 | After the Storm: A Guide to Help Children Cope with the Psychological Effects of a Hurricane
A guide that provides information, activities, and coping strategies to help parents and children cope with their reactions and feelings resulting from a hurricane and its aftermath. |
| Assisting People with Disabilities in a Disaster
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has prepared this tip sheet to help people with disabilities who are self-sufficient under normal circumstances but may have to rely on the help of others in a disaster.
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| Crisis Management and Working with the Media
Crisis Management and Working with the Media is designed to help human service providers prepare for, respond to and recover from dangerous, tragic or embarrassing situations. The premise is that anticipation and preparation offer the luxury of effective |
| Disaster Preparedness for Families of Children with Special Needs
This is a guide to help families of children and youth with
special health care needs to be prepared in the event of an
emergency, disaster, or acts of terrorism. |
| Disaster Preparedness, A Guide for Human Service Providers in Emergency Situations
This 50-page book is a comprehensive planning guide for emergency preparedness in the Human Services environment. |
| Emergency and Disaster Relief and Preparedness for People With Disabilities Partnered With Assistance Dogs
A set of ideas about how to help people with disabilities care for their service animals after a disaster. |
| Emergency Evacuation Preparedness: Taking Responsibility for Your Safety
This guide helps people with all types of disabilities learn what to do if they need to get out of a building fast. |
| Emergency Management Be Prepared Kit
Printable online documents that help persons with disabilities be prepared before an emergency happens. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Feeling Safe, Being Safe: My Personal Safety in an Emergency
This is a packet of materials to help people with disabilities know what to have with them in an emergency. It was developed in California. |
| 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. |
| Guide for Including People with Disabilities in Disaster Preparedness Planning
This guide is written to help local and regional planners, responders and government leaders prepare for emergencies. It stresses the importance of including people with disabilities in the planning process. |
| Hope After A Hurricane: Helping Adolescents After a Disaster Ages 12-18
A fact sheet about helping teens after natural disasters |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Disaster Preparedness and People with Disabilities
This newsletter is about including people with disabilities in emergency and disaster planning. There are articles about policy, research, and other articles that tell people's stories. |
| Preparedness: Tips for People with Special Medical Needs
This fact sheet helps people with medical needs prepare for a disaster. |
| Preparing for Disaster for People with Disabilities and other Special Needs (American Red Cross)
A Red Cross booklet to help people with disabilities prepare for disasters. |
| Project Safe EVAC (Evacuation and Accommodation of People with Disabilities) " In Advance: A Practical Handbook for Emergency Planning"
This handbook gives information on how to get out during an emergency. |
| 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. |
| Root Cause Analysis: A Summary of Root Cause Analysis and its use in State Developmental Disabilities Agencies
Root Cause Analysis, an analytic process for identifying factors contributing or causing a major adverse event or systems failure, adapted to the developmental disabilities field. |
| 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. |
| Strategies in Emergency Preparedness for Transportation-Dependent Populations and the Transportation and Emergency Preparedness Checklist
This is a set of strategies and checklists. They are meant to aid communities in getting ready for the transportation needs of people with disabilities during an emergency. |
| 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 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. |
| Tips For First Responders
Tips for First Responders is a field guide offering information on how to assist persons with a wide range of disabilities in emergencies. A PDF verison is also available. |
| Workplace Emergency Planning for Workers with Disabilities A Handbook for Employers and Workers
This guide tells everyone ways to assist persons with disabilities if there is an emergency at work. |
| "For Safekeeping" First Responders Autism Training Video
A video that teaches police and firefighters about autism. |
| 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 and Law Enforcement: Roll Call Briefing
This video demonstrates the best ways to assist a person with autism who is calling for help in an emergency. It is based on the guidance and direction of experienced law enforcement and first response advisors. |
| 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. |
| Coping with Disaster: A Second Guide for Parents and Other Caregivers of Children with Cognitive Disabilities
This webpage is about coping with disaster. It is meant for parents of children with cognitive disabilities. |
| Coping With Disaster: Suggestions for Helping Children With Cognitive Disabilities
A web page about helping children with disabilities to understand and cope with disasters. |
| Dealing with Disabilities: Tips for First Responders: People with Mobility Impairments
A tip sheet for first responders about how to help people with disabilities in an emergency. |
| 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.
