Emergency Preparedness for Persons
with Disabilities
Links to websites with informative information on how to prepare for an
emergency.
ilruNetWork - Prepare for the Worst: How
CILs can assist Individuals in Disaster Preparation
(http://www.ilru.org/html/publications/newsletters/2006/Prepare.html)
United Cerebral Palsy
For Employers - Emergency Evacuation
Procedures for Employees with Disabilities
Parenting & Family - General Information Assisting People with Disabilities in a
Disaster
http://www.ucp.org/ucp_channeldoc.cfm/1/11/10427/10427-10427/2450
FEMA
Accommodating People With Disabilities In Disasters: A
Reference Guide To Federal Law (8/21/2007)
The Reference Guide summarizes equal access requirements for
people with disabilities within Disaster Mass Care, Housing, and Human Services
functions. The Guide explains how applicable Federal laws relate to government
entities and non-government, private sector and religious organizations. A full
copy of the Guide may be accessed at
www.fema.gov/oer/reference.
Individuals with Special Needs
Preparing and Planning - If you or someone close to you has
a disability or a special need, you may have to take additional steps to protect
yourself and your family in an emergency.
http://www.fema.gov/plan/prepare/specialplans.shtm
READY AMERICA
For People with Disabilities:
Create a support network to help in an emergency. Tell
these people where you keep your emergency supplies.
http://www.ready.gov/america/getakit/disabled.html
U.S. Department of Transportation (Civil Rights)
The Department of
Transportation is dedicated to ensuring the highest level of emergency
preparedness in the event of a disaster. During an emergency, persons with
disabilities may require (1) additional assistance with evacuation and (2) using
transportation to get to a safe place.
http://www.dotcr.ost.dot.gov/asp/emergencyprep.asp
Disability Preparedness Resource Center
This disability preparedness web site provides
practical information on how people with and without disabilities can prepare
for an emergency. It also provides information for family members of, and
service providers to, people with disabilities. In addition, this site includes
information for emergency planners and first responders to help them to better
prepare for serving persons with disabilities.
http://www.disabilitypreparedness.gov/
American Red Cross
Preparing for Disaster for People with Disabilities and other
Special Needs
Emergencies can happen at a moment's notice. Know your plans ahead of time so
you are safer and more prepared. The above booklet gives tips on getting
informed, making a plan, assembling a kit, and maintaining these plans for
people with mobility problems or who have hearing, learning, or seeing
disabilities. These tips provide you and your caregivers with considerations
needed to help manage communications, equipment, pets and home hazards. The
booklets are co-authored by the American Red Cross and Department of Homeland
Security, FEMA and are available from your local chapter of the Red Cross.
http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_603_,00.html
Disastersus.org - Get a Plan
Everyone
needs a plan. People with disAbilities should review their needs with Family,
Friends, and care givers. Build your support network now before disaster
strikes. Use the information posted here and links to preparedness information
to get a plan now.
Prepare Yourself:
From the National Organization on disAbilities
Disaster Readiness Tips
for People with Disabilities
Disaster Readiness Tips
for People with Mobility Disabilities
Disaster Readiness Tips
for People with Sensory Disabilities
Disaster Readiness Tips
for People with Developmental or Cognitive Disabilities
http://www.disastersrus.org/MyDisasters/disability/disability_preparedness.htm
Idaho Care Line - 211
http://www.idahocareline.org/Disaster/Family%20Preparedness.html
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