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Safety Planning
Includes products that show persons with developmental disabilities how to be safe in their home, work, and other community settings without giving up their rights to make choices and take reasonable risks.
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Managed by: Dick Sobsey of University of Alberta, Edmonton
Product Categories
Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online) (33 Products)
Electronic Media (26 Products)
Organizations, Programs, and Projects (10 Products)
Other (8 Products)
Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online)
 | Abuse and Neglect Prevention Systems: Evaluation and Implementation Guide
This is a curriculum on responding to abuse and neglect. It is based on the 7 Key Components as developed by CMS. | | Combating Violence and Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Call to Action
A book about helping people with disabilities fight violence and abuse—and take charge of their bodies and lives.
| | Community Safety for Self-Advocates - Safety at Home
This booklet provides many hints about what people can do to be safe while at home. The information is presented as easy to read lists and contains discussion questions in to help people think about or talk about ways to be safe in their homes. | | Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment (CAPE)
A curriculum on CD ROM that teaches people with disabilities how to protect themselves from abuse. It is for people with disabilities who live independently, service providers, parents and allies of people with disabilities. | | DDS Safety Net
This web site has information for people with disabilities on health and wellness. | | Emergency Planning Checklist
An emergency planning checklist for long term care settings. | | Emergency Preparedness: Best Practice Guidelines
Three guides that help people be prepared for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. There are seperate guides for service providers, case managers, and people with disabilities. | | Emergency Preparedness: Taking Responsibility for Your Safety Tips for People with Disabilities and Activity Limitations
This booklet tells you how to make an emergency supply kit. It also helps you know how to be ready for an emergency. | | Emergency Supply Checklist
A checklist of supplies to include in an emergency supply kit. | | Enabling Safe Evacuations
Article on emergency preparedness and safe evacuation planning for people with disabilities. | | Every body needs to know
This is a curriculum about sexuality. It is for teaching self-advocates. | | Fact Sheet: Using a Generator When Disaster Strikes
This fact sheet tells how to use a generator. This can help if the electricity goes out. | | Feeling Safe, Being Safe
This worksheet helps people with disabilities prepare for an emergency. You can download it as a PDF file. | | FEMA Emergency Management Institute G197 Emergency Planning and Special Needs Populations
This is a set of training materials for local emergency planners. Included are an instructor's manual, a student manual, PowerPoint slides and handouts for three days of training. All can be downloaded for free. | | Fire Safety Training DVD and Curriculum
A fire safety training video and educationally based curriculum | | Functional Needs Support Services Toolkit
This toolkit helps communities and local governments make sure emergency plans include the needs of people with disabilities. It was developed by the State of Texas. | | Impact: Feature issue on violence against women with developmental disabilities
A collection of articles related to projects, research, and resources that address the issue of violence. | | Life Skills Manual Community Based Services Program
A training curriculum for teaching life skills to people with disabilities. | | Mugged (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain how it feels to be robbed, and what helps. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. | | People with Intellectual Disabilities and Sexual Violence
A fact sheet about sexual abuse and assault toward people with disabilities. | | Position Paper on Medication Management for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association)
This paper proposes best practice guidelines | | Preparedness: Tips for People with Special Medical Needs
This fact sheet helps people with medical needs prepare for a disaster. | | Project Safe EV-AC: "In a Pinch"
This is a guide telling how to evacuate persons with disabilities from an emergency or dangerous situations in a matter of seconds or minutes. | | Quality in Practice: Safety
A resource guide that provides suggestions on how organizations can promote safety while still protecting people’s right to experience a full and satisfying life. | | Rights and Safeguards A Guide for Self-Advocates
This booklet lists personal rights and ways to keep safe. It is easy to understand and uses both drawings and words. | | SAFE BEGINNINGS: Protecting Our Children from Sexual Abuse
Safe Beginnings is a book for parents, child care providers and anyone who cares about preschool children and the prevention of sexual abuse. | | Safety Skills for Asperger Women How to Save a Perfectly Good Female Life
This book explains how women who have Aspergers syndrome can stay safe. The author is a woman with first-hand experience. | | Safety Skills Reader Book
This is an easy to read book that teaches safety skills. | | Special Needs: Get a Game Plan, Hurricane Preparedness
A set of steps for families to follow to be ready for a disaster, such as a hurricane. This guide focuses on meeting a family members specialized health and medical needs. | | Stop The Violence, Break The Silence Training guide
A training program about domestic and caregiver abuse and its impact on people with disabilities.
| | The ADA and Emergency Shelters: Access for All in Emergencies and Disasters
This guide shows how shelters can prepare in advance so that people with disabilities can use them. | | The Aspie Girl's Guide to Being Safe with Men The Unwritten Safety Rules No-one is Telling You
This book has advice about staying safe around men. | | The Take and Go Emergency Book
This is a booklet people with disabilities can use to record their personal, medical, and health information. They can take it along in case of an emergency. |
Electronic Media (Videos, CDs, T.V., Radio, Websites, etc.)
