Disasters are always inclusive. Response and recovery are not, unless we plan for it!

In disasters, people with disabilities continue to lose their health, independence and sometimes lives because information transfer and lessons documented over decades, are not yet uniformly learned and applied!

June Isaacson Kailes, Disability Policy Consultant

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Disability Competencies
Communication Access
Exercises
Evacuation
Functional Assessment Service Teams (FAST)
Functional Needs (formerly special needs)
Funding
Organizing Community Based Organizations
Organizing Neighborhoods
Planning Guides
    Continuity of Operations Templates
Promising Practices
Registries - for People with Access and Functional Needs
Sample Plans
Sheltering
State and Local Government
    Training
    Whole Community Planing
Forms, Checklists, Tools, Samples, etc.
Other Resources

Disability Competencies

• Accessible Meetings, Events, and Conferences
• Effectively Including People with Disabilities in Policy and Advisory Groups
• Language and terms
• Tips for Interacting with People with Disabilities
• Other Disaster Resources 
  

Communication Access

Communication Access for People with Limited Speech last accessed 12.26.09

Gear up. Get Ready. It can happen! The Access and Functional Needs (AFN) Emergency Preparedness Resource Guide, 2012 , last accessed  01.1.13

Research Report and Options for Consideration in Community Preparedness Campaign Development, 2012 - Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin Combined Statistical Area Community Preparedness Campaign, A Collaboration of the Citizen Preparedness Subcommittee of the Regional Catastrophic Planning Team, Research Report and Options for Consideration in Community Preparedness Campaign Development, last accessed  01.1.13

Emergency Preparedness From the National Association of the Deaf, last accessed 12.26.09 

• DHHCAN Emergency Preparedness Report
• Television Broadcasters
• Weather Warning Systems
• Radio Receivers
• Paging Systems
• Civil Defense Strobe Lights
• Education and Communication

Emergency Responder Video (working with Deaf, Hard of Hearing and DeafBlind People) – Video is captioned, but not signed, last accessed 12.26.09

Making Lessons Documented - Real! - Integrating Disability Issues into Instructors' Toolkits, with June Kailes, Hilary Styron and Elizabeth Davis. National Center for Biomedical Research and Training 4th Annual Instructor Professional Development Conference Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge River Center Baton Rouge, LA, 8/17/06.

Orientation Manual for First Responders on the Evacuation of People with Disabilities, FA-235  August 2002, FEMA & US Fire Administration (2002). PDF Format, last accessed 12.26.09

Project Civic Access, U.S. Department of Justice (2004), & Settlement Agreement Between The United States of America and City of Detroit, Michigan, Department of Justice Number 204-37-284. last accessed 01/17/08

Report on Special Needs Assessment for Katrina Evacuees (SNAKE) Project, National Organization on Disability, 2005, PDF Format, last accessed 01/17/08

Saving Lives: Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning, National Council on Disability, 2005, last accessed 01/17/08

Web site Access - Web site designers need to Build Access in from the beginning by following: 508 and W3C guidelines (last accessed 07.24.11)

• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires access to electronic and information technology procured by Federal agencies. 
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web provides strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities

Exercises

Guidance for Integrating People with Disabilities in Emergency Drills, Table Tops and Exercises Edition 1, 2015.

I prepared this draft guidance, for North Carolina Emergency Management.  It uses the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Master Task List format commonly used in the field to provide a set of guiding principles for exercise programs, as well as a common approach to exercise program management, design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning.  The second column is what is new and it focuses on steps that to recruit, accommodate, include, and get feedback from people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs in your exercises. It also includes some suggestions for injects that can be tailored to your specific exercise.

It is work in progress, but I thought you would be interested in seeing and maybe using it.  Your feedback is encouraged.

Evacuation

Access & Functional Needs Evacuation Planning Toolkit DVD produced as part of a pilot project to support counties in planning for the evacuation and transportation needs of all their citizens during an emergency. Provides an introduction to issues to consider while planning for a large scale evacuation and provides tools.  last accessed 5.7.10

Be Ready to Go: Evacuation Transportation Planning Tips for People with Access and Functional Needs. June Kailes [2010] last accessed 11.15.10, format PDF

U.S. Department of Transportation

• Disability Resource Center Emergency Evacuation Tips Emergency preparedness guidelines issued to all DOT employees and facilities nationwide.Los Angeles 12.26.09,  Format: Word  posted: 12.26.09
• Meeting the Transportation Needs of Individuals with Disabilities Following a Disaster, 2011, Format: Word posted 12.23.11  

Functional Assessment Service Teams (FAST

“The intent of using Functional Assessment Service Teams (FASTs) in shelters is to recognize that some people need assistance with essential functional needs and some do not.  What is important is that response planning incorporates ways to offer life preservers and safety nets.

