 12 pm (CT)
CYSHCN, CMC, and Disaster Planning
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Learn about the DRC
The Disaster Response Collaborative (DRC) continues the work of the Disaster Networking Collaborative (DNC), and both are initiatives of the Pediatric Pandemic Network (PPN). These initiatives support ongoing efforts to form a network of children’s hospitals that are (individually and collectively) prepared to respond to disasters and pandemics. The goal of the DRC is to improve pediatric disaster response capability and capacity among children’s hospitals.
This collaborative focuses on four pediatric priority areas: evacuation, reunification, surge, and triage/infection control/decontamination. The DRC will help children’s hospitals achieve improvements in these disaster response areas and provide quality care for children when needed during an emergency, disaster, or pandemic. The DRC will provide guidance and resources to support participants to implement improvements and to use tabletop exercises and drills to monitor and track improvements in disaster response.
Through offering opportunities for education, networking, sharing of evidence-based practices, and exchanging new ideas and strategies, this collaborative will also support the workforce resiliency of employees at children’s hospitals by improving their job satisfaction.
Quality Improvement
The DRC is a Quality Improvement (QI) collaborative. Learn about QI science, collaboratives, framework, and tools and resources here.
For more information, see About the DRC or email DNCPPN@austin.utexas.edu.