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| Disaster Mitigation for Persons with Disabilities
Seven principles to guide disaster relief for people with disabilities |
| 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 Evacuation Procedures for Employees with Disabilities
An overview of emergency procedures for employees with disabilities |
| Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Assistance for Persons with Disabilities
This web page brings together information on how to be prepared for emergencies. There is information for people with disabilities, and for responders. |
| Emergency Preparedness: An Overview for Aging and Disability
This brief describes how Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRCs) can assist consumers before, during, and after crisis situations. |
| 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.
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| Feeling Safe, Being Safe: My Personal Safety in an Emergency
This is a packet of materials to help people with disabilities know what to have with them in an emergency. It was developed in California. |
| Fire Safety Training DVD and Curriculum
A fire safety training video and educationally based curriculum |
| For Safekeeping: First Responders Autism Training Video
This 20-min video shows how to recognize, approach, and communicate with persons who have autism. It is ideal for school, hospital, & church staff anywhere. Thi video has been successfully used to train police, fire, & other emergency personnel in Mass. |
| Functional Needs of People with Disabilities A Guide for Emergency Managers, Planners and Responders
This web page informs community planners about considering people with disabilities when preparing disaster relief plans. |
| 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 Disaster Preparedness and People with Disabilities
This newsletter is about including people with disabilities in emergency and disaster planning. There are articles about policy, research, and other articles that tell people's stories. |
| Individuals with Disabilities in Emergency Preparedness-Executive Order 13347 (July, 2005)
A report prepared by the Department of Homeland Security provides an overview of what has been accomplished as well as recommendations regarding preparation for supporting individuals with disabilities during an emergency evacuation. |
| Pandemic Awareness at Flu.gov
A website that provides information on pandemic influenza and avian influenza as well as tools and resources to help people and organizations plan for flu pandemics. |
| 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. |
| Prepare Yourself: Disaster Readiness Tips for People with Disabilities (NOD)
A tipsheet to help people with disabilities in preparing for a disaster. The entire tipsheet is available online. |
| Prepare Yourself: Disaster Readiness Tips for Owners of Pets or Service Animals
A tipsheet to help owners of pets or service animals in preparing for a disaster. The entire tipsheet is available online. |
| Prepare Yourself: Disaster Readiness Tips for People with Mobility Disabilities
A tipsheet to help people with mobility disabilities in preparing for a disaster. The entire tipsheet is available online. |
| READY NOW! Emergency Preparedness Tool Kit For People with Disabilities
This toolkit helps people be prepared for many kinds of emergencies. |
| Ready.gov
This website tells how to be ready for an emergency situation. |
| ReallyReady Disabilities
This website provides information on emergency evacuation of people with different kinds of disabilities. |
| 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. |
| Strategies in Emergency Preparedness for Transportation-Dependent Populations and the Transportation and Emergency Preparedness Checklist
This is a set of strategies and checklists. They are meant to aid communities in getting ready for the transportation needs of people with disabilities during an emergency. |
| The Needs Of People With Psychiatric Disabilities During And After Hurricanes Katrina And Rita: Position Paper And Recommendations
NCD found that much pre-Katrina disaster planning did not take into consideration the needs of people with psychiatric disabilities. This paper includes major findings and recommendations for future disaster planning. |
| We Watch the City: Stories in the Shadow of 9/11
Documentary video (DVD) examining the experiences of New Yorkers with developmental disabilities and those who support them in the aftermath of 9/11.
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| www.accessibleemergencyinfo.com
This website has free information for people with disabilities about how to deal with different types of emergencies. There are many video clips with sign language interpreters. |