Safety nets help people, whose margin of resiliency is smaller and whose vulnerability is greater, get essential functional needs met in unstable and changing environments.

Some people and systems confuse safety nets with fishing nets.  Fishing nets, as they do with fish, scoop people from environments in which they coped or thrived, confine them and threaten their health, safety and independence.”

June Isaacson Kailes, Disability Policy Consultant, 2008

Functional Assessment Service Teams (LAST ACCESSED 04.3.09)This site contains information about disaster sheltering for People with Disabilities and Elderly (PWD/E) and Functional Assessment Service Teams (FAST):

Functional Needs (formerly special needs)

Variation in human ability is ordinary, not special, and, affects most of us for some part of our lives.

June Isaacson Kailes, Disability Policy Consultant

Defining Functional Needs - Updating CMIST (2017) - resulting from the evolving of terms as well as the clarity, precision, and specificity of our thinking and practice. CMIST is a memory tool to help people remember and plan for the five functional needs individuals may have in an emergency or disaster:  communication; maintaining health; independence; support, safety and self-determination; and transportation.

Moving Beyond ìSpecial Needsî: A Function Based Framework for Emergency Management and Planning. Kailes, J., Enders, A., (2007), Journal of Disability Policy Studies.  PRO-ED, TX:Austin. 2007. 17: p. 230-237. Formats: PDF, Microsoft Word. Posted 12.26.09

Paradigm Shift in Planning for Special-Needs Populations. Parsons, B. and Fulmer, D. (2007), Emergency Management in Higher Education: Current Practices and Conversations; Papers from the 2007 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Conference. Microsoft Word Posted 12.26.09

Disaster Services and  "Special Needs:" Term of Art or Meaningless Term?  (PDF)  Kailes, J. (2005), last accessed 01/17/08, Also published in International Association of Emergency Managers Bulletin, Special Focus Issue: Emergency Preparedness for Individuals With Disabilities, Part 2.

Functional Needs Planning  Rick Tobin interviews June Kailes, 1.16.09, last accessed 12.26.09

Language Is More than a Trivial Concern!  10^th edition (2010), Kailes, J. Formats: PDF, Sensitizes people to appropriate terminology to use when speaking with, writing about or referring to people with disabilities. Challenges readers to be aware of the importance of using disability-neutral terms. Details preferred language and gives reasons for the disability community's preferences. Serves as an excellent reference tool for the public, media, marketers, providers and for board members, staff and volunteers of disability-related organizations. Includes a language quiz and many examples. 

Integrating Disability Access and Functional Needs Efforts FEMA Grant Programs Directorate Information Bulletin No.  361, May 2011

Organizing Community Based Organizations

Los Angeles County Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster. Emergency Network Los Angeles (last accessed 01/24/08)

Preparing The Vulnerable Population) -- The Triad Alliance , City of San Leandro, (last accessed 01/24/08). 

Guide to Organizing Neighborhoods for Preparedness, Response, and Recovery, Volunteer Center of Marin (last accessed 01/24/08). 

Planning Guides

Accommodating Individuals With Disabilities In The Provision Of Disaster Mass Care, Housing, And Human Services  last accessed 12.24.11, [2007] conetnts include:   

• Use Assumptions
• Planning Assumptions
• FEMA Policy
• Non-discrimination Principles of the Law
• Providers of Emergency Services and Applicable Laws 
• Laws with Summaries
• Glossary

Continuity of Operations Templates - sample of the many available online (last accessed 04.27.18):

• Crisis and Disaster. Planning – The ARC 2014
• Business Continuity and Recovery Plan Template for Non-Profits, County of Los Angeles Public Health
• Disaster Preparedness Workbook for Service Providing Agencies, Prepared by the Monterey County Emergency Food Assistance Project

