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Are you ready in
case of an emergency?
Is your community equipped to work with people with disAbilities?
Learn things you can do to prepare for a disaster as a person with
a disability or to ensure your organization/business will be able
to meet the needs of people with disabilities!
The Alliance has put together a series of 5 planning worksheets to help you prepare for a disaster. The Alliance works with people setting and achieving Independent Living goals. These worksheets were created in a goal-oriented format to be integrated into that process, but are a great resource for anyone doing emergency preparedness planning. If you are interested in working with the Alliance on goals that can help you live as an integrated member of the community, please contact us!
With these forms, it does matter which one you start with, just that you start somewhere and stick with it!
Section 1: Create a local network and communications plan to be used in an emergency or disaster.
Section 2: Compile important information and complete a disaster and emergency preparedness self assessment.
Section 3: Meet with your network, plan to complete preparedness tasks, and further asses you emergency preparedness.
Section 4: Get informed about community plans in place for emergency and disaster preparedness
Section 5: Create an emergency preparedness kit that would sustain you and your household for one week in case of an emergency or disaster. Here is a sample kit building calendar to help you put together a kit in small steps over a five month period.
Additional information on emergency preparedness for people with disabilities and ways to become involved in planning efforts:
- More
tips for disaster preparedness for people
with disabilities from King County's 3 days, 3 ways emergency preparedness campaign.
- Read the Alliance's Position Paper on Emergency Preparedness
for People with disAbilities and ways we could improve and enhance
response systems. (coming soon!)
- Become a member of a Citizen
Emergency Response Team to learn how you can help prepare
your community for working with disabilities. You will be trained
in assisting within your neighborhood, should an emergency arise.
- Read one woman's account of surviving through the 2006 winter storms, as a person with a disability.
- Have an emergency plan for your business that is inclusive of all people.
Community Resources:
Would you like to help the Alliance to provide emergency preparedness kits to people with disabilities?
Join with other businesses and individuals to assist us in making emergency kits available to people with disabilities. See the Alliance's wish list for in-kind donations that would help us with that goal. Or, you can make a monetary donation to the Alliance and specify that your would like your funds to go towards helping people with disabilities to be prepared for a disaster.
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