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PrepToolkit

Personalized User Dashboards

As of July 1, 2025, PrepToolkit users will notice a new feature available upon login, a customizable dashboard designed to improve navigation and access multiple projects in one centralized location. Users will automatically be directed to the dashboard after logging into PrepToolkit. The PrepToolkit Homepage is still available for all users. To navigate back to the PrepToolkit Homepage, simply click on the PrepToolkit icon or the FEMA logo at the top of any page.

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We have prepared a Dashboard Help area to assist in managing your dashboard. Access the Dashboard Help area.

PrepToolkit and the National Preparedness System

The National Preparedness System outlines an organized process for everyone in the whole community to move forward with their preparedness activities and achieve the National Preparedness Goal.

The Preparedness Toolkit is an online portal that provides the whole community with tools to aid in implementing all six areas of the National Preparedness System. Select one of the six National Preparedness System areas on the graphic and begin exploring.

The National Preparedness System diagram. Encircling the diagram is "Whole Community", "National Incident Management System (NIMS)", "Core Capabilities"Identifying & Assessing Risk Estimating Capability Requirements Building & Sustaining Capabilities Planning to Deliver Capabilities Validating Capabilities Reviewing & Updating

Preparedness Toolkits

About PrepToolkit

Learn what PrepToolkit has to offer and how to get started.

Go to About PrepToolkit

OneResponder

Access and start using a cloud-hosted system to manage personnel qualifications and credentialing consistently with the National Qualifications System.

Go to OneResponder

Resource Inventory System - RIS

Request and start using a cloud-hosted resource inventory solution to support your organization’s resource management efforts.

Go to Resource Inventory System - RIS

Hazard Explorer

Learn about and access GIS / location-enabled tools, data, and smart practices for use in your organization’s planning and exercise development efforts.

Go to Hazard Explorer

Exercise Starter Kits (ESKs)

Access toolkits to help your organization carry out key preparedness activities: planning, training, exercising, assessing, and engaging.

Go to Exercise Starter Kits (ESKs)

Technological Hazards-REPP/CSEPP

Explore resources for enhancing preparedness in communities surrounding commercial nuclear power plants and U.S. Army chemical weapons stockpile sites.

Go to Technological Hazards-REPP/CSEPP

Communities

Collaborate with other stakeholders in specific areas of interest to build community and exchange ideas.

Go to Communities

Logistics Technical Assistance Program-LTAP

Use The Logistics Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) to access resources, training, and tools to support logistics management.

Go to Logistics Technical Assistance Program-LTAP

National Resource Hub - NRH

Access a suite of NIMS and NQS resource management tools: OneResponder, Resource Typing Library Tool, and the Resource Inventory System.

Go to National Resource Hub - NRH

Resource Typing Library Tool - RTLT

Explore the online catalog of all NIMS resource typing definitions, job titles/position qualification sheets, and position task book templates.

Go to Resource Typing Library Tool - RTLT

National Incident Management System (NIMS) Toolkit

Access multiple suites of resources and tools that support implementation of NIMS concepts and principles.

Go to National Incident Management System (NIMS) Toolkit

Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program – HSEEP

Develop, execute, and evaluate exercises in alignment with HSEEP guiding principles.

Go to Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program – HSEEP

Exercise Builder

Gain access to a tool to assist in exercise design, management, conduct and evaluation.

Go to Exercise Builder

THIRA/SPR and Unified Reporting Tool - URT

Complete the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and the Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR) using the online data collection tool known as the URT.

Go to THIRA/SPR and Unified Reporting Tool - URT

Continuous Improvement Technical Assistance Program

Access training, tools, templates, best practices, and other resources to develop and support your organization’s continuous improvement program.

Go to Continuous Improvement Technical Assistance Program