Crisis Response and Disaster Resilience 2030: Forging Strategic Action in an Age of Uncertainty. Summary of Key Insights of the 2010-2011 Strategic Foresight Initiative. January 2012 – “To ensure our Nation’s resilience to disasters, the emergency management community must be postured to manage the complexity, pace of change, and uncertainty of the future environment. To do this, the emergency management community needs to establish and maintain a foresight capability — to explore future drivers of change and trends that could shape the future, understand their strategic impacts, and develop actions to meet future needs to inform decision-making.” format: PDF,  Last accessed  01.25.12

Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans, Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101, Version 2.0, November 2010, format: PDF, last accessed 12.19.10

Provides FEMA guidance on the fundamentals of planning and developing emergency operations plans (EOP). Shows that EOPs are connected to planning efforts in the areas of prevention, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation. Encourages emergency and homeland security managers to engage the whole community in addressing all risks that might impact their jurisdictions.

• Conduct community-based planning that engages the whole community by using a planning process that represents the actual population in the community and involves community leaders and the private sector in the planning process
• Ensure plans are developed through an analysis of risk
• Identify operational assumptions and resource demands
• Prioritize plans and planning efforts to support their seamless transition from development to execution for any threat or hazard
• Integrate and synchronize efforts across all levels of government.

Incorporates these concepts from operational planning research and day-to-day experience:

• The process of planning is just as important as the resulting document.
• Plans are not scripts followed to the letter, but are flexible and adaptable to the actual situation.
• Effective plans convey the goals and objectives of the intended operation and the actions needed to achieve them.

Effectively Including People with Disabilities in Policy and Advisory Groups (Edition 2, 2012) PDF, MS Word (See State and Local Government for description)

Emergency Planning for People With Access and Functional Needs - (2010) Focuses on the need for a plan that covers all members of the community and ways to identify and incorporate populations with functional needs into the emergency planning process. The DVD version of this training is 508 compliant with closed captioning and an audio-only track. last accessed 10.6.12

A Framework of Emergency Preparedness Guidelines for Federal Agencies, Preparing the Workplace for Everyone: Accounting for the Needs of People with Disabilities, 7/05, Format PDF, last accessed

Agency Disaster Preparedness Plan, Volunteer Center Serving Howard County, Columbia, Maryland, 7/03, Format PDF, last accessed 02/4/08

Disaster Planning Toolkit for the Small to Midsize Business Owner ñ Open for Business 8/06, Format: PDF, last accessed 02/4/08

Disaster Training for Long-Term Care Communities: Will Yours be Prepared? 2006, last accessed 12.26.09

Experiences of Direct Support Professionals During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 2007, last accessed 02/4/08 

First Responders Guide – provides a reference tool for assisting people who have access and functional needs during the response and recovery. Content can also be accessed by mobile devices at  http://terrorism.spcollege.edu. Includes checklist, guides, videos (2011) Last accessed 12.24.11

Guidance on Planning and Responding to the Needs of People with Disabilities and Older Adults - for emergency managers and planners, and disability and older adult service systems, for planning and responding, during disasters and recovery, produced by the Californiaís Governorís Office of Emergency Services,  Office of Access and Functional Needs. Last accessed 12.26.09

Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning: How Are We Doing? 2007,Format PDF, last accessed 02/4/08

Attachment A SNF/NF Disaster Preparedness Plan Tool, 11/04

Attachment B  ICF/MR Disaster Preparedness Plan Tool

Occupant Emergency Program Guide, U.S. General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Federal Protective Service, 03-02, Format:  Microsoft Word, last accessed 02/5/08

Pandemic Influenza Workbook for Long Term Care Providers California Association of Health Facilities, August 2007

Self-Assessment Guide, Disaster Preparedness For Community Care Facilities, California Department of Social Service, 11/03, Posted 02/4/08, Format PDF, last accessed 12.26.09

Serving and Protecting: The Role of Disability and Aging Organizations in Disaster Planning 2006, last accessed 02/4/08

When Disaster Strikes: An Emergency Preparedness Checklist for Service Providers 2006, last accessed 02/4/08

Why and How to Include People with Disabilities in Your Emergency Planning Process? 2008, Microsoft Word.

Access Board Emergency Evacuation Procedures, (last accessed 01/24/08).

Agency Emergency Plan, Formats: PDF, (last accessed 12.26.09). 

