How To: Create and Print an Emergency Contact Sheet

When someone else is in charge — a sitter, a grandparent, a neighbor during an emergency — they shouldn't have to scroll through your phone. An emergency contact sheet puts the numbers that matter on one printable page.

Step 1: Build your emergency list

1. Open your Emergency list from the Lists page. Every household starts with one, and it's available on every plan — it doesn't count against the free plan's custom-list limit.
2. Use Add a contact to put everyone who belongs on the sheet onto the list — the pediatrician, your emergency contacts, the poison control line, a trusted neighbor.
3. Repeat until everyone who belongs is on the list.

Not sure who to include? A good starter set: both parents' cells and work numbers, two nearby trusted adults, the pediatrician, your preferred urgent care or hospital, poison control, and the school's front office.

Step 2: Decide about medical details

Your children's profiles in KeeperCircle can carry medical and allergy notes. That information is sensitive, so it never appears anywhere automatically — a child's medical details go onto the sheet only when you switch them on for that printout. If the sheet is going on the fridge for a sitter or to a team leader for a trip, including allergies usually makes sense; leave them off if a temporary caregiver won't need them. Medical notes on your regular contacts never appear on the sheet at all — those stay inside your household.

Step 3: Print or save

The printable sheet is part of the paid plan. Your household's children appear at the top of the sheet automatically, followed by everyone on your emergency list.

1. Open the emergency sheet view.
2. Choose whether to include the children's medical/allergy information.
3. Print it, or save it as a PDF, or text it to a caregiver.

Emergency views and printed sheets are always ad-free.

Keep it current

The sheet reflects your contacts at the moment you print it. When a number changes, update the contact and print a fresh copy — a good habit is reprinting at the start of each school year and whenever a regular caregiver changes.

Good to know

• For caregivers who are around regularly, a live view may beat paper — a viewer can be granted just the emergency list, so they see those numbers and nothing else, always current. The printable sheet itself stays with parents and guardians. See How To: Give a Caregiver View-Only Access.
• Related reading on our blog: what belongs on a family emergency contact list, and emergency cards for kids' backpacks.