YourEMR researched resource guide
Children may be away from parents or guardians at school, daycare, camp, a co-parent's home, a grandparent's home, or college. Each setting may use its own official form, yet families still need a consistent way to remember which contacts and source documents are current.
This hub supports family organization and communication. It does not replace a school's emergency operations plan, a child's individualized healthcare or education documents, medication authorization, or instructions from qualified professionals.
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Use this medically complex child emergency sheet to help parents and guardians organize key contacts, family-recorded condition summary, baseline status, devices, supplies, care-plan location, school notes, and caregiver handoff details.
View the resource and blank printableUse this school nurse handoff sheet to organize parent or guardian contacts, backup pickup contacts, allergy and action-plan locations, medication notes copied from school forms, care-team contacts, and student support notes that belong beside official school paperwork.
View the resource and blank printableUse this autism and sensory emergency sheet to keep communication style, AAC tools, sensory needs, support strategies, caregiver contacts, and medical basics easy to find.
View the resource and blank printableParents, guardians, co-parents, grandparents, babysitters, daycare teams, school nurses, camp staff, college students, and caregivers of children with special healthcare needs may use these resources. A young person can participate in age-appropriate planning when that is useful and safe.
Not every setting should receive the same information. Families should follow school, childcare, camp, college, clinical, and legal requirements and share only what the recipient is authorized and prepared to use.
Pickup contacts, medication forms, allergy plans, communication tools, and equipment information can be split across offices and households. A substitute teacher or backup caregiver may have a different document than the school nurse. A child may communicate differently when frightened, separated from familiar adults, or without a usual device or support person.
Official plans can also expire or require signatures. A family summary should point to the current approved form and responsible contact instead of presenting itself as permission to give medication or perform a procedure.
Organize information around the child's actual settings and the forms those settings require. Use simple, respectful wording that the child and trusted adults can understand.
The U.S. Department of Education describes school emergency planning as collaborative and specific to the school. Ask the school or program which forms are required, who maintains them, and how families are notified about changes. Keep a family copy, but do not assume a YourEMR printable has been accepted by the setting.
Review the family summary when contacts, custody or pickup arrangements, school placement, transportation, medicines, action plans, communication methods, devices, or support needs change. Replace old copies held by co-parents and backup caregivers.
These resources do not create school authorization, custody rights, consent, or individualized medical instructions. Use the child's clinicians, parents or legal guardians, school or program policies, signed action plans, medication labels, and emergency services.
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A free account can be used to organize a child's contacts, allergies, medicines, clinicians, communication needs, devices, baseline notes, and visibility choices. Signup is the public entry route; profile creation and printing happen after login.
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A free printable babysitter emergency information sheet for organizing parent and guardian contacts, backup contacts, child details, allergies, medications as parent-provided information, pediatrician, pickup notes, and household emergency notes.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable co-parent emergency information sheet for organizing parent and guardian contacts, backup contacts, pediatrician, specialists, medications, allergies, school or daycare contacts, pharmacy, insurance basics, and shared notes.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable grandparent caregiver emergency information sheet for organizing parent or guardian contacts, grandparent caregiver contacts, backup contacts, child medications and allergies, pediatrician, specialists, school or daycare contacts, pickup notes, and caregiver notes.
View the resource and blank printableUse this school nurse handoff sheet to organize parent or guardian contacts, backup pickup contacts, allergy and action-plan locations, medication notes copied from school forms, care-team contacts, and student support notes that belong beside official school paperwork.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable daycare emergency information sheet for organizing child contacts, parent or guardian contacts, backup pickup contacts, allergies, medications as parent-provided information, pediatrician contact, comfort notes, and daycare form locations.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable summer camp emergency information sheet for organizing camper contacts, parent or guardian contacts, allergies, medications as parent-provided information, clinician contacts, support needs, equipment notes, and camp handoff details.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable college student emergency information sheet for organizing emergency contacts, campus or residence contacts if the student chooses to include them, medications, allergies, doctors, pharmacy, insurance basics, document locations, and support notes.