City of Oakland’s Access and functional needs annex (last accessed 07.24.11).

• Functional Needs Framework Matrix
• Care and Shelter Checklist
• Shelter Site Accessibility Evaluation Matrix
• Role of the Emergency Operations Center Functional Needs Coordinator Checklist
• Initial Intake and Assessment Tool
• Accessible and Medical Cots Matrix
• Emergency Evacuation Vehicle Pictogram

Functional Needs Support Services (FNSS) (Texas Toolkit)

Associated Attachments:

• General Population Sheltering (PPT)
• DISABILITY CONTACTS Emergency Communications 3-17-2011 (MS Excel - multiple worksheets)
• 2011 Emergency Deafblind Guidelines (PDF)
• Chinese Pictograms (PDF)
• Korean Pictograms (PDF)
• Spanish Pictograms (PDF)
• Signage (PDF)
• Talk Boards (MS Word)
• Texas Accessibility Checklist (PDF)

People with Disabilities and Elderly Shelter Annex and Functional Assessment Service Teams, 7/22/08 Draft, Document is being used in conjunction with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) Mass Care and Shelter Plan in large-scale, multi-county, interregional emergencies and disasters.  This plan will provide the structure, policies, procedures, and forms for CDSS Disaster Operation Center activation and operations.

USDA Employee Emergency Response Guide USDA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., March 2006, last accessed 02/4/08

U. S. Department of Transportation Emergency Preparedness Guidelines for People with Disabilities (last accessed 01/24/08)

Volunteer Center Response Plan, The Volunteerism Project (last accessed 01/24/08). 

Volunteer Organized Initiative for Community Emergencies, How to Create an Agency Disaster Plan, VOICE of Contra Costa County (last accessed 01/24/08). 

Workbook for Service Providing Agencies, Monterey County Office of Aging, Community, & Employment Services (last accessed 01/24/08). 

Other Resources

9-11 offers important lessons in disaster preparedness January 2002. (last accessed 01/24/08).

Citizen Corps (last accessed 01/24/08).

Crisis Response and Disaster Resilience 2030: Forging Strategic Action in an Age of Uncertainty. Summary of Key Insights of the 2010-2011 Strategic Foresight Initiative. January 2012 – “To ensure our Nation’s resilience to disasters, the emergency management community must be postured to manage the complexity, pace of change, and uncertainty of the future environment. To do this, the emergency management community needs to establish and maintain a foresight capability — to explore future drivers of change and trends that could shape the future, understand their strategic impacts, and develop actions to meet future needs to inform decision-making.” format: PDF,  Last accessed  01.25.12

Emergency Prescription Assistance Program (EPAP), a program jointly administered by FEMA and the Department of Health and Human Services, which provides a method for pharmacies to process claims for prescription medications and durable medical equipment to individuals who are from a disaster area declared by the President and who do not have any form of health insurance coverage. (last accessed  07.24.11)

Getting Real- 2010 Inclusive Emergency Management National Capacity Building Training Conference , last accessed 12.19.10

Site includes full transcript and videos.

FEMA’s Office of Disability Integration and Coordination sponsored a 3 day intensive cross-training and bridge-building conference in inclusive emergency preparedness practices with members of the disability and emergency management communities for post-training responsibility to engage and educate others on how to effectively collaborate in emergency preparedness and disaster response and recovery.

Hosted by FEMA’s Office of Disability Integration and Coordination with our partners from the FEMA National Protection and Preparedness Directorate, Individual & Community Preparedness Division, the Interagency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities, the National Council on Disability, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, American Red Cross and in coordination with the FEMA Emergency Management Institute.

Lessons Learned Information Sharing - Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency program. LLIS.gov serves as the national, online network of lessons learned, best practices, and innovative ideas for the emergency management and homeland security communities.LLIS.gov provides federal, state, and local responders and emergency managers with information on planning, training, and operational practices across homeland security functional areas. A wealth of emergency planning information, which includes disability issues, incident management, training and exercises, public communications, community preparedness, private sector, critical infrastructure. Must first register for a log in name and password. (last accessed 07.24.11)

• Lessons Learned: Knowledge and experience, positive or negative, derived from actual incidents, such as the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, as well as those derived from observations and historical study of operations, training, and exercises.
• Best Practices: Exemplary, peer-validated techniques, procedures, good ideas, or solutions that work and are solidly grounded in actual operations, training, and exercise experience.
• Good Stories: Exemplary, but non-peer-validated, initiatives (implemented by various jurisdictions) that have shown success in their specific environments and that may provide useful information to other communities and organizations.
• Practice Notes: Brief descriptions of innovative practices, procedures, methods, programs, or tactics that an organization uses to adapt to changing conditions or to overcome an obstacle or challenge.

