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CH 16 Volume 1 · The People The System Protects

The Family
Plan Kit

A plan that lives only in your head protects only you. This chapter is mostly people and paper, not gear — so this is a deliberately light kit, plus the existing kits the plan actually draws on and the printable page where the plan gets written down.

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What's in this kit

  • Light kit Index cards, home map, posted contact list
  • Draws on Home, Car, Person & Travel kits
  • Print The Planning & Practice page
  • Rule Written down beats remembered
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Talk to each other, and never assume what is obvious to you is obvious to anyone else. The plan itself is not complicated — it just has to be shared, practiced, and written where everyone can find it.

Chapter 16 · Developing A Family Plan

Mostly people. A little paper.

The four pieces of a family plan — communication, meeting places, situational triggers, and where things are located — are decisions, not purchases. The few physical items here just make those decisions durable. The real work happens on the printable Planning & Practice page.

+ Also staged elsewhereA family plan isn't a new pile of gear — it's the index that points at gear you already staged. The supporting-kit panel below shows which existing kits the plan leans on, so building the plan mostly means knowing what you already have.
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Make The Plan Durable

From Chapter 16 · Home · Appendix H

Four pieces — communication, meeting places, situational triggers, where things live. These few items turn those decisions into something the whole family can hold.

Comms+ Home kitIndex cards, one per person
Index Cards (one per person)

The whole working core of a plan fits on a card: meeting places, comms backup, out-of-area contact. One copy per person.

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Location+ Home kitMagnetic dry-erase whiteboard, double-sided
Home Map / Whiteboard

A posted map marking where supplies, exits, and shutoffs are, so the plan is visible, not recalled.

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Comms+ Home kitPosted contact list template
Posted Contact List

The emergency contact list where everyone can find it — a maintained page beats a network you rebuild mid-crisis.

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Backup+ Car · RemoteMidland FRS two-way radios with charging dock, clips, and batteries
Backup Comms (FRS radios)

A second messaging method for when networks are down — batteries die, towers fail, a plan that needs a phone isn't a plan.

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Pairs Well With

This chapter activates kits you've already built

Kits the family plan draws on — you've likely already built these.

Supporting kits
Home Base Camp (Ch 3)The reserve the plan assigns roles around — where most supplies actually live.
Mobile Command Center (Ch 8)The car the plan treats as the second base and evacuation tool.
Everyday Carry (Ch 4)What each family member has on them when the plan activates.
Carry-On Floor (Ch 11)The travel version of the plan for when the family is away from home.

Make the plan durable

The plan is the highest-value, lowest-cost layer in the whole system. These few items keep it from living only in one person's head — then print the Planning & Practice page and fill it in together.

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The Family Plan Kit
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a few items · the rest is on paper and in people
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Affiliate disclosure. As an Amazon Associate, EDC Exec / MCorp Inc earns from qualifying purchases. Product links are illustrative placeholders for this draft. This kit is guidance, not a survival manual. Items marked “also staged elsewhere” intentionally overlap other layers — in this system, redundancy across layers is the whole point. Confirm what is legal where you live and travel.