View the resource and blank printableUse this medically complex child emergency sheet to help parents and guardians organize key contacts, family-recorded condition summary, baseline status, devices, supplies, care-plan location, school notes, and caregiver handoff details.
View the resource and blank printableA no-signup emergency face sheet for keeping contacts, medications, allergies, doctors, caregiver notes, and key handoff details easy to find.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable family emergency contact list for organizing primary contacts, backup contacts, caregiver contacts, school, work, facility, doctor, pharmacy, out-of-area contact, and where emergency information is stored.
View the resource and blank printableUse this autism and sensory emergency sheet to keep communication style, AAC tools, sensory needs, support strategies, caregiver contacts, and medical basics easy to find.
View the resource and blank printableUse this seizure and epilepsy emergency sheet to keep seizure history, action-plan location, rescue medication notes if prescribed, triggers, neurologist contacts, medications, allergies, and emergency contacts easy to find.
View the resource and blank printableUse this diabetes handoff sheet to keep diabetes type, insulin and medication-list locations, CGM or pump basics, meter and supply locations, endocrinology contacts, allergy list, and care-plan location easy to find.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable emergency information sheet for organizing allergens, reaction history, epinephrine auto-injector location, allergy action plan location, allergist contact, medications, and emergency contacts.
View the resource and blank printableUse this seizure rescue medication sheet to record where prescribed rescue medication information is kept, the medication label location, neurologist or prescribing clinician contact, seizure action plan location, emergency contacts, and school or caregiver handoff contacts.
View the resource and blank printableUse this printable medication list to record medicine names exactly as shown on current labels or records, dose and frequency fields as copied information, prescribers, pharmacy, allergies, supplements if relevant, source records, and the last-reviewed date.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable allergy list for organizing allergens, reaction history as caregiver-provided context, severity notes if chosen, allergy doctor contact, medication or auto-injector location, and emergency contacts.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable caregiver backup plan for organizing primary caregiver, backup caregivers, emergency contacts, home-access notes, information locations, and what another caregiver should know if the primary caregiver is unavailable.
View the resource and blank printableA free printable emergency information sheet for organizing glasses, hearing aids, cochlear implant context, communication preferences, assistive technology, caregiver contacts, allergies, medications, and emergency contacts.
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Frequently asked questions
No. Schools and programs may require their own signed forms, action plans, and medication authorizations. Use the printable as an organizational aid only when the setting permits it.
Start with parent or guardian contacts, the child's preferred communication, the location of official care instructions, and how to reach qualified help. Keep treatment directions in the approved source document.
Agree on one current source, use review dates, and replace copies in both households when contacts, forms, medicines, or plans change.
When appropriate, age- and developmentally suitable participation can help a child recognize contacts, communication steps, and familiar supplies. Follow the guidance of parents, guardians, schools, and clinicians.
Yes. College students may need their own contacts, insurance, medicines, campus resources, and privacy choices, especially when they live away from home.
Research record
Authoritative sources supporting the planning guidance on this page. Accessed July 14, 2026.
Supports collecting and protecting insurance, identification, medical records, emergency action plans, and current care plans before an evacuation.
Supports planning multiple ways to communicate, recording important phone numbers, and accounting for children, older adults, caregivers, and pets.
Supports an emergency care plan, planning for equipment and electricity, accessible transportation, and age-appropriate communication with children.
Supports collaborative, school-specific emergency planning with clear roles, regular review, training, exercises, and recovery planning.
Supports recording household members, emergency contacts, meeting places, and communication details in a shared family plan.
YourEMR provides information-organization tools, not diagnosis, individualized treatment, legal advice, or a substitute for 911, clinicians, pharmacists, official records, care plans, school or facility forms, device instructions, or local emergency guidance.