After-Action Reports - search hundreds of AARs from local, state, national, and international exercises and real-world events.

Plans, Procedures, Templates, and Tools

Reports and Documents

Promising Practices

Community Engagement: Leadership Tool for Catastrophic Health Events, 2006, last accessed 12.26.09, Formats: PDF

This long, but well worth reading, seminal article makes the case for government leaders, public health and safety professionals, and communities at-large having complementary and mutually supportive roles in emergencies.

It details the critical role  that emergency related community structured dialogue, joint problem solving, and collaborative action among government, citizens at-large, and local opinion leaders can play in augmenting governments' abilities to govern in a crisis, improve application of communally held resources and lessen community losses.

Community partners can collaborate with officials to:

• Create more inclusive planning by engaging in honest, respectful interaction among formal authorities and diverse constituents, necessary to approach policy problems with ethical and cultural complexities.
• Develop robust contingency plans that are more feasible because they reflect community values, economic realities, and collective judgment testing emergency planning assumptions for feasibility and fairness.
• Pool collective wisdom, practical experience, specialized skills, social expectations, and material assets to work on behalf of constituent members,
• Tap community-based organizations that can mobilize their own networks and offer response and recovery capabilities that government does not have or cannot sustain alone. This potentially effective, efficient, and rapid response helps minimize disaster-related losses, human death and injuries.
• Maintain trust during a crisis.

Disaster Alternate Care Facility Selection Tool A public health emergency can strain the capacity of hospitals and other traditional venues for medical services. In such emergencies, it may be necessary to select alternate facilities for providing medical care. Two new interactive computer tools, Disaster Alternate Care Facility Selection Tool and an ancillary tool, Alternate Care Facility Patient Selection Tool, will help institutions and communities select alternate care facilities and determine which patients to send to them. last accessed 12.26.09

Effectively Including People with Disabilities in Policy and Advisory Groups (Edition 2, 2012) PDF, MS Word, last accessed  05.28.13 (See State and Local Government for description)

Getting Real II: Promising Practices in Inclusive Emergency Management for the Whole Community” 9/12-12/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Office of Disability Integration and Coordination hosted a successful conference focusing on disability inclusive promising practices in emergency management.

All of the presentations are on-line and cover a range of topics from empowering children to become emergency preparedness ambassadors to developing Smartphone apps for emergency responders to sign language interpreter strike teams. The products related to this conference are accessible.  The videos are captioned. Most videos include the ASL interpreter in a window. Text transcripts and PowerPoint presentations are also accessible and available for download.  Last accessed 12.11.11

In 2009, the City of Oakland was the subject of a major lawsuit saying that its emergency management policies, practices and procedures fell short of providing individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to survive disasters and other emergencies. Hear how Oakland met the challenge by engaging a wide group of stakeholders and integrating progressive functional needs access frameworks into all aspects of its emergency management planning and response programs. The session will cover the tools that Oakland created and how local government agencies can efficiently and effectively transform their emergency preparedness programs

Effectively Including People with Disabilities in Policy and Advisory Groups (Edition 2, 2012) PDF, MS Word, last accessed  05.28.13

Guidance on Planning and Responding to the Needs of People with Disabilities and Older Adults- for emergency managers and planners, and disability and older adult service systems, for planning and responding, during disasters and recovery, produced by the California's Governor's Office of Emergency Services,  Office of Access and Functional Needs. Last accessed 11/22/08

Federal Communications Commission Reminds Video Programming Distributors They Must Make Emergency Information Accessible To Persons with Hearing or Vision Disabilities, 5/05, last accessed 01/17/08  

First Responders Guide – (See Planning Guides for description)

Moving Beyond "Special Needs": A Function Based Framework for Emergency Management and Planning. Kailes, J., Enders, A., (2007), Journal of Disability Policy Studies.  PRO-ED, TX:Austin. 2007. 17: p. 230-237. Formats: PDF, Microsoft Word. Posted 12.26.09