| ADA Guide for Local Governments: Making Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Programs Accessible to People with Disabilities
This ADA guide for local governments on emergency preparedness for people with disabilities offers practical planning information for before, during, and after an emergency/evacuation situation. | | Autism 5-Point Scale EP tech app
This iPhone app was designed for specifically for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to assist them in communicating effectively with first responders in a variety of emergency situations. | | CDIHP Evacuation Preparedness Guide: Ability Self-Assessment
This is a very complete survey for people with disabilities. It helps people think about what they need to do so they are well-prepared for a disaster. | | Changing Attitudes, Educating Others
These videos show what bullying is, and how it hurts people. They were written by, and the actors are members of People First of New Hampshire | | Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment (CAPE)
A curriculum on CD ROM that teaches people with disabilities how to protect themselves from abuse. It is for people with disabilities who live independently, service providers, parents and allies of people with disabilities. | | DDS Safety Net
This web site has information for people with disabilities on health and wellness. | | Disability Evacuation Plan
Everyone needs to be prepared for emergencies. This package includes a DVD and print material. They present information for evacuation plans. They can help protect people with disabilities against injury and loss of life.
| | Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities (DisabilityResources.org)
A summary of disability-related disaster preparedness information available on the web. | | Disaster Preparedness Resources for People with Disabilities
A web site with disaster information for people with disabilities | | Emergency Response Training
This program is a comprehensive emergency response training tool that educates both the consumer and the caregiver. It verbally and visually demonstrates emergency situations and features a separate segment for the consumer.
| | Every body needs to know
This is a curriculum about sexuality. It is for teaching self-advocates. | | Falls and People with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities CD
This is a training tool for DSPs. It is intended to reduce the number of falls for adults with developmental disabilities.
| | Fire Safety Training DVD and Curriculum
A fire safety training video and educationally based curriculum | | Functional Needs Support Services Toolkit
This toolkit helps communities and local governments make sure emergency plans include the needs of people with disabilities. It was developed by the State of Texas. | | Health and safety for disabled workers and people who work with them: An easy to read guide
This brochure talks about the rights of workers to be safe. It is easy to read. | | How To Help Someone Who Uses a Wheelchair Including Walkers Crutches & Canes DVD
This DVD teaches DSPs and others about safety when helping people who uses a wheelchair or walker. | | I Love Somebody: Safety in the Home {part of a set)
This DVD teaches parents with disabilities how to make their home safe for children. | | KidPower TeenPower FullPower International Self-Defense
Personal safety programs for people with special needs. | | Live Safe: Preventing HIV/AIDS For Women with Intellectual Disabilities DVD
This DVD teaches people about AIDS. | | Meet Us Where We Are
A film about people with developmental disabilities who have been victims of a crime. | | Planning for Emergency Preparedness to Promote Self-Advocacy for Individuals with Disabilities
A system in Florida that assures emergency crews (police, fire departments, etc.)know about people who need extra assistance before an emergency occurs. | | Removing the Barriers: A Fire Safety Factsheet for People with Disabilities and Their Caregivers
Fact sheet on fire safety for people with disabilities | | Resources on Emergency Evacuation and Disaster Preparedness
Resources on disability access issues in disaster preparedness and response. it emphasizes the needs of those with physical disabilities. | | The Safety Net
DDS Safety Net is a compendium of tools and articles on risk and risk management. It is designed for consumers with developmental disabilities and their families, and for staff and providers. | | Therap Services, LLC
Online Web-Based Services Bureau, does incident reports on consumers over the internet. Agency can reduce risk, protect clients and monitor effectiveness of behavior plans. | | Vulnerable Adults Mandated Reporting
Free online training about vulnerable adults mandated reporting. It is available online anytime and takes about an hour. |
Organizations, Programs, and Projects
| Accessing Safety Initiative
This program teaches community programs how to support women with disabilities who have been abused. | | Disability Services ASAP (A Safety Awareness Program)
A statewide program in Texas to prevent abuse for people with disabilities. | | Employers' Guide to Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Evacuation Plans
This publication addresses concerns from employers about how to include people with disabilities in company emergency evacuation planning. | | Mind, Disrupted Biomonitoring Project
This program is working to make everyone aware of the toxins present in the places where we live, work and play. Many toxins are known to cause disabilities, especially for babies and young children. | | S.A.F.E.T.Y. First: Working Together for Safer Communities
S.A.F.E.T.Y. First is a program that provides practical personal and organizational planning recommendations for emergency situations, particularly in the workplace, for people with disabilities. | | SafePlace
A program in Austin, Texas, to promote safety, healing, and the end of violence and abuse. | | Saving Lives: Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning
This report provides recommendations to the President for incorporating diverse populations of people with disabilities in emergency preparedness, disaster relief, and homeland security programs. | | The "Start with Hi" campaign
This program encourages everyone to "Start With Hi" when meeting a person with disabilities. It is meant to help everyone feel safe and included in communities. The program's website invites anyone to share a success story using YouTube or Twitter. | | The National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA)
A national non-profit membership organization which represents Adult Protective Services (APS) programs, professionals and the abused, neglected and financially exploited vulnerable adults they serve. | | The Taunton Jail Diversion Program
A program in the community of Taunton, Massachusetts. Its purpose is to divert people with mental illness or disability who are in contact with the criminal justice system from jail to community support services. |
Other
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