While certain houses of worship and religious leaders in New York City had done good work in the field of disaster response before the World Trade Center attacks, the landscape for communities of faith and houses of worship changed forever in New York City after September 11, 2001. Because of the enormous role that imams, pastors, priests, rabbis, anyone with a responsibility for a house of worship played in the recovery effort, the needs of our City called each religious leader to a new level of disaster response.
The challenges of those times are still with us, and the need to remain vigilant and prepare for the next disaster has not gone away. This manual was developed by New York Disaster Interfaith Services (NYDIS), and can be accessed here for free: http://www.nydis.org/nydis/
