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ADA Emergency Preparedness Webinar: Why Effective Communications is Critical in Emergency Management
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Hosted by the Pacific ADA Center, this webinar details the significance of effective communication in emergency management. The webinar draws from real-life scenarios, specifically from the emergency management field, to define effective communication and describe how emergency managers can build upon their public communication approach.
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This free course, offered by FEMA, was developed for staff members working in disaster operations at a FEMA Joint Field Office or other disaster response efforts and areas. It offers ideas for the inclusion of people with disabilities and other access and functional needs in disaster response, both as responders and as members of communities affected by disasters.
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Presented by the Pacific ADA Center, this webinar highlights the importance of enhancing accessibility and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act when devising and directing emergency management programs. The webinar aims to aid emergency managers’ understanding of the challenges they may face when ensuring inclusivity within their programs.
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This guide offers information and suggestions to help emergency managers, planners, and responders include individuals with disabilities in disaster planning and preparedness, response, and recovery. It identifies the effects of human-caused disasters, such as terrorist events, on the disability community to encourage effective and inclusive disaster planning.
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ODIC provides information and resources on emergency preparedness and disaster response that is inclusive of people with disabilities and others with access or functional needs.
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This fact sheet explains how youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities are at an increased risk for a variety of traumatic experiences. It covers how parents and caregivers should partner with service providers to support their children.
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This toolkit is designed to support delivery of a training for mental health and other professionals on supporting children with intellectual and developmental disabilities in coping with and recovering from trauma. Although the toolkit is available free of charge, users must create an NCTSN Learning Center account and log in to access this resource.
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This web page provides information and links to help people with disabilities and their families prepare for disasters and other emergencies, as well as to help emergency management professionals and disaster responders address the needs of people with disabilities. Resources to which links are provided can be used for needs assessment and emergency planning and preparedness for individuals, families, employers, and state and local government.
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This web page provides information, guidance, and tools to help states and localities account for the needs of people with access and functional needs in disaster planning and response. The page features workbooks, toolkits, checklists, executive actions, laws and regulations, and promising practices.
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This fact sheet provides tips and a checklist to help people with disabilities, such as SMI, to prepare for sheltering in place or evacuation. Checklist items help to assess needs, create a medical needs summary, collect important documents, and build a survivor kit.
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Disabled-World.com is an independent health and disability website that provides information on topics related to seniors and disability. This section of the website provides links to resources specific to disasters and emergency planning for seniors and people with disabilities.
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This tip sheet describes how people with serious mental illness may experience and respond to disasters. It identifies ways in which people with serious mental illness are more vulnerable than others in disasters and problems they may face. It also offers tips for disaster planners and responders for helping people with serious mental illness and their families with disaster planning and in the aftermath of a disaster.
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This part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Ready.gov website provides information and tools to help people with disabilities and access and functional needs and their families to plan and prepare for disasters.
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This collection features resources that public officials, public health professionals, and others can use to provide information for people with disabilities and their loved ones about how to stay safe from home fires. The collection includes statistics and messages, flyers, and social media messages and images.
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This brochure provides disaster readiness tips for people who have sensory-related disabilities or limitations.
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In this half-hour webcast, a person with complex communication needs describes her experience of the Grand Forks flood of 1997 (Complex communication needs are needs people have if they have speech, language, and/or cognitive impairments that make it hard or impossible for them to meet their day-to-day communication needs without tools or technologies to help).
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This app is intended for volunteers and staff responding to emergencies to help them to communicate with people with special communication needs, including people with cognitive disabilities, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, people with limited English proficiency, and anyone experiencing challenges in verbal communication during an emergency.
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This app is intended to be used after a mass casualty event. Disaster relief professionals can use the app to help them communicate with family members who have experienced the event, as well as people with special communication needs (people with cognitive disabilities, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, people with limited English proficiency, and anyone else having trouble communicating verbally).
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Developed for disaster response workers and others providing emotional support to adults ages 65 years and older after a disaster, this guide highlights the diversity of the older adult population in the United States, signs of disaster-related distress, and ways to help older adults with a range of issues, including disabilities and access and functional needs.
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Create the Good is a service provided by AARP for matching interested individuals, most of whom are 50 years or older, with volunteer opportunities. It offers some do-it-yourself projects on its website, including Operation Emergency Prepare, which guides people through helping their friends, family, and other loved ones; organizations; and communities in preparing for disasters and other emergencies.
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This double issue of "The Dialogue," the SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center’s quarterly newsletter, focuses on cultural sensitivity in disaster behavioral health programs. The contributors to this newsletter discuss implementing disaster behavioral health programs in various communities. Contributors also share tips and information on how to work with different populations.
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In this resource, AARP, which works to enhance quality of life for older adults, provides guidance for disaster-affected communities to help them rebuild and recover in ways that make them better places to live for people of all ages. AARP points out that the U.S. population is aging and argues for the importance of making communities accessible to and livable for older adults and those of all ages.
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This webpage provides information for older adults on how to deal with the stress of extreme heat, which can place them at high risk for health problems. It also provides a link to the symptoms of heat-related illness and a checklist for caretakers to help them protect older adults from heat stress.
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This archived hour-long webinar covers emergency preparedness for people with hearing loss. Presenters also share advances in technology developed to better prepare and aid individuals with hearing loss experiencing an emergency.
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This toolkit is designed to support delivery of a training for mental health and other professionals on supporting children with intellectual and developmental disabilities in coping with and recovering from trauma. Although the toolkit is available free of charge, users must create an NCTSN Learning Center account and log in to access this resource.
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