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Emergency shelters are places for people to live temporarily when they can't live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelter
Homeless shelter

Homeless shelters are temporary residences for homelessness people. Usually located in urban neighborhoods, they are similar to emergency shelters....
s. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific type of situation, such as battered women, victims of domestic violence
Domestic violence

Domestic violence occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate another. Domestic violence often refers to violence between spouses, or spousal abuse but can also include cohabitants and non-married intimate partners....
 in general, or victims of sexual abuse
Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one person upon another. The offender is referred to as a molester/molestor/ abuser/sexual abuser....
. A more minor difference is that people staying in emergency shelters are more likely to stay all day, except for work, school, or errands, while homeless shelters usually expect people to stay elsewhere during the day, returning only to sleep or eat, They sometimes facilitate support group
Support group

In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic....
s, and/or provide meals.

More comprehensive support may also include facilities such as mental health counselling
Mental Health Counselor

Mental health counselors practice mental health counseling which is a dynamic psychoeducational discipline born in the late 1970?s when several mental health professionals realized that the master?s degree level counselors working in community settings lacked a professional home or identity....


Post-disaster emergency shelter is often provided by organisations like the Red Cross and Red Crescent
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international Humanitarianism movement with approximately 97 million volunteers worldwide which started to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering, without any discrimination based on nationality, Race , relig...
, UNHCR or governmental emergency management departments, in response to natural disasters, such as a flood
Flood

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide....
 or earthquake
Earthquake

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
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Emergency shelters are places for people to live temporarily when they can't live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelter
Homeless shelter

Homeless shelters are temporary residences for homelessness people. Usually located in urban neighborhoods, they are similar to emergency shelters....
s. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific type of situation, such as battered women, victims of domestic violence
Domestic violence

Domestic violence occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate another. Domestic violence often refers to violence between spouses, or spousal abuse but can also include cohabitants and non-married intimate partners....
 in general, or victims of sexual abuse
Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one person upon another. The offender is referred to as a molester/molestor/ abuser/sexual abuser....
. A more minor difference is that people staying in emergency shelters are more likely to stay all day, except for work, school, or errands, while homeless shelters usually expect people to stay elsewhere during the day, returning only to sleep or eat, They sometimes facilitate support group
Support group

In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic....
s, and/or provide meals.

More comprehensive support may also include facilities such as mental health counselling
Mental Health Counselor

Mental health counselors practice mental health counseling which is a dynamic psychoeducational discipline born in the late 1970?s when several mental health professionals realized that the master?s degree level counselors working in community settings lacked a professional home or identity....


Post-disaster emergency shelter is often provided by organisations like the Red Cross and Red Crescent
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international Humanitarianism movement with approximately 97 million volunteers worldwide which started to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering, without any discrimination based on nationality, Race , relig...
, UNHCR or governmental emergency management departments, in response to natural disasters, such as a flood
Flood

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide....
 or earthquake
Earthquake

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
. They tend to use tent
Tent

A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of textile or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope....
s or other temporary structures, or buildings normally used for another purpose, such as a church or school
School

File:Primary Student of Pakistan.JPGA school , is an institution designed to allow and encourage students to education, under the supervision of teachers....
. These settlements may be inhabited for the entire duration of the reconstruction process and should be thought of more as settlements than shelter, and need to be planned with respect to water / sanitation, livelihoods, security, health, and education.

Temporary tent cities
Tent City

The term tent city is used to describe a variety of temporary housing facilities made using tents. Informal tent cities may be set up without authorization by homelessness people or protesters....
 with shelters may also include mass decontamination
Mass decontamination

Mass decontamination is the decontamination of large numbers of people, in the event of industrial, accidental, or intentional contamination by toxic, infective, caustic, polluted, or otherwise unhealthful or damaging substances....
 facilities to cleanse large numbers of evacuees prior to assigning them to shelters, or to hold people in isolation or quarantine.

See also

  • Natural disaster
    Natural disaster

    A natural disaster is the consequence of a natural hazard which affects human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, environmental or human losses....
  • Emergency management
    Emergency management

    Emergency management is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks. It is a discipline that involves preparing for disaster before it occurs, disaster response , as well as supporting, and rebuilding society after natural hazards or man-made hazards disasters have occurred....
  • Civil defense
    Civil defense

    Civil defense, civil defence or civil protection is an effort to prepare civilians for military attack. It uses the principles of emergency operations: prevention, mitigation, preparation, response, or emergency evacuation, and recovery....