Highlights many disaster response and recovery areas of specific and significant concern to the diverse disabilities communities in California. It documents the experiences of people with disabilities and individuals with access and functional needs. The areas covered include:

• cross cutting issues,
• communication access,
• mass care and shelter,
• evacuation and transportation,
• role nongovernmental provider and advocacy organizations in disaster response,
• long term care facilities,
• training and exercise programs.
Many of the local government After Action Reports are silent on these issues or only vaguely mention them. This report offers 71 specific recommendations for strengthening and improving preparedness, response actions and recovery efforts that are inclusive of people with disabilities and activity limitations. Many of the recommendations reinforce a variety of continuing emergency concerns that existed before the 2007 fires and continues today.

Web Site Accessibility Help, FEMA, last accessed 01/24/08

Training


Emergency Responder Video (working with Deaf, Hard of Hearing and DeafBlind People) – Video is captioned, but not signed, last accessed 12.26.09

First Responders Guide – provides a reference tool for assisting people who have access and functional needs during the response and recovery. Content can also be accessed by mobile devices at  http://terrorism.spcollege.edu. Includes checklist, guides, videos (2011) Last accessed 12.24.11

Just In Time Disaster Training - Disability Awareness for Responders produced by the State of Florida Division of Emergency Management. Last accessed 02.21.14

Emergency Response for People Who Have Access and Functional Needs: A Guide for First Responders

Videos (include closed captioning, Descriptive Video Service / Secondary Audio Program for people who are blind or have low vision). Last accessed 02.21.14. Covers:

• An Inclusive Community Example
• A Closer Look: The Community Café
• Assistive Devices
• Personal Assistive Devices (Full Video)
• Introduction to Personal Assistive Devices
• Caption Phones
• Flashing Fire Alarms
• Video Phones
• Voice to Text
• Blind and Low Vision
• Magnifiers
• Tablets
• Laptops
• Wheelchairs
• Power Wheelchairs
• Crutches
• Transportation
• Medical Devices
• Summary/Conclusion of Personal Assistive Devices
• Video Interviews
• Perspectives: Allan Fraser - National Fire Protection Association
• Perspectives: Cindy Barnes - Parent of a Child with Autism
• Perspectives: Joe Algarin - Late-Onset Mobility Needs

Whole Community Planning 




• A “Whole Community” Approach to Emergency Management 2011,  Format:Microsoft Word.
  

• A Whole Community Approach to Emergency Management: Principles, Themes, and Pathways for Action, FEMA 2011 Format: Microsoft Word posted 12.23.11
  

• Policy Challenges in Supporting Community Resilience by Robert Bach, Robert Doran, Laura Gibb, David Kaufman, and Kathy Settle - Presented initially at the London Workshop of the Multinational Community Resilience Policy Group, November 4-5, 2010. The Group is co-chaired by David Kaufman, Federal Emergency Management Association, Department of Homeland Security, United States, and Kathy Settle, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom. Formats: PDF
  




Live Response: Planning for the Whole Community, June 2011  FEMA’s Office of Disability Integration and Coordination (ODIC) is working to redesign how emergency management defines and serves people with access and functional needs in our communities in the event of disasters. The new paradigm works toward the notion that all segments of American society will be integrated and served through a single and inclusive emergency management approach. Panelists discuss important elements of the planning process; public communications needs for non-English-speaking people, visual- and hearing-impaired citizens, and others; evacuation challenges; sheltering needs; and some of the work being done to aid in disaster recovery. The program also looks at legislation passed to reinforce this integration.


In the words of FEMA administrator, Craig Fugate, "if we wait and plan for people with disabilities after we write the basic plan, we fail." Join us for this very important program! Guests included Marcie Roth, Director of the ODIC; Richard Devylder, Senior Advisor for Accessible Transportation at the U.S. Department of Transportation; and June Isaacson Kailes, Disability Policy Consultant/Associate Director at Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California. last accessed 12.11.11








Forms, Checklists, Tools, Samples

Updating Plans, Policies and Procedures - Options for clearly communicating updates in headers and footers, in update notices, and in table of contents. Often organizations spend time updating their emergency preparedness plans, or sections or their plan, but they fail to date their work.

 

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